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bigpanda

Is your most expensive talent spending valuable time writing status updates?

Sep 22, 2026 By Assaf Resnick In BigPanda
A major incident can turn a highly skilled engineer into a coordinator, a search engine, and a status writer. The work looks necessary in the moment. The cumulative effect is easy to miss: the people most needed to understand the failure spend their time repeating what others already know.
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Diskless Topics on Aiven for Apache Kafka

Sep 22, 2026 By Aiven In Aiven
Diskless moves Kafka replication into object storage, removing cross-AZ fees. See how diskless topics work, then create one live on Aiven for Apache Kafka. AIVEN DATA PLATFORM The Aiven Platform is more than a collection of open source services for streaming, storing and analyzing data. The platform ensures that all services run reliably and securely in the clouds of your choice, are observable, and can easily be integrated with each other and with external 3rd party tools.
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Cribl On Your Coffee Break Episode 17 - Notebooks

Sep 22, 2026 By Cribl In Cribl
Whether you call them runbooks, response guides, or just notebooks, today on Cribl on your coffee break, we are looking at Cribl’s implementation, which lets you document your notes, queries, and discoveries as you make them, and then re-run those same processes later to troubleshoot similar issues in the future with less toil. By the time the month is over, you will have a pretty good idea of what Cribl can do, and how to do it. You’ll also have consumed more caffeinated beverages than is strictly appropriate...
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pagerduty

The 5 Stages of AI-Human Collaboration to Improve Operational Reliability

Sep 22, 2026 By PagerDuty In PagerDuty
AI adoption is now a measurable driver of both uptime and growth. According to PagerDuty’s 2026 State of AI-First Digital Operations report, 75% of organizations actively incorporating AI into digital operations claim to have improved operational resilience and maturity over the past year. The same report suggests AI in operations is also a revenue driver.
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datadog

When users don't click thumbs up: Inferring agent feedback from Datadog telemetry

Sep 22, 2026 By Datadog In Datadog
Collecting high-quality user feedback on agents, like from thumbs-up or thumbs-down buttons, is an important part of agent development. User feedback is needed for everything from basic gut checks on whether your agents are behaving well to planning and creating robust eval sets. It’s a critical part of Datadog’s Agent Observability, which provides explicit end-user feedback features for collecting and analyzing it.
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datadog

Cut AI agent cost and improve accuracy with Code Execution in the Datadog MCP Server

Sep 22, 2026 By Datadog In Datadog
Observability investigations rarely follow a straight line. A latency question might cause an AI agent to start with a metric, pivot into traces, compare a deployment window, and finish by reducing thousands of logs to a few patterns. Each individual query is easy, but propagating context throughout an entire investigation can be tricky and expensive.
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obkio

What Is a Network Interface (and Why Your Monitoring Tool Should Care)

Sep 22, 2026 By Alyssa Lamberti In Obkio
A user opens a ticket: "The Internet is slow." IT checks the network. Bandwidth looks fine, no outages, no alerts firing. They check with the ISP, but nothing on their end either. Everything upstream checks out, and yet the user is still stuck watching a spinning wheel. What rarely gets checked is the one component sitting closest to the problem: the machine's own network interface.
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17: There's No Life Without AI: Agents, MCP, and the Future of Automation With Viktor Farcic

Sep 22, 2026 By Kubex In Densify
On this episode of Kubex Talks, technology critic Viktor Farcic returns to talk with Andrew Hillier about the rapidly changing landscape in tech. Viktor has gone from AI skeptic to believer, claiming that there really is no life without AI anymore, from a professional standpoint.
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