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Slow, unresponsive applications create digital friction that impacts employee productivity and generates unnecessary IT tickets. In Episode 1 of Eliminating Digital Friction with Nexthink Spark, see how Spark identifies UI slowness, pinpoints the root cause, and helps IT resolve issues faster.

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Your AI agents are only as good as the context it has. Without access to what's happening in production, it can only make educated guesses. Chapters: In this video, you'll meet GCX. The bridge between AI coding agents like Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, and your Grafana observability stack. You will learn how GCX securely gives AI agents access to metrics, logs, traces, dashboards, and other production telemetry so they can investigate issues, answer questions, and help you debug with real operational context.

Tuesday is about Building and implementation. Here's what we're announcing today! Check out grafana.ai for more details on everything we announce this week.

The secure path and the easy path should be the same path. Ralph McTeggart (Principal Engineer), Alex Franzmann (Customer Onboarding Team Lead), and Claire McDyre (Product Manager) at Cloudsmith lay out how platform teams can deliver supply chain security as a capability rather than a checklist. The argument runs from first principles: make a private registry the default, automate policy enforcement at the global level, and extend that same logic to compliance – so SBOM generation happens in the pipeline, not as a developer's manual task.

AURA is a fully open-source agentic harness built for SRE and production operations work. In this walkthrough, Mezmo forward deployed engineer Jeff iinstalls AURA on a local desktop, runs `aura init` to generate the config and connect it to an Anthropic Sonnet model, then wires in a Grafana MCP server pointed at his homelab. He hands AURA a live incident: a set of addressable LED lights that stopped responding to Home Assistant.

For a 50-developer team operating at agentic pace, validation-related delivery costs can approach $900K a year.

The first two to three hours after a supply chain compromise aren't about remediation – they're about figuring out whether you're affected at all. That requires two things: a feed of compromised packages you can cross-reference against what you're using, and an audit trail showing which developers pulled which packages and when. Teams that can answer "are we affected?" in 30 minutes have that data pre-built into their platform. Teams that don't are still piecing it together at hour three. Protect your supply chain with Cloudsmith.

Ransomware attacks are evolving, and cybercriminals are shifting their focus to new, often overlooked targets. In this on-demand webinar, our experts break down the latest ransomware trends, explore how threat actors are changing their tactics, and discuss practical strategies to help reduce risk.

Watch the full episode: MCP vs CLI: Does it even make a difference? Live Laugh Logs ep. 3.