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You may be thinking to yourself, "We're only just over halfway through 2025, is it really time to start thinking about next year?" and the simple answer is yes. Unlike Halloween decorations in July or Christmas decorations in August, it's never too early to start thinking about your plans for the next year. By getting a jumpstart now, you can better plan for goals, initiatives, and the ever-elusive IT budget.

SharePoint Vulnerabilities and Security Updates SharePoint is currently facing vulnerabilities that are being actively exploited, leading to guidance from Microsoft and CISA. An attack chain known as Tool Shell is taking advantage of CVEs, revealing new security risks. On-prem software poses significant threats as attackers can decrypt it. Mitigation involves applying updates and improving threat detection. Additionally, Exchange Server has a security update addressing five vulnerabilities, and users must switch from EWS to Microsoft Graph by October 2026.

Over 1,200 engineers, leaders, and teams shared their biggest observability challenges in our third annual Observability Survey — and the results are in. In this video, Marc Chipouras (Head of Emerging Products, Grafana Labs) breaks down the top insights: Thanks for watching!

Robert Johnston discussed the role of AI in the SOC with Security Boulevard at.

David Tippet, Search Engineer at GitHub, shares how Elastic powers GitHub’s massive search platform and enables a seamless developer experience. He explains how GitHub balances AI-driven semantic search with traditional keyword search, ensuring accuracy for millions of diverse users, from engineers to security researchers.

In this webinar, Stefan Judis (Developer Relations at Checkly) and Dan Giordano (VP of Marketing at Checkly) dive into how LLMs and AI tools can be used with application monitoring. You’ll see a live demos of integrating Claude Code, Playwright MCP, and Checkly’s Monitoring as Code. ⸻ Timestamps ⸻ Resources & Next Steps ⸻ Subscribe for more sessions on application reliability, testing, and AI-powered DevOps!

In the fifth episode, we showcased all the latest features released in ServiceDesk Plus since the beginning of the year, followed by an AMA session where the following experts answered your queries.

Stop debugging background jobs with docker logs and prayer. See how Last9's Discover Jobs monitors async operations like APIs—with P95 latencies, error breakdowns, and operation-level traces for every job type.

Ever wished you could save and reuse your API traffic transformations? With Speedscale's new snapshot templates feature, you can! In this demo, we'll walk you through how to: Find and filter API traffic to create a snapshot. Transform sensitive data, like authentication tokens, with templates. Apply those saved templates to new snapshots instantly, saving you time and ensuring consistency. Whether you're looking to automate your testing or handle sensitive data more efficiently, our new templates feature makes it easier than ever to manage your API snapshots.

Consistent systems are reliability systems according to Ganesh Seetharaman, Managing Director at @Deloitte. Full transcript:   Strong reliability is demonstrated when systems consistently work as expected even during peak demand or unexpected events. When issues do happen, they are resolved quickly and transparently so users experience minimal disruption. Reliability also means data integrity. No matter how much stress the system is under, information needs to be accurate and secure.