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Get observability in your pocket with the Grafana mobile app

When you’re on the go, your phone is often the only observability tool you have. And what you can do with it in the first few minutes matters. With the incredible innovation that has gone into mobile CPUs, GPUs and displays, a phone is a powerful device where you can immediately see what’s happening and start acting on it. And the Grafana mobile app now allows you to both see and act.

Prepare Your Apple Fleet for iOS 27 and macOS 27

iOS 27 and macOS 27 introduce significant changes to how organizations manage, secure, and update Apple devices. New requirements around Declarative Device Management, evolving security capabilities, and software update enforcement mean IT teams can't afford to wait until launch day. Yosune Baltra, Product Manager at Ivanti, breaks down the updates IT admins need to understand now — from Software Update Enforcement and Settings configurations to how Ivanti's Autonomous Endpoint Management solutions help you manage, secure, govern, and remediate endpoints across macOS, iOS, and iPadOS.

DNS Monitoring: What to Track and Where to Watch It From

DNS monitoring asks your name servers the same question on a timer and checks the answer that comes back. Most teams aim it at their public domain and stop there. That covers half the problem. Your public domain and your internal resolver fail in different ways. A check from outside the building never sees the second one. In this blog, you'll see: By the end you'll know which half of your DNS nobody is watching. A DNS check sends a query and reads the reply. The reply can fail three ways.

What's New in Motadata 8.2.9 as ObserveOps Expands Database, Streaming and Network Coverage

How often does a lagging replica or a bad network link reach users before your monitoring flags it? The problem grows when every layer has its own tool. Warning signs then show up in different places, often too late to act on. Motadata 8.2.9 came out on October 5, 2026, with eight updates to Motadata ObserveOps. Four of them focus on the network. The other four deal with databases, data streaming, alerting and SEBI compliance reporting. A few add support for technologies Motadata did not cover before.

The Cheapest Personal Cloud Storage Offers 2026

Finding the cheapest personal cloud storage doesn’t mean compromising on privacy or security. In this guide, we compare the best and most affordable cloud storage options for personal use in 2026, covering free plans, monthly subscriptions, storage capacity, security features, and lifetime deals to help you find the best value for your needs.

How to Build an Office Network That Can Handle Business Growth

A video call freezes mid-sentence. Just for a second. Everyone waits, then carries on as if nothing happened. A week later, a new hire cannot get her laptop online in the small meeting room. She tries the next room. It works there. Nobody calls it a network problem. Not yet. It is just one of those things. Then it adds up. Two more people join. Someone plugs a printer into whatever port was free. The guest WiFi quietly starts carrying half the office because the main network keeps dropping. None of this was planned. It drifted.

Observability Never Really Shifted Left

We made software development faster. Now we need to make validation faster, too. For the last decade we have shifted development left. Testing, security, performance, and CI/CD all moved closer to the developer. Observability mostly did not. It still starts after deployment (we covered the incident side of this in Your Observability Stack Found the Fire), which means the people writing the code rarely have meaningful production behavior to observe while they build.
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Chaos Monkey Won't Find Your Bug

We shipped a chaos feature that never caused any chaos. Our mock server has had a fault-injection effect for years with a straightforward job: withhold the response entirely and see whether the caller copes. Last week I audited it against the actual code path. It had never withheld anything. The handler returned early without writing a response. Go's net/http then did what it is designed to do, which is synthesize a 200 OK and flush the recorded body. Every experiment anybody ever ran with that effect handed the application a perfectly good answer, and every one of them passed.

The SAP Automation Advantage: What High-Performing SAP Teams Have in Common

Every Basis team has a list. The tasks nobody schedules because they get done by hand, by a Basis miracle worker who knows the sequence. System refresh. Parameter settings across multiple production systems. The cloud invoice with a number nobody can explain. The teams with a short list of manual tasks got there with automation. What separates them isn’t enthusiasm for automation as a concept.