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Alert fatigue is a pervasive challenge in modern IT environments. When teams are inundated with false positives or low-priority notifications, it’s easy to lose sight of real issues. To kick off our blog series on the 5 most common obstacles to observability in 2025, let’s discuss the headache of alert fatigue and how insights from the natural world can offer answers.

Marketing Connections has published the Next-Gen Government IT: AI and Observability Insights Report in partnership with SolarWinds. The survey targeted 200 public sector IT decision-makers and influencers in the US and 100 of their counterparts in the UK. Here are five things we learned.

A set of reports just launched by research group Market Connections examines trends in cybersecurity across the US and UK public sectors. Let’s take a look at some key findings.

We are pleased to announce a new inbound integration in the ilert catalog: RapidSpike. This integration enhances incident management by connecting ilert with RapidSpike’s website monitoring capabilities, ensuring teams receive real-time alerts on website performance, uptime, and security threats.

We are honoured to announce that G2 has recognized Nexthink as a leading software company in EMEA in their 2025 Best Software Awards. This achievement builds on our ongoing recognition from G2, where we’ve been named a Category Leader consecutively since 2021. Our success is only possible because of the support we receive from our incredible DEX community.

For Managed Service Providers (MSPs) in the EU, who serve financial organizations, DORA regulatory compliance is a hot topic. The DORA (Digital Operational Resilience Act) is a new regulation that came into force on Jan 17th, 2025, aimed at ensuring the operational resilience of financial entities in the EU, focusing on technology risk management and minimizing disruptions in critical services.

When it comes to website performance and uptime, every second counts. Businesses rely on tools like RapidSpike to monitor their digital presence, ensuring websites and applications run smoothly. However, effective alerting and incident management are just as critical as monitoring itself. That’s where ilert comes in.

When we introduced the Explore apps suite for metrics, logs, traces, and profiles last year at ObservabilityCON 2024, our goal was simple: offer a queryless, point-and-click experience so you can quickly find insights in your observability data—no queries or complicated syntax required. Our commitment to that goal remains unchanged, but we’re excited to announce that the Explore apps have a new name: Grafana Drilldown.