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Better context, smarter testing: How to give your AI coding agent direct access to k6 docs

As testing workflows become more AI-assisted, fast access to accurate documentation matters more than ever. Whether you're writing a new load test, troubleshooting an issue, or having an AI agent generate a script for you, you need reliable guidance that keeps pace with the way you work. But most documentation still lives in a browser. Every time you or your agent needs to verify an API or look up a best practice, you're forced to leave your terminal or editor and interrupt your workflow.

What an AI SRE agent actually finds when you point it at a broken Kubernetes cluster

‍ Most of the AI features that shipped into observability tools this year summarize alerts. You get a paragraph that restates the dashboard you were already looking at, and the agent never reads the cluster itself, because giving it cluster access is a security conversation nobody wanted to start. This walkthrough starts it.

Builder in the loop: what production agents were missing before AURA

Builder in the loop is a Mezmo interview series with the engineers, product leaders, and operators shaping AURA. Each installment looks past the product layer to explore the decisions, tradeoffs, and lessons involved in building agents for real production work. This installment features Mike Shearer, the engineer who built AURA and, until recently, its only developer. AI agents are easy to believe in when the task is small.

What is going wrong with AI coding? Live Laugh Logs ep. 4

Welcome to Episode 4 of Live Laugh Logs, the podcast from the Coralogix Developer Relations team. This week, Chris Cooney joins Annie to share five key DevOps skills that have become even more important in the age of agentic code development, and gives you five key actions you can do today to start levelling up these skills. Subscribe to our channel for more insights into observability and AI.

Top 10 Digital Experience Monitoring Tools in 2026

Server dashboards can look healthy while users wait. Only 51% of the 1,000 most popular mobile sites pass Core Web Vitals, according to the HTTP Archive's 2025 Web Almanac. Closing that gap is the job of digital experience monitoring tools. Some watch customers on your website and mobile apps, others watch staff on laptops and virtual desktops, and a third watches the network in between. Pick the wrong type and you lose a review cycle.

10 Best Real User Monitoring Tools Compared for 2026

Most IT teams learn their application feels slow when a customer complains. Server metrics never measure what a person on a phone waits for. The best real user monitoring tools close that gap by collecting timings from your users' browsers. Choosing one got harder this year, because the measurement standard moved. In this blog, we compare the best tools for real user monitoring, including their pros, cons, and key features. By the end you will know which one fits your stack.

Data pipeline monitoring 101: Tracking health and performance across the data stack

Data pipelines are systems for moving and processing data. They are made up of concatenated services and data stores that programmatically ingest data from upstream sources; filter, transform, enrich, and route that data; and deliver it to downstream consumers.

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.

Top tips: Small digital habits that save you hours every week

Top tips is a weekly column where we highlight what's trending in the tech world and list practical ways to explore these trends. This week, we're looking at something we rarely think about until the end of the day: the tiny digital habits that quietly eat away at our time. Have you finished a workday feeling busy but strangely unaccomplished? You started with the best intentions.

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.