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Strategic Windows Event Routing with Bindplane

Windows event logs can provide valuable insight into day-to-day operations and potential security issues. But making sense of that data—and getting it to the right place without overloading your systems or driving up costs—takes some planning. Bindplane helps with this by providing a flexible way to collect, process, and route Windows events. It’s designed to support security and compliance needs without adding unnecessary complexity.

The Role of Observability in Modern DevOps Pipelines

DevOps has radically transformed how organizations build and deploy software, enabling faster delivery with greater reliability. Within this transformation, observability has emerged as a critical foundation for success. Unlike traditional monitoring that simply tracks known metrics, observability provides deep visibility into complex systems, allowing teams to understand and troubleshoot issues they couldn't anticipate. This shift represents much more than a technical evolution - it's a fundamental change in how organizations approach system health and performance.

Datadog: The Good, The Bad, The Costly

When things break, logs are often the first place you turn to figure out what's going on, which is why Datadog makes it easy to find them. The ability to pivot between traces, metrics, and logs in one place speeds up investigations and helps teams move faster during incidents. That level of correlation is a big reason so many teams rely on Datadog. ‍

How to get started with frontend observability: A quick Grafana Faro example

Modern cloud-native applications and web browsers are highly complex, making it challenging to gain visibility into their performance. Without an effective way to track and measure frontend performance, it becomes difficult to monitor real user experiences, detect critical issues, assess website health, and ensure optimal functionality. But what if you could see exactly what your users are experiencing in real time?

Cloud Migration Benefits: Why Switching Network Management to the Cloud Makes Sense

Migrating your network infrastructure and management tools to the cloud offers tremendous advantages for modern businesses. As legacy on-premise data centers face growing limitations, shifting critical IT resources into robust cloud platforms provides the agility, efficiency, and innovation needed to stay competitive. This article explores the many benefits of cloud migration, including the financial, operational, and strategic upsides.

Obkio's 2025 Pricing Updates: Investing in a Stronger, Smarter Network Monitoring Solution

For the first time in over 3 and a half years, we’re updating our pricing. Starting June 1st, new pricing will apply to all new purchases, upgrades, and renewals and will be reflected in upcoming billing statements. This change comes as we roll out a wave of powerful new features and improvements designed to help you monitor and optimize network performance better than ever before. We know pricing updates are never taken lightly, and neither is your trust in us.

The Scourge of Excessive AS-SETs

An AS-SET is a special object that represents a group of ASNs and forms the basis for IRR-based route filtering. However, many AS-SETs in circulation today have grown so big that they effectively whitelist much of the routing table, rendering them ineffective. According to recent analysis, there are currently 2,192 AS-SETs which expand to over 1,000 ASNs each! In this blog post, we’ll describe what an AS-SET is, its role in route filtering, and how to deal with excessively large AS-SETs.

Why IT Leaders Need to Think Like CFOs: The ROI of Elastic Acceleration

I still get frustrated when I see organizations treating IT as a cost centre or an operational necessity rather than a strategic enabler. But the reality is, digital experiences are business-critical and performance is the new currency. Today’s IT leaders must adopt a CFO mindset, aligning technology investments with business outcomes, agility, and measurable return. Nowhere is this more relevant than in the realm of application acceleration.

How to find Network Visibility Gaps: Strategies to Ensure Resilience and Performance

As IT infrastructures grow more complex, visibility and resilience have never been more critical. With hybrid IT, remote workforces, and distributed services, your network extends far beyond the data center or cloud—it spans the internet. Traditional monitoring tools leave blind spots that impact user experience and lead to costly downtime. To stay ahead, modern network performance monitoring (NPM) must evolve.