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Meet Assistant Workspace: Full-page experience for Grafana Assistant

Jul 27, 2026 By Grafana In Grafana
Introducing Assistant Workspace, a full-page surface for Grafana Assistant, built for the conversations that outgrow a sidebar. Dig into longer investigations, compare data side by side, and keep your train of thought in one place — then turn what you find into a dashboard without starting over. When a quick question becomes a real investigation, open it in Workspace and keep going. In this video, Ed Poole gives us a demo of how to use Workspace, including the use of canvases to see more information than before.
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Shipped: Every cost recommendation now comes with the why and the how

Jul 27, 2026 By Kevin Lamb In CloudZero
A savings number tells you money is on the table, but it doesn’t tell you whether the finding holds up, what it’s based on, or what to do next. In that gap, recommendations pile up unactioned. When you’re staring at thousands of them, a title and a dollar figure isn’t enough to decide which are safe to act on.
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Claude Opus 5 pricing: same sticker, different bill

Jul 27, 2026 By Lyne Carolyne In CloudZero
Claude Opus 5 launched July 24, 2026 at $5 per million input tokens and $25 per million output tokens, identical to Opus 4.8. It delivers near Claude Fable 5 performance at half Fable's price and is now the default model on Claude Max. New effort settings let teams trade capability for token savings, which means two teams on identical pricing can now run up very different bills. Finance teams, that last part is your problem. Anthropic has shipped a model that costs exactly what the old one cost.
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OpenAI Codex pricing in 2026: plans, token costs, and usage limits

Jul 27, 2026 By Lyne Carolyne In CloudZero
Codex pricing runs six tiers, from free to $200 a month, but the sticker price is not your real bill. OpenAI Codex pricing 2026 charges by the token, not the plan, a change that took effect in April. Plus is $20, Pro starts at $100, and everything past that depends on how many files you let the agent read. Most Codex pricing guides hand you a price list and call it done. That is like pricing a taxi ride by the door handle. The meter is what matters, and OpenAI put a real one on Codex this year.
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Cloud Outage Response: AWS us-west-2 Lessons

Jul 27, 2026 By Falit Jain In Pagerly
Cloud outage response got another live fire drill on July 24, 2026, when AWS lost network connectivity between its us-west-2 region in Oregon and the Seattle metro. For most customers the pain lasted about 20 minutes, and a small set on AWS Direct Connect saw errors for roughly an hour and seventeen minutes. That is short as major cloud incidents go. What makes it worth your attention is not the duration.
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Explore what's next in agentic operations: Introducing AI Week

Jul 27, 2026 By Mat Ryer In Grafana
Observability has traditionally been tacked on after your code hits production, but with agentic operations on the rise, that's no longer sustainable. Agents have dramatically increased the rate of change as they write more code, ship more changes, and operate more systems—all at a speed that compounds scale and complexity.
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Smarter onboarding and planning with Grafana Assistant: How to ensure observability is baked in from the start

Jul 27, 2026 By Sven Großmann In Grafana
It's Monday afternoon and that feature you've been working on is mostly done. There's just one item still sitting untouched at the bottom of the ticket: "Add monitoring." You know you should. You also know the sprint ends tomorrow, nobody on the team is an observability expert, and figuring out what to measure—let alone how to write the PromQL for it—feels like a project all on its own. So it gets the same treatment it always does: "We'll add it when it breaks.".
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Your platform team isn't a ticket queue, here's the fix.

Jul 27, 2026 By Cortex | Engineering Operations Platform In Cortex
Centralized ops creates a single point of failure: every request waits in line, and your best engineers spend their day gatekeeping instead of building. Self-service APIs change that. Developers get what they need without filing a ticket, and platform teams get their time back for the infrastructure work that actually moves the needle. Still routing everything through one central team? Tell us your setup in the comments.
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How to Choose an Observability Platform: A Growth-Stage Framework

Jul 27, 2026 By Mohana Ayeswariya J In Atatus
Every engineering team eventually hits the same wall: the monitoring stack that was fine six months ago now can't answer the questions you're actually asking during an incident. This isn't a tooling failure, it's a growth mismatch. The right observability platform at 10 engineers is rarely the right one at 100, and the cost of getting that wrong isn't the subscription fee, it's the migration you'll be forced into later, usually mid-incident, usually under pressure.
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