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What is synthetic monitoring?
Al Brown • Last updated: Jul 29, 2026
Synthetic monitoring runs scripted probes (HTTP checks, API transactions, browser journeys) on a schedule from controlled locations to catch outages before users do.
What is SRE? Site reliability engineering explained
Al Brown • Last updated: Jul 29, 2026
Site reliability engineering (SRE) applies software engineering to operations problems, using SLOs, error budgets, a 50% toil cap, and blameless postmortems to keep systems reliable.
What is shadow AI? The governance gap in AI adoption
Al Brown • Last updated: Jul 29, 2026
Shadow AI is the use of AI tools and models inside an organization without IT or governance approval. It drives data leakage, unbudgeted spend, and compliance exposure, and detecting it is an observability problem.