Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

Modern infrastructures are no longer confined to on-premises servers alone. Instead, they span cloud environments, containers, microservices, and globally distributed systems. This landscape, known as a hybrid cloud environment, has become the new norm for organizations, primarily because it offers the scalability of the cloud and ownership over specific elements afforded by an on-premises setup.

IT operations aren’t broken; they’re overloaded. Every alert, every outage, every ticket is a symptom of scale. Cloud sprawl, hybrid infrastructure, and tool overload have turned ops into a constant scramble. AIOps has been in the conversation for years, mostly as potential.

You’re looking at an error in Sentry—a failed payment in your Flask backend or an unexpected null in your Node API. You’ve got the stack trace. The request details. Even the full trace. What you don’t have: the logs your app emitted right before everything went sideways. With Sentry Logs (now in open beta), you can send application logs straight to Sentry and see them automatically connected to the errors and traces you already use.

Is SCOM dead? Not even close - It has just evolved System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) is far from dead. While a growing number of monitoring alternatives have emerged in recent years, SCOM in 2025 remains a critical tool, especially for organizations running hybrid environments. Thanks to its stateful, object-oriented monitoring model and a rapidly evolving ecosystem of modern Management Packs (MPs).

Machine learning models must do more than make accurate predictions; they also need to adapt as the world around them changes. In real-world systems, data distributions shift due to seasonality, equipment wear, user behavior changes, or other external forces. If your models can’t keep up, the result is poor predictions. This can lead to outages, inefficiencies, or missed opportunities. That’s why forecasting systems need to be monitored and resilient, not just accurate.

Show a customized, crash-specific message when your game crashes. Locked in an intense battle, hanging on for dear life, on the verge of nigh-impossible victory and then… boom! Positively, absolutely, unquestionably, no one wants a crash to interrupt their favorite game. Crashes are a frustrating yet inevitable part of gaming, and the only thing worse than being on the receiving end of a crash is being on the receiving end of the same crash repeatedly.

We’re excited to share that Rollbar is now part of the ilert integration catalog! This new technical partnership allows software teams to detect application errors in real time with Rollbar and instantly respond using ilert’s powerful alerting and incident management features. What is Rollbar? Rollbar is a comprehensive, real-time error monitoring and debugging platform designed to help development teams detect, diagnose, and resolve issues faster—before they impact users.

Both Grafana Tempo and Jaeger are distributed tracing tools designed for modern microservice architectures. Jaeger, released as an open-source project by Uber in 2015, has matured into a graduated CNCF project. Tempo, announced by Grafana Labs in October 2020, is a newer entrant focused on high-volume tracing with a unique storage architecture. Before comparing these tools in detail, let's quickly review what distributed tracing is and why it matters.