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Breaking Down IT Silos with OpManager Plus's Full-stack observability

In today's complex and dynamic IT landscape, a single application relies on dozens of interconnected services, from physical servers to virtual machines, cloud instances, and third-party APIs. When something goes wrong, a traditional monitoring approach that focuses on individual components is no longer enough. This is where full-stack observability becomes critical. It's the ability to gain a holistic, real-time understanding of your entire technology stack, from the user experience all the way down to the underlying network infrastructure.

API Health Monitoring Explained: How to Detect Silent Failures That Health Checks Miss

APIs sit at the center of modern digital systems. They power mobile apps, enable partner integrations, and connect internal services across distributed architectures. When an API fails, the impact is immediate: broken user journeys, stalled transactions, and downstream systems that quietly stop working. That’s why API health monitoring is now a core reliability practice for modern engineering teams. The problem is that “API health” is often defined too narrowly.

Observability for GenAI Applications (Grafana OpenTelemetry Community Call)

In this episode, we’re diving into observability for Generative AI apps. AI helps us write code and monitor applications in production - but how do we observe the AI itself? And how do we make sense of complex, non-deterministic AI systems? We’re joined by two great guests: Ishan Jain, working on GenAI observability and Luccas Quadros, working on Grafana Assistant. Together, they bring both platform-level insights and real-world perspectives.

How to Scan for IP Address on a Network? - Ultimate Guide & 6 Best IP Scanners

Amid predictions that 39.42 billion devices will have internet connectivity by 2030, IP address management has become a fundamental housekeeping and security concern for any networking admin. As the Internet of Things (IoT) continues to endow more and more devices with smart capabilities, networking grows more complex, making IP-centered network security measures a business imperative.

How to Use the Secure Vault in Uptime.com

In this tutorial, we explore Uptime.com's Secure Vault and how to securely create, edit, and manage your credentials. Learn how to access the Vault, add new Vault Items including Username/Password pairs, Certificates, Single Secret Tokens, and Time-based One-Time Passwords (TOTP), and use them in HTTP(S), API, Transaction, and Page Speed checks. Discover enhanced security features, including 256-bit AES-GCM encryption and zero-trust credential storage. We also cover REST API integration, variable usage, and user permissions.

Zero Tickets Starts with DEX: Why DEX Data Is Your Missing Ingredient

Every IT leader wants fewer tickets. Many invest in automation, self-service portals, and AI agents to get there. Yet ticket volumes remain stubbornly high, and the service desk stays overloaded. The issue is not the effort or intent. It’s the approach. Most organizations are trying to eliminate tickets without understanding the experience that creates them. They optimize workflows after something breaks but ignore the conditions that cause issues in the first place.

How to Troubleshoot BGP Faster with Kentik AI Advisor

A BGP session goes down because a transit provider exceeded the maximum prefix limit. How do you find the root cause — fast? In this 10-minute demo, we walk through two approaches using Kentik AI Advisor. First, we troubleshoot step by step using natural language: asking AI Advisor to identify the affected interface, check for interface flapping, and review syslog messages until we find the maximum-prefix violation. Then we show how custom network context and natural language runbooks let AI Advisor do the entire investigation autonomously — following the same four steps a senior engineer would.

React 19 is coming to Grafana: what plugin developers need to know

As part of the upcoming Grafana 13 release in April, we will be updating to React 19, the latest major version of the frontend library for building user interfaces. Grafana uses React as the core technology for its frontend UI and its vibrant ecosystem of plugins. This update ensures we stay aligned with the broader React ecosystem, and allows us to take advantage of ongoing performance enhancements and new functionality provided by React APIs.

ChatOps that actually works: Grafana Cloud, Slack, and AI-powered observability

Context switching isn’t just inefficient—under pressure, it’s exhausting. It slows decision-making, increases the risk of mistakes, and makes even experienced engineers feel like they’re always a step behind the system they’re responsible for. At Grafana Labs, we want to build tools that meet you where you are. That's why we embedded Grafana Assistant, our context-aware AI assistant, directly in Grafana Cloud.