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Introducing the StatusGator MCP Server

Your AI agents can now monitor, triage, and respond to cloud outages autonomously. The way enterprises manage cloud infrastructure incidents is changing. AI agents are no longer just chatbots answering questions — they’re becoming first responders in your incident management pipeline. Today, we’re launching the StatusGator MCP Server, giving AI agents direct, structured access to the full power of StatusGator’s cloud status monitoring platform.

Balancing personal brand, company goals and open source in DevRel can be tricky

DevRel often means juggling goals that feel completely opposite: building trust while driving adoption, serving developers while supporting business growth. In this short, we explore why these “contradictions” are actually the secret to great Developer Relations.

Fear, Identity & Flaky Tests: AI in Reliability w/ Dana Lawson (CTO, Netlify)

The self-healing systems that SREs have dreamed about for a decade aren't a distant promise anymore — they're already being built, and the biggest barrier left is cultural. Dana Lawson, CTO at Netlify, has spent over 25 years in the trenches of developer infrastructure, from sysadmin roots to running the platform that powers 5% of the internet.

AI Needs Better Inputs: Why Observability Is Becoming the Foundation of Enterprise AI Maturity

Organizations across industries are accelerating their investments in AI for operations, yet the path to meaningful impact is proving far more complex than early expectations suggested. Analysts at Gartner, Forrester, Deloitte, and McKinsey continue to highlight the same structural barrier. AI cannot produce accurate predictions or safe automation when the operational data feeding it is fragmented, incomplete, or inconsistent.

Mastering AI Prompts: How to Get the Best Out of SQL Prompt AI | The Tony and Tonie show Ep41

How to get the most value from SQL Prompt AI in day-to-day work, whether you're writing new queries or improving existing code. A little prompt-writing knowledge goes a long way with SQL Prompt AI. Tony and Tonie discuss how to build reusable prompts that give the tool the context it needs to return useful results first time.

Accelerate Your OpenTelemetry Migrations With Honeycomb's Agent Skills

Since releasing our hosted MCP server last year, we've been thrilled to see customers not just adopt it but build Honeycomb deeply into their agentic development and observability workflows. Users have embraced it, leveraging Honeycomb to stay in conversation with their code and understand how it runs in production.

Pull Request Velocity as a Proxy for AI Usage for Software Development

While AI have usage has been growing steadily for the last several years, the LLM models noticeably improved around the end of 2025. Specifically, they become more viable for software development. We are seeing the results. The feature and product delivery has picked up. One way to visualize this is by looking at the number of pull requests for your organization / software development teams. This chart shows the number of Github pull requests created by a team. Can you spot when AI usage increased?