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Mastering Service Configuration in Icinga Director

The Icinga Director configuration tool makes it easy to define monitoring objects through the web UI and deploy them to the Icinga 2 API. In this blog post, I’ll walk you through how to configure services in Icinga Director. If you haven’t used Icinga Director yet, take a look at our introduction. I assume that most of you are already familiar with Icinga 2 and have used the DSL to define objects.

Early Warning Signals: Now in Microsoft Teams

As promised, we’re continuing to expand our Early Warning Signals coverage. In addition to our recent integrations for Slack, SMS, and Webhooks, we’re excited to announce that Early Warning Signals now works in Microsoft Teams. This is another step toward making early outage alerts accessible wherever your conversations happen.

REST easy with REST Packs

The countdown to CriblCon 25 is on and we’re giving you an exclusive first look at the expert insights, innovative solutions, and success stories you’ll see on the big stage. REST collector configuration can be painful, requiring navigating to multiple screens and importing multiple configuration files, but it’s about to get a lot easier. Join Cribl experts to preview how easily you can install and build new packs with new enhancements.

Getting Started with Grafana Cloud's AI Assistant for Observability

The pace of software delivery in 2025 is unprecedented — cloud-native apps, microservices, and AI-generated code are shipping in days, not months. But one challenge never changes: ensuring reliability and visibility when systems fail. In this video, we explore how the new Grafana AI Assistant brings true, context-aware observability to your stack. Watch as we deploy an open-source Python service with Kafka, Postgres, Kubernetes, and Prometheus then use the AI assistant to instantly generate dashboards, alerts, and reduce un-needed telemetry volume.

Real-Time Status Monitoring for 50+ EdTech Tools K12 IT Teams Actually Use

K12 IT departments face a unique challenge: keeping dozens of educational technology platforms running smoothly while teachers conduct lessons and students complete assignments. A single service outage can disrupt hundreds of classrooms simultaneously. That's why implementing a k12 service status dashboard has become essential for school technology teams managing complex digital learning environments.

Introducing the Coralogix Transactions processor

Coralogix Transactions are a trace segmentation strategy, unique to the Coralogix platform. They allow users to analyze the performance, over time, of a collection of related spans, across billions of traces. Coralogix has introduced a transactions processor into the OpenTelemetry contrib image, enabling users to activate this unique feature using nothing more than OpenTelemetry configuration.

What Is an MCP Server?

Ok MCP server, If you’ve been following AI development lately, you’ve probably heard whispers about “MCP Servers” floating around developer circles. It’s been around a little while now, and I myself have finally gotten round to using it. Boy, do we need to talk about it. MCP (Model Context Protocol) is Anthropic’s open standard that lets AI assistants connect directly to your tools and data sources, not just static documentation or code snippets.