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Stop context-switching between your IDE and CI dashboard. This video shows you how to connect Cursor to CircleCI using the CircleCI MCP server so your AI agent can read pipeline failures, validate configs, and trigger builds without leaving your editor. In this demo, we introduce a bug, let CI catch it, and watch the agent diagnose and fix it autonomously through a full green pipeline. No manual log hunting required.

Mentorship doesn't have to come from one person — it can come from an entire community. This IT leader talks about following in his mentor's footsteps, speaking at events, and getting real support from Spiceworks forums without ever being made to feel less-than for asking questions. Watch the full IT Leadership Lab session.

Slow, unresponsive applications create digital friction that impacts employee productivity and generates unnecessary IT tickets. In Episode 1 of Eliminating Digital Friction with Nexthink Spark, see how Spark identifies UI slowness, pinpoints the root cause, and helps IT resolve issues faster.

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Your AI agents are only as good as the context it has. Without access to what's happening in production, it can only make educated guesses. Chapters: In this video, you'll meet GCX. The bridge between AI coding agents like Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, and your Grafana observability stack. You will learn how GCX securely gives AI agents access to metrics, logs, traces, dashboards, and other production telemetry so they can investigate issues, answer questions, and help you debug with real operational context.

Tuesday is about Building and implementation. Here's what we're announcing today! Check out grafana.ai for more details on everything we announce this week.

The secure path and the easy path should be the same path. Ralph McTeggart (Principal Engineer), Alex Franzmann (Customer Onboarding Team Lead), and Claire McDyre (Product Manager) at Cloudsmith lay out how platform teams can deliver supply chain security as a capability rather than a checklist. The argument runs from first principles: make a private registry the default, automate policy enforcement at the global level, and extend that same logic to compliance – so SBOM generation happens in the pipeline, not as a developer's manual task.

AURA is a fully open-source agentic harness built for SRE and production operations work. In this walkthrough, Mezmo forward deployed engineer Jeff iinstalls AURA on a local desktop, runs `aura init` to generate the config and connect it to an Anthropic Sonnet model, then wires in a Grafana MCP server pointed at his homelab. He hands AURA a live incident: a set of addressable LED lights that stopped responding to Home Assistant.

See how InfluxData built an AI-powered satellite fleet dashboard using InfluxDB 3 Enterprise. Head of Product Marketing Ryan Nelson demonstrates how the system handles high-cardinality telemetry and burst ingestion, detects anomalies in real time, and connects live operational data to Claude through the InfluxDB 3 MCP server. The result is faster fleet-wide analysis, reliable telemetry ingestion, and an integrated workflow for anomaly detection, investigation, and response.

For a 50-developer team operating at agentic pace, validation-related delivery costs can approach $900K a year.