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Declarative Configuration in OTel (Grafana OpenTelemetry Community Call #1)

We’re kicking off a brand-new Grafana OpenTelemetry Community Call! Join us as we dive into getting observability into your apps and infrastructure with Grafana, powered by OpenTelemetry. In this session, we’ll dive into Declarative Config — the new way to make OpenTelemetry onboarding simple and powerful. Instead of juggling environment variables or boilerplate in your startup code, declarative config gives you a clean, language-agnostic approach that works across SDKs and unlocks future possibilities like remote configuration. Join us with Marylia Gutierrez (OTel JavaScript approver & core contributor) to explore.

How Atlassian built a smarter observability system with Grafana and OpenTelemetry

Discover how Atlassian built OpsDeck, an observability platform powered by Grafana, to automate incident detection, improve response time, and reduce troubleshooting from one hour to under a minute. Hear how the Observability Insights team scaled OpenTelemetry, broke silos, and built smarter workflows for both engineers and support.

Demystifying WMI Permissions

Network administrators are always seeking to gain a deeper understanding of their Windows-based environments. Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) enables their network monitoring tools to access system information, manage configurations and automate tasks. It provides a vital role in network monitoring by providing a standardized interface for querying and controlling system components. A complex set of permissions governs WMI access.

Clarity in the Dojo: The power of the Summary Agent

In the dojo, not every role is about throwing punches. Some roles are about awareness, the unmistakable voice that tells the fighter when to move, where the strike is coming from, and why the opponent matters. That’s the role of the Summary Agent in Sumo Logic Dojo AI. Unlike a traditional agent, it doesn’t launch queries or carry out actions on its own. Its purpose is to narrate, not act. In doing so, it becomes the foundation for every other decision in the dojo.

Enhanced Flexibility and Security Monitoring - New in DataStream

This update delivers significant advances in operational flexibility and security monitoring capabilities. It addresses the evolving needs of security teams across diverse deployment environments, from air-gapped networks to those prioritizing automation and simplicity, while expanding integration options and improving visibility into data flows.

Introducing The Next Phase Of Synthetic Monitoring: Playwright Check Suites

We've been running Playwright in production since the beginning. Today, we're going all in. When we first launched Browser Checks with Playwright support, we proved something critical: the most popular test automation framework since Selenium isn't just for testing—it's the foundation of modern production monitoring. But that was just the beginning. Today, we're announcing Playwright Check Suites—our bet on the future of monitoring and the most significant evolution in Checkly's history.

Why do you only use Playwright for pre-release testing and not for production monitoring, too?

We've been running Playwright in production for years. Today, we, at Checkly, are going all in with Playwright Check Suites. Playwright Check Suites is our latest step towards uniting testing and monitoring into a single workflow. It's our biggest advancement yet! Here's why this matters: We're not adapting Playwright anymore. We're running it natively in production with full `playwright.config` support, complete custom dependency control, and support for every tag, spec, or configuration.

We've refreshed and expanded the StatusGator Help Center

We’re excited to share a major update to the StatusGator Help Center — redesigned to make finding answers and learning new features faster and easier than ever. We’ve reorganized our documentation, added new guides, and improved formatting so you can navigate with ease — whether you’re just getting started or managing advanced integrations.

Latency & Leadership with Mehdi Daoudi

Leadership is about more than telling people what to do. It’s about inspiring belief in your vision for the future. Sometimes there’s a delay between the time you share the vision and when the rest of the team “gets it”. The Latency & Leadership series hopes to shorten that lag time by creating a platform for leaders in the tech space to share their ideas, their passion, and their vision.