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Action trails: The missing link between AI and human trust

When people talk about trusting AI, they usually focus on the interface. It summarizes and uses confident language with a level of clarity that feels reliable. But that’s all window dressing. None of it builds trust. Trust doesn’t come from what the AI says. A verifiable record of what the AI did makes it trustworthy.

How to embed Grafana dashboards into web applications

Note: This post originally published in October 2023 and was updated in May 2026 to include new methods and options for embedding Grafana dashboards. Grafana dashboards are powerful and flexible tools for observing applications and infrastructure, so it’s no surprise we get a lot of questions from the community about how to embed them into their web applications.

Web API: your complete guide for custom integrations

Data is almost always scattered across too many tools. Usually, if you want to see it all in one place, you're stuck building messy pipelines or paying for a warehouse you don't really want. SquaredUp is a window into all those tools. It lets you see what’s happening across your entire stack in real time without moving any of the data. Think of it as a universal translator that lets your tools talk to each other so you can stop the manual digging and just see the big picture.

7 Proven Steps to Maintain Operational Continuity During S/4HANA Migration

Migrating to SAP S/4HANA is one of the most consequential system changes your organization will undertake. The technical complexity alone is significant. But the real risk is operational: maintaining uninterrupted service delivery while transforming the core systems your business depends on. Failure to manage this well causes outages, data inconsistencies, user disruption, and cost overruns. None of those are acceptable outcomes. The good news is these risks are manageable.

From Phishing to SQL Injection: How Breaches Actually Happen

Critical vulnerabilities are critical because they're easy to exploit — but most breaches don't even need them. Tony explains why phishing remains the dominant attack vector, why strong instrumentation matters for forensics (tracing an API call through a database to see exactly what was leaked), and how observability data becomes security data when something goes wrong. The system is harder to breach than the human. And that's the whole game.

One Collector, Two Teams: How Bindplane Bridges Security and Observability with OpenTelemetry

Observability engineers will spend weeks tuning instrumentation. Security engineers? They want a collector installed and logs flowing — yesterday. And that's actually the magic of OpenTelemetry + Bindplane: from day one you're routing firewall logs, endpoint data, server logs straight into your SIEM with zero instrumentation lift. One toolchain. Two teams. No silos. Filmed at Google Cloud Next '26 — Las Vegas bindplane.com#OpenTelemetry.

Getting started with Checkly dashboards

Checkly is a modern reliability platform that combines testing, monitoring and observability in one place. Its integration with Playwright and languages such as TypeScript means that developers can write tests using tools they are familiar with and then run them in Checkly. Its Monitoring as Code philosophy also means that Checkly tests can be incorporated into CI/CD pipelines.

Honeycomb Achieves the AWS Financial Services Competency

Honeycomb is proud to share that we have achieved the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Financial Services Competency. This recognition validates our technical expertise and proven customer success in assisting financial services organizations with building, running, and understanding their production systems on AWS. Securing this competency is a direct response to our customers’ feedback in this space: observability in regulated, high-stakes environments requires more than dashboards and alerts.