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Entra ID is the new name for Azure Active Directory (Azure AD), Microsoft’s cloud-based identity and access management service. This rebranding, announced in July 2023, is part of Microsoft’s broader Entra product family, which focuses on securing access to digital resources and managing identities in a comprehensive way.

On February 25, 2025, at 11:32 AM EST, Martello’s Vantage DX monitoring began alerting on an issue affecting Microsoft Entra ID (Azure AD SSO). While Microsoft had not yet acknowledged the incident, online reddit forums had noted the issue and our Vantage DX proactive monitoring detected disruptions impacting authentication across multiple workloads. See here the critical warning for Exchange in Vantage DX Monitoring. Here is the critical warning for OneDrive and SharePoint in Vantage DX.

AWS NAT Gateways are essential for private subnet access but can quickly become a costly burden, even when idle. With Kentik, cloud and network engineers gain deep visibility into NAT Gateway traffic, allowing them to identify underutilized gateways, analyze high-cost usage, and explore cost-saving alternatives like VPC Endpoints, Internet Gateways, or direct peering.

Grafana’s extensibility has always been one of the keys to its success. It comes with a wide range of data sources that allow you to query your data no matter where it lives, visualizations to help you quickly make sense of that data, and apps that can provide complete observability solutions, all in a single package.

In today’s digital-first world, IT teams rely on a vast array of tools to monitor, manage, and optimize infrastructure. Network monitoring tools, security platforms, IT service management (ITSM) solutions, and observability stacks provide real-time insights into digital environments’ health and performance. But there’s a catch—most of these tools stop at alerting.

Who doesn’t love a virtual try-on when shopping online or a quick scan in the physical store that tells exactly when their favorite item will be available in the store? These everyday conveniences, powered by AI, once seemed like science fiction. Traditional AI has already revolutionized retail - from computer vision managing inventory to machine learning predicting demand.

2024 was a huge year for Apache DataFusion, and 2025 is looking to be even bigger. The project officially became a top-level Apache Software Foundation project, achieved best-in-class performance for querying Parquet files in the ClickBench benchmark, and had a research paper accepted for SIGMOD.

Government compliance regulations are becoming more complex every year. For businesses, staying compliant means balancing a growing list of laws and policies while facing tighter budgets, limited resources, and increasing scrutiny. Failing to comply isn’t just risky—it can result in hefty fines, reputational damage, and operational inefficiencies. This is where automation can be a game-changer.

Operational excellence isn’t just a goal—it’s critical for survival for all companies. And, when powered by AI and automation, it’s a strategic competitive differentiator. With over a decade of AI and ML experience in our platform, PagerDuty pioneered the Incident Response space. And now, PagerDuty is redefining what modern operations can look like in the era of AI and automation.

Over the past two years, artificial intelligence (AI) has experienced remarkable growth, significantly influencing various sectors and daily life. In 2023, the release of advanced large language models (LLMs), such as OpenAI’s GPT-4 and Google DeepMind’s Gemini, marked a pivotal shift by enabling AI systems to process and generate diverse data types, including text, images, and audio.