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Stop squinting at data and start driving engineering excellence. In this week’s Feature Friday, Christine from the Cortex Product Team introduces the all-new Birdseye Report (now in private beta). See how to master your engineering standards at scale. We’ve redesigned Birdseye to give you a true "top-down" view of scorecard performance across your entire organization—from the CTO level down to a single service.

Grafana Campfire Community Calls are back. We are starting with *Back to the Basics.* Even though you heard it so many times, but some of you are either new to or not very experienced with terms such as monitoring, observability, metrics, tracing, profiling etc. The good news is that you're not alone, and we've got this!! This will be a perfect learning opportunity to gain understanding during this live call and ask questions if anything is not clear.

At today’s community call, we will hear from David Grant, one of the engineers who has brought a new component, the Block Builder, into Mimir. Using the Ingest Storage architecture in Mimir 3.0, the Block Builder takes over the block-building responsibility from the Ingester. This feature is experimental in Mimir today, but is rolling out to production inside of Grafana Labs now. This is a great time to introduce the component, discuss the motivation, and show where it fits in the larger architecture.

Steve is joined by Cindy Gross to discuss leadership coaching in the technology industry – what it is, how it works, and the many benefits it brings. Recorded on-site at PASS Data Community Summit 2025 in Seattle. Cindy is an executive coach and Adaptive Leadership Expert with 25 years in the US tech industry. As a former SQL Server Master (MCM) and expert in cross-organizational navigation at Microsoft, she transformed her focus from complex technical systems to empowering leaders within systemic chaos.

Most enterprise SaaS products, like Komodor’s Autonomous AI SRE Platform, require installing a remote agent on the customer’s infrastructure, which varies significantly from one organization to another, in terms of architecture, configurations, permissions, processes, and more. This “unmanaged” model creates major blind spots, making daily operations, observability, debugging, and incident response challenging. When failures occur, limited visibility and bespoke systems make root-cause analysis slow, incomplete, or impossible.

Cove 26.2 delivers Critical Configuration Changes, the second feature in our Anomaly Detection story. This feature allows users to create event-based alerts for indicators of compromise in their backup policies, such as changed retention schedules, modified backup profiles, or deleted devices. With real-time visibility into these changes, users can take just-in-time action to resolve them before recovery efforts are impacted. In this video, we walk through how to create your first notification and outline the main use cases this feature supports.

SolarWinds Evangelist Chrystal Taylor introduces the new routing insights feature in Observability Self-Hosted 2026.1. This first phase enhancement enriches routing table information with detailed context, including forwarding interface names, VRF data, next hop IPs, and timestamps. The update unifies BGP, OSPF, and EIGRP neighbors in a single dashboard, providing visibility into peer identity, flap counts, health status, and admin states.

Millions of metrics. Zero clarity. That’s the reality many IT teams are facing today. As environments grow more complex, telemetry explodes. Millions of records generated every hour. Dozens of specialized tools for network, storage, Kubernetes, cloud, AI workloads. Each tool is good at its domain. But none of them answers the real question: Where should I focus right now? Fragmented visibility creates predictable failure modes.

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Spec-driven development with AI coding agents could change how you build software. In this GitKon 2025 talk, Erik Hanchett, Senior Developer Advocate at AWS, breaks down why AI coding assistants perform dramatically better when they start with structured specifications instead of raw prompts. If you've been vibe coding your way through complex features and wondering why your AI keeps going off the rails, this is the video for you.