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Grafana Pyroscope: Call Tree, Heat Map, & Adaptive Profiles (August 2026 Community Call)

We will look at some new features: Call Tree, Heat Map, & Adaptive Profiles Can't comment in the chat? You may need to create a channel. Join us live for an introduction to flame graphs. We’ll cover what they are, how to read them, and how to use them to find performance bottlenecks in your applications. Bring your questions! Grafana Cloud is the easiest way to get started with Grafana dashboards, metrics, logs, traces, and profiles. Our forever-free tier includes access to 10k metrics, 50GB logs, 50GB traces and more.

Cavalry or cattle? Let the machine decide

Long before dashboards and decibel-loud alerts, there were watchtowers. Every kingdom worth its salt had them, men perched on hills, lighting fires to signal the moment they spotted something suspicious on the horizon. It was, in its time, a fine system. The trouble was that watchmen, being human, occasionally mistook a herd of cattle for an invading army, or a dust storm for smoke, and lit their fires anyway.

From Log Line to Merged Fix: AI SRE Agent AURA with GitHub MCP

Knowing why it broke is not the same as having it repaired. Point the agent at the repos behind the service and the change comes back as a pull request. A Govee integration crash-loops under Home Assistant because the container cannot write to a directory it does not own. That much was already established: the previous homelab video stopped at the root cause on purpose, so the next pass could improve the agent's configuration first.

Grafana Tempo: Trace diff & span pruning (August 2026 Community Call)

We will look at some new features: trace diff and span pruning Can't comment in the chat? You may need to create a channel. Join us live for an introduction to flame graphs. We’ll cover what they are, how to read them, and how to use them to find performance bottlenecks in your applications. Bring your questions! Grafana Cloud is the easiest way to get started with Grafana dashboards, metrics, logs, traces, and profiles. Our forever-free tier includes access to 10k metrics, 50GB logs, 50GB traces and more.

Automated agent triage with Agent Tracing and Claude Routines

Every morning, before anyone on the team has looked at a dashboard, a Claude Routine has already read around 800 of the previous night’s conversations from Seer, Sentry’s AI agent for triaging and fixing errors. It flags the ones that look broken, and files tickets for anything new. By the time we sit down with coffee, the triage is mostly done.

OpenTelemetry at the edge: Observability for IoT fleets with Bindplane and Dynatrace

By the time an IoT device shows up in an incident review, it has usually already done its damage. Not the dashboard-gap kind. These devices are load bearing. They sit in the control path of substations, haul trucks, pump stations and cold rooms, so when they go blind the blast radius gets measured in tripped relays, spoiled stock, and unplanned outages rather than in missing datapoints.

How volumetric sampling makes the most of your trace budget in Grafana Cloud

Tracing is one of the richest observability signals, but it's also noisy and susceptible to data bloat. In a busy system, the vast majority of traces describe the same healthy, fast, successful request over and over, so most organizations downsample their traces to cut costs. But that approach has consequences, since the sampling strategy you choose determines whether you get a faithful picture of your whole system, or just a smaller, blurrier copy of your busiest endpoints.