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Vibe Coding: Closing The Feedback Loop With Traceability

I have begun to truly embrace vibe coding over the last few months, using Cursor as my main code editor and Claude Sonnet 4 for my agent's LLM. It's an exciting time as a developer, we get to experiment with something that promises to 100x our productivity while pioneering the new workflows and strategies for implementing these tools. But, as most people who have done any extensive development with LLMs in a sufficiently sized code base knows, it's a bit like trying to herd scared cats.

ObservabilityCON 2025: A guide to all the announcements from Grafana Labs

Today at ObservabilityCON 2025 in London, we unveiled a number of exciting announcements and updates to Grafana Cloud that reimagine SaaS economics, simplify the complexity of running your observability stack at scale, and provide AI tooling that’s actually useful. (Root cause analysis via chatbot? Yes, please!) Check out the keynote to learn more about how we’re helping you do more with the open observability cloud, and read on for a quick recap of all the news from ObservabilityCON 2025.

AI-powered observability: Resolve incidents faster, reduce alert fatigue, and expand access

When an incident lands in your lap, you’ll often start with a lot of questions: Why is latency so high? What’s causing this outage? How much money are we losing at this very moment? The uncertainty—and the pressure to quickly find answers—has always been one of the more nerve wracking parts of being an on-call engineer, but it doesn’t have to be that way any more.

Maximize data value and cut costs: Adaptive Telemetry for metrics, logs, traces, and profiles in Grafana Cloud

When it comes to observability, more data doesn’t always mean more clarity. In fact, as telemetry volumes grow, it only becomes more difficult to discern the signals from the noise and to keep overall costs in check. This is exactly why we built Adaptive Telemetry, a suite of features in Grafana Cloud that analyzes how your telemetry is used and then automatically recommends actions like aggregating, sampling, dropping, or reducing low-value data.

Complete guide to OpenTelemetry Tracing (with code examples)

Distributed tracing is an essential technique for monitoring modern, cloud-native applications. It provides a holistic view of a request's entire journey as it propagates through a multi-service architecture, making it invaluable for performance optimization and root cause analysis. But how do you generate and collect this trace data in a standardized, vendor-agnostic way? That's where OpenTelemetry comes in.

Real Estate App Development for Ops & Product Teams: From MVP to Scale

In the competitive world of real estate technology, developing an app that can scale from a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) to a fully-fledged solution is crucial. For operations and product teams, this journey involves strategic planning and execution to ensure the app meets evolving market demands and user expectations.

What's New in VictoriaMetrics Cloud Q3 2025? From new region in Asia to proactive alerts

The third quarter of 2025 has been a busy one for VictoriaMetrics Cloud! We expanded globally, polished the user experience, introduced new enterprise debugging tools, and delivered smarter alerts to help users make the most of their observability data. If you missed our Quarterly Live Update, don’t worry! You can watch the full recording here: Let’s recap what’s new in VictoriaMetrics Cloud this quarter.

Ep 13: Everyone is winging it: Hope for an AI future

In this episode, we welcome Naomi Buckwalter, Sr. Director of Product Security at Contrast Security, to chat about the evolving landscape of security threats and the dual role of AI in both facilitating and combating these challenges. We explore the increasing sophistication of modern phishing attacks and discuss how security teams must rapidly adapt to stay ahead of emerging threats. We debate the transformative impact of AI on the future job market, where personal qualities and soft skills may increasingly take precedence over traditional technical competencies.

Monitoring Encrypted Network Traffic

How do you spy on a secret message? That's the challenge for network monitoring tools like Suricata today. Encryption is essential for privacy, but it creates massive blind spots for security. Dive into the modern-day cat-and-mouse game of monitoring encrypted traffic. How do you deal with security blind spots in your network?