Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

In this AWS Startup Partner Spotlight, discover how Pepperdata empowers cloud-native startups to optimize their Kubernetes and Amazon EMR workloads in real time. With automated resource optimization, companies can reduce costs by an average of 30% while increasing utilization by up to 80%—without any manual tuning. Whether you're scaling rapidly or managing unpredictable workloads, Pepperdata ensures your infrastructure runs efficiently and cost-effectively from day one.

Carlos Chacon of Marathon Consulting joins Louis for a lively chat about topics far and wide, from the community and podcasts to security and laundromats. Carlos has his own longstanding podcast and, as they came to the end of the interview, he turned the tables on Louis and made him answer some of his own questions too!

Device Management and Security Enhancements The content outlines key features in device management and security, including external intelligence integration and new restrictions for iOS and Macs. It covers default browser settings, deep link functionalities, and compliance actions for device retirement. Enhancements in single sign-on for Macs and Apple's native SSO are highlighted, along with background scripts and policy-based controls for disk management. Upcoming capabilities and future discussions on app management and Android transitions are also previewed.

This time, we're diving into a critical component for operational excellence: vmalert. Effective alerting is the backbone of proactive monitoring, enabling teams to detect and respond to issues swiftly before they impact users. But setting up truly effective alerting – alerts that are reliable, actionable, and low-noise – requires understanding the tools and best practices.

How can we send less data without losing information? Sampling removes duplication among distributed traces, while keeping all the interesting ones. See how this works with Honeycomb and Refinery.

Can coding with AI transform how we approach software development? Discover how AI's fearless approach to starting from scratch challenges traditional coding habits and inspires a new way of thinking. But is there a hidden cost to leaving libraries behind? Dive into the debate on coding efficiency and best practices.

Learn how to set up browser checks using Grafana Cloud Synthetic Monitoring. In this video, we walk through how to create a browser check and analyze test results. Browser checks simulate real user interactions to track critical workflows and catch issues early.

Build funnels directly on your traces and get instant answers to questions like: What fraction of spans made it from event A to event B? Between which spans are most requests failing? What is the latency between key spans? Traditional observability tools let you inspect traces and spans, but they can’t aggregate or analyze how requests flow across multiple services or stages in your system. In asynchronous, distributed architectures, the root span rarely tells the full story-and there’s no way to measure conversion, drop-off, or latency between arbitrary steps across all traces.

Most teams have strong monitoring for production, but what about the journey before your code gets deployed? The CI/CD pipeline is where bottlenecks, flaky tests, and process gaps silently waste your team’s time. Until now, this part of the workflow has mostly been a black box. We’re excited to announce CI/CD Observability in SigNoz - a new way to track, analyze, and improve your software delivery process, powered by OpenTelemetry.

Ever tried to build a metrics dashboard and thought, “Wait, what metrics am I actually sending?” We heard this from users again and again-so we built Metrics Explorer. For the first time, you get a real-time, interactive view of every metric coming into your system: Whether you’re onboarding a new integration, debugging an alert, or just exploring your data, Metrics Explorer makes it easy to understand and work with your metrics-no more guesswork, just clarity.