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What's New in VictoriaMetrics Cloud Q2 2026? Transparent Credits, Navigation Improvements, and a New Path for Cluster Tiers

This quarter we’ve been busy investing a lot of effort into improving how users understand and control what they pay for VictoriaMetrics Cloud, and how to move around the console while doing it, with major UX improvements across different sections and functionalities. The big piece of work is transparent credits reporting, giving prepaid customers full visibility into balance, consumption, and expiration.

The NAS Died. My WhatsUp Gold Server Died With It. WhatsUp Gold 360 Still Alerted Me.

The NAS Died. My WhatsUp Gold Server Died With It. WhatsUp Gold 360 Still Alerted Me. A real home-lab failure shows why always-on external monitoring and cloud-originated notifications matter when the local monitoring stack becomes part of the outage. On April 13, 2025, the NAS providing NFS storage to several virtual machines in my Proxmox lab locked up and halted.

Eliminating Digital Friction with Nexthink Spark Episode 1: Fixing UI Slowness

Slow, unresponsive applications create digital friction that impacts employee productivity and generates unnecessary IT tickets. In Episode 1 of Eliminating Digital Friction with Nexthink Spark, see how Spark identifies UI slowness, pinpoints the root cause, and helps IT resolve issues faster.

Meet GCX: Give Your AI Coding Agent Production Context

Your AI agents are only as good as the context it has. Without access to what's happening in production, it can only make educated guesses. Chapters: In this video, you'll meet GCX. The bridge between AI coding agents like Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, and your Grafana observability stack. You will learn how GCX securely gives AI agents access to metrics, logs, traces, dashboards, and other production telemetry so they can investigate issues, answer questions, and help you debug with real operational context.

9 Best Log File Analysis Tools for IT and DevOps Teams

An incident is open and the evidence is scattered. The application logs point to a connection timeout; the load balancer shows nothing unusual, and the container that produced the original error was replaced eighteen minutes ago. Three engineers are logged into three separate hosts running the same search, and the log line that would explain it has already rotated away. That is the moment most teams start shopping for a log file analysis platform.

10 Best IT Operations Management Tools (ITOM) Compared for 2026

No IT team sets out to run ten monitoring tools. It happens one purchase at a time. You add a network monitor after one outage, a server monitoring tool after the next, then a log analyzer, then an APM product when the app team gets tired of guessing. Then something breaks, and every one of those tools has an opinion. Each fires its own alerts. None of them agrees on the cause, and the first hour of the incident goes to deciding which screen to believe.

The New AI Mandate: Smarter Usage, Lower AI Compliance Risk, Better Outcomes

For the last two years, enterprise AI strategy has largely revolved around one message: use AI as much as possible. CIOs encouraged experimentation, CFOs approved budgets, and organizations pushed employees to adopt tools like ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot, and Gemini in the hope that productivity gains would naturally follow. The prevailing assumption was that simply increasing usage would accelerate innovation and unlock efficiency across the organization. But the enterprise conversation is changing quickly.