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Notes from the Field: Migrating from VMware to XenServer

Dec 18, 2025 By GripMatix In GripMatix
The customer was already using Citrix Provisioning Services (PVS) to deliver Virtual Delivery Agent (VDA) machines. Rather than attempting to migrate existing VMware-based VDAs, which often introduces driver conflicts and legacy dependencies, we followed a proven best-practice approach. We provisioned new VDA machines directly on XenServer using the PVS Virtual Desktop Setup Wizard. This ensured clean builds, free from VMware-specific components, and fully optimized for the XenServer platform.
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Episode 3 - Where AI Meets Legacy Systems

Dec 18, 2025 By Digitate In Digitate
In this episode of The Intelligent Enterprise, host Tom Stoneman gets inside a challenge many enterprises are facing right now: how to integrate AI with complex legacy systems without breaking what already works. This week, Tom sits down with Yael Gómez, Fractional Chief Technology Officer and Chief Information Officer at Pet Madness, and former technology leader at Walgreens Boots Alliance.
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grafana

Why OpenTelemetry instrumentation needs both eBPF and SDKs

Dec 18, 2025 By Fabian Stäber In Grafana
As a vendor-neutral open standard, OpenTelemetry has become the default choice for application instrumentation. However, it’s important to remember that OpenTelemetry isn’t a single technology — it’s an ecosystem. Under the hood, it provides multiple options for instrumenting your applications. In this blog post, we explore two instrumentation approaches: OpenTelemetry eBPF Instrumentation and runtime-specific OpenTelemetry SDKs, like the OpenTelemetry Java agent.
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grafana

Capture high-value traces without managing a pipeline: Tail sampling with Adaptive Traces

Dec 18, 2025 By Chris Marchbanks In Grafana
Tracing is the richest observability signal in common use today. In distributed systems, it reveals how requests flow across multiple services, allowing you to uncover and address performance bottlenecks. Teams often scale back or abandon tracing altogether, however, because most successful requests produce redundant data that’s noisy and expensive to store.
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influxdata

What's New in InfluxDB 3.8: Linux Service Management, Kubernetes Helm Chart, and Smarter Ask AI

Dec 18, 2025 By Peter Barnett In InfluxData
InfluxDB 3.8 is now available for both Core and Enterprise, alongside the 1.6 release of the InfluxDB 3 Explorer UI. This release is focused on operational maturity and making InfluxDB easier to deploy, manage, and run reliably in production. InfluxDB 3 Core remains free and open source under MIT and Apache 2 licenses, optimized for recent data. InfluxDB 3 Enterprise builds on that foundation with long-range querying, clustering, security, and full operational tooling.
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metricfire

How To Connect Your Prometheus Server to a Grafana Datasource

Dec 18, 2025 By Benjamin Pitts In MetricFire
Prometheus is one of the most popular open-source monitoring systems in the world. It’s lightweight, easy to deploy, and pairs beautifully with Grafana for dashboards and alerting. If you're running applications or infrastructure on Linux, Prometheus plus one of many Exporters (Redis, NVIDIA GPU, Nginx, etc.) gives you deep visibility into service performance - quickly and reliably.
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From Zero to Open Source Contributor

Dec 18, 2025 By Datadog In Datadog
Never contributed to open source and feeling intimidated? Same. Before joining Datadog, Alessandro had zero open source experience. Now he's a regular contributor to Apache Iceberg. Here's exactly how he got started. Step 1: Join the Slack community and answer user questions. Step 2: Look for "good first issue" tags in the repo. Step 3: Remember that opening bug reports and doing code reviews count as contributions too.
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sentry

Building a Code Review system that uses prod data to predict bugs

Dec 18, 2025 By Giovanni Guidini In Sentry
This post takes a closer look at how Sentry’s AI Code Review actually works. As part of Seer, Sentry’s AI debugger, it uses Sentry context to accurately predict bugs. It runs automatically or on-demand, pointing out issues and suggesting fixes before you ship. We know AI tools can be noisy, so this system focuses on finding real bugs in your actual changes—not spamming you with false positives and unhelpful style tips.
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Logging Best Practices (Grafana OpenTelemetry Community Call)

Dec 18, 2025 By Grafana In Grafana
We’re back with a new Grafana OpenTelemetry Community Call episode, and this time we’re diving into logging with OpenTelemetry and Grafana Loki! Even better, we’re joined by two fantastic guests: Jack Berg, OTel logging expert, and Ed Welch, Loki guru. Getting both of them in one conversation makes for an amazing deep-dive into all things logging. Logs come in every shape and size, from simple CLI output to massive distributed systems generating petabytes of structured data. In this episode, we’ll talk about.
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