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The latest News and Information on Observabilty for complex systems and related technologies.

How to monitor and manage front-end observability in Blackfire

In this video, we'll guide you through the process of monitoring and managing your usage of front-end observability features in Blackfire. Learn how to access your Browser usage dashboard to view browser traces collected per environment, track your quota consumption, and understand the concept of spike protection. You'll discover how Blackfire's automatic detection of abnormal traffic spikes protects your monthly quota and ensures continuous data collection.

How to Enable and Configure Front-end Observability in Blackfire

In this video, learn how to enable and configure Front-end Observability in Blackfire. The tutorial covers steps to enable features across multiple environments via the Organization settings / Front-end usage in the Blackfire dashboard. Control front-end observability by enabling or disabling Browser Monitoring and Analytics per environment, using a JavaScript probe and a unique browser key. The video emphasizes the importance of naming transactions and explains how to manually add tracking snippets to HTML for better control.

Unifying Observability: Intelligence, Automation, and Insights in Action

As enterprise IT environments evolve into ever-greater complexity and scale, demands on operations teams are accelerating. In the traditional model, observability tools collect data, engineers manually correlate events, and remediation follows a ticketing trail. However, that approach no longer matches the speed and scale of today’s digital businesses. Even the most storied dashboards can’t address today’s operational needs.

How I Use GenAI as a Thought Partner, Not a Shortcut

You don’t need to be a power user to get powerful results. I’m not training models or prompting GPTs into poetry—I’m just using them to do what great managers already try to do: communicate clearly, prioritize outcomes, and lead with intention. Over the last few quarters, I’ve built a handful of custom GPTs to support my weekly, monthly, and quarterly workflows.

Why continuous profiling is the fourth pillar of observability

Developers have long used profilers to diagnose performance bottlenecks and improve the efficiency of their code. But a modern version of profiling, continuous profiling, is quietly redefining what profiling is and what it can do. By running nonstop in production with very low overhead, continuous profilers give teams always-on visibility into how their code behaves in the real world.

Observability Data: Ingestion Pipeline Best Practices

Great data is a prerequisite to all things AIOps and observability. Great observability data results in fewer observability gaps, better analysis and insights, and more confidence within teams that rely on the power of modern AIOps and observability technologies. Goals for improved automation, IT efficiencies, intelligent triage and remediation all become more achievable with better data.

Tutorial: Visualize Your Puppet Data in Grafana with the Observability Data Connector

When you manage complex IT infrastructure, it becomes critical to use tooling to understand what’s happening across all of your systems in terms of performance, reliability, and compliance. Monitoring key indicators manually is simply no longer possible at that scale. Puppet has long been known as a solution for managing large environments and collecting a vast amount of data about your infrastructure, but accessing and visualizing that data in a meaningful way can be a challenge.

AWS Summit NYC 2025: Laser-Focused on AI

If you’re unfamiliar with AWS Summits, these are conferences that occur on a yearly basis in different cities. The events are mostly used to announce new products and technologies. This year, the theme was AI, as evidenced by the keynote, a large majority of the talks, and a walk around the vendor floor. The keynote talk was hosted by Swami Sivasubramanian, VP of Agentic AI at AWS.

How SAP achieved world-class uptime through modern observability

SAP Customer Experience (CX) has undergone a remarkable transformation over recent years, evolving from fragmented monitoring to a scalable, automated observability powerhouse. In a recent fireside chat, Martin Norato Auer, SAP CX’s VP of Observability, shed light on the strategies, practices, and measurable impacts behind SAP’s SLA, uptime, and responsiveness achievements.