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Almaden, Inc. today announced the general availability of CIQ Cloud, its Operational Visibility platform designed to help Managed Service Providers (MSPs) and internal IT teams monitor, understand, govern and optimize increasingly complex cloud and SaaS environments. Modern organizations rely on Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, cloud infrastructure, SaaS applications, identity services, security platforms, DNS and a rapidly growing range of AI technologies.

GenAI has moved well past the pilot stage. According to a Gartner finding, by 2026, more than 80% of enterprises will have used GenAI APIs or deployed GenAI-enabled applications in production. Today, GenAI is becoming an integral part of how infrastructure and application teams work every day. Organizations are depending on LLMs from a diverse range of vendors—OpenAI, Anthropic, Google AI, and DeepSeek—based on the strengths each offer for different use cases.

An on-call escalation policy is the part of your incident response that runs when nobody is looking. It fires at 3:14am, decides who gets woken up, decides how long to wait before waking up somebody else, and decides when to stop trying. Most teams write one in an afternoon, wire it to a rotation, and never touch it again until an incident goes badly and the retro asks the uncomfortable question: why did it take forty minutes for a human to acknowledge?

Procurement teams asking for UK-hosted OpenSearch usually mean something concrete: indexes and cluster storage should land in a UK data centre, not wherever a vendor’s default region happens to be. On Logit.io that choice is an account-level data storage region, not a free toggle on every stack. Get the first stack right and every later OpenSearch or log stack in that account follows. Get it wrong after go-live and you are looking at a second account, not a silent migrate button.

Observability can cut alert noise, speed up incident response, reduce downtime, and give engineers more time for planned work. LogicMonitor customers have used those gains to lower costs and make better infrastructure decisions.

See how synthetic monitoring exposed a hidden HTTP redirect attack, and why HTTPS, HSTS, and delivery-path visibility keep your users safe from interception.

Your authoritative servers return the right IP, but users still hit the old one. Here’s how to find stale glue records and fix the parent-zone referral.

E-commerce companies lose $6M+ yearly to Internet disruptions. A Forrester study reveals how Internet Performance Monitoring cuts losses by over half.

Discover how the DNS protocol translates domain names into IP addresses, how DNS lookups chain through resolver servers, and how to read a DNS packet.

A recent update to VirtualMetric DataStream centers on how content moves into the platform and how securely it travels. Content management has been reworked around a GitOps workflow, TLS configuration has been reworked across devices and targets, and a broad set of new database devices, targets, and pipeline improvements have been added. Here’s what’s new.