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Learn how to stream data from Kafka into ClickHouse using Aiven’s integration wizard. In this demo, we show you how to generate sample logistics data in Kafka, configure the integration to map Avro-formatted fields, and connect to ClickHouse to view and query the ingested data. We also demonstrate how to create a materialised view in ClickHouse to store and query streamed data efficiently, making real-time analytics fast and easy.

In this video, we provide an overview of Uptime.com's Cloud Status check feature, designed to monitor the status of common cloud services within your technology stack. We walk you through the step-by-step process to configure a Cloud Status check, including how to select third-party services, add contacts, and organize checks with tags. Learn how to view incident history and get detailed updates from third-party providers. For more information, visit our documentation or contact our support team.

Cribl Search gives you one lens across all your telemetry data no matter where it lives. Instead of forcing teams to move data into one system or jump between tools, you get a familiar pipe based query experience with dashboarding and alerting built in. Storage and query processing stay separate so you decide where your data lives while your users get fast, simple access in one place.

Densify and The New Stack bring to you an enlightening session geared towards ways to help reduce developer burden, and how Kubex can do exactly that.

In this episode, Julien Simon, longtime voice in the open-source ML world, reminds us that even in the era of GenAI, reliability fundamentals haven’t changed. Julien breaks down why calling “the same model” from different providers can produce wildly different results, how deployment choices introduce hidden variability, and why reliability teams need to think of LLM systems as distributed systems.

Sean Heuer and Ari Stowe break down “agent washing,” governance, and what it really means for AI to take action instead of just chatting. In this clip from Agents of IT, they share practical ways to spot the difference between chatbots, scripted automations, and true agentic systems that can plan, reason, and execute autonomously. Watch the full episode to hear their perspective on.

Meet Datadog Instance Explorer — a way to explore, compare, and monitor cloud instance pricing and performance across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud in one place. In this quick overview, you’ll learn how to: Start exploring your instance options today and make smarter, data-driven infrastructure decisions.

The Future of Digital & IT Operations - Agents in Action: Observability, AIOps, Security & SRE.

The revamped panel brings color highlighting, more flexible search, and an overall smoother experience to help you quickly find the “why” behind every log line. This is generally available in all editions of Grafana.

The new panel time settings drawer gives you greater control over time ranges and shifts at the panel level without editing the dashboard. The time comparison feature, in particular, was a request from the community, and allows you to easily perform time-based (for example, month-over-month) comparative analyses in a single view. This eliminates the need to duplicate panels or dashboards to perform trend tracking and performance benchmarking.