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Tech Talk #10 Building a VictoriaMetrics PaaS: Setting up Metrics, Logs, and Traces

From Blueprint to Reality This episode is designed to be a practical, step-by-step guide. We will show you how to leverage the VictoriaMetrics Kubernetes Stack—our "easier button"—to simplify the deployment process and get your components running quickly.

Introducing Obkio's Visual Traceroute Tool

Introducing Obkio's New Visual Traceroute: See Your Network Issues, Not Just Hops After years of evolution, we're launching the most advanced Visual Traceroute we've ever built, now fully integrated into the Obkio app. The Journey: What's New:✓ Fully integrated visual network mapping✓ Historical timeline that actually remembers✓ Correlated with Network Performance and SNMP data✓ No extra setup required✓ See the complete story of network issues, not just individual hops.

From Datadog to Checkly in minutes

Looking to cut your Datadog bill and modernize your monitoring workflow? In this session, Dan Giordano and Giovanni Rago show how to migrate your Datadog synthetic monitors to Checkly in minutes, unlocking Playwright, Monitoring-as-Code, and AI-powered automation. Timestamps: Intro — Why Migrate from Datadog Dan introduces the session, what will be covered, and who it’s for.

Show me the (meeting) money: How to monitor the real-time costs of a meeting in Grafana

This meeting could’ve been an email. It’s a phrase most of us have said (or at least thought) at some point in our careers. For me, that realization hit years ago while working for a government organization. I’d frequently sit through long, agendaless meetings that seemingly went nowhere. I wasn’t sure why I was there. And because I’m an engineer at heart, I started to wonder: what were these meetings actually costing the organization?

The Hidden Barrier to Network Automation Isn't Your AI - It's Your Data

For years, the promise of AI-driven network automation has loomed large. Vendors and analysts alike have painted a future where autonomous operations handle outages before they happen, root causes are explained instantly, and teams finally escape the endless cycle of alerts, tickets, and manual troubleshooting. But in practice, most automation initiatives stall long before they reach that vision.

Ingest OTLP metrics directly into Datadog with the new OTLP Metrics API

Many organizations rely on OpenTelemetry (OTel) to standardize observability across distributed systems. These organizations are at varying stages of adoption and are implementing OTel in complex environments with diverse configurations. To support this range of use cases, Datadog offers many ways to use OpenTelemetry with Datadog.

A deep dive into Java garbage collectors

Historically, developers have relied on languages like C and C++ for explicit control over memory allocation and deallocation. This approach can yield very low overhead and tight control over performance, but it also increases complexity and risk (e.g., memory leaks, dangling pointers, and double frees). This often results in runtime issues that are difficult to diagnose, which can become a drag on team velocity.

Track, debug, and roll back changes with Version History for Synthetic Monitoring tests

A synthetic test is only useful if you can trust what it’s telling you. When one fails, the reason may not be obvious. Was the application updated? Did the test change? Or both? As more people contribute and refine the same test, it becomes harder to understand what changed or restore a working version. Without clear visibility into those updates, teams can spend more time tracking down the cause of a failure than resolving it.