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Essential KPI considerations for IT operations managers

Various KPIs measure IT's operational efficiency and how well it supports business goals, but the right metrics provide actionable insights and demonstrate the overall value of IT.

Elastic and Microsoft partnership achievements in 2025

Elastic and Microsoft continued a successful partnership in 2025, focusing on innovation across infrastructure, AI, and security on Microsoft Azure. Key achievements include launch…

Virtual Infrastructure Monitoring: Surviving the Layer Cake of Doom

Here's a fun drinking game for you: take a shot every time you discover a VM in your environment named "test-server," "idk-what-this-does," or "IMPORTANT-DO-NOT-DELETE" that for so…

How to use AI to analyze and visualize CAN data with Grafana Assistant

Note: A version of this post originally appeared on the CSS Electronics blog.�� Martin Falch, co-owner and head of sales and marketing at CSS Electronics, is an expert on CAN bus d…

Beyond the Bill: Is Your Observability Licensing Helping or Hindering You?

12/11/25 An observability platform can promise a world of savings, but a rigid, outdated, or confusing licensing model can silently erode that value, trapping you in a cycle of sur…

Mastering Fluent Bit: Top 3 Telemetry Pipeline Filters for Developers (Part 11)

This series is a general-purpose getting-started guide for those of us wanting to learn about the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) project Fluent Bit. Each article in this …

Elastic GenAI Partner Sellers Initiative

Elastic has announced four new partners – ECS, Foxhole Technology, SquareShift, and Braxton-Grant Technologies – who have completed their GenAI Partner Sellers Initiative and recei…

PRTG 25.4.114 is now available in the stable release channel

We've just released PRTG version 25.4.114 to the stable release channel. This version brings you important fixes for the Windows Updates Status (PowerShell) sensor and the VMware D…

Highlights from AWS re:Invent 2025: Making sense of applied AI, trust, and going faster

Please provide me with the article "This Month in Datadog - December 2025"! I need the text of the article to be able to summarize it for you. Just paste the article content here…

This Month in Datadog - December 2025

This Datadog article highlights how to optimize Amazon S3 storage costs by gaining visibility into bucket usage and identifying inefficient storage classes. Datadog Storage Managem…

���Grafana���s Big Tent��� podcast: Welcome to season 3!

Sometimes the simplest questions spark the most entertaining rabbit holes. Questions like: ���Can you monitor a candle without starting a fire?��� or ���Should your robot boat have…

Grafana Labs: Top 10 moments of 2025

For Grafana Labs, 2025 was a year defined by innovation, growth, and the power of our community. We celebrated the release of Grafana 12 at our 10th annual GrafanaCON event, and ma…