Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

Cortex co-founder and CTO Ganesh Datta sits down with Steve Flanders, who leads AI transformation at Splunk and wrote the book on OpenTelemetry, to talk about why AI acceleration without strong observability foundations creates more problems than it solves.

Knowing why it broke is not the same as having it repaired. Point the agent at the repos behind the service and the change comes back as a pull request. A Govee integration crash-loops under Home Assistant because the container cannot write to a directory it does not own. That much was already established: the previous homelab video stopped at the root cause on purpose, so the next pass could improve the agent's configuration first.

Giving developers AI tools is only the first step.

If you're struggling to plan next week let alone next year, stop and assess where you actually stand. Define your desired future state, then put it on paper — just start somewhere. That one document becomes the roadmap you break down into your next 5 years. Watch the full IT Leadership Lab session.#Shorts.

We will look at some new features: trace diff and span pruning 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.

Understand the basic building blocks of the Grafana Stacks as how all the elements (tools) combine together to give you a complete visual to your platform Thanks for watching!