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How APM fits into the modern observability stack

Most engineering teams don't have a data problem. They have an interpretation problem. Prometheus is running, logs are shipping to the aggregator, dashboards are green-and then a latency spike hits and the root cause takes 45 minutes to isolate. The data was there but the answer wasn't. That gap is where application performance monitoring (APM) operates. This article explores what APM adds to a modern observability stack, why relying on standalone tools leaves critical blind spots, and how teams can unify infrastructure data with application context for a complete operational picture.

Behind the Scenes: Shift-Based Schedules

The PagerDuty team lifts the hood on the newly rolled out Shift-Based Schedules. This session breaks down how PagerDuty is moving away from layer-based architecture to a flexible system that natively scales with modern engineering teams and naturally fits their workflows. Timestamps: Speakers: Ken Choate (Software Engineer) Kelsey Yocum (Sr. Product Designer) MJ (Sr. Engineering Manager) Todd Murphy (Principal Product Manager)

How to Build a Cost-Effective Log Retention Strategy

Nearly every home has that drawer or doom corner where you store all those items that you don’t need every day but that you still want to keep for those “just in case moments.” If you’re a document connoisseur, you may have financial documents that go back years because an accountant once warned you that an IRS audit would require seven years of back documentation. In short, you have a lot of documents that you may or may not need taking up a lot of room in your home.

Should platform, SRE, and security merge into one function?

Platform, SRE, and security are three distinct functions in modern engineering orgs, each shaped by a different problem. SRE was the operations function's answer to scale: how to keep systems reliable when the systems get big. Platform answered a different problem: how to let developers ship without becoming infrastructure experts. Security drew the line on what could safely reach production.

How to debug REST Collector APIs with Cribl REST Collector Diagnostics

This video introduces the new REST Collector Diagnostics feature in Cribl, which helps you troubleshoot API collection issues faster. It’s designed for observability and data engineers who use REST Collector to pull data from external APIs and need deeper visibility into HTTP requests, responses, and errors.

GitHub Copilot Price Hike Developers Outraged! V2

What used to be $50 a month is now $3,000 — overnight. Microsoft just moved GitHub Copilot to token-based billing, and devs are split between calling it a "rug pull" and admitting someone always had to pay the bill. Here's the part that should worry every engineering leader: most can't tell you what percentage of their AI-generated code actually ships, or where the tokens went. When the meter is running on every prompt, "it feels productive" isn't good enough — you need to know that bug cost you $2,700 in tokens to fix.