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Staging Environments Explained: Why Staging Is Essential for Safe, Reliable Software Releases

A staging environment is the final checkpoint before any software update goes live, a production-like space where bugs, performance issues, and integration failures can be caught before they impact real users. In this video, we break down what a staging environment is, why it’s critical, and how it helps ensure smooth, predictable deployments.

#AI Powered Data Protection Inside Cribl Guard

Cribl Guard uses an always running AI agent to spot sensitive data as it moves through your environment and recommend the right protections in real time. In this demo, you will see how the agent samples live events, identifies patterns like credentials and credit cards, and turns them into one click fixes that keep your destinations safe. Faster detection, smarter rule recommendations, and instant mitigation. This is what modern data protection looks like.

Why AI Will Push #Telemetry Budgets to the Breaking Point in 2026

Telemetry growth is about to hit a new level in 2026. Nick Heudecker from Cribl walks through our new predictions report and explains why observability costs are set to surge again, with more than a third of enterprises spending at least 15 % of their IT budgets on telemetry alone. He also shares how agentic AI adds new risk to the data pipeline, why most AI workloads will struggle to scale, and how platform shifts and market forces will reshape the data landscape.

Usability Testing Explained: How to Evaluate User Experience and Improve Product Design with Harness

Usability testing is a powerful method for understanding how real users interact with your product, and uncovering the friction, confusion, and hidden roadblocks that can impact the user experience. In this video, we break down what usability testing is, why it matters, and how observing real user behaviour can help teams create more intuitive, user-friendly software.

Sentry x Acquired

On October 23, 2025, Sentry hosted a special live event featuring the hosts of the Acquired podcast, Ben Gilbert and David Rosenthal. Together, we spoke with some of today’s most inspiring leaders across tech and sports. Whether you’re a longtime Acquired listener or new to Sentry, tune into this rare chance to hear directly from some of the people shaping the next generation of everything from technology and storytelling to leadership and more.

Grafana Campfire - Using Git Sync (Grafana Community Call -Nov 2025)

For our upcoming Grafana Campfire Community Call, we'll explore Grafana Git Sync, a powerful new feature that enables seamless dashboard-as-code workflows. Git Sync bridges the gap between Grafana's UI and your version control system, allowing you to manage dashboards with the same rigor and collaboration practices you use for application code.

Winning Variations Explained: How to Identify True A/B Test Success With Statistical Confidence

A winning variation isn’t just the version that “looks better”, it’s the version that truly and measurably outperforms the control. In this video, we break down what a winning variation is, how to determine it, and why statistical significance is essential for making confident, data-driven product decisions.