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Reality Bytes: Beyond the Shiny DEX Tool (w/ Monica Filak)

Tim, Tom, and Oriana sit down with Monica Filak, Director of Customer Success at Nexthink, to explore what it really takes to turn DEX from a tool into a transformative methodology. Monica shares how her team helps organizations move beyond technology to rethink their people, processes, and communication — bridging the long-standing divide between IT and the business. From creative internal branding to AI-driven efficiency gains, she explains how companies can evolve from “shiny tool” thinking to achieving measurable, human-centered value.

AFK: The Only Status You Need When AFW - SolarWinds TechPod 103

What does real work-life balance look like in tech? In this honest and funny conversation, Sean Sebring and Chrystal Taylor share stories from their sabbaticals, burnout moments, and how they learned to unplug — for real this time. Topics we get into: Why burnout hits tech pros harder than most The art of saying “no” and setting healthy boundaries How to stop chasing “perfect” and embrace good enough Why taking time off sets a better example for your team Reframing success: from “always on” to sustainably productive.

Making Observability AI-Native with the Logz.io MCP Server

Now available: Secure, real-time access to your observability data via Logz.io’s Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server. The Logz.io MCP Server brings your logs, metrics, and telemetry data into the Model Context Protocol (MCP), an emerging open standard that lets AI systems query real data securely and contextually, in real time. That means any MCP-compatible LLM, like Claude Desktop, Cursor, your own AI agent… can now connect directly to your Logz.io environment.

Getting Started with InfluxDB 3 Core: From Installation to First Query in 10 Minutes

Getting started with any database technology can be daunting, and nothing is ever as easy as a snap of the fingers. With InfluxDB 3, we’ve made it as painless as possible. If you want to do some testing, development, or exploration, you’ve read the title: you should be up and running in under 10 minutes with very little hassle.

How to Monitor AI Agents in Commerce Systems

Artificial intelligence (AI) isn’t just writing text or generating images anymore. It’s starting to make real-world decisions. Now, with agentic systems, we’re entering an era where AI models don’t just respond; they act autonomously, buying, booking, and negotiating on behalf of users. That may sound promising, but those of us in the trenches of reliability know that progress always comes with trade-offs. Make no mistake, this shift fundamentally changes how observability works.

Sync your Backstage catalog with Datadog IDP

Backstage is a popular open source framework for building internal developer portals (IDPs) used by organizations to aggregate service metadata and create a single source of truth for their software developers. However, data stored in the Backstage Software Catalog can quickly become siloed and inaccessible from monitoring tools such as Datadog.

SIEM Migration in 68 Days

In this session, we will discuss how the University of Pittsburgh was able to modernize their data processing strategy, migrate to a new SIEM solution, and avoid ballooning SIEM costs all within 68 days from the first install of a Cribl product. We will showcase how we were able to use Cribl's software to easily handle the following scenarios: 100% agent replacement and consolidation using Cribl Stream Workers and Edge.