Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

How Atlassian built a smarter observability system with Grafana and OpenTelemetry

Discover how Atlassian built OpsDeck, an observability platform powered by Grafana, to automate incident detection, improve response time, and reduce troubleshooting from one hour to under a minute. Hear how the Observability Insights team scaled OpenTelemetry, broke silos, and built smarter workflows for both engineers and support.

Why do you only use Playwright for pre-release testing and not for production monitoring, too?

We've been running Playwright in production for years. Today, we, at Checkly, are going all in with Playwright Check Suites. Playwright Check Suites is our latest step towards uniting testing and monitoring into a single workflow. It's our biggest advancement yet! Here's why this matters: We're not adapting Playwright anymore. We're running it natively in production with full `playwright.config` support, complete custom dependency control, and support for every tag, spec, or configuration.

Civo Navigate London 2025: Sovereignty & AI Highlights

We’re back from Civo Navigate London! Our seventh in‑person conference where sovereignty meets AI. Attendees walked away with fresh workshops, bold talks on data sovereignty, and hard‑won insights on how the cloud must evolve. Real‑world AI demos, cutting‑edge AI talks and authentic collaborations proved the cloud’s future is now. Conversations that turned into collaborations, governments asking the hard questions and developers swapping playbooks. The cloud isn’t a monolithic wall; it’s a thriving community that builds, learns, and defies the status‑quo.

Latency & Leadership with Mehdi Daoudi

Leadership is about more than telling people what to do. It’s about inspiring belief in your vision for the future. Sometimes there’s a delay between the time you share the vision and when the rest of the team “gets it”. The Latency & Leadership series hopes to shorten that lag time by creating a platform for leaders in the tech space to share their ideas, their passion, and their vision.

Building Smarter: How AI is Changing Development

The tech industry is on the cusp of a revolution, driven by the rapid adoption of AI and Gen AI. At Civo Navigate London 2025, Josh Mesout (Chief Innovation Officer at Civo) explored the ways in which enterprises are leveraging these technologies to drive productivity and innovation. The conversation highlighted the challenges of scaling and running AI, including infrastructure bottlenecks and data access issues, but also showcased the potential for AI to transform industries and business models.