Game Devs Are Secretly Using Bots (And Players Hate It)
Are game studios secretly adding bots to manipulate matchmaking? Sean shares a brutally honest experience—and why it’s ruining gameplay.
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Building a Unified Enterprise Observability Strategy Webinar
Join Graham Davies, Technical Product Manager at SquaredUp as he provides a practical guide to breaking down data silos between IT, operations and the business. In this session, Graham digs into why dashboard and tool sprawl is making decisions harder, not easier, and shows you a practical framework for building a single source of truth your whole organisation can rely on.
Sentry Built AI Dashboards: Monitor Your AI Agents End-to-End
Building AI applications? There's a lot more to monitor beyond errors. With tracing enabled, Sentry's built-in AI Dashboards give you deep visibility into how your agents are actually performing. This video walks through three key dashboard views: You'll also see how to drill from a dashboard widget straight into the trace explorer to pinpoint the root cause of errors, how to duplicate and customize dashboards to fit your needs, and how to set up monitors with alert thresholds - like getting notified if your LLM calls exceed 20 seconds.
Unified Enterprise Monitoring that Scales
Modernize your monitoring stack with the Progress WhatsUp Gold network monitoring solution in this fast, 30‑minute session. Learn how to replace legacy, multi‑module tools with one unified platform that simplifies operations, boosts visibility and delivers predictable TCO. Discover how NetOps and ITOps teams can reduce complexity and get actionable insights faster by utilizing the WhatsUp Gold capabilities to unify network traffic analysis, logs, configuration and high availability.
Modern IT and the Burden of Accountability
The leaders responsible for modern IT environments rarely talk about features first. They talk about responsibility. In conversations at Nexus Live 2025, ScienceLogic’s annual customer conference, executives and architects across healthcare, federal systems, managed services, telecom, and enterprise IT described modernization not as a tooling upgrade, but as an escalation of accountability.
Manage service tracing across hosts with Single Step Instrumentation rules
Single Step Instrumentation (SSI) simplifies Datadog Application Performance Monitoring (APM) by automatically discovering and instrumenting services across a host. For many teams, SSI is the ideal starting point because it helps them achieve full visibility with minimal setup. However, as environments grow, teams often want more control over which services get traced. Auxiliary workloads such as batch jobs and cron tasks might not require distributed tracing.
Route OTel data from AI apps to ClickHouse and Datadog using Observability Pipelines
As organizations continue to heavily invest in AI and build more agentic workflows, their telemetry data volumes can surge quickly, and the associated costs can become unpredictable. To regain control of their data, many AI-forward teams are turning to high-throughput, low-latency pipelines to collect and route data to tools such as OpenTelemetry (OTel) and ClickHouse. But these self-hosted solutions come with drawbacks.
You Don't Need Three Pillars, You Need Single Threads
Last week was a great reminder for me about the challenges of the traditional model of observability defined by the “three pillars” of metrics, logs, and traces. One of the customers I’m currently working with is a large financial institution that has a robust three pillar implementation. Every critical application ships their telemetry to either or both their cloud-native tool and a central tool.
From Edge to Cloud: How Litmus Edge and InfluxDB Unlock Industrial Intelligence at Hannover Messe
If you’ve spent time in industrial environments, you know the problem isn’t a lack of data. It’s collecting it reliably, contextualizing it, and storing it at scale. Most stacks weren’t built to fight all three battles.
Cloud cost visibility for different teams: Getting it right with custom dashboards
Most cloud cost dashboards are built for one audience. The finance team wants to see totals by department. The engineering team wants to see costs by service. The DevOps team wants to see environment-level breakdowns. When everyone looks at the same dashboard, nobody gets what they actually need. This is where tailored cloud cost visibility starts to matter. When a team can see its own costs clearly, it moves faster, takes ownership, and starts treating cost data like it actually matters.