Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

First and foremost, we are human. We can’t get around it, and some things will make us anxious, frustrated, and mad. As much as we like to think we are optimists, we frequently don’t notice something until it disappoints us in some way. In this article, we will take a look at how web performance and psychology impact user satisfaction.

We talk a lot about how website availability affects your business in revenue and brand perception. We throw out statistics, and we give dire warnings, but until you’ve taken the time to do the research, you don’t really know how the numbers affect your business. In this article, we step through the issues associated with downtime, and we show you how to quantify the impact of website downtime on your business’s revenue.

Real problems need real solutions. We’ve all heard the same lofty claims about AI in IT operations: “Reduce alert noise” and “Detect anomalies.” While these sound great on paper, they often fall flat when critical systems fail during peak buying seasons or a major security threat goes undetected.

On the March episode of This Month in Datadog, Jeremy Garcia (VP of Technical Community and Open Source) covers Attacker Clustering, Auto Test Retries, and new Observability Pipelines features, including keyword dictionaries and several integrations. Later in the episode, Jinwu Liu (Product Manager) spotlights Reference Tables, which is now generally available, and Yash Kumar (Product Lead, Cloud SIEM) shows how these tables can be used to add context to detection rules in Cloud SIEM.

InfluxDB is a powerful open-source time-series database widely used for monitoring system performance, IoT metrics, and application telemetry. With SquaredUp's InfluxDB plugin, you can effortlessly visualize and monitor your InfluxDB data, gaining real-time insights into your metrics alongside your other tools and services. This guide will walk you through connecting InfluxDB with SquaredUp, creating dashboards, setting up monitoring, and sharing your visualizations.

Microsoft’s recent trials of Co-Pilot Vision are paving the way for Agentic AI, a proactive and context-aware assistant that can enhance productivity by intelligently responding to user needs. By having visibility into what you’re working on, such AI can anticipate tasks, offer relevant suggestions, and reduce the friction of daily workflows. However, history has shown us that AI assistance, if not executed correctly, can become more of a nuisance than an asset.

NIS2 (Network and Information Security Directive 2) is the European Union’s updated cybersecurity directive, replacing the original NIS Directive (2016), often referenced to as NIS1. NIS2 was adopted in December 2022 and the deadline for implementation by EU member states was October 17, 2024. NIS2 strengthens cybersecurity requirements across essential and important sectors to enhance cyber resilience and response capabilities.