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This guide provides a comprehensive overview of IT compliance and the part it plays in IT security. It will also help you choose the right compliance reports tool for your company. As you get started, SolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM) comes highly recommended as a near-automated IT security compliance solution that enables you to verify IT compliance and helps you perform many compliance-related IT operations.

Launch Week Day 2: Introducing Discover Jobs Your dashboard looks perfect. APIs responding in 80ms. Error rates at 0.02%. Kubernetes pods healthy. Everything's green. Then Slack explodes: "Why didn't my invoice generate?" "Where's my password reset email?" "The data export I requested yesterday is still processing?" You check your job queue. Sidekiq dashboard shows 47,000 jobs processed today. Redis looks fine. Workers are running. But somehow, your business logic is silently falling apart.

We’re excited to announce that Early Warning Signals — proactive alerts that notify you of potential service issues before official acknowledgment—are now fully supported in StatusGator Webhooks. With Early Warning Signals delivered through your webhook integrations, you can detect early signs of trouble and act before a full incident is posted. This means more time to prepare, fewer surprises, and better uptime for your customers.

For years, the observability industry has been obsessed with one thing: data volume. We've built incredible pipelines, optimized agents, and scaled storage to handle petabytes of logs, metrics, and traces. The promise was simple: collect more data, get more visibility. But we've hit a wall.

Generative AI is becoming a core part of modern applications, making it essential to monitor and manage how these services are used. That’s why, today, we’re excited to introduce the Anthropic integration for Grafana Cloud, a new solution that lets you connect directly to the Anthropic Usage and Cost API from within Grafana Cloud.

A growing number of engineering organizations have adopted or are trialing agentic AI-based coding tools and LLMs in an effort to increase their teams’ development velocity. If you’re a developer, this means you’ve likely had to try out different agentic tools and models and determine how to best incorporate them into your existing workflows.

Flow data has always held immense potential, but was often inaccessible because it lacked context and speed. Kentik removes that friction by automatically enriching flow with human-readable context, making it a daily driver for everyone, not just specialists.