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k8s-monitoring-helm Chart Office Hours (March 2026)
In the March edition of the Kubernetes Monitoring Helm chart office hours, we discuss the version 4.0 major release, the upcoming 4.1 release and features, and we discuss the upcoming deprecation of the 1.x and 2.0 versions.
When IT instability becomes a patient safety risk in healthcare
Inside hospitals and health systems, the performance of clinical technology underpins nearly every care workflow and directly influences the timeliness and quality of patient care. Electronic health records sit at the center of admissions, discharge, imaging, lab coordination, and prescribing, so even minor technology friction can become a patient safety and operational risk. At scale, reliability becomes a prerequisite for consistent care.
Enhancing our API for better agentic consumption
AI coding agents like Claude Code and Codex are becoming a real part of developer workflows. They don't just write code, they call APIs, interpret responses, and take action based on what they find. That means the quality of your API responses directly affects how useful an agent can be. We've shipped a series of improvements to the Oh Dear API with this in mind. Every change helps humans too, but we specifically optimized for how agents consume and reason about data.
Real-Time Visibility, Orchestrated Deployments, and More
The latest VirtualMetric DataStream release brings a significant step forward in platform observability and deployment flexibility. Version 1.9.0 gives security and infrastructure teams direct visibility into what’s happening across their pipelines in real time while expanding support for cloud-native environments and broadening connectivity options. Here’s what’s new.
Analyzing round trip query latency
It’s an all too common scenario: You get paged for some queries timing out, but when you investigate, the database performance looks unchanged. Something must have changed, though. If the database doesn’t look overloaded, where are these timeouts coming from? The answer often lies outside the database itself. Round trip query latency includes every hop between your application and the database, including connection pools, load balancers, and proxies.
The Observability Gap: Why Monitoring Data Should Drive Tests
Most teams already know a lot about production. They have dashboards. They have traces. They have alerts. They have enough telemetry to explain what happened after an incident and enough graphs to argue about it for the rest of the week. Then they go to test a change and start from scratch. The integration tests hit a hand-written mock that returns {"status": "ok"}. The load tests replay a CSV somebody exported months ago. Staging is close enough to production right up until it matters.
Sponsored Post
Did we miss the end of LaMa?
In mid-2024, SAP announced the discontinuation of SAP Landscape Management ("LaMa"). This wasn't a huge surprise, as the 2027 end-of-support date aligns neatly with Solution Manager, Focused Run and standard support for ECC. SAP also terminated work on SAP Landscape Management Cloud, discontinuing that product immediately. Responses to the post were as expected: customers asking, "What now?" and even expressing a bit of dismay. One response from SAP was especially telling: "Moving the ERP system to the cloud hands over the tasks realized with SAP Landscape Management to SAP as cloud vendor.
Uptime.com Mobile App Walkthrough
This video is an overview of the Uptime.com Mobile App.
Finding performance bottlenecks with Pyroscope and Alloy: An example using TON blockchain
Performance optimization often feels like searching for a needle in a haystack. You know your code is slow, but where exactly is the bottleneck? This is where continuous profiling comes in. In this blog post, we’ll explore how continuous profiling with Alloy and Pyroscope can transform the way you approach performance optimization.