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Any agent anywhere: How to use Grafana Cloud with Claude, Cursor, and any other AI agent

AI agents are becoming part of everyday engineering workflows, helping teams write code, troubleshoot issues, and automate tasks. But to be truly useful in production, these agents need access to more than code. They also need observability data and context to understand what's happening across your systems, investigate problems, and help you take action.

ECS vs EKS in 2026: The ECS Limits AWS Won't Raise, and When They Matter

If ECS works for your team, no single limit forces you off it. Growing teams still hit a few hard ECS and Fargate quotas that AWS won't raise, starting with 100 target groups per load balancer for preview environments. Here are the limits, the numbers, and how to add EKS for previews without moving production. Guillaume is a Staff Solutions Architect at Qovery. He helps customers troubleshoot production infrastructure and writes about Kubernetes operations, AI agents, and reliable cloud platforms.

WhatsUp Gold NPM 13.1 and WhatsUp Gold NDR 13.1 Release Update

Most IT teams do not have the luxury of separating network operations and security professionals into different groups. The same teams need to investigate a slow application and examine unusual traffic patterns or security issues. The latest Progress WhatsUp Gold NPM and Progress WhatsUp Gold NDR releases include new functionality that directly addresses this reality. Both WhatsUp Gold NPM and WhatsUp Gold NDR have been updated to shorten the time between discovering an issue and understanding it.

How to Monitor Your ISP's Performance: A Step-by-Step Guide for IT Teams

Most ISP problems don't show up as low speed. They show up as calls that break up every afternoon, a cloud app that times out at one branch, or a connection that drops for 30 seconds and recovers before anyone can test it. By the time someone runs a speed test, the results look fine, and ISP support asks for evidence you don't have. Continuous monitoring solves this by measuring all the time, so the data is already there when something goes wrong.

Best AI for Technical Interviews When Trade-Offs Count More Than the Code

Generative AI can crank out code, yet interviewers judge how you think. CoderPad's 2026 survey found that 66 percent of hiring leads praise candidates who fix AI errors, while 56 percent reward clear trade-off explanations. Stack Overflow's 2025 Developer Survey echoes this: 66 percent of developers name AI solutions that are "almost right, but not quite" as their biggest AI frustration. Canva agrees, applauding applicants who "offer alternative approaches and weigh trade-offs thoughtfully."

Occupational Safety Tech: How Modern IoT and Sensors Are Preventing Future Worksite Toxins

Chemicals lurk in industrial air unnoticed until someone gets sick. According to estimates from the International Labour Organization, over one billion workers face hazardous substance exposure globally every year.

Cradlepoint R1900: Deployment Configuration Guide for Enterprise IT Administrators

When an enterprise IT team faces the challenge of deploying secure, high-performance wireless connectivity at remote or mobile sites, the Cradlepoint R1900 router often stands out for its rugged build and advanced networking capabilities. Imagine outfitting a fleet of emergency response vehicles or setting up edge connectivity at a construction site-both scenarios demand reliable network performance under harsh conditions. IT administrators must not only install and configure these devices but also ensure they integrate seamlessly with existing infrastructure and adhere to strict security standards.

Top tips: 4 tips to fix your phone's storage problem

Top tips is a weekly column where we highlight what's trending in the tech world and list practical ways to explore these trends. This week, we're clearing out the one notification nobody wants to see: storage full. You’re about to capture the perfect moment and a message pops up: Storage full. The same sentiment applies to a fridge:Nobody means to overstuff it, but a little goes in every day at a faster rate than items come out, until a lemon ends up balanced on the edge of a shelf.

What Is OpenTelemetry? A Guide to the OTel Framework

OpenTelemetry (OTel) is an open-source observability framework, hosted by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), that standardizes how your applications generate, collect, and export telemetry data such as traces, metrics, and logs. The instrumentation stays vendor-neutral, so you can instrument a service once, send its telemetry to the observability tool your team uses today, and point it at a different tool next year without touching application code.