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AI Tooling Comes to Cycle - Announcing Cycle's Hosted MCP

TL;DR - We made a way to use Cycle with AI models for doing things like deploying applications faster and diagnosing complex issues. If you'd like to get started right away with Cycle's Hosted MCP, check out our documentation. Today, we're launching a brand new way to interface with the Cycle Platform, that just a year or two ago would have felt entirely like science fiction. Our first ever AI-oriented tooling, Cycle's Hosted MCP, is live today.

Shipped: Get alerted when AI spend spikes, with the cause attached

AI spend now comes from every department, and it can double in a week without anyone deciding it should. The invoice arrives after the month closes. By then the usual response is a spend cap, which slows every team, including the ones getting real work done with AI. You need to know about spend that breaks its normal pattern while there’s still time to act. The alert should reach the person who can act on it, with proper context and detail.

Cloud Shell, New Integrations, and More

VirtualMetric DataStream now includes a PowerShell console in the browser, more than a dozen new integrations, and a new way to collect data from servers and virtualization hosts, where teams choose exactly what they collect. This update also brings guided learning for new users, built-in monitoring rules, and new controls for organizations managing branding and sign-in. Here’s what’s new.

The new Civo dashboard is in beta: Try it today

First previewed on stage at Civo Navigate London, the new Civo dashboard is now in beta, and getting to it just got a lot easier. Starting today, you'll see a Try it now banner at the top of your current dashboard at dashboard.civo.com. Click it to head to the new dashboard, sign in with your usual Civo account details, and you're in. You can also go directly to dashboard-manager.civo.com. Look for the Try it now banner in your current dashboard.

EVOLVE 2026 Recap: Operational Excellence for the AI-Native SDLC

Last week we hosted our annual conference, EVOLVE, where global engineering leaders came to talk through the realities of building AI-native SDLCs. When asked to name the biggest friction point in their software lifecycle, attendees gave telling answers: ‘reviewing changes’ took 36 percent, ‘measuring impact’ took 35, and ‘building’ drew zero votes.

Building Investigations: what it takes to build an AI SRE

At incident.io, we've spent the last two years building Investigations, our AI SRE. When you get paged, it starts investigating straight away, looking across your telemetry, recent deploys, past incidents, docs and code, and posts what it's found in your incident channel (or on your phone, if it's 2am and you're still deciding whether you need to get out of bed). By the time you open your laptop, you're starting at step six of triage rather than step one.

Cycle's Hosted MCP Release Announcement

We are stoked to announce that we have released our very own hosted MCP that allows you to use natural language to interact with and control anything you have running on Cycle.io. Alexander Mattoni, CTO and co-founder of Cycle, shares a few scenarios where the MCP can be useful. With the MCP, Cycle users can communicate with the Cycle platform directly from their preferred AI tool. In minutes, users can provision a new server, deploy an application, or troubleshoot an issue directly from their AI assistant like Claude, Claude Code, ChatGPT or Codex.