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Reality Bytes: Our Everyday AI Use (Personal & Professional)

The Reality Bytes team is back together again! Tim, Tom, Megan, Dina and Sean swap stories of how AI has reshaped their personal and professional lives and habits over the past year—from eerie chatbot encounters and creative breakthroughs to frustrations with hallucinations and the hunt for the true “human fingerprint.”

How to know your data with Cribl's Ed Bailey and VisiCore Technology's Paul Stout.

Classifying and tagging data is the key to automating pipelines and improving visibility across the enterprise. We’ll share both the technical and business impact of truly knowing your data, and why Cribl makes it possible. Plus, we’ll talk CriblCon and why we’re excited to see you there.

Monitor Slurm with Datadog

Slurm (Simple Linux Utility for Resource Management) is an open source workload management system used to schedule jobs and manage resources for high-performance computing (HPC) Linux clusters. It ensures that jobs and resources are scheduled fairly and efficiently and is scalable across large clusters, an issue that native Linux process management tools struggle with.

The Importance of Community Knowledge in Tech

Tools alone aren’t enough. How you use them and the expertise you tap into make all the difference. In this Short, we explore why even the best tools need the proper guidance to unlock their full potential. Open-source communities are goldmines of knowledge and support Connecting with experts can save you serious time and headaches While enterprise support is valuable, the community often has your back. Get practical tips to get the most out of your tools, and remember: it’s not just what you use; it’s how you connect, learn, and grow along the way.

Easiest Way to Ship Docker & Nginx Logs to Loki with Promtail

Effective monitoring catches problems before users do, and with Promtail, Loki, and LogQL, it’s a lightweight, approachable option for any DevOps team. This guide shows how to monitor Docker itself (pull failures, restarts, health flaps) so you’ve got a baseline on container runtime health.

How to check CPU usage on Linux

When your Linux system feels sluggish, one of the first things to investigate is the CPU usage. The CPU (Central Processing Unit) is the brain of your machine, and if it’s overloaded, everything else slows down. In this guide, you’ll learn different ways to Linux check CPU usage with command-line tools, how to interpret the metrics, and why automatic monitoring with Icinga ensures long-term system stability.

OTel Naming Best Practices for Spans, Attributes, and Metrics

An incident’s in progress. Services are slow, customers are frustrated, and your dashboards… look fine. At least, until you search for payment metrics and get 47 different names for the same signal. Suddenly, the real issue isn’t latency — it’s inconsistency. The OpenTelemetry project recently published a three-part series on naming conventions to solve exactly this problem.

Why 1% Packet Loss Is the New 100% Outage

For years, you had an unspoken agreement. Your networks were built to be resilient, and your applications were, for the most part, forgiving. You sent emails, transferred files, and backed up data. If a few packets went missing along the way, the protocols would quietly clean up the mess. A little bit of packet loss was just background noise, an expected imperfection in a system that was, by and large, incredibly robust. You could tolerate it.