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OpenTelemetry Metrics in Quarkus Explained

When you run services on Quarkus, you need a steady stream of signals to understand how the application behaves—CPU trends, request timings, memory patterns, and how each endpoint responds under load. Metrics give you that visibility. They help answer questions like: OpenTelemetry fits well here because it gives Quarkus a common way to generate and export metrics without locking you into a specific monitoring tool.

Building the Next Generation of Defenders: From the Classroom to the SOC of the Future

Singapore’s digital economy is growing at a remarkable pace, but with that growth comes a challenge: the nation is on track to need more than a million additional digitally skilled workers by 2026, particularly in cybersecurity, data, and AI. This is not just about filling jobs — it’s about ensuring the country’s long-term digital resilience.

Salesforce API Monitoring: Synthetic Tests That Catch Failures

Salesforce APIs sit quietly behind countless customer interactions. They connect CRMs to billing, sync leads to marketing, and power dashboards that executives depend on daily. Yet when one of those APIs slows down or breaks, it often happens without alarms. Dashboards still load, integrations keep attempting retries, and somewhere data silently stops flowing. That’s the danger of invisible API failure—by the time someone notices, the damage has already been done.

Microsoft Teams Monitoring to Troubleshoot & Optimize Performance

Microsoft Teams has become the collaboration backbone for businesses worldwide. But when call quality drops during a crucial client meeting or files won't upload before a deadline, productivity grinds to a halt. The frustration? These issues are usually preventable. The challenge with Teams is that problems can originate from multiple sources: user devices, network infrastructure, or Microsoft's platform itself.

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Preparing for cloud failures: Monitoring strategies for distributed hybrid infrastructure

When AWS experienced its recent outage, the ripple effect was immediate. Critical workloads slowed, dashboards went blank, and many teams realized multi-cloud isn't automatically resilient. Cloud-level failures are inevitable due to the interdependent components and complex IT architecture. The recent AWS disruption reminded many teams that the cloud isn't a magic uptime guarantee. Even the most mature providers can-and do-experience large-scale service interruptions.

How Auvik Helps MSPs Eliminate Network Alert Fatigue

When alerts come in hot and fast, alert fatigue can quickly set in, overwhelming you with the volume and becoming one of the biggest operational problems for MSPs. Not knowing what to handle first and prioritize in a long list of alerts puts a strain on one of the most valuable resources you have: focus. When your technicians are constantly switching contexts and sifting through a flood of low-priority alerts, it’s asking a lot of them to stay sharp. That constant mental juggling takes a toll.

Fix an error in Copilot without leaving your IDE

Production errors are every developer's nightmare. You're enjoying your coffee when suddenly alerts start firing - users are experiencing crashes, and you need to find and fix the issue fast. In this video, we'll walk you through how to use AI to diagnose and fix critical errors in an application using Rollbar's MCP (Model Context Protocol) server.

200 EPISODE ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL! PEDRO BADOS RETURNS!

It’s a milestone moment! Our 200th episode of The DEX Show (and the first ever late one — sorry about that!). To mark the occasion, Nexthink Founder and CEO Pedro Bados returns to reflect on Nexthink’s incredible journey and discuss the company’s next era — from the recent investment by Vista Equity Partners to the accelerating fusion of DEX and AI. Pedro shares his perspective on how AI is reshaping the workplace, Nexthink’s vision for “an IT agent for every employee,” and why he’s optimistic about the future of technology and innovation. A landmark conversation to celebrate our big birthday.

AI Agents Observability with OpenTelemetry and the VictoriaMetrics Stack

Nowadays, AI agents are becoming more and more popular and often deployed as part of production systems. However, this rapid adoption brings unique observability challenges that require flexible solutions. On the one hand, AI agents are fundamentally just like any other software services that produce the same classic observability signals we’re familiar with: metrics, logs, and traces.