Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

In this episode of Agents of IT, host Ari Stowe sits down with producer Ian Coppock for a fast-paced, no-filter discussion on one of the hottest topics in enterprise tech: AI, security, and the reality of modern work. Is AI introducing new security risks, or just exposing the ones that were already there? The answer is both. From overprivileged access to machine identities, Ari and Ian break down what’s actually changing and what isn’t. They challenge the idea that AI alone will fix broken workflows and explore why intentional design, guardrails, and orchestration matter more than ever.

In this video, we walk you through Uptime.com's Cloud Status check feature, designed to monitor the status of common cloud services within your technology stack. Learn how to configure a Cloud Status check, select third-party services, choose which components to monitor, and understand how the Down state works when multiple components are affected. We also cover how to opt out of maintenance notifications, view incident history, and organize checks with tags.

Ask a question, get a system-wide answer. Grafana Assistant maps your architecture, builds service diagrams, and runs queries behind the scenes, so you can troubleshoot faster without writing complex code or hunting through dashboards.

Create full monitoring dashboards from a single prompt. Grafana Assistant analyzes your stack, builds key metrics instantly, and suggests next steps, so you skip complex queries and move straight to actionable insights.

Get more accurate results with Grafana Assistant. Use specific prompts, set context with @, and enhance intelligence with MCP and memory to build dashboards and insights tailored to your environment.

We released a new type of dashboard widget - Text Widgets! You can use them to explain other widgets (good for onboarding), or even define your playbooks - instructions on how to investigate failures by reading the other widgets. They even support markdown!

Hitting your PR count feels productive, but maybe it's not. Sometimes you have to slow down to 10x.

Telegraf is InfluxData’s open source agent for collecting metrics, and it’s used everywhere. In this quick overview, Product Manager Scott Anderson shares what makes it stand out, from more than 5 billion downloads to a huge plugin ecosystem with 400+ integrations. It’s also built by a strong community, with over 1,300 contributors and thousands of GitHub stars. That momentum is a big part of why Telegraf keeps growing.