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Top 5 AI-Powered Database Query Tools for Data Analysts

Top 5 AI-Powered Database Query Tools for Data Analysts

May 27, 2026 By OpsMatters In OpsMatters
Data analysts spend a large part of their workday translating business questions into database logic. A stakeholder asks why revenue changed. A product manager wants to compare cohorts. A finance team needs a variance explained. The question may sound simple, but the path to the answer often involves finding the right tables, understanding how fields are defined, writing SQL, validating joins, checking filters, and making sure the result matches the intended business meaning.
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How to Build a Data-Driven SEO Strategy: From Audit to Actionable Insights

How to Build a Data-Driven SEO Strategy: From Audit to Actionable Insights

May 27, 2026 By OpsMatters In OpsMatters
You publish great content. You tweak your titles. You build a few backlinks. And yet - your traffic stays flat, your rankings barely budge, and your competitors seem to leapfrog you effortlessly. Sound familiar? The problem isn't effort. The problem is guesswork. Most SEO strategies fail because they treat optimization as an art rather than a science. They skip the foundational step of understanding what's actually broken on their site, which keywords genuinely move the needle, and how to use data to make smarter decisions every step of the way.
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coralogix

New Explore: Faster answers, less friction, and a better way to investigate your data

May 26, 2026 By Ofri Grushka In Coralogix
There is a moment every engineer knows too well. Something is wrong in production. You have an alert, a vague symptom, and pressure to find the one signal that explains what changed. You open your logs and traces, and you immediately hit the same two problems: the dataset is huge, and the path from “I see something odd” to “I understand why” is full of tiny, exhausting steps. Meet new Explore, our redesigned investigation experience for logs, traces, and spans.
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Exploring Powerful Power BI Dashboards for Smarter Decision-Making

Exploring Powerful Power BI Dashboards for Smarter Decision-Making

May 25, 2026 By OpsMatters In OpsMatters
Operational dashboards help teams answer urgent business questions quickly. They show whether production is on track, inventory is healthy, downtime is rising, or resources are being stretched too thin. This article explores practical Power BI dashboard examples for operational efficiency across production, supply chain management, resource planning, and performance measurement. It also explains how to build dashboards that support real decisions rather than simply displaying data.
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influxdata

A Runnable Reference Architecture for Industrial IoT on InfluxDB 3

May 22, 2026 By Ian Clark In InfluxData
Industrial teams keep telling us the same thing: the data is there, but the stack to act on it isn’t. PLCs, CNCs, SCADA systems, vibration sensors, and quality stations all generate high-frequency telemetry that gets stranded in proprietary historians or stitched together with point integrations nobody wants to own. By the time anyone looks at it, the moment to act has passed.
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influxdata

A Runnable Reference Architecture for Network Telemetry on InfluxDB 3

May 21, 2026 By Mike Devy In InfluxData
Networks generate the most data of any system in your stack and have the least patience for stale dashboards. Interface counters tick every second. BGP sessions flap. Flow records arrive in bursts. When something goes wrong, you don’t have 10 seconds to wait for an aggregation to finish.
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sentry

The product analytics you already have

May 21, 2026 By Rahul Chhabria In Sentry
You already have everything you need. If you’re using Sentry, you have traces, structured logs, and now application metrics. Most teams use that stuff for debugging and stop there. But get this: that same data can answer most of the product questions you’ve been sending to a separate analytics tool, maintained by a separate team, with a separate data model and a separate bill. (Not all of them.
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Get Kafka-Nated S2E5: Nobody Understands Kafka Costs

May 19, 2026 By Aiven In Aiven
In this episode of Get Kafka-Nated, host Hugh Evans is joined by Stanislav Kozlovski, Apache Kafka committer, independent consultant, and author of 2 Minute Streaming — a newsletter with over 7,000 subscribers. After six years at Confluent, including time on the Kafka Serverless team, Stan went independent and has been writing and consulting full-time. He's one of the most recognised voices in the Kafka community, with over 50k followers across social media. In this session we go somewhere the streaming industry rarely goes honestly: Kafka costs.
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influxdata

Community Spotlight: A Native iOS App for Your InfluxDB Data

May 19, 2026 By Ashley Fowler In InfluxData
One of the things we love most about building an open source platform is seeing what the community creates with it, and independent developer Anton Havekes recently built something we just had to share. Anton put together Influx Dashboard, a native iOS app that connects to your InfluxDB instance and brings your time series data straight to your phone. We’re genuinely thrilled to see this kind of work come out of the community.
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Aiven

A Developer's Guide to Aiven Apps

May 19, 2026 By Tibs (Tony Ibbs) | In Aiven
We recently announced the Limited Availability (LA) launch of Aiven Apps, which lets teams define, run, and scale production-ready, real-time applications using container and Compose-based workflows they already know. It provides a managed, stateless runtime that runs directly inside your data perimeter, letting you deploy applications alongside open-source data services like PostgreSQL and Apache Kafka.
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