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Observability Masterclass | AI-Driven Observability for Enhanced System Performance

Tuesday, October 28, 10:00 - 11:00am CDT In today’s relentless digital world, achieving peak system performance isn’t just a goal—it’s mission-critical. Join SolarWinds and GigaOm for an electrifying webcast featuring renowned Observability authority Jon Collins, VP of Engagement and Field CTO at GigaOm.

Why Your APM Needs Observability - Metrics, Logs, and Traces Explained

Modern software applications are increasingly complex. Microservices, cloud infrastructure, and distributed architectures make it challenging for developers, DevOps engineers, and SREs to maintain high performance and a seamless user experience. Traditional Application Performance Monitoring (APM) provides critical insights into how applications perform, but alone, it often leaves blind spots when it comes to diagnosing issues or understanding the full system behavior.

DevOps & Observability for Digital Catalogs: faster releases, fewer outages

Digital catalogs have become a core sales engine, not just a glossy PDF on a server. They power discovery, merchandising, and conversion across web and mobile experiences. When a catalog powers real revenue, the way you build and run it starts to look a lot like modern software delivery. That's where DevOps and observability enter the picture: practices that shorten release cycles, reduce risk, and keep customer experiences fast and available even on your biggest traffic days.

How to Replace Synthetics with the httpcheck Receiver

A 200 OK doesn't always mean everything is okay. You've probably seen it: your health check endpoint returns success, but your users are staring at an error page. Maybe the database connection pool is exhausted, or a critical downstream service is timing out, but your API dutifully returns 200 because technically it responded. This is the reality of monitoring HTTP endpoints in production—status codes alone don't tell the whole story.

What's New in Network Observability for Fall 2025

As your partner in network observability, we’ve worked together to help you manage an increasingly complex digital landscape. You’ve built a powerful monitoring foundation, but the pace of change doesn’t slow down. Your network continues to expand across hybrid clouds and multi-vendor SD-WAN, and the demands on your team grow with it.

Making logs work smarter: Evolving your observability strategy

When you start building an observability stack, it’s natural to reach for logs first. They’re familiar, easy to generate, and often already part of a developer’s workflow. And sending logs to a centralized system feels like a quick win, too. Simply add a log shipper, and voila, your application is observable.

Software Maintenance in 2025: How AI & Automation Are Redefining Support

Software maintenance is no longer a reactive patching procedure in 2025. Rather, it is a predictive discipline that involves continuous enhancement and supports automation and AI. It helps in lowering toil and hardening release velocity without decreasing reliability. When you continue to consider maintenance as 'turning the lights on,' you are losing uptime, money and developer attention.

Powering Mexico's Digital Future: Expanded Internet Observability with Catchpoint

As of 2025, more than 110 million Mexicans are online, putting digital‐access penetration at roughly 83% of the population. Mexico is already one of Latin America’s anchor markets, leading the region in startup momentum, cloud adoption, and cross-border digital trade. A few days ago, CloudHQ announced a $4.6B investment in Mexico to open multiple datacenters. Yet even with this scale, service quality still varies dramatically across cities, states, and ISPs.

From pillars to rings: How interconnected observability in Grafana Cloud optimizes performance and reduces telemetry waste

In observability, we’ve traditionally been taught to think in terms of pillars, namely logs, metrics, and traces (and more recently, profiles). But pillars are rigid and disconnected. They don’t reflect how modern systems actually work or how we troubleshoot in real time. So let’s change that.