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Overview of AI Evaluation (The Context Window #05)

Can you actually trust an AI agent? In this pre-recorded episode of The Context Window, Nicole van der Hoeven sits down with Yas Ekinci, an engineer on the Grafana AI team, to talk about evals — how Grafana measures the quality and reliability of the AI it ships. They get into the difference between online and offline evals, why reviewing AI-generated code has become the real bottleneck, the "final answer problem" of plausible-but-wrong outputs, and o11y-bench, Grafana's open benchmark for observability agents. Along the way.

Help Desk or Service Desk: Which Does Your Business Need?

In this video, learn the key differences between a Help Desk and a Service Desk and why choosing the right approach can significantly impact the growth and efficiency of your IT support operations. Discover when a help desk is enough, when a service desk becomes essential, and how modern IT teams can scale support effectively. In this video, you'll learn: Contact Us sales@motadata.com Resources.

High Cardinality in ClickHouse at Scale: What Actually Breaks

ClickHouse swallows high-cardinality telemetry at ingest, then breaks at query time weeks later. Here is what fails, and how we keep it fast in production. Prathamesh works as an evangelist at Last9, runs SRE stories - where SRE and DevOps folks share their stories, and maintains o11y.wiki - a glossary of all terms related to observability.

Chart Your Team's Analytics Journey with Customizable Dashboards in DX NetOps

DX NetOps now features customizable dashboards that give all users some important new features and capabilities. In addition, with the solution’s new integration capabilities, DX NetOps enables users of current analytics and reporting tools to add standardized dashboards over time.

What's New in Network Observability for Summer 2026

As a network engineer, you likely face two persistent operational challenges every day: When you have to manually track device lifecycles on spreadsheets or spend your scheduled maintenance periods troubleshooting software upgrades, you lose the time you need to proactively ensure network performance. Over the past six months, we have continued to enhance Network Observability by Broadcom. These latest enhancements directly address the operational challenges outlined above.

Designing the Operational Architecture for Continuous SLA Exposure Governance

Organizations seeking to reduce SLA volatility often attempt incremental enhancements to existing monitoring stacks. While additional analytics layers may improve telemetry visibility, exposure governance cannot function effectively when data, service context, and execution capabilities remain fragmented. Treating exposure management as an add-on capability limits its ability to protect across interdependent systems in real time.

Where did all my Claude Code tokens go?

Most teams judge their AI coding agent on two things: the monthly bill and a feeling. The bill tells you what you spent and the feeling tells you whether it seems to be helping, but neither one tells you what the agent actually did. As these tools move into the critical path of how software ships, that gap is starting to matter. I wanted to replace the feeling with something I could measure and understand what shapes of work affects this bill, so I decided to run an experiment on myself.

How we saved over $3 million in idle compute costs with Datadog Kubernetes Autoscaling

At Datadog, our broad Kubernetes footprint amplifies the significance of a familiar autoscaling tradeoff: Overprovisioning wastes cloud spend, while underprovisioning threatens reliability. We built Datadog Kubernetes Autoscaling (DKA) to help teams rightsize their workloads by generating intelligent resource recommendations and automating multidimensional workload scaling. Across Datadog, adopting DKA has eliminated more than $3 million in annualized idle compute costs while reducing reliability risks.

Getting started with Microsoft Defender dashboards

Microsoft Defender does a great job protecting you and your organization from online threats. It is constantly working to detect and collect security data so you don’t have to worry about falling behind on incidents and vulnerabilities. The Defender portal can also provide great insights into that data, but connecting it to the rest of your stack is difficult.