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MCP Won't Replace Your Monitoring Tool

MCP is generating a lot of hype nowadays (but then again, almost anything that emerges in AI seems to attract hype). The anticipation around it is similar to the level of excitement that would break out if Apple were to finally introduce USB-C to iPhones. To be fair, though, some of that hype is warranted, considering the fact that MCP provides a standardized approach to connecting agents with third-party tools, which significantly simplifies this type of integration (hence the USB-C analogy).

How to add Software Catalog metadata at scale with Terraform | Datadog Tips & Tricks

Adding metadata to Software Catalog entities manually is a tedious process that doesn’t scale as your service count grows. This video shows you how to automate that work with Terraform so you can add shared metadata across existing Software Catalog entities at scale.

Grafana 13.2 release: easier ways to query and explore your data

Grafana 13.2 is here, bringing more improvements to help you and your team explore your data and get to insights faster. Download Grafana 13.2 In this post, we’ll highlight the latest updates to saved queries, a feature that lets teams share, discover, and reuse queries to get to trusted answers faster and help new teammates get up to speed. We’ll also explore how the new View panel sidebar makes exploring busy panels a breeze.

AI Norms & Values, Part 1 of 3: How We Do Business at Honeycomb

It's been almost exactly one year since we issued our AI mandate here at Honeycomb, and we've been doing some reflection. When we issued our mandate, it's not like we hadn't been using AI. We were the first in the industry to bake a feature powered by AI into our product, way back in May of 2024. Many of us had been experimenting and using these tools in our spare time. But we believe that software is the killer app for AI.

CAASM in Action: Continuous Cyber Asset Management with Teneo & ThreatAware

See how Teneo’s CAASM solution, powered by ThreatAware, helps security teams continuously manage and monitor their cyber asset landscape. In this short demo, discover how ThreatAware makes it easier to create focused asset views, identify areas that need attention, and schedule reports to keep teams informed, helping turn cyber asset visibility into ongoing action. Teneo and ThreatAware bring your security data together to help you uncover gaps, improve cyber hygiene, and reduce risk across your attack surface.

Teneo Managed DEX: How to Resolve Microsoft Teams Issues Faster

See how Teneo Managed DEX helps IT teams identify and resolve Microsoft Teams issues faster, often before they become another service desk ticket. In this Managed DEX example, Teneo shows how Digital Employee Experience (DEX) monitoring and automated remediation can help detect a Microsoft Teams problem, take action and get the employee back to work faster. Teneo Managed DEX helps organizations.

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.

When to Use Grafana Assistant vs. MCP vs. GCX: Part 2

When should you reach for Grafana MCP? It’s one of the two “hands” in Grafana’s AI toolkit — and the easy one at that. MCP lets you bring Grafana into the tools you already use, like ChatGPT, Claude, or Cursor, without changing your workflow. No terminal? MCP. Want to stick with your favorite AI tool? MCP. Want easy tool discovery out of the box? MCP. Here’s where it fits, and when to use it — explained by Nicole van der Hoeven.