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Key APM Metrics You Must Track

Application Performance Monitoring (APM) helps you understand how your software runs in production. When you track the right metrics, you see how requests move through your system, where slowdowns happen, and how resources are being used. With this knowledge, you can spot issues early and keep your applications reliable for your users. In this blog, we discuss the key APM metrics to monitor, grouped into categories, and why each one matters for performance and user experience.

Smarter AI Cost Optimization With Guardrails That Scale

AI adoption is reshaping how organizations innovate. It’s also driving cloud costs higher. CloudZero’s State Of AI Costs In 2025 report finds that for mature FinOps and engineering leaders, visibility into AI costs is a critical first step, but it’s not enough. To enable fast, responsible AI and machine learning innovation at scale, teams need pragmatic, flexible guardrails. They don’t need rigid budgets or knee-jerk shutdowns that slow progress or push teams into shadow ML.

{Unscripted} AI Verification and Rollback

Our first AI/ML capability, Continuous Verification, made Harness the first Continuous Delivery tool to understand observability telemetry and trigger rollbacks when deployments caused trouble. We knew we could do more to eliminate the friction involved in its setup. Deploying with confidence shouldn't require a coordination meeting between DevOps, SREs, and developers just to configure the right health checks. That’s why we’re introducing the next generation: AI Verification and Rollback. We’ve moved beyond just AI-powered analysis to AI-powered setup.

Automate Your Infrastructure Analysis with Scheduled AI Reports

The least exciting part of an operations or SRE role is often the manual, repetitive task of generating reports. It’s the Monday morning scramble to summarize weekly infrastructure health for the team, or the end-of-quarter push to build a capacity planning document. This is boilerplate work that pulls you away from critical engineering tasks. We believe that if a process is repeatable, it should be automated. That’s why we’re introducing Scheduled AI Investigations and Insights.

ECS Vs. EKS Vs. Fargate: AWS Container Services Compared

Amazon Web Services (AWS) provides more than 200 services. Among those, Amazon Elastic Compute Service (ECS), Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), and AWS Fargate help deploy and manage containers. Choosing between these services can be challenging. They seem similar on the surface (and are all popular). But each offers unique benefits and limitations. In this guide, we compare the three services, discussing the best use cases for each, and helping you choose the best fit for your business.

Acumen - AIOps Automation Platform

Ribbon Acumen is an AIOps & Automation platform for voice and data networks. It's comprised of a series of ready-made applications and a Builder capability that enables organizations to combine those applications with AI to create custom workflows. Those workflows can analyze and react to data from devices and applications, enabling Acumen to automate network deployment and operations, as well as provide tools to rapidly resolve issues.

Lightning-Fast Kubernetes Management with Rancher's Vai Project

If you manage Kubernetes at scale with Rancher, you know that UI performance is not just a “nice-to-have”—it’s crucial for productivity. The Rancher team is on a continuous journey to enhance our platform’s ability to handle increasingly complex environments. In this post take a deep dive into an exciting, evolving improvement we’ve been developing: a project codenamed “Vai” (also called UI Server-Side Pagination or SQLite-backed caching).