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The hard part of AI root cause analysis is no longer the model

Every few weeks someone tells me root cause analysis is a solved problem now: pipe your telemetry into an LLM, let it tell you what broke. I wish it were that easy. After years on this, I think "can AI do RCA?" is the wrong question, because doing RCA with an LLM is really two separate jobs, and the answer is different for each. They break in completely different ways, so it's worth pulling them apart.

New Feature: Automatic Snapshots When Latency Spikes

We’ve released an exciting new Lightrun capability: set a duration threshold on your Tic & Toc or Method Duration metrics, and Lightrun will automatically capture a snapshot whenever execution exceeds it. It takes moments to configure, and gives engineers the runtime context they need to understand why unexpected slow executions are occurring.

The Journey to Achieving Hyperscale Availability with AI-Driven Prediction

At hyperscale, a regional cloud outage is not merely a technical disruption—for Samsung Account, which serves 2.1 billion users across three global regions, it is an immediate global service crisis. Fragmented, region-siloed monitoring creates blind spots that make early detection nearly impossible, leaving SRE teams perpetually reactive rather than predictive. The path to proactive reliability requires both a philosophical shift and a foundational change in how observability data is collected, unified, and reasoned over.

What's New in InfluxDB 3 Explorer 1.9: Flux-to-SQL Conversion, InfluxQL Support, and More

InfluxDB 3 Explorer 1.9 makes it easier to work with your existing queries. Whether you’re migrating Flux queries to SQL or you’ve been writing in InfluxQL for years, this release helps bring your existing queries forward instead of starting from scratch. For teams moving to v3 from earlier versions of InfluxDB, query migration is often one of the last major hurdles.