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Observability Self-Hosted 2026.1 - Additional Cloud Support

SolarWinds Evangelist Chrystal Taylor demonstrates the new cloud entity support features in Observability Self-Hosted version 2026.1. The update adds monitoring capabilities for MySQL and PostgreSQL databases on Google Cloud Platform, GCP load balancers, Azure functions, AWS Elastic Kubernetes Service, and AWS Lambda functions. She provides a guided walkthrough of the dashboard interface, showing how users can monitor various metrics including database performance, network traffic, latency, function execution counts, system usage, and costs across different cloud platforms.

The Evolution of Digital Employee Experience (DEX) | How IT Is Transforming the Workplace

Digital Employee Experience (DEX) is transforming how IT teams support employees, improve productivity, and drive business outcomes. In this video, we explore the evolution of DEX—from traditional reactive IT support to proactive, experience-driven operations that empower both employees and organizations.

The Grafana Cloud identity blueprint: balancing security and scale

If you've ever rolled out Grafana Cloud to a growing engineering organization, this pattern may sound familiar: Everything feels simple at first. You invite a few teammates, give them access, and dashboards start appearing. Then the team grows. Then the number of stacks grows. Over time, a model that once felt fast and empowering starts to feel risky, difficult to understand, and even harder to undo. This post is about avoiding that moment.

Measure and improve mobile app startup performance with Datadog RUM

Mobile app users form opinions quickly. A slow or inconsistent startup experience can frustrate them before they reach the first screen, increasing the likelihood that they abandon the app or fail to complete key actions such as signing up or making a purchase. However, app teams often lack reliable signals that explain why startup performance varies, making it difficult to improve the user experience.

From Alerts to Answers: Introducing Coralogix Cases

Modern incident response doesn’t fail due to a lack of alerts firing. It fails because teams are overwhelmed by the sheer volume and the lack of context around them. Today, most observability and monitoring platforms generate a flood of alerts. Each one is triggered independently, even when they are symptoms of the same issue. Engineers are left trying to reconstruct the full picture while jumping between dashboards, Slack messages, and tickets.

Bindplane + VictoriaMetrics: Unified Telemetry for Metrics, Traces, and Logs at Scale

We’re excited to announce new native Bindplane destinations for the VictoriaMetrics ecosystem. It’s now easier to collect, process, and route OpenTelemetry metrics, traces, and logs at scale. You can directly connect VictoriaMetrics’ high-performance storage engines to Bindplane’s vendor-neutral, OpenTelemetry-native telemetry pipeline.

Reducing Risk When It Matters Most: How Verifiable Guidance Protects Critical Operations

When a major incident strikes, every second becomes a decision point. Service degradations accelerate. Customers feel the impact. Revenue and reputation hang in the balance. In these moments, IT teams do not need abstractions or probabilistic guesses. They need guidance they can validate and decision paths they can explain with confidence long after the incident is resolved. Hybrid environments are too complex for intuition, and the repercussions of an incorrect action are significant.

Why Site Performance Metrics Are the Missing Piece in Your Local SEO Strategy

Most conversations about local SEO start and end with Google Business Profiles, reviews, and citations. And sure, those things matter. But there's a whole layer of the ranking equation that gets ignored by marketing teams because it lives on the ops side of the house. Site performance, server response times, uptime consistency, and how your infrastructure handles traffic spikes during peak local search hours. These aren't just IT concerns anymore. They have a direct line to whether your business shows up when someone searches "plumber near me" at 9 PM on a Tuesday.