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Watch SolarWinds tech evangelist, Sascha Giese, dive into OpenTelemetry (OTel) and explain why a vendor-agnostic standard is the future of observability and application performance monitoring (APM). If you’ve ever wondered, what is OpenTelemetry? Sascha’s presentation is a great start or restart to diving back into the topic.

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Join Kelsey Hightower and Mark Boost at Civo Navigate London as they discuss sovereignty in the context of AI and cloud computing. The conversation highlights the need for a more nuanced approach to cloud computing, one that balances the benefits of public cloud with the need for control and sovereignty. The discussion emphasizes the importance of open protocols and the role of the community in driving innovation, and notes that the adoption of AI workloads is driving a shift towards more decentralized and sovereign cloud architectures.

In this tutorial you will learn how to configure notification policies for dynamic routing based on query values Don't miss the rest of the "Get started with Grafana Alerting" series! Each part dives into a different feature to help you get the most out of alerting in Grafana.

This Raygun remote MCP demo highlights the new depth of context available. The agent isn’t just fetching error lists. it’s reasoning through stack traces to find the issues. Combine this with the ability to now view associated deployment versions, browser information, breadcrumbs, customer data and more, the agent becomes infinitely more capable at solving errors. We’ve even heard of some of the early testers going from having errors in production to having them solved within minutes.

At Innovate Americas Dallas, Ari Stowe, Resolve COO and Carla Ely, Grokstream Channel Development Manager joined industry leaders to discuss how AIOps and agentic automation are reshaping IT operations for a Zero Ticket future. In this dynamic session, they explored how AI-driven event correlation, predictive remediation, and autonomous workflows are transforming how enterprises detect, diagnose, and resolve issues before they ever become tickets.

PagerDuty's upcoming plans for enhanced Backstage integration will power deeper insights for incident resolution by letting users pass the most relevant information from their Backstage instance into PagerDuty so that the most relevant context is available to incident responders as part of their existing workflows.

The session highlights the importance of a well-structured Configuration Management Database (CMDB) in managing IT resources and ensuring compliance. It discusses the need for collaboration between IT and security teams to address vulnerabilities and improve incident response. The current cybersecurity landscape, including ransomware threats and data silos, is examined. Integrating CMDB with security tools is emphasized to strengthen security posture and meet governance requirements.

Windows 10 end of support is nearing, leading to important discussions about future steps and ongoing support options. Microsoft offers Extended Security Updates for businesses to license critical systems. Many customers seek ways to prolong Windows 10's life while contemplating upgrades to Windows 11. The operational costs for maintaining support involve a flat subscription fee per device, with Ivanti providing support for certain products under this program.