Observability stories
Exchanges and trading firms can now run latency-sensitive workloads in Google Cloud private regions, as it targets co-location-like timing predictability.
Adoption has climbed to more than 6,500 customers as businesses shift from AI pilots to on-premise production and weigh rising costs.
Telecoms operators could soon let AI agents handle sales and billing tasks across live systems without losing human oversight or control.
As AI workloads spread across cloud and on-premises systems, network teams need more context to spot shadow AI and govern traffic.
AI is driving a surge in automated traffic, with Cloudflare saying more than half of internet requests were non-human for the first time this year.
A compliance gap is leaving 22% of financial services firms running AI agents in production without monitoring, a New Relic study warns.
Engineering teams can now search logs far faster as AI systems flood observability stacks with more telemetry and query demands.
Most IT leaders trust AI to investigate incidents, but only half are willing to let it make production changes, a survey found.
Cloud teams can cut delivery delays and technical debt by standardising ownership, visibility and controls before complexity becomes entrenched.
Lower inference costs could let engineers run automated incident checks more often, as Datadog tests Scout 1.0 on real production alerts.
The platform now underpins observability, security and research services at CERN, handling 1.4 petabytes of data across 139 clusters.
The update gives enterprise IT teams earlier warning of GPU and cooling faults that could throttle AI workloads or trigger outages.
Only 31% of organisations can see their AI software costs, leaving finance teams struggling to govern spending as adoption accelerates.
UK IT teams are cutting data coverage and facing surprise bills as telemetry expenses increasingly outstrip infrastructure budgets.
The update is designed to help engineers trace faults from infrastructure issues to affected services and customers, cutting time to resolution.
Teams can now monitor AI agents and let them flag anomalies, diagnose issues and draft fixes as Grafana expands its cloud tools.
Grafana Cloud users can now trial and subscribe to vetted commercial plugins, giving developers a paid route into the platform's catalog.
Unexpected telemetry bills are forcing many UK firms to cut monitoring coverage or retention as observability spending outpaces infrastructure costs.
The gap between executives and developers could be skewing hiring and tooling budgets as Australian firms miss hidden productivity losses.
Customers can now start building AI agents from USD $50 a month, as DigitalOcean bundles runtime, tools and storage into fixed plans.
