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How to import Prometheus-style alerts and recording rules to Grafana-managed alerts and recording rules

Grafana Alerting has evolved dramatically since the legacy dashboard-alert days. Today, Grafana-managed alerts power enterprise-scale monitoring in Grafana Cloud and on-prem installations. And over the last two years, we’ve added RBAC, state history, versioning, and much more. At the same time, our own monitoring at Grafana Labs relies heavily on Prometheus-style alerts—a situation that’s not uncommon for our users, too.

From Alert to Fix in 10 minutes: How a Slow Query Took Down Placid.app

This is a guest post from Armin Ulrich, a fullstack developer, and founder of placid.app. He also created the MadeWith* network where he shares his projects and allows other developers to share theirs. There are many things I would rather do at 9pm than tracking down a mission-critical bug, but sometimes you don’t have a choice. Let me tell you the story about a slow query that led to a cascading failure–and how it could have been worse.

3 AIOps Trends for 2025 #aiops

As IT environments grow more complex, teams need smarter, faster ways to stay in control. In 2025, three trends are redefining how modern IT operations teams drive efficiency and resilience: Automation Everywhere: Offload routine tasks with intelligent workflows Predictive Everything: Spot and resolve issues before they impact users AI + Human Collaboration: Empower teams with real-time, AI-driven insights.

Brand email with your logo

StatusGator supports custom email branding on our Enterprise plan and as an add-on to other plans, allowing your customers or end-users to get an email that has your organization logo and sends from your organization’s email address. Previously, this email logo used the same image as your status page. Now, you can upload a custom logo to be used just for your emails. Enjoy improved branding by uploading a logo that fits the email perfectly.

Simplifying Observability: Streamlining Telemetry with a Centralized Pipeline

Modern applications generate a deluge of telemetry data—logs, metrics, and traces—that hold the key to understanding system performance and reliability. However, managing this data effectively is a growing challenge for DevOps teams. Raw telemetry can overwhelm teams with complexity and noise even when collected via robust standards like OpenTelemetry.
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Extreme automation and the SAP Cloud ERP journey

Cloud ERP arrives as the new holy grail of ERP architecture: a composable, flexible and scalable collection of core business services working together to meet enterprise ERP needs. Of course, getting there for a large enterprise with significant existing complexity across legacy SAP implementations isn't a trivial task. Much has been written about S/4HANA migration, but less explored are the benefits of automation solutions used for the regular operations of SAP to migration projects. These solutions offer a number of accelerators and benefits to migration projects and SAP teams, so it is worth exploring.

The ROI of monitoring your Azure environment: Prevent surprises, control costs, boost uptime

Like many cloud providers, Azure offers services that scale with usage. However, unanticipated overutilization of Service Bus, Azure Functions, and SQL databases can incur additional costs. Managing these resources effectively is crucial for keeping the billing framework predictive.

Mission Impossible: Find out the Reasons Why Your Network Is Down (and How to Proactively Prevent Network Downtime)

Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to prevent network downtime before it takes your business offline. The threat is real. One moment, your network is up. The next calls drop, websites freeze, apps stall, and customers vanish. You hear the dreaded question echoing across departments: “Is the network down?” You’re not alone.