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A new allowlists design for Grafana Cloud IP addresses: What you need to know

If your network restricts inbound or outbound traffic, you likely maintain an allowlist of Grafana Cloud IP addresses so your systems and Grafana Cloud can talk to each other. Today we're introducing a new allowlists design: a single, structured API that replaces the collection of per-product lists we've published until now. If you don't use IP allowlisting—or you connect to Grafana Cloud over private connectivity such as AWS PrivateLink—nothing changes for you, and no action is needed.

Introducing Obkio's Network Quality Widget: See Network Health at a Glance

We've been making a series of improvements across Obkio’s Network Monitoring and Observability application, and a lot of that work has been focused on one goal: simplifying not just how we show network performance data, but how easy it is to actually interpret and understand that data. Not everyone monitoring a network has the time, or the networking background, to dig through graphs line by line to figure out what's going on.

How To Build An MSP Team That Truly Relies On Data-Driven Decision-Making

Managed Service Providers (MSPs) aren’t short on data. Most of them have dashboards, KPIs, and utilization reports running across multiple screens. But having data and using it to make better decisions are two different things, and the gap between them is wider than you might think, with one study finding that only 32% of companies effectively use data to drive business value. For the other 68%, the numbers exist, they just… don’t do much.

Why Cloud Security Pays Off: Key Benefits Explained for Decision-Makers

Every new app, user, workload and connection creates value, yet it can also create another opening for disruption. One weak password, a missed update or an exposed setting can lead to downtime, lost data and difficult questions from customers and leadership. For decision-makers, the issue is not whether cloud security costs money. It is whether the business can afford the cost of operating without proper safety. Powerful cloud security helps you reduce risk, improve visibility, support compliance and give teams the trust to grow without looking over their shoulders.

Optical Freedom in the Age of AI: Why Thin Transponders Are Reshaping Optical Network Design

AI is driving the next wave of digital transformation, but it is also creating an unexpected challenge for network operators: optical capacity is becoming a strategic bottleneck. The same AI boom fueling billions of dollars in data center investment is placing unprecedented demand on optical networking infrastructure.

How to Optimize Cloudflare Connectivity for Performance, Cost, and Control

Learn why adding a dedicated network edge between Cloudflare and your cloud can deliver faster, more predictable, cost-efficient traffic. There was a time when every user first connected to the corporate network before accessing business applications. The network perimeter was well defined, and IT controlled it; security was centralized behind firewalls, VPN concentrators, and proxy servers. Today, that perimeter no longer exists.

Adding Routing Intelligence To Your Observability Stack

Observability has a blind spot, and for most teams it sits at the network layer. You instrument your services, scrape metrics into Prometheus, ship logs somewhere searchable, and build dashboards that tell you when something is wrong inside your infrastructure. But the routing that carries traffic to and from that infrastructure often lives entirely outside the stack, watched through separate tools that do not talk to your alerting. This piece looks at why routing belongs in your observability pipeline and what it takes to get it there.