Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

In this episode, Julien Simon, longtime voice in the open-source ML world, reminds us that even in the era of GenAI, reliability fundamentals haven’t changed. Julien breaks down why calling “the same model” from different providers can produce wildly different results, how deployment choices introduce hidden variability, and why reliability teams need to think of LLM systems as distributed systems.

Sean Heuer and Ari Stowe break down “agent washing,” governance, and what it really means for AI to take action instead of just chatting. In this clip from Agents of IT, they share practical ways to spot the difference between chatbots, scripted automations, and true agentic systems that can plan, reason, and execute autonomously. Watch the full episode to hear their perspective on.

Meet Datadog Instance Explorer — a way to explore, compare, and monitor cloud instance pricing and performance across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud in one place. In this quick overview, you’ll learn how to: Start exploring your instance options today and make smarter, data-driven infrastructure decisions.

The Future of Digital & IT Operations - Agents in Action: Observability, AIOps, Security & SRE.

The revamped panel brings color highlighting, more flexible search, and an overall smoother experience to help you quickly find the “why” behind every log line. This is generally available in all editions of Grafana.

The new panel time settings drawer gives you greater control over time ranges and shifts at the panel level without editing the dashboard. The time comparison feature, in particular, was a request from the community, and allows you to easily perform time-based (for example, month-over-month) comparative analyses in a single view. This eliminates the need to duplicate panels or dashboards to perform trend tracking and performance benchmarking.

With our Honeycomb Enterprise data source for Grafana, you can query and visualize Honeycomb metrics and link to Honeycomb traces from within Grafana. With our newly added support for raw queries, you can now take advantage of.

Matt from Grafana’s Enterprise Data Sources team demos the SolarWinds plugin: URL/credentials setup, TLS options, health check, and built-in dashboards. See how to query SolarWinds data with SWQL in Grafana and where to learn more (docs + SolarWinds SWQL resources). As of Nov 19, 2025, this is available in public preview in Grafana Cloud (including the free tier) and Grafana Enterprise.

In this episode of Pastries and SREs, our hosts tackle one of the hardest questions observability leaders face: "How do you prove the ROI of observability?" This isn’t just about uptime or dashboards. It’s also about aligning observability with business outcomes, cloud cost savings, and FinOps metrics that matter to leadership.

Connecting your cloud infrastructure has never been easier. In this quick walkthrough, you’ll see how SolarWinds Observability natively integrates with AWS and Azure to onboard virtual machines and supported managed services—fast. Select your hyperscaler Click “Add Data” → Choose “Hosts” Follow simple steps to connect your cloud environment via API Whether you're running AWS EC2, Azure VMs, or other managed services, SolarWinds helps you get visibility in minutes.