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A Building Management System (BMS) is commonly used in data centers to monitor and control the facility’s mechanical, electrical, and environmental systems. With a BMS in place, it’s reasonable to ask: do you still need Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) software? The short answer is yes—DCIM and BMS serve occasionally overlapping but fundamentally different purposes.

In October’s episode of This Month in Datadog, Jeremy shows how you can use AI to query with natural language in DDSQL Editor, ensure teams stay continually updated during outages, mitigate the impact of flaky tests, and ingest OpenTelemetry Protocol (OTLP) metrics from serverless and third-party SaaS environments.

Security teams face a constant trade-off between detection coverage and alert fatigue. Broad, rule-based detection approaches surface every possible indicator of compromise (IoC) but generate unmanageable alert volumes. Narrow, tightly scoped rules reduce noise but risk missing critical signals. And while individual indicators of compromise can highlight suspicious behavior, they often lack the surrounding context needed to tell a complete story of how an attack unfolded.

The age of dashboards is ending, as observability has only created more noise for network teams to sift through. Kentik SVP of Product, Mav Turner, lays out why true network intelligence requires a clean, contextual data foundation to finally create a network that thinks.

This blog is based on our research done as part of our white paper, The Cost of Cloud 2025 - India Edition. Research was conducted with over 600 Indian tech professionals to create a comprehensive analysis of the Indian cloud market.

Modern operations happen in Slack, where teams spend their days collaborating, troubleshooting, and resolving incidents. And while many incident management tools offer Slack-friendly experiences, they lack end-to-end capabilities that teams need. During critical moments, other tools may require users to switch between Slack and their own interfaces, creating friction.

When your Microsoft 365 tenant reaches the SharePoint storage limit, the impact is immediate. File uploads start failing, Teams sites stop provisioning, indexing slows down, and storage overage charges begin applying automatically. For organisations storing large volumes of documents, drawings, media files, or project data, hitting the SharePoint capacity threshold can become a recurring and expensive problem—especially when underlying retention policies prevent deletion.

We shipped an improvement to Sentry's game engine and native SDKs that most developers probably didn’t even notice until now – unless they were explicitly aiming to test their Windows-built games on Linux with Wine/Proton compatibility layers. That's exactly the point. While we were focused on improving our game engine SDKs, our learnings while investigating a mysterious issue are applicable for any Windows application running on Linux via Wine or compatibility layer.

Let’s be honest—the cybersecurity battlefield keeps changing fast. Attackers evolve their tactics, networks expand, and data flows in every direction. If you’re responsible for protecting your organization’s security, staying ahead of cyber threats can feel like chasing shadows. This is where effective cybersecurity monitoring comes in.

A war room is a dedicated space where a cross-functional team gathers to handle critical incidents. While the term once implied a literal room filled with maps and consoles, today many war rooms live online with video links, shared dashboards, and collaboration tools.