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Getting Started with Grafana Cloud's AI Assistant for Observability

The pace of software delivery in 2025 is unprecedented — cloud-native apps, microservices, and AI-generated code are shipping in days, not months. But one challenge never changes: ensuring reliability and visibility when systems fail. In this video, we explore how the new Grafana AI Assistant brings true, context-aware observability to your stack. Watch as we deploy an open-source Python service with Kafka, Postgres, Kubernetes, and Prometheus then use the AI assistant to instantly generate dashboards, alerts, and reduce un-needed telemetry volume.

Platform Team Toolkit demo

Platform teams face an impossible choice: rigid standardization that slows developers down, or operational chaos that creates security gaps. CircleCI's new Platform Team Toolkit eliminates this tradeoff by delivering self-service developer experiences with built-in governance. What You'll See in This Demo: Key Benefits: Perfect for platform engineers, DevOps teams, and engineering leaders who need to scale software delivery without sacrificing speed or safety.

N-Central Quarterly Roundup - Q2 FY25

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Chasing Cyber Crisis: Bart Lageweg on Thriving in High-Stakes IT

When the stakes are high, and the systems are down, who do governments and enterprises in the Netherlands call? Bart Lageweg, founder of Bizway, has built one of Europe’s most trusted MSPs by running toward the toughest IT challenges—cyberattacks, ransomware recovery, and compliance-critical crises. In this episode of Now That’s IT: Stories of MSP Success, host Chris Massey sits down with Bart to explore how Bizway thrives in the “firefighter” role of managed services. They discuss.

Real-Time Status Monitoring for 50+ EdTech Tools K12 IT Teams Actually Use

K12 IT departments face a unique challenge: keeping dozens of educational technology platforms running smoothly while teachers conduct lessons and students complete assignments. A single service outage can disrupt hundreds of classrooms simultaneously. That's why implementing a k12 service status dashboard has become essential for school technology teams managing complex digital learning environments.

Introducing the Coralogix Transactions processor

Coralogix Transactions are a trace segmentation strategy, unique to the Coralogix platform. They allow users to analyze the performance, over time, of a collection of related spans, across billions of traces. Coralogix has introduced a transactions processor into the OpenTelemetry contrib image, enabling users to activate this unique feature using nothing more than OpenTelemetry configuration.

What Is an MCP Server?

Ok MCP server, If you’ve been following AI development lately, you’ve probably heard whispers about “MCP Servers” floating around developer circles. It’s been around a little while now, and I myself have finally gotten round to using it. Boy, do we need to talk about it. MCP (Model Context Protocol) is Anthropic’s open standard that lets AI assistants connect directly to your tools and data sources, not just static documentation or code snippets.