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Why AI-Ready IT Operations Need More Than a Traditional CMDB Now?

Configuration Management Databases (CMDBs) have long played an important role in IT Service Management, providing a structured record of technology assets, their configurations and relationships. For enterprises managing complex IT environments, they remain a valuable foundation for understanding infrastructure and supporting operational processes.

Grafana Assistant Demo: AI-Powered Root Cause Analysis and Remediation

See how Grafana Assistant uses AI to investigate incidents, identify root causes, and help remediate application problems. In this demo, Engineering Manager Ksenia Yadav and Staff Product Manager Maurice Rochau show how AI-powered observability supports the move toward autonomous operations, from detecting problems to generating code fixes and validating their impact in production. Explore how Grafana Assistant uses context from your telemetry, infrastructure, incidents, business data, and code to.

Cyber Security is escalating on both sides

The nature of cyber security is changing. In this video, I do a brief recap of a few of the compromises of the past couple weeks as well as highlight how our role as engineers is changing. Attackers have an easier time than ever in watching repos for changes to exploit 0-day vulnerabilities. But, it isn't all doom and gloom as long as we put in the effort. AI is creating a bit of an arms race between attackers and maintainers of sites and services, but there are actually more powerful tools available to defenders through exclusive programs like Daybreak, Glasswing, etc.

AI Is Forcing Finance to Redefine KPIs

AI Budgeting for Finance: Last Year vs. Now In this video, Emily Allen, Director, Finance & Accounting at CloudZero, explains how AI planning changed in a single year. Instead of starting from a vendor commit or the current run rate, she’s treating AI spend as its own category and analyzing it bottom-up. That opens a new question for finance: “What does good look like?” With a year of data, finance teams can start benchmarking AI spend over time and check whether what they approved actually paid off.

The $600 AI Cap That Sent Employees Golfing

In this video, Brady Lenahan, VP of Sales at CloudZero, shares what he’s hearing from customers when the cap hits before the month ends: employees who’ve built their workflows around AI stop working productively and wait for next month. Some go golfing, some clean the garage. Either way, finance loses both the productivity and the visibility. There’s a better option than capping AI spend you can’t see.

How to Capitalize AI Spend Without the Gray Area

In this video, Emily Allen, Director, Finance & Accounting at CloudZero, explains why AI capitalization is still unclear for most finance teams, and how CloudZero gives them a repeatable approach. As AI writes more of the code, finance needs to know which AI spend went to qualifying development work and which should be expensed. CloudZero records which project each AI coding session served, what kind of work it was, and what it cost, so finance has the evidence behind every decision.

Bits investigations are faster, more accurate, and cost less

When we launched Bits Investigation in December 2025, our goal was to give teams an always-on agent that could investigate every alert and reduce mean time to resolve (MTTR). Since then, we’ve focused on making Bits faster, more cost effective, and even more accurate. At launch, the average investigation cost $25 and took 11 minutes.

Manage and deploy LLM prompts with Datadog

Prompts are an important part of LLM application behavior, but teams often manage them alongside application code or across separate notebooks and configuration files. This can make prompt changes dependent on application releases and make it difficult to understand which version is running in each environment. When a change affects application quality, latency, or cost, teams also need a way to connect that behavior back to the prompt version that produced it.

What is Upsun Dispatch? AI agents that ship with your team

Your engineers are writing more code than ever with AI, but your team isn't shipping more product. The code waits for review, agents run on personal laptops and accounts, and nobody can say what any of it costs. In this overview, we show what Upsun Dispatch is: where your team and its agents ship together, with every decision recorded and every dollar tracked. We get into.