AI Week: Wednesday announcements
Wednesday is about operations and maintenance. Here's what we're announcing today! Check out grafana.ai for more details on everything we announce this week.
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Automatically starting investigations from an alert with Assistant Investigations
Staff Software Engineer Alexander Sniffin demonstrates how you can use Assistant Investigations to automatically start an investigation for you when an alert fires in Grafana. When you receive an alert, Investigations can do the work to figure out the root cause so that you don't have to spend your time doing so. Assistant Investigations is now generally available for Grafana Cloud.
Run tests using natural language with k6 Agentic Testing
In this video, our Senior Director for AI Engineering, Mat Ryer, issues a challenge: Can k6 agentic testing in Grafana Cloud be instructed at a high level to just beat Wordle? Staff Software Engineer Joan López de la Franca Beltran sets up that scenario using agentic testing (currently experimental), yielding some surprising results.
AppSignal MCP Server: Get Started in your IDE
Cursor, Claude, and their fellow tools are great when they are speaking code, but once that code hits production, they are not exactly native. However, if your code is monitored by AppSignal, an MCP server can bridge that gap and allow agents to poke around the production.
Your AI Agent Can Now Debug Playwright Tests
Playwright 1.59 added a `cli` parameter to the `--debug` flag, and this enables your coding agent to use the built-in step-through debugger. Step through the test steps, inspect network traffic at every moment, and access the accessibility tree. The same debugger is now usable without the inspector window.
When Playing It Safe Creates More Risk
When organizations evaluate a software upgrade, the conversation typically centers on risk. Teams consider the maintenance window, the resources required to prepare for the change, the possibility of unexpected issues, and the operational impact of the upgrade itself. These are all legitimate concerns because the people responsible for enterprise platforms are accountable for maintaining service availability while introducing change into complex environments.
Real-Time Monitoring in Automated Container Cranes: Sensors, Data Pipelines and Fault Detection
Modern container terminals run on uptime. A single crane failure during a vessel call can cascade into berth delays, demurrage charges, and disrupted yard schedules that take days to recover from. The pressure this places on operations and maintenance teams has driven a fundamental shift in how port equipment is monitored - away from periodic inspection cycles and toward continuous, sensor-driven visibility across every system on every machine.
Introducing usage-based billing in MSP Central!
Billing has always been one of the parts of running an MSP that doesn't scale on its own. More endpoints, more tickets, and more monitors under management all mean more usage to track—and for most MSPs, that usage still gets tallied by hand before an invoice can go out. Not anymore. We're rolling out the MSP Central billing module, powered by our integration with Zoho Billing—and it's live with usage-based billing from day one.
Apache ActiveMQ Zero-Downtime Maintenance: The Complete Procedures Guide
The broker is processing 8,000 messages per second. There are 340 active client connections. A configuration change is needed: a memoryUsage limit increase to prevent an approaching producer flow control event. The question is not whether to make the change. The question is how to make it without dropping messages, disconnecting clients, or triggering a cascade of client reconnect storms that themselves cause the resource pressure you are trying to resolve.
How Pharma IT Teams Can Achieve Continuous GxP Compliance and Audit Readiness
Maintaining GxP standards has become harder as IT environments grow more distributed. Manual processes, fragmented accountability, and inconsistent controls make it difficult to maintain a consistent compliance posture across endpoints and critical systems.