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You Need an Advisor. Not an AI Assistant.

Complex environments don’t fail because teams lack data. They fail when teams can’t trust what the data is telling them. There are too many signals, too little time, and too much risk riding on every decision. That’s the reality Skylar Advisor is built for: delivering guidance teams can verify, so they can act faster without gambling on opaque, black-box answers.

Are We Letting AI Think for Us? | SolarWinds TechPod #105

We’re more dependent on technology than ever—and AI is changing how we make decisions. But what happens when the systems fail? Or when bad actors decide to “pull the plug”? This clip dives into a scary but necessary question: Are we losing our ability to critically think and problem-solve by relying too much on AI? Is AI leveling the playing field—or quietly taking over human decision-making? A must-watch conversation about innovation, outages, AI risk, and why having a backup plan matters more than ever.

Grafana Assistant: Why you can trust our agent-and yourself-in an era of AI hallucinations

Let’s be real: AI can hallucinate. And in observability, that feels risky. No one wants an assistant that sends your SREs chasing ghosts. At best, that burns expensive engineering time. At worst, it slows incident response in production and pushes teams toward the wrong remediation path. So here’s the big question: What makes Grafana Assistant different, and why should you trust it? Let’s start by acknowledging the fear. AI hallucinations are a real issue.

Properly securing OpenClaw with authentication

OpenClaw (née MoltBot, née ClawdBot) is taking over the world. Everyone is spinning their own, either on a VPS, or their own Mac mini. But here's the problem: OpenClaw is brand new, and its security posture is mostly unknown. Security researchers have already found thousands of publicly available instances exposing everything from credentials to private messages.

Skylar Advisor: Proactive Guidance for Modern Operations

Meet Skylar Advisor, bringing trusted and verifiable guidance to IT operations by connecting real time observability with your data and knowledge. Built AI native, it helps teams cut through alert floods, understand what matters most and why, and take the next best steps with confidence. Every recommendation is evidence backed and traceable to the exact data and sources used, so guidance is clear, explainable, and defensible when the stakes are high.

Elastic 9.3: Chat with your data, build custom AI agents, automate everything

Today, we are pleased to announce the general availability of Elastic 9.3 as the latest version of the Elasticsearch Platform — the world’s most popular open source platform for transforming both structured and unstructured data into trusted answers and outcomes. In addition to including new features that help developers with context engineering and agent building, Elastic 9.3 introduces a broad set of new capabilities to Elastic Search & AI, Elastic Observability, and Elastic Security.

How to Build AIPowered Search with Elasticsearch [2 Min Live Demo]

In this demo, we show how Elasticsearch enables production‑ready GenAI and AI‑powered search applications—from indexing and embedding your data to grounding large language models with RAG. You’ll see how developers can go from raw data to a fully functional GenAI search experience—fast Additional Resources.

Komodor AI SRE vs. OSS AI Agent: A Technical Comparison of Agentic AI for Kubernetes Troubleshooting

Gartner predicts that AI agents will be implemented in 60% of all IT operations tools by 2028, up from fewer than 5% at the end of 2024. This acceleration has sparked an explosion of AI SRE solutions, from enterprise platforms to open-source alternatives, all promising faster root cause analysis and reduced MTTR.