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What's new in Grafana Metrics Drilldown: advanced filtering options, UI enhancements, and more

Grafana Metrics Drilldown offers a queryless experience for browsing Prometheus-compatible metrics. With Metrics Drilldown — which is part of our suite of Grafana Drilldown apps — you can quickly find related metrics with just a few simple clicks, no PromQL queries required.

Elastic and AWS collaborate to bring GenAI to DevOps, security, and search

Today, we are happy to celebrate Elastic and AWS committing to a five-year strategic collaboration agreement (SCA). Our collaboration underscores the efforts of Elastic and AWS to provide you with increased speed and greater flexibility as you adopt generative AI technology.

User experience depends on more than just your website speed.

Even if your Core Web Vitals are flawless, user experience depends on so much more—CDNs, DNS, BGP, APIs, third-party services, and local ISPs all play a role in how users experience your page. If any part of that chain breaks, so does the user experience. And worse? Your teams are left in the dark, scrambling to find the root cause.

ManageEngine Site24x7 monitoring actions are now available within ServiceDesk Plus On Demand

At ManageEngine, we're committed to empowering IT teams with tools that simplify operations and deliver effortless observability for all stakeholders. We're excited to announce the Site24x7 extension for ManageEngine ServiceDesk Plus On Demand now available on the ManageEngine Marketplace. This extension transforms ServiceDesk Plus On Demand from a passive ticketing tool into an active hub for IT infrastructure management.

Detect hallucinations in your RAG LLM applications with Datadog LLM Observability

Hallucinations occur when a large language model (LLM) confidently generates information that is false or unsupported. These responses can spread misinformation that jeopardizes safety, causes reputational damage, and erodes user trust. Augmented generation techniques, such as retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), aim to reduce hallucinations by providing LLMs with relevant context from verified sources and prompting the LLMs to cite these sources in their responses.

Build Vega-Lite visualizations natively in Datadog with the Wildcard widget

Datadog dashboards provide a unified view of your applications, infrastructure, logs, and other observability data—making it easy to monitor health, investigate issues, and share insights across teams. While native Datadog widgets support a broad range of visualization types, some use cases call for more customized representations, particularly when you’re working with unconventional data formats, external sources, or specific transformations.

Flying Your Network Blind? | Obkio

We created this video for every IT team still relying on guesswork to manage network performance. Here’s the reality: No monitoring = flying blind No alerts = no prevention No visibility = slow troubleshooting, false assumptions, and frustrated users Even the best IT pros need the right tools, just like pilots need instruments. Have you ever thought about: – Why “no complaints” isn’t the same as “no issues”– The hidden cost of poor visibility– How skill only takes you so far without data to back it up.