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ITSM | How to Streamline CAB Approvals in SolarWinds Service Desk

Is your Change Advisory Board (CAB) spending too much time reviewing low-risk changes? In this video, you'll learn three practical ways to improve change management in SolarWinds Service Desk by automating routine approvals while keeping governance in place for high-risk changes.

Graylog MCP Howto Webinar

In this video, we walk through connecting the Graylog MCP Server (introduced in Graylog v7.0) to Claude CLI, enabling natural language interaction with your Graylog instance through Claude Desktop. Topics covered: Whether you're a Graylog admin looking to speed up investigations or a security engineer curious about AI-assisted log analysis, this walkthrough gives you everything you need to get MCP running end to end.

Honeycomb Named a Visionary in the 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Observability Platforms

For the third consecutive year, Honeycomb has been recognized for its Ability to Execute and Completeness of Vision, and we believe for its strong vision around fast, flexible, high-cardinality querying that helps engineers understand not just that something broke, but why. The software development lifecycle has collapsed. The neat sequence of plan, build, test, and ship that teams have relied on for 20 years is now happening in a single afternoon. AI writes a large share of the code.

Automatically starting investigations from an alert with Assistant Investigations

Staff Software Engineer Alexander Sniffin demonstrates how you can use Assistant Investigations to automatically start an investigation for you when an alert fires in Grafana. When you receive an alert, Investigations can do the work to figure out the root cause so that you don't have to spend your time doing so. Assistant Investigations is now generally available for Grafana Cloud.

Run tests using natural language with k6 Agentic Testing

In this video, our Senior Director for AI Engineering, Mat Ryer, issues a challenge: Can k6 agentic testing in Grafana Cloud be instructed at a high level to just beat Wordle? Staff Software Engineer Joan López de la Franca Beltran sets up that scenario using agentic testing (currently experimental), yielding some surprising results.

When Playing It Safe Creates More Risk

When organizations evaluate a software upgrade, the conversation typically centers on risk. Teams consider the maintenance window, the resources required to prepare for the change, the possibility of unexpected issues, and the operational impact of the upgrade itself. These are all legitimate concerns because the people responsible for enterprise platforms are accountable for maintaining service availability while introducing change into complex environments.

Real-Time Monitoring in Automated Container Cranes: Sensors, Data Pipelines and Fault Detection

Modern container terminals run on uptime. A single crane failure during a vessel call can cascade into berth delays, demurrage charges, and disrupted yard schedules that take days to recover from. The pressure this places on operations and maintenance teams has driven a fundamental shift in how port equipment is monitored - away from periodic inspection cycles and toward continuous, sensor-driven visibility across every system on every machine.