Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

Keeping tabs on your network has never been more important. Whether you’re running a small business or managing infrastructure across cloud environments, visibility into what’s happening behind the scenes is essential. But visibility alone isn’t enough…when something breaks, the IT engineer needs to know immediately, so they can take action and resolve critical issues.

Your Prometheus dashboard shows 847 CPU metrics. The alert fired—but is the problem in us-east or us-west? You're trying to rule out whether that new feature caused a latency spike, but the sheer number of time series isn’t helping. Grouping can make this manageable. By organizing metrics by shared label values, you can quickly spot which service or region is behaving differently, without digging through every metric.

In our previous blog, we talked about how LangChain and LangGraph help structure your agent’s behavior. But structure isn’t the same as visibility. This one’s about fixing that. Not with more logs. Not with generic dashboards. You need to see what your agent did, step by step, tool by tool, so you can understand how a simple query turned into a long, expensive run.

Today we are releasing oh-dear-api-examples a brand-new open-source repository on GitHub. It curates bite-size scripts, helpers and ideas for helping you bulk-manage your Oh Dear account via the API.

To be a successful gamer, you have to think strategically and creatively. Working as a software engineer at Electronic Arts (EA), a top video game company, requires the same skills. That’s especially true when it comes to monitoring the EA app, which is the launcher for EA games and used by hundreds of millions of people around the world.

The rising costs and complexities of monitoring cloud infrastructure are pushing many organizations to explore alternatives to Datadog. With monthly bills sometimes reaching thousands of dollars and feature sets that can be overwhelming, teams are looking for practical, cost-effective solutions that better fit their needs.

Modern enterprises depend on networks that are increasingly complex, dynamic, and opaque. Yet, instead of confronting this complexity head-on, most organizations fall into the trap of superficial control, layering more monitoring tools atop their stack in hopes of achieving resilience. In reality, this only fragments visibility, deepens operational silos, and leaves a crucial layer of the digital enterprise, the network, under-managed and misunderstood.

Cloud maintenance is a common practice in the tech industry. Whether you manage your own infrastructure or use a cloud provider, you will need to plan for maintenance and include it as part of your operational readiness. This ensures that your team is prepared for potential downtime and can deal with any incidents in a timely manner. This article will cover some best practices for planning for upcoming cloud maintenance.