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Grafana Tempo: Upcoming 2.10/3.0 Releases (Community Call December 2025)

Upcoming 2.10/3.0 Releases New maintainer, Oleg Have questions? Please bring them! Can't comment in the chat? You may need to create a channel -- you can do this by clicking your photo in the top right corner. Grafana Cloud is the easiest way to get started with Grafana dashboards, metrics, logs, traces, and profiles. Our forever-free tier includes access to 10k metrics, 50GB logs, 50GB traces and more.

Zebra's 18th Annual Global Shopper Study: Using RFID for Strategic Loss Prevention | Zebra

Explore how RFID is evolving from a foundational inventory tool into a strategic powerhouse for modern retail loss prevention. Learn how to harness information-based strategies to reduce shrink, enhance visibility, and drive profitability across your operations. Join Randy Dunn, Director of RFID Business Development at Zebra Technologies, as he dives deep into the multifaceted capabilities of RFID technology. Drawing on his extensive background in asset protection, Randy unpacks how RFID provides the critical data retailers need to address loss in today's complex landscape.

SQL Compare & SQL Data Compare v16: Introducing SQL Server 2025 Support, Enhanced Security & More

SQL Compare and SQL Data Compare v16 introduces SQL Server 2025 support and improved credential security. Plus, SSMS 22 integration is coming soon. We have just released a new major version of SQL Compare and SQL Data Compare – version 16. This major version has two big items and one coming soon.

Why AI agents need a common data model #ai #telemetry

Clint Sharp explains why a common model like OCSF is critical for the future of AI. Agents need standardized data to analyze information effectively on your behalf. He contrasts the traditional manual workflow of checking Slack, tickets, and wikis while asking colleagues with a future where AI fuses this human context with machine data. Instead of just search results, AI agents will hand you examined hypotheses so you know exactly where to take your investigation.

How AI Agents automate incident response #ai #cybersecurity #telemetry

Clint Sharp demonstrates how Cribl Search leverages AI to streamline incident investigation. Starting from a Slack channel, the AI builds an interactive notebook, analyzes order processing logs, and identifies suspicious traffic spikes. It connects high CPU usage to a recent Jenkins deployment, hypothesizing a supply chain attack, and ultimately recommends a rollback. This isn't a far off concept. It is the future of operations arriving right now.

Let's Encrypt 45-Day Certificate Expiration: Monitoring & More

The move by Let’s Encrypt from 90-day certificates to 45-day certificates is more than a policy shift. It changes how teams must manage renewals, detect failures, and validate that certificates are deployed consistently across distributed systems. A shorter lifecycle compresses the margin of error. Automation that previously limped along unnoticed now breaks on a far tighter schedule. And every misconfiguration hits users faster.

How to Handle Cloud Monitoring Overload?

Reduce alert noise by 70% through intelligent aggregation, clear ownership boundaries, and filtering metrics that don't map to user-facing issues. Monitoring starts with a straightforward goal: understand your system's health and identify issues before users notice them. You set up metrics, create dashboards, and configure some alerts. At first, it works well. Over time, your stack gets bigger and more complicated. New services get added.

Obkio 2025 Year in Review

2025 was big! This year, we stopped talking about what Obkio could be and started showing what it is: a full network observability platform built for the networks you actually run. We released features that solve real problems. We showed up where network pros gather. And we proved that a Canadian-built tool can compete with anyone. Here's what happened.

Change Management Software: 7 Tools For IT Change Enablement in 2026

Change Management software sits at the center of any effort to control updates and improvements across your technology environment. When you use IT Change Management software as part of a broader ITSM practice, you give your teams a structured way to plan and carry out changes that affect infrastructure, services, and applications.