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Tom welcomes Mike Lovewell to explore how digital friction continues to shape the modern workplace. From early days of low awareness to today’s complex, AI-influenced environments, Mike shares how friction has evolved in scale rather than cause. They discuss the growing importance of flow state, the measurable business impact of small disruptions, and why adoption—not just technology—is the key to success. AI emerges as both a solution and a new source of friction, depending on trust and usability.

What happens when you replace legacy network tools with Kentik AI Advisor?

Why do network and infrastructure teams at leading enterprises including Canva, Dropbox, Google ConocoPhillips, and ServiceNow choose Kentik? In their own words, customers describe epic cost savings, dramatic return on investment, and blockbuster efficiency improvements that only Kentik can deliver. Learn why Kentik is the must-see network intelligence solution any enterprise that depends on reliable connectivity.

Actually useful AI is welcome in observability. AI for the sake of AI is not. In this overview of Grafana Labs’ 4th annual Observability Survey, Marc Chipouras shares what 1,300+ respondents from 76 countries told us about the current state of observability — and what comes next. This year’s survey explores four major themes: The results show strong interest in AI for forecasting, root cause analysis, onboarding, and generating dashboards, alerts, and queries. But when it comes to autonomous action, practitioners are more cautious — and 95% say AI needs to show its work to earn trust.

Setting up Rollbar with your NodeJS application with custom parameters and people tracking.

This video shows you how custom YAML configuration works with the Sumo Logic OpenTelemetry collector.

This video guides you through the steps to migrate your network monitoring from SolarWinds to WhatsUp Gold, emphasizing key differences, benefits, and best practices to ensure a smooth transition.