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From Answers to Assets: Open 360 AI Chat Can Now Create Your Alerts and Dashboards

Open 360 AI chat can now do more than investigate and explain. With new Logz.io API skills, the agent can create and manage Open 360 and Cloud SIEM objects, such as alerts and dashboards, directly from the conversation. Find an error pattern worth watching? Ask the agent to create the alert. Need a view of a service you just investigated? Ask for the dashboard. The insight and the follow-through now happen in the same place.

Trace an AI SRE Agent: AURA Docker Quickstart with Phoenix and OTel

You get an answer from the agent and no way to check how it got there. The route it took is recorded, and so is the reason it gave for taking it. AURA emits OpenTelemetry spans, and the Docker quickstart wires them straight into Phoenix. Four services come up together: AURA Web Server as the persistent agent harness, LibreChat as a browser interface for chatting with the agent, Phoenix to receive the spans, and MongoDB to store stateful data for LibreChat. The Compose file arrives pre-configured to point AURA at Phoenix and to enable content recording for the local demo.

Recurring Office Hours with the AI SRE Agent Team Behind AURA

Building an agent and not sure how to approach something? Bring it. AURA office hours are recurring working sessions with the people who build it. The team has been talking to people trying out AURA and hearing the same good questions come up more than once. Office hours are the answer to that: a standing slot on a schedule, rather than one conversation at a time. The format is deliberately loose. Nobody is arriving with thirty slides to spend an hour talking at you. The session goes wherever the questions go.

Why AURA Scratchpad Is Rad: Bound the AI SRE Agent Context Window

A big tool result does not have to be a big context cost. AURA moves it to disk and hands the model a pointer plus the tools to navigate what is there. A large MCP tool result can consume or overflow an agent's context window, and on a third-party server you do not control how much comes back. Scratchpad breaks the link between how big a tool result is and how much context it costs: the full output goes to disk, and only the slice the model asks for ever enters the window. Errors always pass through inline, so the model can react to them.

7 lessons for IT leaders on using observability to monitor AI applications

What it takes to prove AI value with LLM observability Over six months, the Elastic IT team ran internal AI applications that returned $2.5 million in operational time to the business.1 A conversational support assistant moved us from zero digital resolution, where anything complex became a ticket, to 30% of support interactions closing without one.

Multi-Agent Orchestration for SRE: AURA Runs a Model per Specialist

Give one agent every tool and every incident is a question of trust. This one hands each job to a worker that can only reach what that job needs. One AURA configuration defines a coordinator and three specialist workers. Qdrant stores the runbooks, Prometheus measures workload health, and Kubernetes provides inspection and remediation, and each of the three is wired to one worker.

From retrieval to agents: 5 takeaways on production architecture for AI agents

How context engineering creates production-ready agentic AI What if the AI strategy you spent the past year building is already being measured by a completely different set of rules? I recently joined Amy Machado, senior research manager at IDC and Jim Malone, senior contributing editor at CIO Marketing Services, for a webinar where we explored how buyer expectations, architectural requirements, and evaluation criteria are shifting as enterprises move from search-driven experiences to agentic AI.