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Grafana Tempo 2.9 is now available, delivering MCP server support, TraceQL performance improvements, and more. Watch the video below to see the Tempo MCP server in action and learn how to speed up TraceQL metrics queries, or continue reading to get a quick overview of these and other updates. The Grafana Tempo 2.9 release notes and changelog provide more in-depth details and include all of the changes that came with this release.

We are proud to announce that Elastic has been named a finalist by the Technology & Service Industry Association (TSIA) in the 2025 STAR Awards program for Innovation in Customer Portals that Improve Digital Customer Experience. This award recognizes Elastic’s ability to embrace AI innovations to enhance our digital customer experience.

In my last blog, I’ve discussed a common problem: metrics like mean time to resolution (MTTR) mean nothing to business leaders. Celebrating a faster fix for an outage that still cost the company thousands in lost sales is a conversation that goes nowhere. You might as well be speaking a different language.

In my conversations about managing large, complex networks, one topic is now constant. The issue isn't budgets or new technology; it's about personnel. Specifically, it's the increasing difficulty of finding and retaining skilled professionals. If you are feeling this pressure, you are not alone. The search for technical talent is a universal challenge.

Metrics are fundamental to experimentation for two reasons: They set the basis for evaluating ideas and interventions, and they can suggest where to look next. As such, many teams collect a wide variety of metrics, from application performance data to revenue trends. However, doing so often means manually knitting together data from multiple sources and formats. Even then, data silos can make it challenging to understand the full impact of experimental changes. In this post, we’ll explore.

Debugging JavaScript errors just got easier. Today, we're launching Session Replay for Rollbar, giving you visual context for every error with customizable triggers and the only open-source MCP integration that lets AI analyze your sessions directly in your IDE.

The network has transformed dramatically. Hybrid cloud architectures and AI-powered infrastructure seem to expand in scale and complexity every day. But legacy tools to monitor and observe these networks have not kept up.

“Please enter the code we just sent you.” – most people have seen this message when logging into an online service. Two-Factor Authentication (2FA) is no longer reserved for banks or enterprises. It’s now common in email, social media, and shopping accounts. The idea is simple: in addition to a password, you need a second factor so that attackers can’t break in with just one piece of information. But what methods are actually used – and how secure are they really?