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Telemetry Talks ep.2 - How to use OpenTelemetry in VictoriaMetrics Cloud

Telemetry Talks – Episode is here! In this episode, Diana and Jose introduce VictoriaMetrics Cloud, covering what it is, the problems it solves, and its pricing model, including how overages are handled. If you’re building or operating cloud-native systems and want a clearer, real-world understanding of OpenTelemetry and managed observability, this episode is for you. Resources for Further Learning.

When was the term artificial intelligence coined?

Discover when the term artificial intelligence was first introduced and how it shaped the future of AI research and machine learning. This video breaks down the origin of AI and its historical significance in modern technology. About Elastic Elastic, the Search AI Company, enables everyone to find the answers they need in real time, using all their data, at scale. Elastic’s solutions for search, observability, and security are built on the Elastic Search AI Platform — the development platform used by thousands of companies, including more than 50% of the Fortune 500.

Enabling Proactive ITOps with Skylar Advisor

By continuously connecting signals across your IT environment, Skylar Advisor turns operational complexity into clear, prioritized guidance. It highlights potential impact, explains why it matters, and delivers clear next steps so IT teams can act early and stay ahead of alerts before they turn into issues.

Why Website Change Monitoring Matters for Modern Brand Management

A competitor quietly slashes their prices, and the sales team doesn’t find out until deals start falling through. A rogue plugin update changes the homepage headline to something nobody approved. These scenarios play out constantly for brands without visibility into what’s happening on their own websites and their competitors’ sites. Website change monitoring provides that visibility through automated tracking and alerts, turning potential blind spots into strategic advantages.

Saved queries now support template variables | Grafana Cloud

In this video, Collin Fingar, Software Engineer at Grafana Labs, demonstrates how template variables can be used in saved queries, a feature that enables users to reuse queries they or others in their org have saved. You'll see how a query that contains variables can be reused, and how the variables can be replaced at the point of reuse.

A Practical Guide to SCADA Security

Critical infrastructure is under siege. The systems that control our power grids, water treatment plants, and oil pipelines weren’t designed for a connected world. This post covers what security measures teams need to understand and how time series monitoring can help turn SCADA’s weaknesses into a security advantage.

5 Essential Capabilities that Make Coralogix an Observability Powerhouse

Sometimes observability can feel like a second job. With many traditional tools, users must become experts in a proprietary language to ask a simple question. In these cases, developers or SRE’s can find themselves spending more time manually sifting through raw text, building complex data pipelines from scratch, and bouncing between fragmented dashboards than actually solving problems.