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We've refreshed and expanded the StatusGator Help Center

We’re excited to share a major update to the StatusGator Help Center — redesigned to make finding answers and learning new features faster and easier than ever. We’ve reorganized our documentation, added new guides, and improved formatting so you can navigate with ease — whether you’re just getting started or managing advanced integrations.

Latency & Leadership with Mehdi Daoudi

Leadership is about more than telling people what to do. It’s about inspiring belief in your vision for the future. Sometimes there’s a delay between the time you share the vision and when the rest of the team “gets it”. The Latency & Leadership series hopes to shorten that lag time by creating a platform for leaders in the tech space to share their ideas, their passion, and their vision.

Grafana Tempo 2.9 release: MCP server support, TraceQL metrics sampling, and more

Grafana Tempo 2.9 is now available, delivering MCP server support, TraceQL performance improvements, and more. Watch the video below to see the Tempo MCP server in action and learn how to speed up TraceQL metrics queries, or continue reading to get a quick overview of these and other updates. The Grafana Tempo 2.9 release notes and changelog provide more in-depth details and include all of the changes that came with this release.

Elastic recognized as a finalist for Innovation in Customer Portals in 2025 TSIA STAR Awards

We are proud to announce that Elastic has been named a finalist by the Technology & Service Industry Association (TSIA) in the 2025 STAR Awards program for Innovation in Customer Portals that Improve Digital Customer Experience. This award recognizes Elastic’s ability to embrace AI innovations to enhance our digital customer experience.

Your network isn't infrastructure anymore. It's a product.

In my last blog, I’ve discussed a common problem: metrics like mean time to resolution (MTTR) mean nothing to business leaders. Celebrating a faster fix for an outage that still cost the company thousands in lost sales is a conversation that goes nowhere. You might as well be speaking a different language.

What's New in Network Observability for Fall 2025

As your partner in network observability, we’ve worked together to help you manage an increasingly complex digital landscape. You’ve built a powerful monitoring foundation, but the pace of change doesn’t slow down. Your network continues to expand across hybrid clouds and multi-vendor SD-WAN, and the demands on your team grow with it.

The Network Engineers You Can't Hire? They Already Work for You

In my conversations about managing large, complex networks, one topic is now constant. The issue isn't budgets or new technology; it's about personnel. Specifically, it's the increasing difficulty of finding and retaining skilled professionals. If you are feeling this pressure, you are not alone. The search for technical talent is a universal challenge.

How to bridge speed and quality in experiments through unified data

Metrics are fundamental to experimentation for two reasons: They set the basis for evaluating ideas and interventions, and they can suggest where to look next. As such, many teams collect a wide variety of metrics, from application performance data to revenue trends. However, doing so often means manually knitting together data from multiple sources and formats. Even then, data silos can make it challenging to understand the full impact of experimental changes. In this post, we’ll explore.