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Monitoring Modernization: 6 Lessons for IT Leaders

Monitoring modernization doesn’t have to begin with a rip-and-replace project. For many IT teams, it starts with a specific need: better visibility, stronger historical context, more useful alerting, or capabilities their current tools simply don’t provide. From there, modernization can happen in stages.

Removing decommissioned clusters from Icinga for Kubernetes

Clusters get retired. A test cluster is torn down, a workload moves to a new environment, a provider contract ends. Icinga for Kubernetes does not know about any of that. Since v0.3.0, several clusters can write into one shared database, and Icinga for Kubernetes Web shows them side by side. But stopping or uninstalling the daemon for a cluster leaves all of its data in place.

Welcome Keynote: Powering the Rise of the Agentic EnterpriseRise of the Agentic Enterprise

Join Jeetu Patel, Head of Product at Cisco, and Kamal Hathi, GM at Splunk, alongside a special guest, to see how organizations transform security, observability, and operations with AI workflows that are proven at scale. Discover how Splunk and Cisco bring unified visibility, trusted AI, and intelligent automation to help organizations.

Product Keynote: The Platform for Your Agentic Enterprise

The future of operations is predictive, unified, and AI-powered. Dive into how Splunk and Cisco help organizations unlock cross-domain insights at massive scale, provide intelligent context across security and observability, and build trust in AI with end-to-end visibility. Hear directly from product leaders on the latest innovations shaping agentic enterprises.

Say No Without Becoming the IT Dept People Avoid

You can still say no in IT without becoming the department everyone avoids. The person asking today might be key to winning a project two years from now. So the reflex shouldn’t be yes. It should be: here’s what’s on our plate, help me understand the ask. You still get to the no, but you keep the relationship, and you show up as a business partner, not tactical support. Watch the full IT Leadership Lab session — linked above.

How much does it cost to train an AI model? Frontier figures, graded [2026]

Training an AI model costs anywhere from a few hundred dollars to several hundred million, depending entirely on what “train” means. Fine-tuning an existing model: tens to thousands of dollars. Pretraining a small model from scratch: tens of thousands to millions. A frontier run in 2026: hundreds of millions, with Epoch AI projecting the largest runs will pass $1 billion by 2027.