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NIST Security Best Practices for Telemetry Data: How to Implement and Automate Them

Aug 24, 2026 By VirtualMetric In VirtualMetric
NIST security best practices for telemetry data treat logs as governed records. Every record has required content, a protection requirement, and a retention period. Eight practices cover the decisions involved, from what you collect through to how you document each filter. No single standard from the National Institute of Standards and Technology covers telemetry. The requirements sit across a controls catalog, a planning guide, and a framework.
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Obkio's Status Overview Widget: Know What's Wrong and Where, Instantly

Aug 24, 2026 By Andrii Kernitskyi In Obkio
Obkio is making improvements to its network performance monitoring and observability solution, aimed at helping users of every expertise level interpret their data more efficiently. That work isn't just about telling users something is wrong. It's about diagnosing the issue for them. And a big part of that is telling them where the issue is happening, so they know exactly where to direct their troubleshooting effort instead of guessing. The Status Overview widget solves this.
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Alert fatigue, AI triage, and incidents: Lessons from observability experts at Cyera, PlayHQ & NAB

Aug 24, 2026 By Grafana In Grafana
Observability looks perfect in a slide deck – in practice, it's messier. In this panel, engineering leaders from Cyara, PlayHQ, and National Australia Bank share what really happened when they scaled observability: unexpected cloud bills, alert fatigue, a weekend database outage caught by an AI-assisted triage agent, and a vendor dispute settled by a single chart. They also cover moving beyond legacy tooling, using AI to close the PromQL skills gap, and what's next – from agentic SDLC integration to continuous profiling. Real stories, real numbers, real lessons.
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Inside the Gartner Market Guide for CSP Service and Network Assurance Solutions: Agentic AI and the Foundation It Runs On

Aug 24, 2026 By Dallon Robinette In Selector
Most CSP assurance roadmaps now carry an AI line item. Fewer have a clear answer for what that AI actually runs on. Over the past year, the working question across operators and vendors has narrowed to something practical: how to put agents to work in assurance while keeping operators in control.
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Why AI Adoption Fails Without Operational Maturity First

Aug 24, 2026 By Amanda Doucette-Lachapelle In Auvik
Most MSPs are already experimenting with AI in some form, and every vendor at every conference has an AI for MSPs pitch ready. Few have stopped to check whether their own operations are solid enough to scale. Our 2026 IT Trends Report found that three-quarters of IT leaders believe they have an AI policy, while fewer than half of help desk staff agree. That’s the real risk: AI doesn’t fix drift, unclear ownership, or gaps between what’s documented and what’s actually happening.
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Monitor Azure Functions across every hosting plan with Datadog

Aug 24, 2026 By Datadog In Datadog
Microsoft’s Azure Functions serverless compute service abstracts away infrastructure management to simplify how teams deploy and operate applications. However, the managed environment can make it harder to understand what happens inside those applications after deployment. Traditional approaches that rely on agents, extensions, and sidecars for direct collection of telemetry data aren’t available across every Azure Functions hosting plan, which can leave gaps in end-to-end visibility.
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Build your own Bits Agent with Datadog Bits Agent Builder

Aug 24, 2026 By Datadog In Datadog
Datadog Bits Agent Builder lets you build AI agents that use your observability data to automate operational tasks. In this walkthrough, see how to build an agent that analyzes monitor and alert activity, identifies patterns, and provides actionable recommendations to improve your monitoring strategy. With Bits Agent Builder, you can give agents access to Datadog data and tools, customize their instructions and models, and run them automatically to continuously analyze and act on your environment.
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Getting started with ConnectWise PSA dashboards

Aug 24, 2026 By Blog In Squared Up
If you run your service desk on ConnectWise PSA, it's already the system of record for almost everything that matters. Tickets, agreements, configurations, projects, time entries, it's all in there. What it doesn't give you is an easy way to put that data next to the rest of your stack, your RMM, your security tooling, your backup platform, so you can look at a client and see the whole picture rather than one system at a time.
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