Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

Tired of not knowing why your home lab containers are crashing? In this video, we’ll walk through how to set up a consolidated logging pipeline using Aiven for PostgreSQL (with TimescaleDB), Fluentd and Grafana — all running on my upgraded Mac Mini home lab. The key insight: never keep your troubleshooting tools on the same machine that's giving you problems!

Giannis Polyzos joins Hugh Evans to challenge the idea of choosing technology based on popularity.

Modernize your automation and reporting workflows with this deep dive into GraphQL for N-sight and N-central. In this 2026 Masterclass, Jason Murphy (Head Nerd for IT Ops) introduces the "Ecoverse" and explains why GraphQL is replacing REST for high-density data environments. Learn how to access the technical preview, generate secure API tokens, and build your first queries to pull exactly the data you need without the overhead of traditional REST endpoints.

Now in public preview, Dynamic dashboards includes new features and a revamped user experience that make it even easier to find the exact insights you need, when you need them.

As the final minor release in the Grafana 12 series, 12.4 builds on our shift toward scalable, as-code workflows and a dramatically improved user experience. From bi-directional Git workflows to smarter dashboard layouts and stronger governance controls, this release is all about helping teams move faster with less friction.

In this episode of Agents of IT, we reflect on scale, strategy, and what it really takes to transform IT inside the world’s largest enterprises. Ari shares lessons from his work with Fortune 500 organizations, breaking down what separates automation pilots from true operational change. From navigating enterprise complexity to driving executive alignment, this conversation explores how large organizations move from reactive ticket management to intelligent, agent-driven operations.

Still managing Joiner, Mover, Leaver workflows with tickets and manual handoffs? It’s time to automate them. In this fast-paced session, we show how enterprises use agentic AI and orchestration to eliminate repetitive JML tickets, enforce policy automatically, and deliver secure access from day one. Powered by Resolve’s Agentic Resolution Fabric, AI agents coordinate knowledge, automation, and technician assist to provision, modify, and revoke access without manual triage. Faster onboarding. Zero-delay changes. Audit-ready offboarding.

The Flare CLI connects to your Flare performance monitoring data and uses AI to turn it into actionable insights, right from your terminal. In this video, you'll see how a single command pulls your real performance data from Flare, then generates a full review: identifying slow endpoints, spotting error trends, and suggesting concrete fixes. Links.

Using the Flare CLI and its agent skill to find, fix, and resolve a production error without leaving the terminal. The AI agent looks up the latest error on freek.dev via the Flare CLI, analyzes the stack trace against the local source code, generates a fix, deploys it using bash mode, and marks the error as resolved in Flare. Learn more.

In this video, SolarWinds Evangelist Chrystal Taylor introduces server configuration comparisons, a new feature in Observability Self-Hosted 2026.1 and Server Configuration Monitor 2026.1. The key highlight is the ability to compare server configurations side by side, enabling users to identify differences in configuration files between nodes or against a defined ideal state. This new functionality aims to help users monitor configuration drift.