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Log Filtering: How to Cut Log Ingest Volume Without Losing Evidence

Sep 7, 2026 By Ramya Shah In Motadata
Every log estate reaches a point where volume grows faster than the value inside it. The usual response is to find the biggest source and drop it. Cutting volume is the easy part. Cutting the right half takes judgment. Log filtering is only one of four options for an expensive source, and the other three matter just as much. In this blog, you will: By the end you can defend every rule you write, including the ones that keep data. A volume cut fails in two directions.
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ITSM for Healthcare: IT Service Management in Hospitals and Health Systems

Sep 7, 2026 By Poonam Lalani In Motadata
How long does a nurse stand at a workstation waiting for a record to load before the ward gives up and reaches for paper? In most hospitals nobody measures that number, and the ticket that reaches IT describes a symptom instead of a cause. Hospital IT support runs on a different clock from corporate IT. There is no quiet Sunday night and no safe window for maintenance.
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Relational Query Superpowers

Sep 7, 2026 By Ken Rimple In Honeycomb
I'm investigating repeated errors in my e-commerce application, and I need to get enough context in a single Honeycomb query to piece the entire picture together. Each query returns events based on the event's WHERE clauses, but I want to know several things from outside of the event that recorded an error. Things like: Those attributes are all over the trace. That's going to make a single query tough, right? Wrong!
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Two cats, two dogs, four vendors, and the model the AI couldn't find (Tech Talk Companion)

Sep 7, 2026 By Michelle Sebek In VictoriaMetrics
Tech Talks went dark for a few months, and on episode 13 I finally got to ask why. Mathias Palmersheim’s answer, delivered completely straight, was that his users were unhappy with the availability and usability of their feeders and their litter box, and he wasn’t allowed back on stream until that got fixed. The users are two dogs and two cats, and they have titles. Maisie, a Shiba Inu who came to him through a rescue, is the recently promoted chief executive pawofficer.
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From Monitoring to Prediction: How Fleet Data Is Changing Maritime Operations

From Monitoring to Prediction: How Fleet Data Is Changing Maritime Operations

Sep 7, 2026 By OpsMatters In OpsMatters
Most maritime operators already collect more fleet data than their shore teams can meaningfully use. Positions appear on screens, real-time data arrives from onboard systems, and reports document vessel performance throughout a voyage. Tracking where a ship is has become the easy part. The harder question is what happens when that information starts indicating what the vessel will do next. The change in maritime operations comes down to shifting from reviewing events to anticipating them early enough to alter an operational decision.
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Monitor HTTPS and SVCB Records with DNS Check

Sep 6, 2026 By Matt Rideout In DNS Check
DNS Check now supports monitoring HTTPS records and SVCB records, DNS record types 65 and 64, both standardized in RFC 9460. They tell a client how to connect to a service rather than only where it is: which HTTP versions the endpoint speaks, which port it listens on, which addresses it can start connecting to, and which keys it needs for Encrypted ClientHello, all before it opens a connection.
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Hybrid cloud management: 6 challenges IT teams need to solve in 2026

Sep 4, 2026 By Syifa Ramadhani In ManageEngine
In 2026, a hybrid cloud is no longer something organizations are working toward; it's already where they are. According to Forrester's The State Of Cloud Series 2026, the vast majority of enterprises across major markets, including the United States, India, Australia and New Zealand, Canada, and the Asia-Pacific region, are running some form of a hybrid cloud, combining public cloud platforms with private infrastructure, colocation data centers, and sovereign cloud providers.
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Build incident response workflows with Datadog Bits Chat

Sep 4, 2026 By Datadog In Datadog
See how Bits Chat turns a natural-language request into an automated incident response workflow. In this demo, Bits Chat builds a workflow that investigates a monitor alert, identifies whether a recent deployment caused the issue, rolls it back when appropriate, and sends a summary to Slack.
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Reliability Is the Test Agentic NetOps Has to Pass

Sep 4, 2026 By Dallon Robinette In Selector
It is 2:14 a.m. An agent has correlated a latency spike to an asymmetric routing condition and is ready to reroute traffic away from the affected path. The plan looks right. The only question that matters to the on-call SRE is whether to let it run, and that question is not really about the agent. It is about whether the picture the agent reasoned from is complete enough to trust at 2 a.m. with production on the line.
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Help Desk Software for Schools: Managing IT Support Across Campuses

Sep 4, 2026 By Poonam Lalani In Motadata
How many support requests reach school IT staff each week without ever becoming a ticket? A teacher stops a technician in the corridor about a projector that will not connect. An office administrator sends a direct email about a locked account, and a student tells the librarian their laptop stopped charging during second period. Help desk software for schools collects those requests into one queue, routes them by site and category, and keeps a record of what was done.
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