Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

Tangling DNS, TCP handshake failures, packet loss: your network has blind spots that application-level dashboards miss. In this session, Daniel Paulus (VP Engineering, Checkly) sets up DNS, TCP, and ICMP monitors from scratch and deploys them as code using the Checkly CLI. You'll see how to import checks from the UI to a code project, use coding agents to build monitors, and debug network failures with Rocky AI, trace routes, and packet captures.

Tom welcomes Mike Lovewell to explore how digital friction continues to shape the modern workplace. From early days of low awareness to today’s complex, AI-influenced environments, Mike shares how friction has evolved in scale rather than cause. They discuss the growing importance of flow state, the measurable business impact of small disruptions, and why adoption—not just technology—is the key to success. AI emerges as both a solution and a new source of friction, depending on trust and usability.

What happens when you replace legacy network tools with Kentik AI Advisor?

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.