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AI-Powered Monitoring with Checkly

Most monitoring tools weren't built for the AI-first world. By nature, traditional monitoring platforms force you out of your natural coding environment and trap you in clunky web interfaces, brittle configuration panels, and rigid APIs. And sadly, when monitoring providers do offer "AI features," it's usually a chatbot bolted onto their existing UI, being nothing more than a pale imitation of the AI tools you’re reading about every day on Hacker News. All this creates friction.

InfluxDB 3 Core: a complete rewrite designed for speed and simplicity

InfluxDB has been a popular time series database for the better part of a decade, and the latest release represents years of work behind the scenes to address several major feature requests users have been asking for since the earliest days of the time series database.

Opsgenie is shutting down: Complete guide to alternatives in 2025

Atlassian just pulled the plug on Opsgenie. On December 3, 2024, they announced that Opsgenie will reach end-of-life by April 2027. New sales stopped on June 4, 2025, and if you're using the JSM-bundled version, you'll lose access even sooner—October 2025. Here's the kicker: Atlassian wants you to migrate to their fragmented JSM + Compass combo, which splits your incident management across multiple tools. The reality? Teams are frustrated.

Maximizing Uptime: How to Monitor Network Ports

Keeping critical services running smoothly starts with visibility, and that begins at the port level. Whether you're managing a lean environment or a complex network infrastructure, knowing which ports are active, listening, or down can make or break your response time. In this video, we walk through how to fully configure port discovery and monitoring in SL1. You'll learn how to track availability, respond to port failures with automated alerts, and ensure your systems are always one step ahead of potential issues.

How we created a single app to automate repetitive tasks with Datadog Workflow Automation, Datastore, and App Builder

For many organizations, scaling up their systems means incorporating new tools to build out infrastructure, optimize code performance and security, improve communication, and track cost changes. While these changes are necessary to support an increased workload, they often result in a situation where even the most basic tasks involve switching between multiple platforms.

Choosing the Right APM Software: 5 Key Factors to Consider

When applications slow down, users leave, and engineering teams scramble. Whether you're troubleshooting a spike in response times or chasing down intermittent backend failures, Application Performance Monitoring (APM) provides the visibility you need to detect, diagnose, and resolve performance issues before they impact your users or business goals. For engineers, APM isn’t just a convenience - it’s essential. But not all APM tools are created equal.

APM best practices: Dos and don'ts guide for practitioners

Application performance management (APM) is the practice of regularly tracking, measuring, and analyzing the performance and availability of software applications. APM helps you get visibility into complex microservices environments, which can overwhelm site reliability engineering (SRE) teams. The generated insights create an optimal user experience and achieve desired business outcomes.

The Business Case for Network Automation: Cost Savings and Efficiency

Let’s get real: the cost of not automating your network operations is probably already showing up on your P&L, and not in the column you like. Manual configuration changes, ad hoc backups, and frantic compliance prep aren’t just operational headaches, they’re quiet killers of budget flexibility and scale readiness. Network automation is no longer a “nice to have” for companies with massive IT budgets or unicorn-level engineering teams.

From Zero to Dashboard in 10 Minutes with Telegraf, InfluxDB 3, and Grafana

In this tutorial, let’s walk through setting up a modern TIG stack in 10 minutes. TIG stands for three popular open source tools that complement each other: Telegraf, InfluxDB 3, and Grafana. They are often used to collect, store, and visualize time series data from servers, containers, APIs, or even IoT devices. We will be using a read-to-use GitHub repository that includes.

Top Automation Use Cases for IT (in End User Computing)

As digital transformation continues to reshape the business landscape, IT teams are under more pressure than ever. Organizations demand faster service, always-on support, and seamless user experiences – all while IT budgets remain stagnant or even shrink. Organizations urgently need solutions that help them keep up without burning out their teams or inflating costs. This is where IT automation becomes essential.