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Implement dbt data quality checks with dbt-expectations

Jan 7, 2026 By Tom Sobolik In Datadog

dbt is one of the most popular solutions for data transformations and modeling. Many commercial data pipelines rely on dozens, or even hundreds, of individual dbt jobs. Data engineers, data platform engineers, and analytics engineers who own these pipelines need to maintain a testing framework to prevent mistakes in data processing that can compromise analysis.

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Grafana Tempo: vParquet5 is coming soon (January 2026 Community Call)

Jan 7, 2026 By Grafana In Grafana

vParquet5 is coming soon, learn about all the improvements and how to use them Have questions? Please bring them! Can't comment in the chat? You may need to create a channel -- you can do this by clicking your photo in the top right corner. Grafana Cloud is the easiest way to get started with Grafana dashboards, metrics, logs, traces, and profiles. Our forever-free tier includes access to 10k metrics, 50GB logs, 50GB traces and more.

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Easiest Way to Connect InfluxDB to a Grafana Data Source

Jan 7, 2026 By Benjamin Pitts In MetricFire

InfluxDB is a widely used time-series database designed for storing and querying metrics, events, and telemetry data. It’s commonly used for infrastructure monitoring, application instrumentation, and IoT-style workloads where time-based data is central. In many environments, InfluxDB already exists as part of the monitoring or data collection pipeline, and the primary need is simply to visualize that data effectively.

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Splunk Cloud Platform Migration Process

Jan 7, 2026 By Splunk In Splunk

Decide on your migration strategy, optimize and move your data sources, searches, users, apps and knowledge objects to the Splunk Cloud Platform.

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Build custom apps in seconds with conversational AI in App Builder

Jan 7, 2026 By Datadog In Datadog

Using a drag-and-drop interface, engineering teams can create apps that support troubleshooting, improve day-to-day operations, and offer self-service access without leaving Datadog. With the new conversational AI feature, teams can turn an idea into a working app in seconds. Watch the video to see how it works..

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Fleet Management: Manage your telemetry collectors at scale

Jan 7, 2026 By Coralogix In Coralogix

In this video, we introduce Fleet Management and how it helps teams control their telemetry estate as it scales. See how you can centrally manage collectors and agents, standardize configurations across environments, and roll out updates confidently, reducing operational effort and risk.

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Trace-connected structured logging with LogTape and Sentry

Jan 7, 2026 By Kyle Tryon In Sentry

As our applications grow from simple side projects into complex distributed systems with many users, the “old way” of console.log debugging isn’t going to hold up. To build truly observable systems, we have to transition from simple text logs to structured, queryable, trace-connected events.

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How to visualize your 3CX contact center phone system with Grafana

Jan 7, 2026 By Sofia Neroda In Grafana

Note: this post was co-authored by Nicholas Borg, 3CX Product Manager. 3CX provides a robust, flexible IP PBX platform used by organizations of all sizes to power their contact centers. It offers detailed call activity, agent performance metrics, and operational insights — all of which become even more powerful when visualized.

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Grafana dashboards: tips for optimizing query performance

Jan 7, 2026 By Rao Komar In Grafana

Even with a powerful database or visualization layer, performance can suffer if queries aren’t optimized or system settings aren’t tuned. The new Mimir Query Engine in Grafana Cloud improves query efficiency, but there are still best practices you can follow to keep dashboards fast and responsive—whether your data source is hosted in Grafana Cloud or running on-premises.

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Bring faster visibility into AWS Lambda functions with remote instrumentation

Jan 7, 2026 By Tal Usvyatsky In Datadog

Comprehensive observability is critical for running performant, reliable, and secure serverless workloads. However, configuring and maintaining that visibility across hundreds or thousands of serverless functions can be difficult to scale and sustain. Developers across teams often manage serverless functions using different infrastructure as code (IaC) frameworks, as well as different review, deployment, and update processes.

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