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Many organisations have built their monitoring on SCOM and SquaredUp Dashboard Server, and built it well. But the modern IT estate has moved on. Cloud services, SaaS platforms and new toolsets are now part of the picture, and the monitoring strategy needs to keep pace. The challenge isn't starting over, it's extending what you already have without throwing away the investment you've made.

If your incident response still depends on engineers stitching alerts together… You don’t have observability. You just have dashboards. Correlation has to be automatic, contextual, and system-aware, or it becomes expensive noise.

You're gonna want a cache. Aiven for Valkey's Dev Tier gets you 2 CPUs and 4 GB RAM on a single node, with automated backups, full monitoring (metrics + logs), and basic support included. JSON, Bloom filters, and Search come pre-enabled. AIVEN DATA PLATFORM The Aiven Platform is more than a collection of open source services for streaming, storing and analyzing data. The platform ensures that all services run reliably and securely in the clouds of your choice, are observable, and can easily be integrated with each other and with external 3rd party tools.

Can you actually trust an AI agent? In this pre-recorded episode of The Context Window, Nicole van der Hoeven sits down with Yas Ekinci, an engineer on the Grafana AI team, to talk about evals — how Grafana measures the quality and reliability of the AI it ships. They get into the difference between online and offline evals, why reviewing AI-generated code has become the real bottleneck, the "final answer problem" of plausible-but-wrong outputs, and o11y-bench, Grafana's open benchmark for observability agents. Along the way.

In this video, learn the key differences between a Help Desk and a Service Desk and why choosing the right approach can significantly impact the growth and efficiency of your IT support operations. Discover when a help desk is enough, when a service desk becomes essential, and how modern IT teams can scale support effectively. In this video, you'll learn: Contact Us sales@motadata.com Resources.

Reach any destination on a global network in about 60 seconds. Here’s what we actually do, explained by our SA Chris off the rip.

This is the "Cribl: The Good Bits" version of a webinar we gave recently, which combined the fermented educational joy of a beer tasting led by Gabe Callahan; and the only-slightly-less-intoxicating demos of the Cribl platform, led by Principal Technical Marketing Engineer Leon Adato.