Cortex Catalog search, rebuilt: Boolean queries, autocomplete, and smart fallbacks
Search in Catalog used to mean typing an exact name and hoping. Lead Platform Engineer Keith Zeto walks through the rebuild for this Feature Friday.
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AI OCR: Read every code, every time | Zebra
High-volume manufacturers—spanning food, beverage, cosmetics, and consumer goods—operate under rigorous regulatory and quality requirements, yet many still rely on manual inspections or outdated technologies to validate packaging date and lot codes. They need a faster, more dependable system to ensure every product leaving the facility is correctly marked. Zebra’s AI OCR vision system combines the power of Aurora Focus software with our NS42 and FS42 smart cameras to deliver a fast, accurate solution.
Agent Observability Deep Dive Demo | Grafana Cloud
Grafana AI Observability is our new database and platform for observing AI Agents. Over the past year at Grafana Labs, we built Agents and we needed a way to understand how they are performing, what are the costs associated with them, what's the error rate or time to the first token as well as how they are behaving. Grafana Staff Engineer, Ivana Hučková provides a deep dive demo on how Grafana AI Observability connects our experience building Agents with our experience building observability systems.
Observability and AI explained - Grafana Labs
Senior Developer Advocate Nicole van der Hoeven explains how we're thinking about observability and AI at Grafana Labs. She talks about how you can use AI with observability across the entire SDLC and the different tools you can use for both AI for observability and observability for AI.
AI Week: Friday announcements
Friday, the last day of AI Week, is all about collaboration. Here's what we're announcing today! Check out grafana.ai for more details on everything we announce this week.
ITIL Service Value System (SVS): Components, Value Chain, and the Evolution to ITIL 5
Explore the ITIL Service Value System, its five components, six value chain activities, and how ITIL 5 evolves the framework.
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.
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS Resolute Raccoon is Now Supported!
We are excited to announce support for Ubuntu 26.04 LTS Resolute Raccoon on all Cloud 66 products, including registered servers. From this point onward, new applications are provisioned on Ubuntu 26.04 by default, on both x86_64 and ARM64. Don't forget, you can control your target Ubuntu version via the selection dropdown when scaling up via the UI, or through your manifest!
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.
Cloud Outage Preparedness: On-Call Lessons for 2026
Cloud outage preparedness stopped being a nice-to-have this month. In a span of roughly 48 hours, Microsoft Azure lost a big chunk of its West US footprint and Amazon Web Services dropped connectivity between its us-west-2 region in Oregon and the Seattle metro. The AWS event alone rippled outward and knocked DoorDash, Reddit, Hulu, Apple Pay, Snapchat, Fortnite, and the PlayStation Network offline for millions of users, according to incident trackers. Neither outage was caused by anything exotic.