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Building automated workflows that adapt to real-world complexity can be a challenge. As systems scale and scenarios multiply, teams often end up hardcoding endless logic branches just to handle every potential outcome. That’s why we’re introducing Datadog Agent Builder, a powerful new tool that lets you create custom AI agents that are fully hosted by Datadog.

Introducing Kentik AI Advisor, a powerful new AI designed to deeply understand your network, reason through complex issues, and deliver clear, actionable guidance for designing, operating, and protecting your networks. By autonomously querying Kentik’s rich telemetry and tools, it explains what’s happening, why it matters, and what to do next — from troubleshooting and capacity planning to cost optimization and risk mitigation.

Developers don’t need another “run this tool, stare at a number, and feel bad about it” website. So we built something different. WebVitals helps you analyze, optimize, and ship faster websites, all in one place. Built by the same folks who obsess over stack traces and slow queries, it connects the dots between performance metrics and what’s actually slowing your users down. In one place, you can.

Edge computing has been the buzzword of the decade. Everyone is talking about pushing intelligence closer to the edge, but most of that intelligence still needs a map and a flashlight. This week, CRN named LogicMonitor to its 2025 Edge Computing 100, recognizing companies that are actually doing something useful at the edge instead of just hyping it. We are honored. We are also a little amused.

We're proud to share that Elastic has been named a Leader in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Observability Platforms 2025 Vendor Assessment (doc, November 2025). We believe this recognition validates our ongoing mission: to deliver an observability platform that is open, extensible, and AI-driven to power full-stack observability that unifies operational and business data at scale, allowing SRE teams to move from detect and resolve problems faster.

At Progress, we continue to develop and enhance the Progress Flowmon product family. The latest update brings the core Flowmon product to release 13.0, and it includes remarkable performance improvements, strengthened security and expanded protocol support. Full details of what’s new and improved in the latest release are available on the Flowmon product page. In this blog, we’re excited to highlight the newest features and improvements to the Flowmon solution.

We are thrilled to announce a major update across our line of ODBC Drivers, introducing a graphical configuration interface for macOS and Linux, extended authentication methods, and compatibility with the latest database versions including PostgreSQL 18 and MariaDB 12.