why your definitions are broken
Recently I was asked to offer my opinions on Application Performance Management (APM) and Observability (o11y) – how they overlap, compete, and conflict. I was just one of several folks…
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Most Automation Programs Fix the Work They Can See. Here’s What That Misses.
Over the years I have signed off on process redesigns I was pleased with. The team had done the work properly: we mapped the current state, cut the handoffs, agreed the new…
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20× the CI traffic without getting slower: How we rebuilt Git serving at Datadog
If you have ever watched a CI job sit on “Fetching repository …” while nothing seems to happen, you already know the unglamorous truth about continuous integration: Every job begins…
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The Cure for Exceptional Zeek Package Testing (Part 2)
This is Part 2 of a three-part series. Read Part 1 and Part 3. Table of Contents Introduction Artisanal Event Generation Unit Tests 1. Introduction In the previous blog in…
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The Best Zero Trust Solution Isn’t a Product, It’s a Mindset
Much ink has been spilled about how zero trust is a framework and a mindset, not a product. There’s no single solution that “achieves” zero trust for federal agencies. Even…
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Automate all the things: How to use Grafana Cloud’s AI to relieve the operational burden
Continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) have dramatically changed how we ship software. But once code reaches production, the operational work is still surprisingly manual. Engineers continually monitor systems, investigate…
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Windows Monitoring with Zabbix – Zabbix Blog
Windows environments provide a variety of approaches for monitoring both on the OS and the application level. The article will cover utilizing Zabbix agent on Windows to collect and discover…
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Dynatrace and Arize bring full-lifecycle observability to AI applications
The combination of Dynatrace and Arize will bring together AI-native evaluation, open AI instrumentation, and unified observability to help organizations evaluate, operate, and continuously improve AI applications from development through…
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How to monitor and trust the models powering your AI
One Large Language Model (LLM) nails your brand’s tone but drifts after a model update. Another is lightning fast until it spikes in latency during peak hours. A third delivers…
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Microsoft Patch Tuesday – August 2026
CVE ID Title CVE-2026-15534 Perl versions through 5.45.1 have out-of-bounds heap reads and writes during regular expression matching via an undersized superlinear cache in S_regmatch CVE-2026-20337 ClamAV ZIP File Format…
