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Are Our Networks Ready for AI?

With all the hype surrounding AI, it’s critical to focus on building resilient networks capable of handling the performance demands that AI will introduce. As I often say, if your network observability solution isn’t detecting packet loss, neither will your AI engine. When you ask, “What’s the status of our global network health this morning?” a flawed or incomplete response could jeopardize critical decisions.

SD-WAN Performance: Don't Trust, Validate. Here's How

Across regions and industries, organizations are continuing to expand their use of SD-WAN technologies. This move is happening for good reason. With SD-WAN, organizations are realizing reduced costs, improved communication security, and enhanced flexibility. One of the ways SD-WAN delivers these benefits is through an intelligent layer of abstraction that manages network traffic and dynamically controls the flow of data.

Grafana 11.4 release: Introducing support for OpenSearch PPL and OpenSearch SQL in the AWS CloudWatch data source plugin

Holidays came early for AWS users: Grafana 11.4 introduces support for two new query languages in the AWS CloudWatch data source plugin. Grafana 11.4: Download now Announced during AWS re:Invent, AWS CloudWatch Logs expanded its querying capabilities with the addition of OpenSearch Piped Processing Language (PPL) and OpenSearch SQL. In Grafana 11.4, the AWS Cloudwatch data source plugin has been updated to offer the same functionality — and the same flexibility.

How I reduced an API call from >5 seconds to under 100ms

Given that 100% of the databases I have interacted with in my professional career have been SQL databases, my data-based mental model (please enjoy my pun) has always defaulted to a relational one. However, when spinning up a tiny side project in 2020 (a bot to provide interactivity to my Twitch stream), my data-storing requirements didn’t call for a relational model at the time, so I chose a NoSQL solution: MongoDB.

Lightrun AI Autonomous Debugger

This video showcases how with Lightrun developer observability platform, developers can leverage the AI debugger within the platform plugin to swiftly identify critical code level issues through automated hypothesis and insertion of debugging actions at runtime (Lightrun dynamic logs, virtual breakpoints (Snapshots) and more. That helps reduce MTTR to mere minutes.

Grafana 11.4 | Support for OpenSearch PPL and SQL queries in the AWS CloudWatch Data Source Plugin

In this video, Ida, a software engineer from the AWS Data Sources squad, introduces an exciting feature in the CloudWatch data source plugin. With Opensearch SQL and Opensearch PPL now supported, you can leverage familiar query languages to explore and visualize your AWS CloudWatch data alongside the existing Logs Insights query language. Learn how to: Availability.