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Model Rightsizer: the agent that stops your other agents from defaulting to Fable

Jul 29, 2026 By Djo Lopez In CloudZero
Model Rightsizer is an open-source Claude Code sub-agent from CloudZero that scores each task on capability need versus cost pressure, then routes it to the smallest model that can handle it. In its first week, it cut Opus spend 75% while shifting 234x more work to Sonnet. Every Claude Code agent you run has to answer a question it usually never gets asked: does this task need the smartest model available, or are you paying Fable prices to rename a variable across three files?
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cloudzero

A default is not a decision: cut AI model costs with CloudZero's free, open-source Model Rightsizer

Jul 29, 2026 By David Aponovich In CloudZero
Only 22% of finance leaders can tie their AI spend to a business outcome, according to CloudZero’s 2026 finance survey. When AI ROI falls short, it usually isn’t because a company is doing too much AI. It’s that no one is watching which model runs which task, and that one choice accounts for a large part of the cost. Here’s why it happens.
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grafana

Automate all the things: How to use Grafana Cloud's AI to relieve the operational burden

Jul 29, 2026 By William Dumont In Grafana
Continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) have dramatically changed how we ship software. But once code reaches production, the operational work is still surprisingly manual. Engineers continually monitor systems, investigate unexpected behavior, and decide which issues require action. And that is where the next opportunity for AI-driven automation lies. For example, in today's CI/CD workflows, someone refreshes the pipeline page to see whether the queue has moved.
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ITSM | SolarWinds Service Desk Features That Reduce IT Tickets Fast

Jul 29, 2026 By solarwindsinc In SolarWinds
Are employees waiting too long for IT support? In this video, you'll learn three simple SolarWinds Service Desk configurations that can improve employee experience, reduce unnecessary tickets, and help IT resolve issues faster. We cover: How to optimize your knowledge base so employees actually find answers Why linking asset inventory to Service Desk gives technicians instant context How Microsoft Teams and Slack integrations make IT support easier without leaving chat These are quick, no-code improvements you can configure today. No developers or consultants required.
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ITSM | How to Streamline CAB Approvals in SolarWinds Service Desk

Jul 29, 2026 By solarwindsinc In SolarWinds
Is your Change Advisory Board (CAB) spending too much time reviewing low-risk changes? In this video, you'll learn three practical ways to improve change management in SolarWinds Service Desk by automating routine approvals while keeping governance in place for high-risk changes.
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Graylog MCP Howto Webinar

Jul 29, 2026 By Graylog In Graylog
In this video, we walk through connecting the Graylog MCP Server (introduced in Graylog v7.0) to Claude CLI, enabling natural language interaction with your Graylog instance through Claude Desktop. Topics covered: Whether you're a Graylog admin looking to speed up investigations or a security engineer curious about AI-assisted log analysis, this walkthrough gives you everything you need to get MCP running end to end.
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honeycomb

Honeycomb Named a Visionary in the 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Observability Platforms

Jul 29, 2026 By Shabih Syed In Honeycomb
For the third consecutive year, Honeycomb has been recognized for its Ability to Execute and Completeness of Vision, and we believe for its strong vision around fast, flexible, high-cardinality querying that helps engineers understand not just that something broke, but why. The software development lifecycle has collapsed. The neat sequence of plan, build, test, and ship that teams have relied on for 20 years is now happening in a single afternoon. AI writes a large share of the code.
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redgate

Redgate Flyway's Product Updates - July 2026

Jul 29, 2026 By Maxime Drobot In Redgate
This month is a big one! We announced the latest major release of Redgate Flyway Enterprise, built to help teams move fast with AI without losing control of the database. Three key new capabilities also landed in preview: Flyway’s MCP server, advanced support for Databricks, and Oracle schema existence checks. And we're closing with a short, honest read on failure and what it takes to make deployments less stressful. Here's the round-up.
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gitkraken

GitLens 18 Turns the Commit Graph Into an Agent Command Center

Jul 29, 2026 By Jade Nangah In GitKraken
Five coding agents sounds like leverage right up until a developer is the one keeping track of all five: one fixing a bug, one building a feature, one refactoring, and two waiting on input at the same time. AI did not create that problem. It exposed a workflow problem that was always going to surface once parallel development became normal instead of occasional.
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