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Getting started with Azure DevOps dashboards

Azure DevOps and its extensive feature set helps teams plan smarter, collaborate better, and ship faster. With several integrated features such as Azure Pipelines or Azure Repos, it gives you the flexibility to use just what you need to complement your existing workflows. However, as your usage of Azure DevOps grows, you might find that monitoring and observing key CI/CD metrics across these services gets increasingly challenging.

How to Reduce Operational Costs with Efficient Power Generation in Industrial Settings

Energy costs represent a significant portion of operational expenses in industrial settings. Factories, manufacturing plants, and large-scale production facilities rely on consistent and efficient power generation to keep operations running smoothly. Inefficient power usage can lead to higher energy bills, increased maintenance costs, and operational downtime. By implementing strategic energy solutions and investing in modern power generation technologies, industries can significantly reduce costs while maintaining productivity.

Top tips: 5 potential use cases of 6G networks

Top tips is a weekly column where we highlight what’s trending in the tech world and list ways to explore these trends. This week, we’ll look at five areas where 6G technology will spawn rapid digital transformation. We’re a lucky generation—at least in the sense that we’re living on the precipice of entering the futuristic world we’ve seen in movies and TV shows.

Secure Your Sign-Ins with AppSignal's Single Sign-On

Managing team access to your organization's AppSignal account just got easier. We're excited to introduce our new Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) Single Sign-On (SSO) Business Add-On — a secure solution designed to integrate effortlessly with your existing identity provider. This powerful feature streamlines login processes and enhances secure access management across your organization, making single sign-on a breeze.

Monitoring Netdata Restarts: A Journey to a Reliable and High-Performance Solution

For a tool like Netdata, monitoring crashes and abnormal events extends far beyond bug fixing—it’s essential for identifying edge cases, preventing regressions, and delivering the most dependable observability experience possible. With millions of daily downloads, each event provides a vital signal for maintaining the integrity of our systems.

Getting MTTR to zero: the failed promise of observability

There’s an old cliche about sales and jobs to be done - no one wants to buy a drill, they need a hole… actually, they want a home with pictures on the wall. To get to that beautifully designed home, they will buy a drill, make holes for brackets that can support their various artwork and family photos, and progress toward their dream home experience. Similarly, no one wants to buy observability software. They want their mean time to resolve (MTTR) issues to be zero.

Visualize Google Sheets data: how to turn your spreadsheets into Grafana dashboards

In 2020, we launched the Google Sheets data source for Grafana, providing organizations with real-time data visualization capabilities for all their go-to spreadsheets. Since then, thousands of users have installed the data source to quickly and easily derive insights from their spreadsheet data. In this blog post, we’ll explore key features of the Google Sheets data source, as well as some helpful resources to install and start using the data source today.

6 Reasons Why Digital Transformations Fail

According to McKinsey research, 70% of digital transformation projects fail to meet the stated goals. Depending on the reasons for launching a digital transformation project, this failure can lead to loss of productivity, security, profitability, or any other number of costly outcomes. In today’s competitive landscape, businesses cannot afford this failure – and yet it continues. Why?

This Month in Datadog: Conversations with two Datadog leaders, a sneak peek of DASH 2025, and more

Datadog is constantly elevating the approach to cloud monitoring and security. This Month in Datadog updates you on our newest product features, announcements, resources, and events. This month, we’re joined by Datadog CPO Yanbing Li and SVP of Engineering David Mitchell..