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Lightrun MCP: Your AI Assistant Now Debugs and Validates Production Code

Jan 9, 2026 By Lightrun In Lightrun
Intermittent production bugs are hard to debug and rarely reproduce locally. Teams fall into a loop of adding logs, and every rollback slows them down. In this demo, R&D team leads Maor Yaffe and Or Golan show how an AI assistant can verify production issues using real runtime data, without redeploying. By connecting Cursor to Lightrun MCP, the agent inspects live production behavior, collects real variable values, and confirms the root cause with evidence instead of assumptions.
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solarwinds

Top 7 Kubernetes Add-ons

Jan 9, 2026 By Staff Contributor In SolarWinds
The open-source Kubernetes platform is designed to help simplify application deployment through Linux containers. It supports tasks like deploying workloads in the form of pods, clustering nodes, managing container runtimes, and tracking resources. The Kubernetes microservices system has risen in popularity over the last several years as an easy way to support, scale, and manage applications.
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metricfire

Guide to Sending Custom Metrics From Your Heroku Application

Jan 9, 2026 By Benjamin Pitts In MetricFire
Heroku makes it easy to deploy and operate applications without managing servers, but understanding how your application behaves internally still requires instrumentation. Platform metrics like CPU usage, memory consumption, and router request/status counts are useful, but they don’t tell you how long your code takes to run, when your app throws errors, or whether users are interacting with key features.
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solarwinds

Types of Cyber Security Attacks

Jan 9, 2026 By Staff Contributor In SolarWinds
Damaging cyber attacks are a rising concern as organizations increasingly rely on digital technology for managing sensitive data and running core business operations. While technology can increase business efficiency, without security measures in place, a digital-first approach can end up introducing vulnerabilities and putting data at risk.
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grafana

A better way to prioritize feature backlogs: the CERB scoring method

Jan 9, 2026 By Dave Thompson In Grafana
When you're on a software team, planning for the weeks and months to come is always a challenge. You have to balance deep feature backlogs, business and leadership requests, customer requests, and operational interruptions. Effective planning requires a way to prioritize the backlog, set realistic roadmap goals, and justify decisions.
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observiq

New in Bindplane: Permalinks

Jan 9, 2026 By Cole Laven In ObservIQ
I’m excited to announce a new feature in Bindplane: Permalinks. Available in Bindplane Cloud right now! Permalinks will be shipped in version v1.97.0 and above in Self-hosted Bindplane. Permalinks make it easy to share a single URL that takes teammates, support engineers, or other stakeholders directly to the exact view you’re looking at. No extra navigation, no guessing, and no “can you click over here?” moments.
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VictoriaMetrics

Vibe coding tools observability with VictoriaMetrics Stack and OpenTelemetry

Jan 9, 2026 By Alexander Marshalov In VictoriaMetrics
AI-powered coding assistants have transformed how developers write software. Tools like Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, Gemini CLI, Qwen Code, and OpenCode have introduced what many call “vibe coding” — a new paradigm where users describe their intent and AI agents handle the implementation details. But as these tools become integral to development workflows, a critical question emerges: how do we understand what’s happening under the hood?
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