Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

Splitting one big pull request into five smaller ones doesn’t automatically make review faster. It just moves the complexity from the diff to your head, unless something keeps track of the order for you.

Grafana Cloud Frontend Observability helps engineering teams quantify the end user experience by bringing metrics, logs, traces, and user session context to client-side web applications. Teams can monitor application health and performance over time, triage errors, and correlate frontend signals with backend telemetry to investigate issues across the stack.

The compliance question isn't "are we using a private cloud?" Rather, it’s "does our private cloud actually do what compliance requires?" Private cloud has a reputation for solving compliance problems that it doesn't always deserve. The logic seems straightforward: keep data off shared public infrastructure, maintain more direct control, and satisfy the auditors.

You are mid-investigation, chasing a spike or pulling a number for finance, and you hit a term or a workflow you need to look up. You should not have to lose your place to find an answer. Guide lives in a fixed spot in the left sidebar, always one click away. It opens a panel on the right side that sits beside your page instead of covering it. Your chart, filters, and time range stay exactly where they were. Nothing gets rebuilt and you keep the thread of what you were investigating.

Every finance person I know lives in the same loop approaching the end of the month, quarter, or fiscal year. Leadership wants to know where the financials will land (most times before the close has occurred). CS wants customer margins. Someone on the People team needs each department’s AI spend for an OKR review, and they need it quickly to make business decisions. Each answer sits in a different tool or a different spreadsheet, and I bounce across all of them several times a day.

Hyperscale providers are nothing if not consistent in their temptation of enterprise IT buyers. They bombard leaders with a simple message: migrate to the public cloud, shut down data centres, and enjoy both financial savings and operational agility. However, as UK enterprises have scaled their digital footprints, a more nuanced reality has bitten. Public cloud costs have swollen.

Obkio’s new Severity Summary widget is built to answer one question fast: “How healthy was my network overall, across every session I'm tracking?” Instead of opening session after session to check each one individually, you get a single combined view showing how much time your network spent in each severity level.