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Zia LLM for ServiceDesk Plus Cloud, transitions in workflows, and more!

We’re rolling out some interesting AI innovations and workflow enhancements in the cloud version of ServiceDesk Plus. You can now use the native Zia LLM hosted in our own data centers as a GenAI provider (in addition to ChatGPT and AzureOpen AI), track AI adoption with the new Zia dashboard, and enable user transitions within workflows. Meanwhile, the on-premises version supports seamless user import from Microsoft Entra ID. Watch the video as our product experts walk you through each of these updates in detail.

Open Source Data Lakehouse Architecture with Spark and Kyuubi: Engineering Deep Dive

Subscribe. Fuel your curiosity. This webinar gives a detailed exploration of an open source data lakehouse architecture and how we implement it at Canonical. Watch to discover how Spark’s scalable processing engine and Kyuubi’s user-friendly SQL gateway enable efficient, secure, and high-performance analytics on unified data sets. Let’s dig deeper into how this combination simplifies big data storage, interactive analytics, and ETL – all through a single, streamlined open source lakehouse architecture.

Design Concept: User-Created AI Agents with External Tool Support

Here's an early look at user-created AI agents with external tool support in Mattermost — designed to integrate AI into daily workflows while maintaining governance and security. We’d love your feedback on this design. Contact the Fast Futures team at fastfutures@mattermost.com.

Grafana Campfire - Using the Drilldown Apps (Grafana Community Call - August 2025)

In this Campfire Community call, we will discuss about the new Grafana Drilldown Apps and how they differ from Explore. We will discuss how it has been continuously evolving to become a core part of Grafana OSS, enabling users to access data easily.

Elasticsearch Explained for Beginners: From Spreadsheets to JSON, Indices & Shards

Ever wondered how Elasticsearch actually works? In this quick breakdown, I’ll use a simple spreadsheet analogy to explain the basics from documents and indices to shards, CRUD operations, and mappings. You’ll see how Elasticsearch stores data as JSON documents, splits indices into shards for scalability, uses CRUD with ID hashing for fast lookups, and applies mappings to organize text, numbers, and labels.

The Outage You Didn't See Coming: How to Discover and Monitor Certificates Proactively

Progress WhatsUp Gold Certificate Discovery and Monitoring is a seamless capability included out of the box. It’s a proactive safeguard designed to help you spot certificate issues before they escalate into business problems.