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lightrun

Claude Code + Lightrun MCP: Your AI Agent Now Has Live Runtime Vision

Mar 19, 2026 By Lightrun Team In Lightrun
Claude Code, Anthropic’s coding agent, now integrates with Lightrun through MCP. AI code assistants have been flying blind. Google Dora’ 2025 report found it is causing, an almost 10% increase in code instability. Even with up to 1M tokens of context available in Claude, this powerful agenti cannot see how the code it writes actually behaves inside a live system under real traffic, real dependencies, and under a load of 10,000 requests per second.
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bigpanda

How agentic ITOps overcomes observability tool gaps

Mar 18, 2026 By Conor Castronovo In BigPanda
As enterprise ITOps teams monitor increasingly complex, cloud-based, containerized systems, traditional observability practices are struggling to keep up. As IT infrastructure complexity increases, the typical response is to layer on more monitoring, logging, and instrumentation.
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honeycomb

Production Is Where the Rigor Goes

Mar 18, 2026 By Charity Majors In Honeycomb
In early February, Martin Fowler and the good folks at Thoughtworks sponsored a small, invite-only unconference in Deer Valley, Utah—birthplace of the Agile Manifesto—to talk about how software engineering is changing in the AI-native era. They recently published a summary of key insights and themes from the summit, sorted into ten topical buckets.
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grafana

AI in observability in 2026: Huge potential, lingering concerns

Mar 18, 2026 By Trevor Jones In Grafana
The role of AI in observability is evolving rapidly, but the data from our fourth annual Observability Survey makes one thing abundantly clear: the potential is real, and so are the reservations. Practitioners overwhelmingly see value in using AI to help surface anomalies, forecast and spot trends, assist with root cause analysis, and get new users up to speed quicker.
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grafana

Open standards in 2026: The backbone of modern observability

Mar 18, 2026 By Trevor Jones In Grafana
Open source software and open standards are now an essential part of how organizations maintain their systems. That's not to say they haven't always been important, but the fourth annual Observability Survey, brought to you by Grafana Labs, shows just how deeply the shift to open has taken hold, with 77% of respondents saying open source and open standards are important1 to their observability strategy.
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Engineers Want AI in Observability - With One Catch: 4th Annual Observability Survey by Grafana Labs

Mar 18, 2026 By Grafana In Grafana
Actually useful AI is welcome in observability. AI for the sake of AI is not. In this overview of Grafana Labs’ 4th annual Observability Survey, Marc Chipouras shares what 1,300+ respondents from 76 countries told us about the current state of observability — and what comes next. This year’s survey explores four major themes: The results show strong interest in AI for forecasting, root cause analysis, onboarding, and generating dashboards, alerts, and queries. But when it comes to autonomous action, practitioners are more cautious — and 95% say AI needs to show its work to earn trust.
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honeycomb

Shifting Metrics Right

Mar 17, 2026 By Martin Thwaites In Honeycomb
In the shift left era where it feels like we’re pushing everything as far to the start of the SDLC as we can, it may seem counterintuitive to shift anything right. That is, however, exactly what I suggest when it comes to generating metrics. How far you go to the right of the SDLC is a much more nuanced question and is dependent on a lot of factors, and on what metrics you’re talking about.
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coroot

Instrumenting Rust TLS with eBPF

Mar 17, 2026 By Nikolay Sivko In Coroot
Coroot is an open source observability tool that uses eBPF to collect telemetry directly from applications and infrastructure. One of the things it does is capture L7 traffic from TLS connections without any code changes, by hooking into TLS libraries and syscalls. Works great for OpenSSL. Works for Go. Then rustls enters the picture and everything stops being obvious. With OpenSSL, everything is nicely wrapped: From eBPF’s point of view this is perfect: Everything happens inside one call.
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Observability for distributed IoT systems: reducing alert fatigue through modular architecture

Observability for distributed IoT systems: reducing alert fatigue through modular architecture

Mar 17, 2026 By OpsMatters In OpsMatters
Many distributed IoT teams hit the same wall at roughly the same stage. The fleet grows, telemetry coverage improves, dashboards multiply, and on paper the system becomes more visible. In practice, the operating picture often gets harder to read. There are more alerts to review, more exceptions that do not fit existing runbooks, more cases where someone has to cross-check device state against backend logs and integration behavior by hand. What starts to slip is not only response speed, but confidence. The team sees more signals, yet feels less sure which ones matter and which ones can wait.
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uptrace

Golang memory arenas [101 guide]

Mar 14, 2026 By Vladimir Mihailenco In Uptrace
Go 1.20 introduced an experimental arena package that lets you allocate many objects from a contiguous region of memory and free them all at once — bypassing the garbage collector entirely. The package remains experimental and its future is uncertain, but arenas are a valuable concept for understanding Go memory management and writing high-performance code. The arena package is experimental and on hold indefinitely. The Go team has made no guarantees about compatibility or its continued existence.
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