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What Comes After Observability?

Jul 20, 2026 By Austin Parker In Honeycomb

A year ago, I wrote “It’s the End of Observability (and I Feel Fine).” The upshot of that post was that AI was about to fundamentally change the way we approach systems design and operation in the future. In the grand tradition, I’d like to revisit my claims from then and see how my predictions panned out.

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Beyond performance monitoring: Understand the user experience with Grafana Cloud Frontend Observability

Jul 20, 2026 By Priscilla Lam In Grafana

You've optimized your Largest Contentful Paint. Your Time to First Byte is under 200ms. Your Lighthouse scores are green. And yet, your checkout conversion rate is quietly dropping. A segment of users in Southeast Asia is churning. Your support team is fielding tickets about a form that "just doesn't work" and you have no idea which one. Traditional frontend performance monitoring tells you whether your application is fast. It doesn't tell you whether people are actually succeeding when using it.

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Cursor outage on July 16, 2026: high load errors worldwide and how to keep working

Jul 17, 2026 By Colin Bartlett In StatusGator

Cursor was hit by a global “high demand” outage on July 16, 2026, returning ERROR_RESOURCE_EXHAUSTED errors that blocked AI requests for just over two hours. StatusGator caught it early, sending an Early Warning Signal at 06:49 UTC, 12 minutes before Cursor acknowledged the incident at 07:01 UTC. Here is the full picture, including the workaround that kept many users coding.

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Five worthy reads: Brains or bots-are we forgetting how to think?

Jul 17, 2026 By Dharani Senthilkumar In ManageEngine

Five worthy reads is a regular column on five noteworthy items we’ve discovered while researching trending and timeless topics. This week, we are exploring how prolonged dependence on AI could influence human beings' neural pathways, cognitive habits, and the behavioral changes that follows. As children, many of us would have watched the juggler at a circus in amazement. One ball became two, then three, and several more since it was a cumulative act.

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Webinar: Halo & SquaredUp - Dashboards that deliver

Jul 17, 2026 By SquaredUp In Squared Up

SquaredUp and Halo teamed up for a live webinar exploring why visibility matters, the reporting challenges many organisations face, and how HaloPSA data can be transformed into engaging dashboards using SquaredUp. We also heard from a customer on how they're using dashboards to manage costs and improve service delivery. Whether your goal is sharper reporting, greater visibility for customers, or a clearer demonstration of the value your services deliver, this session offers practical insights and real-world examples to help you get there.

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How to use Grafana Assistant with the AWS CloudWatch data source

Jul 17, 2026 By Grafana In Grafana

Grafana Assistant meets AWS CloudWatch! In this video, Staff Software Engineer Ivana Huckova shows how to use Grafana Assistant, the AI agent built into Grafana Cloud, with the Amazon CloudWatch data source. Watch her query CloudWatch metrics and logs in plain language, build dashboards in seconds, and troubleshoot AWS resources — no query syntax required.

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New AI Features in Playwright (Live-Webinar)

Jul 17, 2026 By Checkly In Checkly

An AI agent that can't open a browser is just guessing. Stefan from Checkly shows how giving AI coding agents a real browser via Playwright enables reliable end-to-end test generation and debugging, closing the quality gap created by faster, AI-driven shipping. The session compares Playwright MCP vs the Playwright CLI for agent workflows, showing that thanks to MCP spec changes, lazy tool loading, and skills, the two are now effectively just different interfaces to the same tool, with no real token advantage either way.

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10 End-to-End Playwright Test Ideas

Jul 17, 2026 By Leo Baecker In Hyperping

Staring at an empty test folder is often the hardest part of end-to-end testing. To help, here are ten common end-to-end test ideas you can build with Playwright, with code examples for two of the most requested scenarios: login and form submission.

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5 Key Differences Between Playwright and Puppeteer

Jul 17, 2026 By Leo Baecker In Hyperping

Hyperping· Uptime monitoring Know before your customers do. Monitor from 18 regions and route alerts by phone, SMS, Slack or email. Start free Playwright and Puppeteer solve the same problem, driving a real browser from Node.js, and Playwright was started by engineers who previously built Puppeteer. That shared ancestry makes the two APIs look similar at first glance, which is exactly why the differences below catch people off guard.

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Answer any cost question faster with the Cloud Cost skill in Bits Chat

Jul 17, 2026 By Datadog In Datadog

Managing cloud, AI, and SaaS costs means answering a steady stream of questions from finance, leadership, and engineering teams. What changed? Which team owns the spend? Was an increase expected? Are we still on track against the budget? When each answer requires moving between dashboards, filtering cost data by team or service, or manually correlating billing data with observability data, it can slow down investigations while costs continue to rise.

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