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Collecting and Visualizing Metrics in Puppet Enterprise

This walkthrough covers how to enable and leverage metrics collection in Puppet Enterprise for monitoring and troubleshooting your Puppet infrastructure. Presented by Barr Iserloth and Tony Green learn how to activate metrics logging, integrate with visualization tools like Grafana, and diagnose Puppet Server, PuppetDB, and system-level behaviors with real-time observability.

7 Asset Management Automation Ideas To Apply!

Keeping track of IT assets doesn’t need to be a mess of spreadsheets and manual updates. In this video, Matt Beran, Product Specialist at InvGate, shows you seven practical automations in InvGate Asset Management that make everyday tasks easier—from software tracking to warranty alerts and duplicate detection.

Data Observability: Build confidence in the data life cycle

Datadog Data Observability provides a complete solution with quality checks (e.g., volume, row changes, freshness), custom SQL-based monitors, anomaly detection, column-level lineage across systems like Snowflake and Tableau, full pipeline visibility, and targeted alerts when data issues arise.

Stop guessing! Speedscale's Notebook finds anything in your traffic.

Debugging complex microservices just got an upgrade. This video demonstrates Speedscale's innovative Notebook capability, allowing you to perform advanced substring searches and filter production traffic based on deeply nested JSON fields within request and response bodies. Unlike traditional observability tools that only record telemetry, Speedscale's always-on recorder captures full traffic payloads, empowering you to precisely pinpoint issues, identify specific user calls, or validate API versions. Streamline your troubleshooting, enhance your testing, and gain unprecedented visibility into your production environment.

Essential Monthly Developer Updates: Security and Software Improvements

Monthly developer updates focus on critical areas like Azure vulnerabilities and Visual Studio updates. Attention is needed for the Azure Monitor agent and service fabric, especially regarding auto-update settings. With Windows 10 nearing its end of life, organizations should consider ESU support. Adobe updates address vulnerabilities in After Effects, InCopy, and Illustrator. Windows updates for versions 10 and 11 tackle various vulnerabilities, while SQL Server and SharePoint server updates are essential for security.

What is Grafana Cloud? Fully Managed Observability Built on Open Standards | Grafana Labs

Grafana Cloud helps teams detect, investigate, and resolve incidents faster—thanks to AI, open standards, and seamless integrations with OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Salesforce, and more. See how it all works in this live demo of a simulated e-commerce outage.