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[Webinar] How AI monitoring can cut downtime twice as fast as traditional tools

Unlock the future of IT monitoring with Site24x7’s advanced AI capabilities! In this exclusive webinar, Varalakshmi, Site24x7 product specialist, guides you through Site24x7’s unified observability platform. Discover how Site24x7 uses AI to solve modern IT challenges like eliminating tool sprawl, reducing alert fatigue, and enabling faster, more accurate RCA. We also explore relatable customer scenarios for dynamic anomaly detection, predictive forecasting, automated event correlation, cloud cost forecasting, and AI-powered ITOps with Zia.

Understanding Kafka with Speedscale #speedscale #kafka #visualization #engineering #production

In this video, we're breaking down the complex world of Apache Kafka and showing you how to gain deep visibility into your event streaming architecture using Speedscale. Kafka is the backbone of modern, cloud-native systems, but understanding what's happening in production—which topics are receiving traffic, where messages are going, and how services are interacting can be a real challenge. We'll cover how Speedscale makes Kafka visualization and debugging simple by.

Introducing Bits AI SRE, your AI on-call teammate

Bits AI SRE is your AI on-call teammate, built to autonomously investigate alerts and coordinate incident response. Integrated with Datadog, Slack, GitHub, Confluence, and more, Bits analyzes telemetry, reads documentation, and reviews recent deployments to determine the root cause of alerts—often before you’ve even opened your laptop. In fact, if you're using Datadog On-Call, you can view Bits’s findings right from your phone—so you’re always one step ahead, no matter where you are.

Build custom apps in seconds with conversational AI in App Builder

Datadog App Builder is a low-code tool for creating internal apps, making use of a drag-and-drop interface that allows engineering teams to troubleshoot issues, optimize operations, and enable self-service while connecting directly to their Datadog data and permissions. Now, with conversational AI, teams can go from idea to working prototype even faster.

What's Special About MCP?

AI agents can interact with the world using tools. Those tools can be generic or specific. For example: Generic: Specific: The most general ones, like “run a bash command” and “read and write files” are built into the agent. More specific ones are provided through Model Control Protocol (MCP) servers. Every tool provided to the agent comes with instructions sent as part of the context.

<100ms E-commerce: Instant loads with Speculation Rules API

In e-commerce, we all know that speed = money. I know it, you know it, Amazon knows it, eBay knows it, Shopify knows it, everyone knows it. In this article we’ll see how we can improve the perceived performance of our site’s critical pages, like the Product Details page, the Cart page, the Checkout page. We’re going to use the Speculation Rules API (SRA) to prerender/prefetch them, and also explain how certain frameworks like Next.js offer their own prefetching mechanisms.

Announcing a forthcoming integration with PagerDuty + Azure AI SRE Agent for faster incident response

The energy at Microsoft Ignite this year was electric. AI was everywhere, and the possibilities are limitless. As developers and operations teams explore what AI can do, one thing became clear: the future isn’t about switching between tools. It’s about intelligent agents working together to help humans solve problems faster. At PagerDuty, we’re building on that excitement.

The $8.8 trillion advantage: how open source software reduces IT costs

Open source software is known for its ability to lower IT costs. But in 2025, affordability is only part of the story. A new Linux Foundation report, The strategic evolution of open source, reveals that open source has evolved from a tactical cost-saving measure to a mission-critical infrastructure supporting enterprise-grade investments, and delivering stronger business outcomes as a result.