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Shipped: In-app help, right beside your work

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.

The finance dashboard I actually use, built from CloudZero and Campfire in an afternoon

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.

Cloud cost management: how repatriation improves control for UK enterprises

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.

Introducing Obkio's Severity Summary Widget: See Network Events at a Glance

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.

Microlesson: Using Mobot for Log Analysis

This video demonstrates how to use Mobot to investigate issues, interpret its findings, and identify recommended next steps. Follow along as Mobot responds to a prompt by understanding your intent, gathering relevant data, performing multi-step analysis, reasoning across data sources, surfacing insights, and recommending next steps.

Site24x7 APM business transactions explained

Learn how to set up and monitor Business Transactions using Site24x7's APM Insight in this step-by-step tutorial. We walk through configuring APM Business Transaction Rules, defining transaction criteria (like HTTP method and URL patterns), and analyzing key performance metrics such as response time, throughput, Apdex score, request count, and exception rate. Whether you're troubleshooting slow application performance or setting up proactive monitoring for your business-critical transactions, this video shows you exactly how to get actionable insights from your APM dashboard.

Migration feasibility checklist for IT leaders

Feasibility is a prioritization question that comes before strategy. The five-question check produces a "now, later, or fix blockers first", before anyone touches a target architecture. Strategy earns its place once feasibility returns "now." Feasibility comes before strategy. Before anyone designs a target architecture, builds a runbook, or commits to a multicloud operating model, the question is whether the migration is the right move now, and what would make it fail.

Top Kubernetes Monitoring Tools Compared: Which Solution is Best for Enterprise Environments?

Modern enterprises rely heavily on Kubernetes to orchestrate containerized applications at scale. However, as Kubernetes environments grow in complexity, maintaining visibility into application performance, cluster health, and infrastructure dependencies becomes increasingly challenging. Choosing the right Kubernetes monitoring tools is essential for ensuring application availability, optimizing resources, and delivering consistent user experiences.

How a Citrix Monitoring Tool Helps Optimize Virtual Desktop Performance

A trader waits 50 seconds for a Citrix session to load while the market moves. A clinician steps away from a patient because the virtual desktop froze mid-record. A call-center agent watches keystrokes lag every customer question. None of these people file a detailed bug report. They contact the helpdesk, reporting that “Citrix is slow,” and lose minutes of productive time, multiplied across thousands of users every day.