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For enterprise IT leaders, the question is no longer whether AI agents can help run IT operations, but how to scale them beyond pilots and into the everyday work of keeping the business online. It’s no coincidence that this year’s Gartner IT Infrastructure, Operations & Cloud Strategies Conference (IOCS) opens with a keynote dedicated to scaling agentic AI to enable autonomous IT operations. At BigPanda, we’ve seen a shift from the ITOps leaders we work with every day.

Honeycomb recently launched Canvas connectors, with Checkly serving among its first group of integration partners. With the Honeycomb Canvas connector for Checkly, the Canvas Agent can bring your synthetic monitoring into an investigation to help determine which checks are failing, from which locations, since when, and what Rocky AI identified as the likely root cause.

Why does the help desk still hear about network problems before the network engineers do, even with every router and switch under monitoring? In most cases the alert does its job, and the hours go into what comes after it. Tracking down who last touched the config takes time, and so does checking the switch's vendor support and how close that branch link is to capacity. Networks also no longer behave like a single system.

TL;DR All scripts in this post live in the companion repository dkrautschick/pg-logical-migration. Every step references a numbered script you can run against your own Aiven project, and the listings/ folder has each step as a standalone snippet for copy-paste self-tests. The demo database is beerdb, a small craft-beer database, because every example database should contain at least one Doppelbock.

That was the question posed at the Women in Open Source+ Panel I had been asked to moderate. The panelists, from Snowflake, AWS, and NVIDIA, gave similar answers: We have our jobs today because of the community, and I don’t see that changing any time soon. I felt the same. When I joined Aiven, its direct callout to open source was a deciding factor.

Dear Nexthink community, Nexthink has been named a Leader in the 2026 Forrester Wave for Digital Employee Experience Management Solutions. I am incredibly proud to share this recognition with our customers, partners, and every Nexthinker whose commitment and ambition have brought us here. As a founder, this recognition is particularly meaningful.

Your employees have access to AI. They've completed the training. Their usage is climbing, but has the way they work actually changed?

Every retail IT leader knows that a mix of anticipation, cautious relief, and low-grade paranoia the week before the holiday freeze. Change requests stack up. Teams push last-minute updates to servers, registers, and store systems. And somewhere across hundreds or thousands of locations, one system has drifted slightly out of compliance. Nobody notices until peak traffic arrives. Then a lane goes down, a register stops processing transactions, checkout slows, and revenue starts walking out the door.

Sending server logs to Papertrail over Syslog takes one setup command, and running it needs admin access: sudo on Linux, or Administrator rights on Windows. If you started a free trial but don’t have that access here are instructions to get your logs flowing. Copy your setup command, send it to a teammate who has admin access using one of the ready-made messages below, and your logs can be streaming in Papertrail within minutes of them running the script. This post walks you through those steps.