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Better together: Cribl and Microsoft Fabric just got radically simpler

In September, I wrote about how Cribl and Microsoft Fabric Real-Time Intelligence provide a powerful combination, unlocking new analytics capabilities for security and IT teams. I also said there was more to come… Today, Cribl is thrilled to announce a new Cribl Destination for Microsoft Fabric Real-Time Intelligence, marking another big step forward in our collaboration with Microsoft to make it much easier for Cribl customers to use Fabric.

How to Monitor RabbitMQ

A queue quietly fills up overnight. Memory hits the configured watermark and RabbitMQ blocks all publishers. Your entire message pipeline freezes, and you discover the problem when users start complaining. This scenario repeats across thousands of production systems because teams don't monitor RabbitMQ properly. The broker exposes comprehensive metrics, but most engineers don't know which ones predict failures or how to track them.

Unlocking Full Application Visibility with LogicMonitor

In today’s digital landscape, application performance isn’t just about monitoring several key apps and “keeping the lights on,” it’s about understanding the full breadth of your interconnected business services and ensuring you’re delivering seamless, reliable experiences to customers and teams alike. But as applications grow increasingly distributed across cloud, on-prem, and hybrid environments, monitoring them holistically can become a serious challenge.

Tame multi-cluster chaos. A Platform Engineer's guide to distributed Kubewarden Policies with Fleet

For platform engineers managing multiple Kubernetes clusters, maintaining policy consistency is a constant struggle. Manually applying security rules across a growing fleet of clusters is inefficient and error-prone. This approach creates significant risks: As your environment scales, this operational burden becomes unsustainable. Each out-of-sync policy represents a potential security gap, increasing the cluster’s attack surface.

Agentic AI: Ushering in the Next Era of Intelligent IT

IDC predicts agentic AI will command over 26% of global IT spend, hitting $1.3 trillion in 2029. How do IT Ops teams prepare for the reality of agentic systems being embedded across workflows, interfaces, and enterprise platforms? We went straight to the source—IT Ops leaders—to learn how they’re tackling agentic AI.

A New, Simpler Microsoft Teams Integration For Redgate Monitor

Microsoft is retiring Office 365 connectors, but there is now a new and easier way to send Redgate Monitor alert notifications to Teams, ready-formatted. Microsoft is retiring Microsoft 365 (Office 365) connectors on 31 March 2026. After that date, any Redgate Monitor alert notifications configured through the old connector method will stop appearing in Teams. From Redgate Monitor 14.1.0, there’s now a new and much simpler way to do it.

Azure Monitor offers Grafana dashboards natively for immediate, real-time operational monitoring

Editor’s note: This blog originally published in May 2025 when Azure Monitor dashboards with Grafana became available in public preview. It was updated in November 2025 to reflect general availability. The Grafanaverse just got a little bit bigger.

How to pair Grafana Drilldown with Loki for faster logging insights

Our logs can tell us so much about the state of our systems, but they can also be a bit overwhelming. Yes, Grafana Loki—and, by extension, Grafana Cloud Logs, which is powered by Loki—reimagined the way log aggregation systems could meet modern engineering demands, but logs, by their very nature, are still voluminous.