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Smarter Insights and Pipeline Control - New in DataStream

We’re constantly improving DataStream to make security data management simpler, smarter, and more efficient for modern SOCs. This latest update introduces new capabilities that bring even more visibility and flexibility to your telemetry pipelines. Let’s take a closer look at what’s new.

Scaling Online Game Infrastructure for High-Engagement PvM Content

The explosive popularity of player-versus-monster (PvM) content in online games brings significant backend challenges, particularly as titles scale globally. Instanced boss fights, real-time combat logic, and mass player concurrency demand robust, responsive server infrastructure that can scale both horizontally and vertically - without degrading the player experience.

How I Use GenAI as a Thought Partner, Not a Shortcut

You don’t need to be a power user to get powerful results. I’m not training models or prompting GPTs into poetry—I’m just using them to do what great managers already try to do: communicate clearly, prioritize outcomes, and lead with intention. Over the last few quarters, I’ve built a handful of custom GPTs to support my weekly, monthly, and quarterly workflows.

Updated MPLAB X IDE Plugin

We’re happy to announce that our Trace Export Plugin for MPLAB X IDE has been updated to version 2.3.1 and now supports the latest versions of Microchip’s IDE, including MPLAB X v6.20 and v6.25. This plugin enables saving trace files from Percepio’s TraceRecorder library via the MPLAB X IDE debugger, making it easy to open the trace in Percepio Tracealyzer and related tools.

Observing Vercel AI SDK with OpenTelemetry + SigNoz

LLM-powered apps are growing fast, and frameworks like the Vercel AI SDK make it easy to build them. But with AI comes complexity. Latency issues, unpredictable outputs, and opaque failures can impact user experience. That’s why monitoring is essential. By using OpenTelemetry for standard instrumentation and SigNoz for observability, you can track performance, detect errors, and gain insights into your AI app’s behavior with minimal setup.

5 Assumptions CIOs Need to Rethink: Monitoring in the Age of Complexity

Today’s digital delivery models have fundamentally changed, yet many CIOs are still using monitoring strategies built for a world that no longer exists. With Internet dependencies, external APIs, SaaS platforms, CI/CD pipelines, and microservices dominating modern architectures, performance and reliability now hinge on systems IT teams don’t fully control. Traditional, reactive monitoring tools fail to provide visibility into the end-to-end experience. They alert you after the customer has already felt the pain.

Unifying Observability: Intelligence, Automation, and Insights in Action

As enterprise IT environments evolve into ever-greater complexity and scale, demands on operations teams are accelerating. In the traditional model, observability tools collect data, engineers manually correlate events, and remediation follows a ticketing trail. However, that approach no longer matches the speed and scale of today’s digital businesses. Even the most storied dashboards can’t address today’s operational needs.

Top 10 Status Page Examples: What We Like and What's Missing

A great status page does more than show uptime—it builds trust, communicates clearly during incidents, and empowers users to stay informed. Here are 10 standout examples of public status pages, with a quick breakdown of what they do well—and where there’s room for improvement.

Grafana 12.1 release: automated health checks for your Grafana instance, streamlined views in Grafana Alerting, visualization updates, and more

It’s official: Grafana 12.1 is here! The latest release delivers new features that simplify the management of Grafana instances, streamline how you manage alert rules (so you can find the alerts you need, when you need them), and more. Grafana 12.1: Download now! Below are just some of the highlights from the latest Grafana release. If you are looking for more details about all the changes in this release, refer to the changelog or the What’s New documentation.