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Grafana Campfire - Assistant powered Dynamic dashboards - (Grafana Community Call - August 2026)

Many times, it feels like you're maintaining multiple versions of the same dashboard (with a slight modification), *OR* simply spending more time writing queries rather than actually looking at the actual data? In this Campfire community call, we're taking a deep dive into two things that are reshaping how Grafana dashboards get built: Dynamic Dashboards and the Grafana AI Assistant and showing you how to combine them to go from a blank canvas to a reusable, production-ready dashboard in minutes.

Trace an AI SRE Agent: AURA Docker Quickstart with Phoenix and OTel

You get an answer from the agent and no way to check how it got there. The route it took is recorded, and so is the reason it gave for taking it. AURA emits OpenTelemetry spans, and the Docker quickstart wires them straight into Phoenix. Four services come up together: AURA Web Server as the persistent agent harness, LibreChat as a browser interface for chatting with the agent, Phoenix to receive the spans, and MongoDB to store stateful data for LibreChat. The Compose file arrives pre-configured to point AURA at Phoenix and to enable content recording for the local demo.

The role of AI in website monitoring : How AI is rewriting the rules of website monitoring

A peak sale season, missed transaction or availability issues, spiking customer tickets, and unhappy customers. Well, you know the trope. A few years ago, this was just part of doing business online. Today, it’s a problem you can avoid, thanks to artificial intelligence. We’ve quietly reached an important turning point in website monitoring. For most of the internet’s history, monitoring meant setting thresholds: set a number, wait for it to be crossed, get an alert, and fix the issue.

Automate Your Entire Incident Response with Skylar Automation

See how Skylar Automation transforms incident response by orchestrating workflows across the tools your teams already use. In this demo, watch Skylar Automation respond to a critical service degradation by automatically creating a ServiceNow incident, paging the on-call engineer in PagerDuty, notifying the Microsoft Teams operations channel, and keeping updates synchronized across platforms. With Skylar Automation, teams can.

When to Use Grafana Assistant vs. MCP vs. gcx: Part 3

When should you use gcx? If Grafana Assistant is the brain and Grafana MCP is the easy hand, gcx is the power hand. Built for AI agents working in the terminal, gcx gives them deep access across Grafana Cloud—so they can pull telemetry, verify code, automate workflows, and access places MCP doesn’t. Coding agents? gcx. Need the full Grafana Cloud surface? gcx. Automating in CI/CD? gcx. Here’s where it fits, and when to use it — explained by Nicole van der Hoeven.

Internet Performance Monitoring: From Visibility to Control with LogicMonitor

Internet performance monitoring (IPM) gives IT leaders, operations teams, and network engineers visibility into the ISPs, carriers, and SaaS services their business depends on but doesn't control. In this LogicMonitor and Catchpoint webinar, Callum Brown (presales, EMEA, LogicMonitor) and Brandon Dunlap (solution engineering, Catchpoint, a LogicMonitor company) show how to operationalize IPM, moving from visibility to control.

MSP Observability: Proactive Monitoring to Autonomous IT with SCC Digital

SCC replaced fragmented tooling, including Nagios, with unified observability the whole team can use. The session covers proactive monitoring, SLA protection, and serving more customers without adding headcount per account. It's made for MSP leaders exploring AIOps for MSPs and observability for MSPs.

Storage Monitoring Tools and the KPIs Behind Each Failure Domain

When an application slows down, how long does it take to confirm whether storage caused it? The answer depends entirely on whether anything is collecting from the array itself. The server dashboard reports healthy CPU and memory, the network graphs look clean, and the array holding the data says nothing at all. Storage failures announce themselves late.

How Network Documentation Software Keeps Network Diagrams Current

When did anyone last open your network diagram and trust what it showed? A diagram drawn in a static drawing tool is accurate on the day it is saved. One quarter, two circuit upgrades and a hardware refresh later, it describes a network that no longer exists. Nothing warns you that this has happened. The file still opens, still prints, and still gets attached to change requests, which is what makes it risky during an incident.