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Azure Monitor pricing: What you pay vs. what you get

Azure Monitor doesn't have a price. It has a bill and those are very different. There's no plan tier to pick, monthly set fee, or simple number to sanity-check against your budget. Instead, you're charged across a handful of separate meters: log ingestion, log queries, retention, alert rules, web tests, and custom metrics. Each of these metrics scale independently. Most teams don't see the full cost until the bill arrives.

NetScaler Console Indicators of Compromise Detection

On September 27, 2026, Citrix published a security bulletin covering eight new vulnerabilities in NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway. Some of these vulnerabilities are critical and have already been exploited in the wild. Citrix released fixed NetScaler builds and recommends upgrading affected appliances as soon as possible. However, when a vulnerability is already being actively exploited, installing the update only solves part of the problem.

How does data mesh architecture improve data management? [Quick Question Ep. 2]

How does data mesh architecture improve data management? In this episode of Quick Question, we cover the three core benefits — real-time visibility, control, and data quality — including how CISA uses Elastic to connect data from over 100 civilian agencies without moving it to a central location. The episode also covers how data sovereignty is preserved through role-based and attribute-based access controls, and why data quality improves when the teams closest to the data are the ones managing it.

Best ADEs for Multi Agent Coding in 2026

Running one AI coding agent is productive. Running five of them at once across three repositories? That’s a coordination problem. Agentic development environments (ADEs) give you a single surface to orchestrate multiple agents, review what each one changed, and get code merged. Kepler by GitKraken is one of the most capable options in this growing category. It’s built around agent-agnostic orchestration and Git workflow control from backlog to merged PR.

AI Tooling Comes to Cycle - Announcing Cycle's Hosted MCP

TL;DR - We made a way to use Cycle with AI models for doing things like deploying applications faster and diagnosing complex issues. If you'd like to get started right away with Cycle's Hosted MCP, check out our documentation. Today, we're launching a brand new way to interface with the Cycle Platform, that just a year or two ago would have felt entirely like science fiction. Our first ever AI-oriented tooling, Cycle's Hosted MCP, is live today.