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The Story of Grafana | Episode 3: Open (Source) for Business | Grafana Documentary

In 2014, Grafana Labs (formerly known as Raintank) was founded with one mission in mind: To build a sustainable business around the popular open source Grafana project and use the revenue from our commercial offerings to re-invest in the technology.

EMA explores Elastic AI Assistant for Security

Spoiler alert: it’s great! Elastic Security has been making waves among busy security analysts everywhere with the launch of Elastic AI Assistant. Whether it’s synthesizing alert details and suggesting next steps, or the recent addition from Elastic 8.11 to generate ES|QL queries from natural language, there’s a lot to love about Elastic AI Assistant for security efforts.

The Debrief: incident.io, say hello to AI

This week was a particularly exciting one for us at incident.io. We launched not one, not two, but four AI-powered features to help folks get the most out of their incidents. In this episode of The Debrief, we sit down with Ed Dean, Product Analyst, and Charlie Revett, Product Engineer, to talk through all of these features and discuss how they're already making a measurable impact. You'll also hear them talk about: You can learn more about our AI features here.

Building a GPT-style Assistant for historical incident analysis

Like most things, our AI Assistant started out as an idea. One of our data scientists, Ed, was working with our customers to improve our existing insights. But the most common theme that kept surfacing was the wide-range of use cases that our customers wanted to use insights for. Using this user feedback as our inspiration, we came up with the idea of a natural language assistant that you can use to explore your incident data.

Lessons learned from building our first AI product

Since the advent of ChatGPT, companies have been racing to build AI features into their product. Previously, if you wanted AI features you needed to hire a team of specialists to build machine learning models in-house. But now that OpenAI’s models are an API call away, the investment required to build shiny AI has never been lower. We were one of those companies. Here’s our journey to building our first AI feature, and some practical advice if you’ll be doing the same.