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Network operators across the digital ecosystem are under pressure to cut costs while protecting revenue. This post explores three practical use cases where Kentik Traffic Costs helps turn traffic insight into commercial intelligence that helps teams negotiate smarter, protect margins, and boost profitability.

For years, compliance has been synonymous with checklists, manual reporting, and time-consuming audits. That definition no longer holds. In our September 2025 webinar, Patrick Hubbard, Technical Marketing Director, led a conversation with JB Baker, Vice President of Product Engineering, and Marc Jensen, Channel Sales Engineer. Together, they showed how automation is transforming compliance into something far more strategic: the foundation of modern resilience.

The world of software development has fundamentally changed. We've moved from monthly releases to continuous delivery measured in minutes, and the rise of AI means velocity is no longer just a goal—it's a requirement for survival. But this relentless speed has exposed a critical flaw in how we approach observability. The industry relies on a "store first, ask questions later" model where you collect every log, metric, and trace, and then hope to find the root cause when something breaks.

InfluxDB 3.5 is now available for both Core and Enterprise, along with updates to the new Explorer UI that make it easier to save, organize, and query your data. This release highlights the biggest updates since our 3.4 release, including Explorer Dashboards in beta, new cache querying capabilities, and stronger operational tools for managing clusters. InfluxDB 3 Core is free and open source, optimized for recent data, and licensed under MIT and Apache 2.

Releasing new features is one of the highest-stakes moments in the software delivery life cycle. Even with CI/CD pipelines in place, plenty of things can still go wrong when a feature goes live for actual users. Most feature flagging tools operate in isolation from important observability tooling, forcing engineers to monitor changes across multiple disconnected systems to fully understand their impact. This slows down development and increases the chance of missing critical issues.

For the longest time, observability was centered around logs, metrics, and traces, but the growth of more complex systems has made continuous profiling another essential part of maintaining healthy systems. It provides insights into resource usage and latency down to the code level, delivering key insights to improve performance.

Serverless computing with Node.js is transforming how applications are built and scaled by removing the need to manage servers. However, serverless functions run for short durations and scale dynamically, making traditional monitoring ineffective. Effective monitoring is essential to track performance, detect errors, optimize cold starts, and control costs.

Sometimes Docker behaves in ways that catch you off guard—containers don’t start as expected, images pause during pull, or networking takes longer than usual to respond. In those moments, the Docker daemon logs are your best reference point. These logs capture exactly what the Docker engine is doing at any given time. They give you a running account of system state, performance signals, and events that help you understand what’s happening beneath the surface.

Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) is a robust, enterprise-ready platform that provides rich visibility into IT environments. From infrastructure and databases to enterprise applications and cloud services, SCOM delivers comprehensive monitoring capabilities out of the box.