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Key Takeaways From the 2025 Gartner Market Guide for Event Intelligence Solutions

Feb 6, 2026 By Dallon Robinette In Selector
The 2025 Gartner Market Guide for Event Intelligence Solutions reflects a shift in how IT operations leaders evaluate AI-driven technologies. As AI hype gives way to more practical evaluation, we are seeing a natural departure from broad promises about AI capabilities toward clearly defined use cases and outcomes.
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How Agentic AI is Redefining Network Operations

Jan 30, 2026 By Dallon Robinette In Selector
For much of the past decade, many of the most ambitious ideas in artificial intelligence lived primarily in research papers, labs, and long-term roadmaps. Agentic AI was no exception. The concept of AI systems capable of reasoning, planning, and acting autonomously was widely discussed but largely theoretical. But earlier this month, Gartner released its report The Future of NetOps Is Agentic, reflecting a growing consensus that this has changed. What was once conceptual is now becoming operational.
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Making Sense of Complex Data in Observability Tools

Dec 5, 2025 By Marta Barnych, Robert Rochon In Selector
Metrics, analytics, measurements, and parameters – can we truly see these abstractions? Data visualization helps us do just that, bridging the gap between raw information and human comprehension. Visualizing data is like rafting down a river – dynamic, unpredictable, and full of discoveries along the way. In this guide, we’ll explore how to craft visualizations that inform, engage, and inspire. So, grab your paddle and hop aboard!
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Navigating External Outages: How Selector Cuts Through the Cloudflare Noise

Nov 19, 2025 By Stephen Ochs In Selector
Yesterday’s widespread Cloudflare outage reminds us how crucial external dependencies are to the stability of our own applications. When a key edge provider like Cloudflare goes down, the impact on your internal monitoring systems can look like a catastrophic, internal system failure triggering a massive storm of alerts and sending engineering teams into frantic, misdirected debugging sessions.
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Beyond Isolated AI: How the Selector MCP Server Connects Agents, Context, and Action

Nov 14, 2025 By Dallon Robinette In Selector
AI in network operations is evolving faster than ever. But while new models and agents are emerging almost daily, they’re often working alone, with each confined to its own context, data, and domain. One model might analyze telemetry, another handles automation scripts, and a third generates summaries or recommendations. Each model might be intelligent on its own, but without a way to share context, they end up thinking in isolation, limiting what they can achieve together.
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Show Me the AI: Rethinking How AI Fits Into Network Operations

Nov 7, 2025 By Dallon Robinette In Selector
Over the last couple of years, nearly every network and infrastructure observability platform has added the word “AI” to its messaging. Some have introduced helpful capabilities. Others have simply added a chatbot on top of the same dashboards that have existed for a decade. In many ways, the term has started to lose meaning. But inside network operations, the conversation hasn’t disappeared. It has simply become more blunt.
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The Hidden Cost of "Modernization": When Upgrades Become Extortion

Oct 31, 2025 By Dallon Robinette In Selector
Across the IT and observability landscape, enterprise leaders are facing a troubling pattern. A trusted vendor announces a “modernization initiative,” often following a major acquisition or a shift in ownership. Overnight, pricing structures change, license models disappear, and long-time customers are pressured into multi-year bundles under the banner of innovation. What’s being framed as progress often feels more like pressure.
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The Hidden Barrier to Network Automation Isn't Your AI - It's Your Data

Oct 17, 2025 By Dallon Robinette In Selector
For years, the promise of AI-driven network automation has loomed large. Vendors and analysts alike have painted a future where autonomous operations handle outages before they happen, root causes are explained instantly, and teams finally escape the endless cycle of alerts, tickets, and manual troubleshooting. But in practice, most automation initiatives stall long before they reach that vision.
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AI for Network Leaders by Selector - AI Agents and MCP by John Capobianco

Oct 2, 2025 By Selector In Selector
AI Agents & Model Context Protocol John Capobianco, Head of Developer Relations at Selector, dives deep into AI Agents and the Model Context Protocol (MCP). In this session, John demonstrates Selector MCP in action — running as a client-server, connecting multimodal inputs, and even talking to Selector using microphone + TTS audio via Gemini CLI. He also showcases Sebastian Maniak’s Claude Desktop integration, where Selector MCP powers a chatGPT-like UI for network engineers. A practical look at how MCP is transforming AI into a true digital co-worker.
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