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The AI Monitoring crisis that no one's talking about

When I spoke at AWS London earlier this year, I had the chance to discuss something that more and more teams are starting to feel: traditional observability doesn’t cut it for AI systems. In AI, “Is it running?” is no longer enough. We have to ask, “Is it right?” When I delivered that line, I saw the heads nodding. Everyone’s excited to build with LLMs, but when it comes to actually monitoring them in production? That’s where things fall apart.

Will AI Speed Development in Your Legacy App?

Some people can get an AI assistant to write a day’s worth of useful code in ten minutes. Others among us can only watch it crank out hundreds of lines of crap that never works. What’s the difference? There are some skills specific to AI development. There are also properties of the codebase we’re working in that make it amenable to AI assistance. Most AI demos use projects created from scratch with AI in mind—cute.

OpenTelemetry at Grafana Labs: the latest on how we're investing in the emerging industry standard

Here at Grafana Labs, open source has always been core to what we do. So it should come as no surprise that we’re going all in on OpenTelemetry—an open source project that’s quickly becoming an industry standard for vendor-neutral telemetry.

Understanding Mobile User Behavior: Why Standard Research Methods Fall Short

You probably think you know how your customers behave. After all, you've got the heatmaps, the survey results, the dashboard lighting up with clickstream data. But here's the catch: if your research methods were built for desktops, you're basically studying mobile users through a keyhole. Mobile behavior isn't just a scaled-down version of desktop behavior-it's a completely different animal.

5 Best AI Humanizers in 2025 (Rewrite AI Content for Free)

AI-generated drafts are faster to produce, but often feel robotic-and can be flagged by detectors like GPTZero, Originality.ai, and Turnitin. AI humanizers transform those drafts into naturalsounding text that reads like it came from a real person and bypasses the strictest detection systems. Here are the top five tools you need to know.

How Virtual Staging Tech Helps Listings Stand Out Fast

Real estate professionals have always sought innovative solutions to present properties most appealingly. With the rise of technology, virtual staging has gained immense popularity as a compelling alternative to traditional staging methods. This approach saves time and money and significantly enhances the visual appeal of listings. Agents can easily produce eye-catching photos that draw in prospective tenants and buyers by utilizing sophisticated tools and software.

StatusHub Q2 2025: API v3 Preview, Analytics Visibility & Subscriber Quota Alerts

In Q1, we introduced API v3 as an upcoming release. In Q2, while the full release is still in progress, parts of the new StatusHub API V3 are available and ready for use. We are also highlighting a small but useful improvement: embedded analytics dashboards in the control panel can now be restricted to owners only.

Best IQ tests 2025

You've probably taken an IQ test before - it's a pretty popular thing to do these days. And I've noticed more and more people turning to the internet in search of a quality IQ test. To be honest, I was a bit disappointed with what Google had to offer. That's why I decided to take matters into my own hands and put together a list of the best IQ tests I could find - yes, using Google and a bit of help from AI.

Struggling to Transcribe Audio? Here's a Simple Way to Turn Speech into Text

Let's be honest - transcribing audio manually is a total pain. It always seems like a simple task... until you're stuck hitting pause and rewind every few seconds just to catch what someone said. Whether it's an interview, a class lecture, a meeting, or even your own voice memos, turning that speech into text can eat up hours of your day. And if you've ever tried doing it the old-fashioned way, you know exactly what I mean.