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Introducing Coralogix's MCP Server: Helping customers build smarter AI agents

Now available: Secure, real-time access to your observability data via Coralogix’s Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server. AI agents are only as powerful as the context they’re given. Today, we’re excited to announce the launch of the Coralogix MCP Server, which enables third-party AI agents to connect directly to your observability data across production, staging, and other environments.

Quantifying the True Cost of Healthcare IT Downtime

In today’s hospitals, technology is woven into every touchpoint of patient care. Nurses check vitals through digital monitors. Physicians review test results in the EHR. Medications get ordered, verified, and delivered through a network of connected systems. But when even one link in that chain fails, the impact isn’t just inconvenient—it’s dangerous. Downtime doesn’t just slow operations.

Splunk Named a Leader in the 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Observability Platforms

We are proud to announce that Splunk has been named a Leader in the 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Observability Platforms for the third year in a row. In our opinion, our recognition in the Observability category comes on the heels of Splunk being recognized for a tenth consecutive time as a Leader in the 2024 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Security Information and Event Management (SIEM). Splunk was the only vendor named a Leader in both SIEM and Observability for the Gartner Magic Quadrant three times.

Jaeger Metrics: Internal Operations and Service Performance Monitoring

You're monitoring a microservices-based system. Alerts trigger when response times exceed 2 seconds. But when you open Jaeger, you're faced with thousands of traces. Identifying which service or operation is responsible becomes time-consuming. Jaeger metrics help reduce this friction by exposing aggregated telemetry. Instead of scanning individual traces, you get service-level and operation-level performance metrics, latency, throughput, and error rates that highlight where the issue lies.

Arie's Adventures with Coroot

Arie van den Heuvel is an engineer, a System and Application Management Specialist, and a valued member of our community. Below he has shared his journey using Coroot, and how it has helped improve observability for his team. You can read more of Arie’s writing and support the resource articles he has created for open source on his blog.

Identifying Idle Paths in a Data Center Leaf-Spine Fabric

In a perfect leaf-spine network, traffic evenly spreads across all links. But reality is often different, leaving costly, idle paths hidden in your data center fabric. Kentik's Phil Gervasi demonstrates how Kentik's network intelligence platform helps engineers quickly identify and address these underutilized paths. With powerful visualizations, detailed telemetry analysis, and customizable alerts integrated into your ticketing systems, Kentik makes it easy to spot persistent traffic imbalances, troubleshoot ECMP issues, and optimize your infrastructure.

Real-Time Alerting for AI-Optimized Data Centers

Kentik transforms real-time network telemetry into actionable alerts for AI-optimized data centers. By converting database queries into custom alerts, engineers can detect issues like elephant flows, idle links, and packet loss before performance suffers and triggers alerts in systems like ServiceNow or PagerDuty.

Atatus APM: Full-Stack Visibility for Modern Engineering Teams 2025

APM stands for Application Performance Monitoring or Application Performance Management. It helps engineering teams track key metrics, detect slowdowns, and improve the overall performance of their applications. With Atatus APM, you get complete visibility into your application, from backend code and databases to external services and frontend performance.

How to Troubleshoot Outages Faster Using Elastic Observability [2 Min Live Demo]

In this video, I’ll show you how Elastic Observability helps you reduce downtime, accelerate root cause analysis, and unify logs, metrics, and traces in one powerful dashboard. With native OpenTelemetry support, AI-powered troubleshooting, and built-in anomaly detection, you can streamline your workflows and boost service reliability.

Cloudflare's Resolver Outage: More Than Just DNS

“It’s always DNS.” That’s the running joke in IT. When websites won’t load and apps grind to a halt, DNS—the internet’s address book—is often the first to get blamed. That’s because DNS translates human-friendly names like google.com into IP addresses that computers use to route traffic.