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Last9 Named a Gartner® Cool Vendor in AI for SRE and Observability

Gartner recognizes Last9 in their latest Cool Vendor report for unified telemetry and agentic SDK—moving teams from reactive monitoring to proactive ops.

Nishant Modak
Nishant Modak
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Top 7 Observability Platforms That Auto-Discover Services & Generate Dashboards

Top 7 Observability Platforms That Auto-Discover Services

Auto-discovery tools now detect services as they appear and build dashboards instantly. Here are seven platforms that do it well.

Anjali Udasi
Anjali Udasi
How to Reduce Log Data Costs Without Losing Important Signals

How to Reduce Log Data Costs Without Losing Important Signals

Reduce log costs by cutting repetitive, low-value logs early and keeping only the signals that help you debug issues with full clarity.

Anjali Udasi
Anjali Udasi
What is AWS Fargate for Amazon ECS?

What is AWS Fargate for Amazon ECS?

Understand how AWS Fargate runs your ECS containers without servers—just define CPU, memory, and networking, and AWS handles the compute.

Anjali Udasi
Anjali Udasi
OTel Updates: Complex Attributes Now Supported Across All Signals

OTel Updates: Complex Attributes Now Supported Across All Signals

OTLP 1.9.0 adds support for maps, arrays, and byte arrays across all OTel signals. Here's when to use complex attributes and when to stick with flat.

Anjali Udasi
Anjali Udasi
Top 9 Web Application Performance Monitoring Tools for 2025

Top 9 Web Application Performance Monitoring Tools for 2025

Explore 2025’s top APM tools — from open-source stacks to enterprise platforms — and see how each helps you monitor smarter.

Anjali Udasi
Anjali Udasi
Build Your Kubernetes Monitoring Foundation with kube-prometheus-stack

Build Your Kubernetes Monitoring Foundation with kube-prometheus-stack

Set up production-grade Kubernetes monitoring with kube-prometheus-stack using Prometheus, Grafana, and Alertmanager.

Anjali Udasi
Anjali Udasi
OTel Updates: OpenTelemetry eBPF Instrumentation (OBI) Hits Alpha

OTel Updates: OpenTelemetry eBPF Instrumentation (OBI) Hits Alpha

OpenTelemetry eBPF Instrumentation (OBI) is now in alpha, bringing protocol-level telemetry capture without code changes or restarts.

Anjali Udasi
Anjali Udasi
OpenTelemetry Metrics in Quarkus Explained

OpenTelemetry Metrics in Quarkus Explained

Understand how to enable, export, and extend OpenTelemetry metrics in your Quarkus application with practical examples.

Anjali Udasi
Anjali Udasi
How Prometheus Exporters Work With OpenTelemetry

How Prometheus Exporters Work With OpenTelemetry

Learn how Prometheus exporters expose OTLP metrics in Prometheus format, making it easier to scrape OpenTelemetry data.

Anjali Udasi
Anjali Udasi