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In this episode of Pastries and SREs, we dig into how vendor lock-in and sky-high observability costs are forcing teams to choose between coverage and budget, AND why you shouldn’t have to settle. With donuts in hand, we explore how to take back control of your observability strategy by making it cost-effective, comprehensive, and flexible.

At incident.io, we’ve spent the past year shifting how we work to incorporate the AI into both how we build and what we build. The result? AI has become a fundamental pillar of our company. This is the story of how we built reliable AI for reliability itself — reshaping how teams manage and resolve incidents. From early experiments to a company-wide culture of building with AI, this is how we’re redefining incident response for the future.

Stephen Whitworth, incident.io CEO and Co-founder, kicks off SEV0 San Francisco 2025 with an opening keynote focusing on the future of incident management in an AI-first world.

Observability doesn’t have to be a mystery. Join SolarWinds Tech Evangelist Chrystal Taylor and THWACK MVP Jez Marsh, Owner of Silver Back Systems, as they crack the code on turning noisy data into actionable insights. Part of the THWACKcamp lineup from SolarWinds Day, in this session you’ll learn how to analyze raw logs and metrics to uncover trends, catch issues early, and make smarter, faster decisions. Discover practical techniques for linking cloud and on-premises data, reducing false alerts, and automating repetitive tasks with tools like Custom Properties.

When your logs don’t follow a standard format, it can be difficult to extract valuable information, like key-value pairs and nested JSON objects. Grok parsing lets you define flexible patterns that match unstructured log data so you can extract specific fields to query, filter, and visualize. In this video, you’ll learn how to: By refining your Grok parsers, you can make your logs more useful for analytics, dashboards, or alerts, and get even more value from your logs.

Stop letting typos or OTel SDK updates break your production dashboards! This KubeCon 2025 talk introduced Otel Weaver, a new tool that lets you live-check your OpenTelemetry data before you merge. It's unit testing for your telemetry.

Subscribe. Fuel your curiosity. In this video, the Anbox team demonstrates how to debug an Android application with Android studio in Anbox Cloud. What is Anbox Cloud? Anbox Cloud lets you run virtualized Android environments securely, at any scale, to any device letting you focus on your use case. Run Android in system containers, not emulators, on AWS, OCI, Azure, GCP or your private cloud with ultra low streaming latency.

Tim, Tom, and Oriana sit down with Monica Filak, Director of Customer Success at Nexthink, to explore what it really takes to turn DEX from a tool into a transformative methodology. Monica shares how her team helps organizations move beyond technology to rethink their people, processes, and communication — bridging the long-standing divide between IT and the business. From creative internal branding to AI-driven efficiency gains, she explains how companies can evolve from “shiny tool” thinking to achieving measurable, human-centered value.

Ready to Make Your Network Smarter? Ribbon’s Exclusive Preview Before Africa Tech Festival Attend to Learn About Ribbon's: Intelligent Automated IP Optical Networks Multilayer Automation & AIOps The Path towards Autonomous Networks Don’t miss this chance to see what’s next for service providers.

In this video, we show you how to quickly connect to your Aiven for PostgreSQL instance by locating your service URL in the Aiven Console. Your login credentials remain secure but can be copied easily, and we demonstrate how to connect using a variety of tools, including the Aiven CLI, PostgreSQL clients, and popular programming language modules. Get up and running in minutes and start interacting with your database effortlessly, whether for development, testing, or analytics.