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Failures will occur, but reliability testing helps us understand them instead of being surprised. Gremlin founder and CEO Kolton Andrus sat down with Stephen Townshend on the Slight Reliability podcast to talk about how!

A new Zero Ticket Minute just dropped! Holiday retail is being won by agentic AI. Autonomous agents adjust pricing, manage inventory, and resolve issues in real time. One retailer automated 20+ workflows and saved 1,400 hours. Speed and scale win.

How do you monitor tens of trillions of data points without building your own database?

Learn how to set up a private probe using Grafana Cloud Synthetic Monitoring. In this video, we walk through the steps you need to create a private probe.

Learn how to configure extended check settings for Uptime.com checks that influence how you are alerted. Build alert and escalation structures, set maintenance windows, even define target SLA metrics.

Ivanti’s 2025 DEX report reveals a surprising disconnect: While IT leaders strongly believe in DEX, its adoption and impact are plateauing across industries. Join us for a thought-provoking webinar with Ivanti’s Mariah Shotts, along with special guest and AI expert Rob May. We’ll unpack findings from our global survey of 3,300 IT professionals and office workers, revealing: Whether you’re just beginning your DEX journey or looking to optimize your existing program, this session will help you benchmark your progress, close critical gaps and chart a future-proof strategy.

From a SoundCloud side project to a global standard, Prometheus has come a long way — and 3.0 marks a major new chapter. In this episode of Grafana’s Big Tent, hosts Mat Ryer and Tom Wilkie sit down with.

Microsoft Sentinel data lake is becoming a core component of modern security architectures. In this on-demand webinar, Microsoft and VirtualMetric discuss how security teams can approach Sentinel data lake adoption to improve visibility, control cost, and prepare their data for AI-driven security workflows.

Key Takeaways December Patch Tuesday lineup includes one known exploit in the Windows OS that warrants attention. Third-party Patch Tuesday updates include Mozilla and Adobe. Google Chrome released iOS updates so far, but a Chrome Desktop release is expected this week. Here we are at the final Patch Tuesday for 2025. Microsoft has resolved 56 CVEs (two Critical and 54 Important). Included in this release is one known exploited (CVE-2025-62221) and two publicly disclosed CVEs (CVE-2025-54100 and CVE-2025-64671).

A step-by-step demo using Ubuntu Pro and AWS Image Builder. In this video, we show how to create your own FIPS-enabled Ubuntu EKS image using EC2 Image Builder. The demo walks through creating an image pipeline, defining a recipe, and selecting a custom Ubuntu Pro AMI using SSM Parameter Store to automatically pull the latest available image. The process includes enabling FIPS updates on an Ubuntu Pro machine, validating that FIPS is enabled, and testing that the system is running in FIPS mode.