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How to Use MetricFire Logging: Visualize Logs & Metrics Together in Grafana

Want full visibility into your systems? In this step-by-step tutorial, we show you how to use Grafana Loki with Promtail on Hosted Graphite by MetricFire to stream logs alongside your metrics. All visualized in Grafana dashboards. No more toggling between tools — get the full observability stack in one place.

How to Optimize Azure Costs and Improve Cloud Efficiency with FinOps

In this episode of the FinOps on Azure podcast, Dustin Mullenix from KPMG talks about his role leading a FinOps team that handles Azure spend for KPMG's audit business. He shares how internal FinOps teams work with consulting groups, the challenges of Azure's service tiers like managed disks and SQL options, and the trade-offs between cost and performance. Dustin discusses how to handle cost changes, manage knowledge in a big company, this talk is useful for anyone dealing with cloud costs in a large setup.

Harness recognized as a top partner in software delivery success

We’re thrilled to share some exciting news: Harness has once again been named to Inc.’s 2025 Power Partners list, recognizing companies that go above and beyond to help their customers succeed. This marks our second year in a row on the list — and while awards are always nice, this one feels special because it celebrates something deeper than technology. It’s about the relationships, trust, and collaboration that power real outcomes for our customers every day.

Running Chaos Engineering on GKE Autopilot Just Got Easier

Harness Chaos Engineering now runs natively on GKE Autopilot. A simple allowlist configuration enables you to test resilience on Google's managed Kubernetes without sacrificing security or requiring workarounds. Google's GKE Autopilot provides fully managed Kubernetes without the operational overhead of node management, security patches, or capacity planning. However, running chaos engineering experiments on Autopilot has been challenging due to its security restrictions. We've solved that problem.

The AI Knowledge Agent: Making Internal Developer Portals Smarter

AI is generating more code than ever, but delivery hasn’t kept pace. The Harness IDP Knowledge Agent helps teams close that gap by turning their internal developer portal into an intelligent platform for faster, safer software delivery. Joining a new engineering team can be exciting, but it can also be overwhelming. You spend the first few days figuring out what each service does, where documentation lives, and who owns what.

AI Eliminates Pollution Risk: Oxford's Digital Contrast, Powered by Civo.

The future of medicine is here: Oxford's digital contrast AI is powered by Civo! Watch as Regent Lee, Professor at the University of Oxford and moonshot engineer, reveals a revolutionary solution to healthcare’s biggest hidden problem. Radiology currently accounts for 1% of global carbon emissions, with a single PET CT scan generating up to 60 kg of carbon, while forcing patients to endure long waits and chemical injections. Old habits cause slow systems.

Densify Releases New MCP Server to Bring AI-Driven Resource & GPU Optimization to Platform Teams

As excitement builds for KubeCon North America 2025 in Atlanta, Densify has released its latest innovation for Kubernetes and AI-driven infrastructure resource management: the Densify Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server. This new capability enables organizations to securely integrate Densify’s Kubex resource optimization intelligence directly into popular LLM-powered tools — including ChatGPT, Claude, Cursor, and Gemini CLI.