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The hidden costs of tool sprawl: An SRE's guide to observability consolidation

Apr 11, 2025 By David Hope In Elastic

An overview of the benefits, challenges, and philosophy behind consolidating your observability tools Picture this: It's 3:00 a.m., and your phone is buzzing with alerts from what seems like a dozen different monitoring tools. As you blearily scroll through the notifications, you can't help but wonder, "How did we end up with so many tools, and why can't they just talk to each other?".

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Synthetic transaction monitoring: The ultimate guide 2025

Apr 10, 2025 By Uptrends In Uptrends

You’ve landed on the ultimate guide to synthetic transaction monitoring (STM). If you want to check that your critical web services function and perform optimally, detect third-party failures, and surface issues before they reach your users…you need to know about STM. You might’ve heard it referred to as user journey monitoring or web application monitoring — we’ll get to that in a few scrolls. Let’s go.

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Flexible Log Management at Scale for Government

Apr 10, 2025 By Datadog In Datadog

As government agencies scale their IT modernization initiatives and deepen their focus on security, managing and maximizing the value of growing log volumes becomes more challenging. During this webinar, Datadog experts examined how to collect, process, and store large machine-generated data sets, transforming them from noise into actionable intelligence.

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Can Your Network Monitoring Tool Keep Up? | Obkio

Apr 10, 2025 By Obkio In Obkio

A while ago, your company chose a network monitoring tool that worked perfectly — back when most employees worked in the office, networks were centralized, applications ran on-premise, and "the cloud" was just a buzzword. But today? Your network has evolved (SD-WAN, remote work, SaaS apps), while your monitoring tool hasn’t. Now, false alerts flood your team, troubleshooting takes hours instead of minutes, and your tool only monitors your network devices but offers zero visibility into performance from the end-user perspective or critical cloud-based apps.

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AI That Matters: Driving Real Outcomes in Network Operations

Apr 10, 2025 By Phil Gervasi In Kentik

AI can be a transformative tool in network operations — but only when it’s tied to clear, measurable outcomes. Rather than chasing hype, IT and NetOps teams should focus on solving specific operational challenges like reducing MTTR, cutting costs, and stabilizing infrastructure. AI has real potential when strategically applied, and when aligned with business goals, it becomes a powerful ally in modern network operations.

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Empower your engineering teams with Self-Service Actions in Datadog Software Catalog

Apr 10, 2025 By Paige Andrews In Datadog

Engineering teams constantly balance the need for speed and standardization, but achieving both goals at the same time often feels impossible. Developers’ dependence on platform engineers for support with infrastructure and tooling can create bottlenecks for routine operational tasks such as provisioning environments, troubleshooting incidents, and managing deployments.

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MeriTalk State Tech Vision Panel: Improving the Outcomes of Government IT

Apr 10, 2025 By Datadog In Datadog

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Honeycomb Acquires Grit: A Strategic Investment in Pragmatic AI and Customer Value

Apr 10, 2025 By Christine Yen In Honeycomb

We’re excited to share that Honeycomb has completed our first-ever acquisition: we’re joining forces with Grit, bringing on board not only a strong team, but also compelling technology that supercharges our ability to deliver on our mission: to bring observability to every software engineer. This is a strategic move that will help us deepen the value we deliver to customers and accelerate our vision for what modern observability can and should be.

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Reducing Telemetry Toil with Rapid Pipelining

Apr 10, 2025 By Mezmo In Mezmo

Intellyx BrainBlog by Jason English for Mezmo ‍ “Bubble bubble, toil and trouble” describes the mysterious process of mixing together log data and metrics from multiple sources as they enter an observability data pipeline. ‍ Customers demand high performance, functionality-rich digital experiences with near-instantaneous response times.

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Opsgenie alternative: How to migrate to Grafana Cloud IRM

Apr 10, 2025 By Joey Orlando In Grafana

In recent years, we’ve seen many organizations migrate from legacy incident response tools to Grafana Cloud IRM — our unified incident response and on-call management application hosted on Grafana Cloud — as they look to improve reliability, reduce costs, and consolidate their tooling. To help guide those efforts, we offer several IRM migration tools that allow you to more seamlessly migrate away from those legacy solutions and start using Grafana Cloud IRM.

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