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At Honeycomb, we believe that observability should be accessible, effective, and transformative. That’s why our customer education team is thrilled to introduce Honeycomb Academy, a learning hub designed to help our customers of all experience levels master observability, OpenTelemetry, and the Honeycomb platform.

Finances, strategy, and market expansion are all common CEO concerns. However, CEOs also need to focus on automatic advanced observability across highly dynamic environments. Network observability has become a boardroom discussion point because downtime directly impacts business performance. Observability helps reduce costs and enhance service quality. But what is network observability? Is observability truly necessary if you have a monitoring solution in place?

If you have a car or a motorcycle, you frequently tune it to have top-notch performance. Similarly, while using Oracle Database, you need to manage memory effectively. When you get it right, everything runs smoothly; when you get it wrong, you face slow queries and frustrated users. As we are talking about Oracle databases here, you are probably aware of the system global area (SGA) and program global area (PGA) in Oracle, which play a crucial role in database memory management.

Great incident response starts with structure, speed, and the right context. At incident.io, we make it easy for teams to declare incidents, follow battle-tested workflows, and communicate clearly from the moment something breaks to the moment it's fixed. But resolving incidents isn’t just about what happens in the heat of the moment: it’s about having the right metadata and service information at your fingertips. That’s where Port comes in.

Picture this scenario: It's 2 AM. Your phone starts ringing. There's an incident in staging. You grumble, wake up, check your notifications, only to realize it does not require your immediate attention. After twenty minutes of lost sleep, you're back to bed, only for the cycle to repeat itself a few days later. Sound familiar? For many SREs and on-call engineers, incidents and alerts are unavoidable realities.

Managing SharePoint storage can be a complex task, especially as your organization’s data continues to grow. Keeping track of how much space each site or user is consuming, identifying trends, and ensuring your storage stays within allocated limits are crucial for effective SharePoint management. This is where SharePoint analytics tools can make a significant difference, and SharePoint Storage Explorer stands out as an essential free tool to simplify the process.

Instead of deploying a patchwork of proprietary agents for every platform, a telemetry pipeline lets you route your data through a single, consistent layer—and send it to any backend you choose. Flexibility, achieved. But there’s a catch. If your pipeline is proprietary, you’ve only shifted the lock-in left. Sure, you can now add or swap destinations freely—but you’re still deeply dependent on a vendor in the middle of your data flow.

As one customer put it: “We spend 99% of our time on our ITSM platform and only 1% on PagerDuty.” This simple statement highlights the beauty of PagerDuty—it’s a low-maintenance tool that just works. However, even the best tools benefit from a little governance to ensure they’re being used effectively. Enter the PagerDuty Champions—a small, part-time team dedicated to keeping your incident management practices sharp and your teams productive.

Checkly has always been your early warning system—giving engineering teams unmatched speed and precision in detecting problems through powerful synthetic monitoring. When systems fail, communicating clearly and quickly is just as important as fixing the issue itself. Downtime is inevitable. Confusion doesn’t have to be.

Looking for AWS EC2 alternatives? While EC2 is a popular choice for cloud computing, many DevOps teams are exploring options that better suit their needs, budget, or technical requirements. This guide breaks down the top alternatives, focusing on what matters most—features, performance, pricing, and real-world use cases. We’ll cover the technical details, performance benchmarks, and key considerations to help you make the right choice.