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In the dynamic realm of IT, every alert is a crucial piece of information. As an IT technician, I often found myself lost in the complexity of third-party alerts, grappling with deep-level tech details that felt like a maze. I lost valuable time trying to decipher an alert and got frustrated over missing important details.

In recent years, Wi-Fi has emerged as the de facto architecture for local area networks (LANs) and campus networks. Wi-Fi is also gaining more widespread usage in factories and operational technology environments. Despite its ubiquity, Wi-Fi presents some persistent challenges for network operations center (NOC) teams.

If you’re an InfluxDB v2 user, you might be wondering what happened to the task engine in InfluxDB 3.0. The answer is that we removed it in order to support broader interoperability with other task tools. V3 enables users to leverage any existing ETL tool rather than being locked into the limited capabilities of the Flux task engine.

The beginning of a new year is a time ripe for innovation. But implementing new ideas to scale quickly while keeping cloud costs down is a delicate balance to strike. January’s cloud cost news brings positive shifts in the market from AWS, Google, and SAP.

Managing GitHub Issues and PRs is a core part of developers’ workflow, but sometimes, it feels like an uphill battle. Switching out of a million different tools and tabs, manually tracking issue updates and trying to coordinate with team members on PR reviews can turn what should be a straightforward task into a time-consuming and, often, headache-inducing ordeal.

A while ago, we posted a blog that detailed how we imported over 4 billion chess games with speed using Python and optimized the code leveraging our Universal ProfilingTM. This was based on Elastic Stack running on version 8.9. We are now on 8.12, and it is time to do a second part that shows how easy it is to observe compiled languages and how Elastic®’s Universal Profiling can help you determine the benefit of a rewrite, both from a cost and environmental friendliness angle.