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A closer look at Grafana k6 browser: alignment with Playwright, modern features for frontend testing, and what's next

Oct 2, 2025 By Ankur Agarwal In Grafana

Over the years, we’ve seen our community embrace Grafana k6 browser as a key component of their frontend testing strategies. By helping collect frontend web vitals, capture custom metrics, and simulate user actions like clicking buttons or completing forms, the module offers teams a deeper understanding of performance and availability from their end users’ point of view.

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Inside the InfluxDB 3 Plugin Ecosystem

Oct 2, 2025 By Allyson Boate In InfluxData

Companies today face growing pressure to manage and analyze massive flows of time series data, from IoT sensors to cloud-native infrastructure. Storing this information is relatively straightforward. The greater obstacle is keeping it useful and consistent while balancing a wide range of tools and modern technology platforms that continue to evolve.

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What the 2025 DORA Report Teaches Us About Observability and Platform Quality

Oct 2, 2025 By Shabih Syed In Honeycomb

The 2025 DORA State of AI-Assisted Software Development Report delivers a critical insight for technology leaders: AI is fundamentally an amplifier, not a solution. It magnifies the strengths of high-performing organizations with robust observability while exposing the dysfunctions of struggling ones. For organizations that have rushed to adopt AI coding assistants all while expecting immediate productivity gains, this finding demands a strategic pivot.

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When BGP becomes UX: The inside story of a SaaS routing decision gone wrong (or right)

Oct 2, 2025 By Wasil Banday In Catchpoint

Most operations teams trust their green dashboards. If the internal monitoring says everything is healthy, the app must be fine, right? But as the Internet keeps proving, what’s green inside the firewall can look red for customers outside of it. Sometimes, a single change in how web traffic moves can suddenly slow logins, disrupt websites, or hurt business results, even if everything looks fine inside.

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September 2025 - Early Warning Signals

Oct 1, 2025 By Colin Bartlett In StatusGator

In September 2025, StatusGator Early Warning Signals identified dozens of outages across cloud, fintech, and education platforms. Many of these incidents were detected before providers acknowledged them — and in some cases, without any acknowledgment at all. We’ve highlighted several of the most significant outages as featured incidents, followed by a list of additional disruptions reported throughout the month.

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Announcing the StatusGator API v3

Oct 1, 2025 By Colin Bartlett In StatusGator

We’re excited to introduce StatusGator API v3, the biggest update yet to our developer platform. This release is built on modern standards, offers a richer data model, and unlocks powerful new endpoints designed to help you integrate StatusGator more deeply into your workflows.

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Reality Bytes: Our Everyday AI Use (Personal & Professional)

Oct 1, 2025 By Nexthink In Nexthink

The Reality Bytes team is back together again! Tim, Tom, Megan, Dina and Sean swap stories of how AI has reshaped their personal and professional lives and habits over the past year—from eerie chatbot encounters and creative breakthroughs to frustrations with hallucinations and the hunt for the true “human fingerprint.”

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How to know your data with Cribl's Ed Bailey and VisiCore Technology's Paul Stout.

Oct 1, 2025 By Cribl In Cribl

Classifying and tagging data is the key to automating pipelines and improving visibility across the enterprise. We’ll share both the technical and business impact of truly knowing your data, and why Cribl makes it possible. Plus, we’ll talk CriblCon and why we’re excited to see you there.

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Monitor Slurm with Datadog

Oct 1, 2025 By Bowen Chen In Datadog

Slurm (Simple Linux Utility for Resource Management) is an open source workload management system used to schedule jobs and manage resources for high-performance computing (HPC) Linux clusters. It ensures that jobs and resources are scheduled fairly and efficiently and is scalable across large clusters, an issue that native Linux process management tools struggle with.

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The Importance of Community Knowledge in Tech

Oct 1, 2025 By VictoriaMetrics In VictoriaMetrics

Tools alone aren’t enough. How you use them and the expertise you tap into make all the difference. In this Short, we explore why even the best tools need the proper guidance to unlock their full potential. Open-source communities are goldmines of knowledge and support Connecting with experts can save you serious time and headaches While enterprise support is valuable, the community often has your back. Get practical tips to get the most out of your tools, and remember: it’s not just what you use; it’s how you connect, learn, and grow along the way.

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