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7 Tech Tools to Help Monitor Your Loved One's Safety

Staying connected with aging family members is a top priority for many households. Technology now offers many ways to keep tabs on health and safety without being intrusive. Choosing the right tools can provide comfort to both the senior and their caregivers. These devices help bridge the gap between independence and necessary support - creating a safer home.
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Build vs Buy Monitoring: The Real Cost Breakdown for IT Teams

Every IT team eventually faces this question: should we build our own monitoring system or buy an existing solution? On the surface, building seems attractive. You get complete control, no vendor lock-in, and the illusion of "free" since you're using internal resources. But the math rarely works out that way. Let's break down what it actually costs to build, when building genuinely makes sense, and how to make the right decision for your team.

Avoid the Swivel-Chair Tool Stack: Conway Corporation on Why Kentik Wins

Everett Sinclair, Network Administrator at Conway Corporation, explains why Kentik became their “one pane of glass” for cloud-based network visibility, rapid troubleshooting, and smarter peering and caching decisions. With Kentik’s SaaS network intelligence platform, Conway gets updates automatically, avoids server rebuilds, and can deploy cloud agents remotely to run simple metric tests close to customer locations.

How Race Communications Automates DDoS Mitigation with Kentik

Sorin Esanu, Director of Network Engineering at Race Communications, explains why deep, always-on network intelligence is essential when you have massive volumes of traffic moving in and out from many sources. After outgrowing an on-prem tool that required ongoing maintenance and didn’t deliver the analytics they needed, Race chose Kentik for richer visibility, daily traffic optimization, and improved security.

SquaredUp vs Grafana: The Enterprise IT dashboard showdown

Modern enterprises operate across an increasingly complex mix of hybrid cloud services, and productivity platforms. As environments scale, stakeholders need a single pane of glass (SPoG) to understand what’s happening across IT operations without jumping across dozens of disconnected tools.

Preventing SLA Breaches With Proactive Monitoring as MSPs Move Toward Autonomous IT

AI-first hybrid observability with proactive monitoring helps MSPs protect SLAs as they move toward autonomous IT by getting engineers the right alerts before issues impact service. Managed services lives and dies on timing. The difference between a minor issue and a customer-facing incident often comes down to how early an engineer gets the right signal and how quickly they can act on it. That timing shows up in SLAs, service credits, escalations, and the trust you earn when customers feel taken care of.

How Imperva Gets Traffic Answers in Seconds with Kentik

Imperva Network Architect, Wallace Lee, shares how Kentik helps teams drill deeper than traditional reporting tools to improve network and customer experience. Wallace shares how, during a live architecture review, Imperva’s Kentik power users answered a critical “are we safe?” traffic question in seconds. Kentik enables engineers to instantly understand prefix-level bandwidth and shows exactly which ASN and ISP traffic came from. Wallace also highlights how Kentik makes Anycast traffic visibility an “easy win,” helping teams move from questions to confident decision-making fast.

Best Python APM Tools in 2026: A Developer's Guide

Last updated: March 2026 Python applications built on Django, Flask, FastAPI, and other frameworks have the same monitoring needs as applications built in any other language: you want to know which endpoints are slow, why the database is getting hammered, what errors are firing in production, and ideally all of that in a form that does not require three separate tools to reconstruct a single incident.

Routing OpenTelemetry logs to Sentry using OTLP

If you've already instrumented your app with OpenTelemetry, you don't have to rip it out to use Sentry. Two environment variables and your logs start flowing into Sentry, no SDK changes, no re-instrumentation. Here's how to set it up in a sample app, and when the native Sentry SDK might be the better call.