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It's not just about fixing problems, it's about detecting them before they escalate.

IT teams can’t solve what they can’t see. Undetected issues impacting end users lead to lost revenue, brand reputation damage, and frustrated customers. That’s why proactive monitoring is critical. By simulating end-user experiences, you catch small issues before they snowball into major incidents—saving time, money, and operational headaches.

What Is a Network Assessment, and What Is a Network Audit?

These days, networks are larger and more complex than ever. It’s all too easy to fall short when managing performance, security, and compliance. That’s where network assessments and network audits can help. Both network assessments and network audits can give you a more comprehensive understanding of your network and its current strengths, weaknesses, and threats. As a result, you can quickly identify and resolve issues.

Top 3 tools for DORA metrics reporting: SquaredUp vs Power BI vs Jira

What is it that makes a high-performing software engineering team successful? This was the challenge undertaken by the DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA) team around 2015, who created a set of metrics that could provide a reliable, data-driven way to measure and improve software delivery performance.

Meta-monitoring Loki (Loki Community Call May 2025)

In this Loki Community Call, we talk about the need for meta-monitoring Loki: why Loki needs to be monitored, what to watch out for, and how to do it. We talk about different ways to get information from Loki that allow you to make it reliable, consistent, and performant, including a Helm chart to deploy a meta-monitoring stack on Kubernetes. We discuss the Loki mixin for Grafana and how to use it to visualize data about Loki. On the call are Jay Clifford, Nicole van der Hoeven, and Dylan Guedes from Grafana Labs.

Cloud quotas: How to make cloud management easy

In the past, a cloud architect's pain point was usually deciding between these two options: To tackle this confusion, major cloud service providers (CSPs) launched quotas (in their own words). To give you examples, here are the different terminologies used by the three major public CSPs: The main ingredient of a well-oiled cloud setup that significantly impacts cloud operations is understanding and managing cloud quotas, also known as service quotas.

What You Didn't See During the GrafanaCON 2025 Keynote Livestream...

Our GrafanaCON co-chairs take you on a backstage tour through GrafanaCON 2025 Day 1 — sneak peeks, activities, and the conference magic. Grafana Cloud is the easiest way to get started with Grafana dashboards, metrics, logs, and traces. Our forever-free tier includes access to 10k metrics, 50GB logs, 50GB traces and more.

Introducing Coralogix Continuous Profiling

Debug faster, improve application performance, and lower your cloud costs - without slowing down production. Traditional profiling solutions come with a heavy price—added latency, excessive resource consumption, and performance degradation. At, we’re changing the game with Continuous Profiling, the first of its kind to offer real-time, kernel-level visibility into application performance without any code changes or production impact.

Agentic AI in financial services: The rise of autonomous intelligence

Agentic AI is coming to financial services. Elastic provides the data foundation and tools to make it work. In a recent talk at Stanford University, Jamie Dimon, chairman and CEO of JPMorganChase, addressed the firm’s use of AI and ended with mentioning that agentic AI was the next frontier of AI at the firm, inferring it wasn’t ready to be deployed yet. Let’s break down why that may be the case and what the financial services industry can do to become more comfortable with agentic AI.

Unleash SaaS Data With the Webhookevent Receiver

There are many vendors, Honeycomb included, where actions on the application can emit a web request that goes to another service for coordination or tracking purposes. Many vendors have pre-built integrations, but some have a fallback that says “Custom Webhook” or similar. If you’re looking to create a full picture of your request flow, you would want these other services to show up in your trace waterfall.