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The best ways to visualize API responses in 2026

APIs power almost everything we use today, from cloud platforms and monitoring tools to ticketing systems and internal applications. But no matter how useful an API is, the response usually arrives as raw JSON. That's perfectly fine for machines, but much less convenient for people. Whether you're debugging an endpoint, exploring a new service, or building dashboards for your team, you'll probably want a better way to visualize that data. Fortunately, there are several ways to visualize API responses.

Closing the AI gap: How next-generation knowledge access unlocks mission outcomes for government

A recent IDC Spotlight report based on a survey of 685 public sector respondents found that 72% describe scaling AI from pilot to production as "very" or "somewhat" difficult.¹ Choosing the right model is only part of the challenge. Agencies also need to get their data ready for AI.

Top tips: Stay one step ahead of boreout, the new burnout

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 talking about boreout, the lesser-known cousin of burnout, and how to stay engaged as AI takes on more of the routine work. There was a time when finishing your work early felt like winning. Now it somehow feels... suspicious. You glance at your inbox and nope, there are no new emails.

Netdata AI & MCP: Root cause in one investigation

An alert tells you what changed. It rarely tells you why. That answer usually lives somewhere else: the pull request that shipped minutes earlier, the incident already open in PagerDuty, the runbook sitting in Confluence. Netdata AI can now reach those systems directly. Through the Model Context Protocol, it connects to the tools your team already runs and reads from them while it investigates. It pulls that context alongside the metrics, logs and anomalies Netdata detects on every node, then reasons across both.

What is Cloud-Based SIEM for Security Teams

When an alert fires at 2 a.m., responders need context more than another dashboard. A suspicious authentication event may begin in an identity provider, touch a cloud control plane, appear in an application log, and end with an unusual data transfer. If each signal lives in a separate tool, analysts spend the first part of the incident rebuilding a timeline instead of containing the threat.

The Upsides to Keeping it Boring: How Fiber-to-the-Home Providers Protect Their Investments

What does "good" actually look like for a fiber-to-the-home network? According to two of the people who build them, it looks like nothing at all. No complaints. No support calls. No coffee-talk the next morning about the stream that buffered. Just a light switch that turns all the way on, every time.

Tech Talk | From Insight to Action: Reducing Metrics Costs in Splunk Observability

Explore how to leverage observability insights to reduce metric costs with Span Observability. Led by Tomasz Romaniuk and Martyna Karbownik from Cisco, this tech talk covers the significance of metric time series in impacting cardinality and consequently driving metric costs. After a theoretical introduction, the presentation dives into practical real-life use cases demonstrating how to effectively utilize available tools for cost reduction. The session concludes with an overview of future developments and a Q&A segment for audience inquiries.