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From Maintenance to Monitoring: Digital Tools for Better AC Management

The traditional approach to AC upkeep relied heavily on reactive maintenance, where technicians addressed issues only after they occurred. The digital age has ushered in an array of tools that make routine maintenance easy and employ advanced technologies for proactive monitoring. By integrating these tools into AC management practices, homeowners and businesses can improve system efficiency, reduce energy costs, and extend the lifespan of their equipment.

Azure status integration is here!

We’re thrilled to announce the launch of our Azure status integration, bringing Microsoft Azure’s real-time service health and incident data directly into your StatusGator dashboard and status page. With this new integration, StatusGator automatically imports Azure outages and service status updates from your Azure subscription — giving you a complete, centralized view of your cloud infrastructure alongside every other service you monitor.

Streamline IT Event Management

Managing Microsoft SCOM events can often feel overwhelming, with countless alerts and notifications making it difficult to identify what truly matters. Working with our partner Kelverion, we are excited to introduce a Routing & Remediation solution for SCOrch that helps your teams focus on the issues that count, while automating the rest.

FinOps for Hybrid IT: Extending Visibility Beyond the Cloud

Controlling IT spend used to mean managing cloud invoices. Today, it’s far more complex. Modern enterprises run workloads across multiple platforms — cloud, virtualized, and on-premises — each with its own cost structures and dependencies. That’s why FinOps for hybrid IT has become essential. Extending FinOps principles beyond cloud services enables organizations to see how every part of the infrastructure contributes to cost, efficiency, and business value.

Playwright Check Suites Are Now GA - But What Does That Mean For You?

There are only a few companies that successfully invest in actively monitoring real user flows in production. I’ve been puzzled by the state of the art for many years, because I’m an anxious developer that always needs to know that production is “all right”. How can it be okay for all of us to wait for error logs, thrown exceptions or customer complains to learn about production issues?

How Generative AI is shaping the future of enterprise applications

The next golden age of artificial intelligence has arrived, but the path forward is far from certain. Technology leaders are presented with a tremendous opportunity to revolutionize their business — that is, if they can find a way to tap into the full potential of their organization's data. In Episode 4 of Elastic's new limited series, Generation AI, Elastic's Sr. Director, Enterprise Applications, Jay Shah, shares how he believes generative AI will shape the future of enterprise applications.

SolarWinds Day Keynote: The Future of IT Has Arrived

Get a front-row seat to the future of IT operations — powered by AI, automation, and full-stack observability. During the SolarWinds Day Keynote, on October 8, we unveiled our latest innovations in AI and automation for predictive insights and end-to-end visibility. Discover how these advancements empower IT teams to optimize performance, streamline ITSM, and simplify database management—all without disrupting existing systems.

From Error to Insight: Our Brand Refresh

Software teams do their best work when they can move quickly without losing control. That reality has shaped how our product has evolved, and it needed to shape how our brand shows up too. Our refresh is not a new coat of paint. It is an honest reflection of what Rollbar is today and where we are going: a code-first observability platform that helps builders understand what is happening in their code and why, so every release is better than the last.

Sidecar or Agent for OpenTelemetry: How to Decide

Getting telemetry out of a distributed system isn’t the hard part. Getting it out cleanly, without noise, drop-offs, or odd performance side-effects — that’s where things get interesting. Before you worry about processors or storage costs, you need a clear plan for where the OTel Collector should run. Most teams narrow this down to two options: a sidecar that sits next to each service, or a node-level agent that handles data for everything running on the node. Both patterns are solid.