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Meet the new Explore: every question, one place

From the first alert to the root cause, without leaving the page. TL;DR: Investigating an incident is a series of quick questions, each one leading to the next. Until now, Explore made you stop between questions to translate them into syntax, switch modes or rebuild a chart. The new Explore lets you go straight from one question to the next: one workspace, any dataset, any team, any way you like to ask. Here’s what that looks like on a real night on call.

39% of Coralogix sessions are now headless

We set out to understand how customers were using Coralogix from outside the web app. Olly answers questions about a system in plain language. Coding agents query logs, examine traces, read metrics and configure the platform through the Coralogix CLI and MCP server. We wanted to see how much of this was becoming part of everyday work. In the week of 20–26 October, 39% of Coralogix sessions included Olly, the CLI or MCP.

The Deconstructed Database at Datadog

As Datadog scaled to handle over a hundred trillion daily events, our engineering teams built their own custom query engines to keep things fast. While this helped teams move quickly, it also created silos that made it tough to analyze data across different products. To keep growing and support AI, we had to find a way to bring these engines together using open standards without slowing anyone down or risking reliability.

Measuring What Matters in AI Applications

AI has become incredibly sophisticated and changed the way we build and power applications. But it has also introduced volatile complexity that challenges how we ensure reliability and protect user experiences. Join our panel of experts as they discuss the realities of building AI-powered applications. They’ll talk about how testing has evolved, share insights into how they do evals and experiments, and offer advice on how to get better visibility into how your AI is performing.

Why AI-Generated code still needs tests

AI has made life easier for us developers. Dozens of AI tools are getting more advanced every day, shortening and speeding up the development cycle. Converting an idea into a concrete MVP is faster than ever before. Intelligent models turn your ideas into a working project with just a few prompts. End users or product owners can see the application, use the beta version, and give feedback on the spot.

Demystifying NODE

Having spent significant time working with the Network Observability Deployment Engine (NODE), I can confidently say that modernizing network observability does not have to feel like black magic. NODE simplifies how we deploy, scale, and manage complex network observability environments. Whether you're working with Kubernetes for the first time or streamlining an enterprise monitoring stack, NODE brings structure and clarity to the setup process. At its core, NODE relies on two main building blocks.

What Is Squid Proxy and How to Keep It Fast, Secure and Observable

How long does it take your service desk to rule the proxy in or out when a user says a site won't load? The proxy carries every outbound web request in most companies, and it still tends to be checked last. So service desks guess, even though the proxy has already logged what happened to that request. For a lot of those companies, the proxy is Squid. It has cached pages and enforced web policy for close to three decades, and it logs every request it touches.

8 Best Wireless Network Solutions to Monitor Wi-Fi in 2026

If your Wi-Fi keeps slowing down or dropping connections, checking whether your access points are online won't tell you much. You need to know what's causing the problem, whether it's weak signal strength, overloaded access points, or too many connected devices. Wireless network monitoring tools help you track these issues, monitor access point health, and spot problems before they affect more users.

Dashboard Library: why some dashboards arrive ticked and others don't

Open the Dashboard Library on a Logs stack that already receives Nginx logs and a few cards come up ticked with a green Data detected badge. Others in the same pack sit there unticked. That isn't random. Before it shows you anything, the Library checks what your stack actually holds and pre-selects only the dashboards it expects to fill.

What's new in Papertrail: Q3 2026

Q3 was a big quarter for Papertrail. You can now ask questions about your logs in plain English, explore structured logs by field, inspect any single log event in detail, and archive to your own S3 bucket with a setup that keeps you in control of access. We also shipped a round of smaller improvements that make sending logs and searching them faster and smoother. Here is a quick overview. The two Preview features have their own deep-dive articles, linked below.