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AI in IT: Great! Now What the Hell Do You Do with It?

The demand for organizations to minimize downtime, swiftly address issues, and proactively manage the infrastructure has never been greater. But how can teams be expected to meet that challenge with legacy tools and approaches? Enter Zero Ticket IT, a transformative approach where AI-driven automation eliminates traditional ticket bottlenecks, empowering IT teams to focus on innovation and strategy. But how do you know if your team is truly ready for this transformative leap?

Top Tools to Connect Your Analytics and Data Visualization Platforms with Zoho CRM

Zoho CRM integration is a game-changer for businesses that want to convert raw customer data into powerful, crystal-clear insights. In an era where every click, call, and customer interaction generates valuable data, the ability to instantly connect your CRM with analytics and data visualization platforms can make the difference between thriving and merely surviving. Imagine having a live, visual pulse on your sales pipeline, customer behaviors, and revenue forecast all in one place.

SQL Server Transaction Log Analysis

Transaction logs play a crucial role in database management, especially in SQL Server databases. These logs meticulously record every transaction and the corresponding changes made to the database. Such detailed tracking is indispensable for identifying issues and restoring the database to a specific state and time if any failures occur. In SQL Server, every database includes a transaction log, a feature that is always enabled and cannot be turned off.

Cut Compute Costs Up To 90% With Azure Spot Instances

When cloud costs spike, compute is often the culprit. Using Azure Spot Instances could cut your compute costs by up to 90%. But Spot VMs come with trade-offs, including unpredictable evictions and capacity constraints. And that makes them tricky to use without the right strategy and visibility. In this guide, we will share how to make them work for you.

We built an MCP server so Claude can access your incidents

"Show me all critical incidents from the last week." "Create an incident for the payment API being down." "What was the root cause of that database incident last Tuesday?" If you've ever wished you could just ask Claude (or any MCP client) to handle incident management tasks instead of context-switching between chat and your incident management dashboard, you're going to like what we built.

What are Application Metrics?

Application metrics are structured, quantifiable signals that reflect how your software behaves in production. They capture key aspects of performance, response times, error rates, throughput, and resource usage, giving you a real-time view into the health of your system. Tracking the right metrics helps detect regressions early, surface latent issues before they impact users, and guide optimization decisions based on hard data, not guesswork.

You're Writing Code Wrong: Start Telling Better Stories with Git

What if your Git history could read like a great novel? In this talk from GitKon, Jason Gates (Senior Staff at Sandia National Labs) makes the case that software is storytelling...and Git is your medium. With references from The Hobbit to The Stormlight Archive, he shows how commit structure, messaging, and PR flow aren’t just best practices, they’re tools to help your team (and future you) understand what really happened.

EMEA Rundeck by PagerDuty Meetup - July 2025

Join us for an informal 1-hour virtual event where the open-source Rundeck by PagerDuty community comes together to share automation stories and use cases. Whether you're new to Rundeck or looking to elevate your automation game, this meetup is packed with valuable takeaways for everyone! Host: Martin Van Son, Automation Specialist & Strategic Solution Advisor at PagerDuty New OSS Dashboards & Enterprise ROI Plugin + Creating Rundeck Plugins with Claude Code.

AMER Rundeck by PagerDuty Meetup - July 2025

Join us for an informal 1-hour virtual event where the open-source Rundeck by PagerDuty community comes together to share automation stories and use cases. Whether you're new to Rundeck or looking to elevate your automation game, this meetup is packed with valuable takeaways for everyone! Host: Forrest Evans (Director, Product Management at PagerDuty) Rundeck by PagerDuty: A Swiss Army Knife of Automation.

Save Hours on Troubleshooting with Automated Investigations

How many times has your team stared at a dashboard, pointed to a spike, and asked a question that charts alone can’t answer? “What was the real impact of that deployment?” “Why are our Kubernetes pods in the us-east-1 cluster suddenly crashing?” “Are we wasting money on overprovisioned servers?” Answering these questions is the real work of operations and SRE.