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AI in observability at Grafana Labs: Making observability easy and accessible for everyone

Did you know that observability has been around for more than six decades? It all goes back to a Hungarian-American inventor named Rudolf Kálmán who thought about how external outputs could measure the internal state of a machine. Kálmán wrote about monitoring single-input single-output systems, but our demands are very different today. We need to observe monoliths, microservices, clusters, pods, regions, and many more.

Network Switch Monitoring: How to Monitor Switch Performance with SNMP

If you’ve spent any time managing networks, you know the switch is the backbone that keeps everything connected, but it’s easy to take them for granted until something breaks. Monitoring network switches isn’t just “nice to have”; it’s critical if you want to avoid those sudden outages that bring everything to a halt.

Cortex MCP set up

Learn how to set up the Cortex MCP in under 5 minutes. The MCP integrates directly into your IDE, giving instant access to Cortex data without leaving your coding environment. It reduces context switching by enabling natural questions about services and teams, and streamlines workflows with real-time data from Cortex, Jira, GitHub, and more.

Mike Long and DORA Community Discussion - Software Delivery Governance

Manual governance in regulated industries is like steering a ship with last year’s map. Approvals, ticket queues, and after-the-fact evidence collection slow delivery and increase risk. By the time an audit arrives, teams are scrambling to prove they followed the process. Watch Kosli’s Mike join Nathen Harvey at DORA to unpack why this happens — and what continuous, automated governance can do to fix it.

Sentry MCP server monitoring

We just launched MCP server monitoring in beta. You can instrument most server-side JavaScript SDK based MCP servers with one line of instrumentation code within your MCP SDK implementation using: wrapMcpServerWithSentry(McpServer) See details like protocol usage, client usage, traffic, tool usage, and performance across your MCP implementation so you you can get visibility into all the sharp edges that your MCP server has — who’s using it, how it’s working (or not), and get alerted when things break.

Iceberg Topics for Apache Kafka: Zero ETL, Zero Copy

We’re rolling out table-formatted topics for Apache Kafka, enabling open-source users to ingest, process, and emit data natively as Apache Iceberg tables. We’ve developed a new class of topics in Apache Kafka that stream data into lakehouse formats such as Apache Iceberg. The developer experience, similar to Diskless, is flexible, and the topics are opt-in via cluster configuration.

Simplify XML log collection and processing with Observability Pipelines

In Microsoft-based environments, Windows event logs capture critical security events like user logins, privilege escalations, and system changes. These logs are vital for compliance and investigations. However, they’re natively formatted in XML, a verbose and deeply nested structure that is hard to search without preprocessing and inefficient to store.