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Building Enterprise Momentum Across APAC: A Conversation with Dave Patnaik

There’s a lot happening across Asia Pacific right now. Enterprises are moving quickly to modernize operations, adopt AI, and manage growing complexity across increasingly distributed environments, and the opportunity ahead for LogicMonitor in the region continues to grow alongside it. That’s why I’m especially excited to welcome Dave Patnaik to LogicMonitor as our new Vice President of APAC.

Devolutions Makes an Important Investment in Obkio

Obkio is proud to announce an important investment from Devolutions, one of the most respected names in IT security and remote access management. This investment marks a new chapter for Obkio as we accelerate our next phase of growth. This isn't a financial transaction between strangers. It's a partnership between two companies that have spent years building tools for the same people: IT professionals, sysadmins, MSPs, and the network engineers who keep critical network infrastructure running.

Color-coded log monitoring for simplified log analysis

Modern production environments generate massive volumes of logs every day. As systems become more distributed and cloud-native, that volume only increases. The real challenge isn’t collecting logs—it’s identifying what matters fast enough to act using effective log visualization. Most log views fail at this point. Every entry looks the same, forcing engineers to scan them manually and interpret lines under pressure.

Search and act across Datadog to resolve issues faster with Bits Chat

Finding the right information across dashboards, monitors, and telemetry sources takes time, even for experienced engineers. When something breaks, it often means figuring out where to start, rebuilding queries, and jumping between metrics, logs, and traces before you can take action. The challenge isn’t a lack of data but the effort required to surface the right information at the right moment.

Works on my machine: how we use AI to reproduce reported bugs

Sentry’s SDK teams maintain and support SDKs for a vast ecosystem of languages and frameworks. See our release registry for a source of truth. We’re currently at 159 published packages across the entire ecosystem. If you use it, we probably support it. All of these SDKs are open source and have their own GitHub repositories that we maintain on a daily basis. And like any other open source project, we get tons of bug reports and issues on these.

Top 10 Prompts for Your Monitoring Tool

You open a monitoring tool, and the data is all there: errors, traces, anomalies, incidents, and countless intricacies. If you want to get the right slice of that data, you need to know exactly which dashboard to open and what filters to apply. But when the poor UI gets in the way, this can take longer than it should. Luckily, this is not the case with AppSignal. MCP (Model Context Protocol) changes the interface entirely.

Three Years a Leader. Thank You.

Dear Nexthink community, We are excited to be named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Digital Employee Experience Tools for the third year in a row. I want to share this recognition with our customers, our partners and ecosystem, and every Nexthinker across the world. As a founder, it’s a true honor to work alongside so many talented people. To us, this recognition is also yours.

It Can Only Goodhart Happen

When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure. Charles Goodhart, 1975 You’ve probably read this quote in relation to any number of things over the years. People complaining about arbitrary metrics like PRs merged, lines of code produced, and now, token usage. But is the era of tokenmaxxing over before it even began? The rise of token leaderboards to the death of token leaderboards at companies like Amazon seem to have taken place in less than three months!

What is SRE Observability and Key Pillars You Should Know?

What happens when a critical service slows down, but nothing is technically “broken”? Most teams have monitoring in place. They know when something goes down. But when performance drops or issues spread across services, finding the real cause becomes slow and unclear. Engineering teams end up switching between dashboards, logs, and alerts just to understand what changed. This delays response and increases pressure on on-call teams. This is where SRE observability becomes essential.

Introducing the StatusGator browser extension for Chrome and Firefox

We’re excited to announce the launch of the StatusGator browser extension, now available for both Chrome and Firefox. Whether you’re troubleshooting an issue, wondering if a website is down, or looking for more information about an ongoing incident, the extension gives you instant access to service status information with a single click. Simply install the extension and start checking the status of websites and services as you browse.