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I was at the dentist the other day, getting ready for my appointment. The waiting room was pompously decorated. Each chair seemed to be from a different, expensive Danish designer. As I realize I’m about to get charged through the nose, I get a notification from my beloved Mail app. ** ding ** Screenshot of GitHub email notification It’s a new Pull Request on GitHub. This one is different though. I have no idea where it came from!

When organizations evaluate a software upgrade, the conversation often begins with features, functionality, and innovation. Those considerations are important, but they are rarely the primary concern for the teams responsible for executing the upgrade. Operations leaders are typically focused on a more practical question: can the upgrade be completed successfully, within the planned maintenance window, with clear support paths, and without creating unnecessary disruption for the business?

Summary The five most recent plugins from the InfluxDB team are live: Sagemaker, value counter, Chronos forecasting, simple data replicator, and a stock portfolio tracker. Table of Contents The InfluxDB team has released five new Processing Engine plugins. They range from making it easy to call a hosted ML model to pulling in stock market data in real-time. Every one of them can be activated with a few terminal commands.

We've been making a series of improvements across Obkio’s Network Monitoring and Observability application, and a lot of that work has been focused on one goal: simplifying not just how we show network performance data, but how easy it is to actually interpret and understand that data. Not everyone monitoring a network has the time, or the networking background, to dig through graphs line by line to figure out what's going on.

When users report slow virtual desktops, the first instinct is often to check CPU or memory utilization. But what happens when those metrics look perfectly healthy, yet users across the environment are still complaining about slow application launches, lagging desktops and poor performance? In many cases, the bottleneck lies elsewhere. Storage is often overlooked during initial investigations, but in VDI environments it can have a disproportionate impact on the user experience.

The new columnar metrics engine in Elastic Observability enables public sector IT teams to combine logging, metrics, and traces in one platform. As a result, SREs can improve uptime while protecting taxpayer dollars in the process. Public sector site reliability engineers (SREs) operate under a distinct set of pressures, whether that’s supporting a federal agency, a health department, a public university, or a transit authority.

Most CVE remediation tools can tell you that a vulnerability could be exploited. Few can confirm whether it actually is. A scanner flags the same CVE in two services and marks both as vulnerable. Only one of them ever runs the flawed code in production. That gap, reachable in theory versus reachable in fact, is the real problem, and static analysis alone cannot close it.

Organizations are increasingly using multiple models to build AI agents in order to find the best balance of performance and cost for each agentic task and LLM call. As we discovered in the 2026 State of AI Engineering report, there isn’t currently a clear winner in terms of adoption among competing models and many organizations are keeping older models in flight despite frequent new releases.

Stripe Projects reduces the manual work of setting up, managing, and paying for third-party SaaS solutions. You can now use it to get started with Datadog in just two commands: If your Stripe account has a verified email address, running those commands in the Stripe CLI gives you a Datadog organization with a 14-day free trial and an automatically generated API key that is ready to use. You avoid email verification loops, tab-switching to copy an API key out of a dashboard, and lengthy sign-up forms.

If your network restricts inbound or outbound traffic, you likely maintain an allowlist of Grafana Cloud IP addresses so your systems and Grafana Cloud can talk to each other. Today we're introducing a new allowlists design: a single, structured API that replaces the collection of per-product lists we've published until now. If you don't use IP allowlisting—or you connect to Grafana Cloud over private connectivity such as AWS PrivateLink—nothing changes for you, and no action is needed.