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Best Data Integration Tools for 2025: Features, Pricing, and Use Cases

Dealing with different data sources without efficient data integration tools turns valuable information into a liability. These solutions give you a unified view of your data, eliminating silos and ensuring data consistency, accuracy, and accessibility. But, where do you start? Navigating the 2025 data integration market, with the shift towards scalable cloud platforms, self-service integrations, and AI automation, can be tough.

Four Shades of Progressive Delivery

Progressive Delivery strategies like Blue/Green deployments, canary releases, feature flag rollouts, and feature delivery platforms help teams release safely, limit risk, and accelerate learning. Each approach builds toward sustainable, high-velocity software delivery by minimizing downtime and maximizing feedback. Combining these methods enables faster innovation with greater confidence and control. Last week we walked The Path To Progressive Delivery. This week, we go deeper.

Our New CLI: How and Why We Made It

We are happy to announce our latest project at MetricFire: a brand-new CLI tool! Get ready to start monitoring your systems in one step - no need to modify any configuration files manually. Just run a terminal command, follow the prompts, and forward your system metrics to Hosted Graphite in minutes. In this article, we’ll share an overview of the Hosted Graphite CLI, why we’re making it, and how we’re making it.

Integrating Google SecOps with Bindplane February 2025

Google SecOps (formerly Chronicle) is Google Cloud’s security operations platform (SIEM) that helps you detect, investigate, and respond to cybersecurity threats. Integrating Bindplane enables an easy way of standardizing how you efficiently collect, process, and forward security-relevant data to Google SecOps. In this live workshop you’ll get a hands-on demo of how to configure log collection with the Bindplane Distro for OpenTelemetry Collector, and best practices for data standardization using open standards and OpenTelemetry.

I Want My Shoes Fast! Observability, SRE Burnout, and OTel with Dynatrace's Adriana Villela

In this episode, we sit down with Adriana Villela, Principal DevRel at Dynatrace and OpenTelemetry contributor to break down how observability impacts reliability. We dive into what contributes to SRE burnout and how managers can create psychologically safer spaces for responders. Adriana also shares her perspective on AI as an observability-buddy to navigate incidents.

CI/CD at scale: A performance analysis of CircleCI vs GitHub Actions

When evaluating CI/CD platforms, it can be easy to view them as commodities — interchangeable tools that accomplish the same basic tasks. But as development teams scale, small differences in platform performance can be compounded, significantly impacting development velocity and resource utilization. To better understand these differences, we conducted a head-to-head comparison between CircleCI and GitHub Actions, focusing specifically on performance at enterprise scale.

Why and How You Should Use Your Learning & Visiting Budget

When I joined Checkly as Junior People Operations Manager, one of the benefits that immediately stood out to me was the Learning & Visiting budget. I found myself wondering—how is this budget actually being used across the company? At the start of the year, many of our team members plan how they’ll use their learning budget—whether to enhance professional skills or pursue self-driven projects. With flexible guidelines, we encourage them to invest in what matters most.

TCP Checks Now Available in Checkly

Checkly has always helped you monitor your APIs and web services, ensuring they stay fast, reliable, and available. But application reliability doesn’t stop there—databases, message queues, and mail servers all play a crucial role in your infrastructure. To provide full application reliability, we’re expanding into network monitoring with TCP checks. Now, you can monitor critical non-HTTP services directly in Checkly—without adding extra tools to your stack.

Improve gaming app performance with Unity support in Datadog RUM

As mobile gaming evolves, players have higher expectations for seamless experiences, real-time interactions, and cross-platform accessibility. Whether you’re developing games for iOS, Android, or another mobile operating system, maintaining and optimizing the performance of your game is critical for player retention. For instance, if a mobile game becomes laggy or begins to drop frames during gameplay, players will grow frustrated and abandon the game altogether.

New intuitive widgets and smart view pop-ups for dashboards in ServiceDesk Plus!

ITSM dashboards need to go beyond vanilla KPI metrics, transforming into workspaces that offer service desk technicians an operational overview, managers tactical insights, and executives a strategic snapshot for every aspect of your IT service delivery. With that in mind, we just introduced new intuitive dashboard capabilities in ServiceDesk Plus. Say hello to a data-driven and context-rich way to manage your tickets. Here’s what’s new.