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Assisted, Augmented or Agentic? Choose Your Splunk Starting Point

Sep 8, 2026 By Splunk In Splunk
Episode two of Beyond the Thread explores how organizations can leverage a solid data foundation for AI-driven actions. Hosted by Courtney Wright and featuring experts Greg Ainsley-Malik and Sonal Pardeshi, the discussion delves into the Cisco Data Fabric, powered by the Splunk platform, and its role in transforming machine data into actionable insights. The episode highlights the journey towards agentic operations, addressing the challenges faced in moving from AI-ready data to effective implementations, and examines different adoption strategies that organizations may pursue.
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Introducing Infrastructure Knowledge: Teach Netdata AI What Your Metrics Can't Show

Sep 8, 2026 By Shyam Sreevalsan In netdata
Netdata AI sees everything your infrastructure does: every metric, every anomaly, every alert. It does not see what your infrastructure is: which services matter, which host is supposed to run hot, who owns what, what your team considers normal. Without that context, “CPU at 91%” is just a finding. With it, it might be a machine doing exactly its job.
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Wide Events vs. Three Pillars: AI Observability Costs

Sep 8, 2026 By Nick Travaglini In Honeycomb
As agentic AI workflows gain traction within organizations, those organizations are asking how to account for their behavior while keeping costs manageable. Some are sticking with the old three pillars of observability approach: take a measurement to create a metric, record output to a log, and track serial progress with a trace. Each of these is useful, but treating them as distinct formats from the start means paying for them distinctly too. Separate storage doesn't come cheap.
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The VM Boom For AI Agents | David Crawshaw Co-Founder & CEO, exe.dev

Sep 8, 2026 By Megaport In Megaport
What happens when AI agents stop simply answering questions and start using computers of their own? It could create an entirely new boom in virtual machines. In this episode of Uplink, David Crawshaw, Co-Founder and CEO of exe.dev, joins host Michael Reid to explore the infrastructure behind the rapidly emerging world of AI agents. As agents become capable of writing code, running applications, operating tools, maintaining state, and working independently, they need more than access to an AI model. They need computing environments where they can actually get work done.
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upsun

From idea to working software: what the full development lifecycle needs to look like

Sep 8, 2026 By Upsun In Upsun
GitHub's research found that developers using Copilot completed tasks 55% faster than those who didn't. Tools like GitHub Copilot and Cursor, powered by large language models such as Claude or GPT, are designed to automate the tedious parts of programming so engineers can focus on harder, more creative problems. With this. new repos spin up every week. The promise is being kept. But where are the products?
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cloudzero

Your AI Economics Pulse for September 2026

Sep 8, 2026 By Keith MacKenzie In CloudZero
Across a same-store panel of 430 CloudZero customer organizations, AI reached 2.66% of the median company's cloud bill in August 2026, up from 2.61% in July and roughly four times its level a year ago. The 75th percentile crossed 11%. The share of organizations with at least 10% of cloud spend attributed to AI jumped to 28.2% from 23.9%, the largest one-month move that tier has posted. Two-thirds of the panel now spends at least $1,000 a month on AI. The typical bill barely shifted.
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VictoriaMetrics

Two cats, two dogs, four vendors, and the model the AI couldn't find (Tech Talk Companion)

Sep 7, 2026 By Michelle Sebek In VictoriaMetrics
Tech Talks went dark for a few months, and on episode 13 I finally got to ask why. Mathias Palmersheim’s answer, delivered completely straight, was that his users were unhappy with the availability and usability of their feeders and their litter box, and he wasn’t allowed back on stream until that got fixed. The users are two dogs and two cats, and they have titles. Maisie, a Shiba Inu who came to him through a rescue, is the recently promoted chief executive pawofficer.
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squared up

I use Claude every day. I still build dashboards in SquaredUp

Sep 7, 2026 By Blog In Squared Up
If you've looked at SquaredUp and thought "I don't need this, I'll just use Claude", I understand completely. I've thought it too. Here's what changed my mind. I use Claude constantly. I've also spent the last few months building the parts of SquaredUp that let it in: our MCP server, the object graph and correlation, a stack of plugins. So this isn't a dashboard vendor being sniffy about AI. I've watched Claude pull from several sources and produce something genuinely useful in under a minute.
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