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ManageEngine has been recognized in the Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Digital Experience Monitoring for two consecutive years! We believe this reinforces our consistent efforts to help business achieve business excellence.

For many organizations, periods of high customer activity are anything but relaxing. Events like Black Friday, product launches, or major sales can put intense strain on the software and infrastructure systems that support a company’s web applications. Without proactive performance testing, these moments can quickly turn into poor user experiences and lost revenue.

Harness has modernized Commitment Orchestrator to give FinOps teams a clearer, faster, and more intelligent way to manage cloud commitments. The redesigned experience unifies visibility across RIs, Savings Plans, on-demand, and Spot usage, with expanded metrics and streamlined workflows for smarter decisions. Built on a foundation for AI-powered insights, it helps teams optimize spend with greater confidence and less manual effort.

Managing team access in Grafana can be tricky—especially as your organization grows. That’s where Grafana access groups (also known as Limited Access Groups in Hosted Graphite) come in. They allow you to define groups of dashboards and restrict which team members can access them. If you’re using Hosted Graphite with Grafana dashboards, this feature helps you organize teams, maintain data privacy, and simplify access control—all while giving users just the permissions they need.

At LogicMonitor’s Senior Leadership Team Offsite in July, I sat down for a candid conversation with Kyle Hill, CTO of ANS Group. As a longtime LogicMonitor customer and leader of a 700+ person tech powerhouse, Kyle offered sharp insights into scaling infrastructure, unlocking AI-driven value, and what true partnership looks like in today’s MSP world. Here’s an edited and condensed version of our conversation.

Aiven is introducing a new pricing plan for Aiven for PostgreSQL services. Starting at $8 USD per month, the Developer tier offers more storage, so you can scale up your free PostgreSQL service in a cost-effective way. Unlike the Free tier, services on the Developer tier are not automatically powered off if inactive. The Developer tier also automatically includes Basic support services. More information on the Developer tier is available in the Aiven docs.

Harness surveyed 500 security practitioners and decision makers responsible for securing AI-native applications from the United States, UK, Germany, and France to share findings on global security practices. The State of AI-Native Application Security 2025 dives deep into AI visibility and the changing landscape of security vulnerabilities. If 2024 was the year AI started quietly showing up in our workflows, 2025 was the year it kicked the door down.

Welcome to CloudZero’s inaugural Cloud Economics Pulse! This is our monthly snapshot of how cloud spend is evolving across providers, services, and emerging AI workloads. Each month, we’ll surface key trends, highlight where the money’s moving in cloud spend, and offer practical insight to help FinOps and cloud cost teams stay on top of things. October — and preceding months — shows a turbulent stretch for cloud economics.