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JSON Flattening: Fix Query Failures and Cut Storage Costs in SigNoz
You have nested JSON in your logs. When you query body.event.type = "user_action", it fails. Here's why and how to fix it.
How AI Agents Reason, Act, and Automate at Scale
In our previous post, we explored the urgent need for intelligent automation in network automation, specifically how the Model Context Protocol (MCP) enables AI agents to dynamically discover and interact with the necessary tools. But access to tools is only part of the equation. To truly operate autonomously in complex environments, agents need not only connectivity but also intelligence.
SD-WAN, SASE, SSE, and the Coffee Shop Network: From Distraction to AI Superpower
Back in 2018, I wondered (perhaps loudly if SD-WAN was just IT’s hype-of-the-year, destined for the same eye-rolls as signature-based antivirus and GDPR compliance drives. Even then, I knew we couldn’t let messaging fatigue blind us to real technology shifts. Fast-forward to 2025: SD-WAN (Software-Defined Wide Area Network) not only stuck around, but became the springboard to something far bigger – SASE (Secure Access Service Edge).
Grafana Campfire - Using the Grafana MCP Server (Grafana Community Call - July 2025)
In this month of the Campfire Community call, we will exploring the Grafana MCP (Model Context Protocol) server - an open-source tool that enables AI assistants to directly interact with your Grafana instance. We will learn some basics such as: Join me (Usman), Matt Ryer, and David Kaltschmidt for this exciting session. Expert guests: Ioanna Armouti, and Luccas Quadros *HELPFUL LINKS* Feel free to use the YouTube live chat feature to start submitting questions, and we will add them to the agenda.
13 Best Log Analysis Tools of 2025. Top Paid, Free & Open-Source Log Analyzers Reviewed
Log analysis and management tools have become essential in troubleshooting. With log analyzers you can extract meaningful data from logs to pinpoint the root cause of any app or system error, and find trends and patterns to help guide your business decisions, investigations, and security. If you’re not already using such a tool, now is the time to start looking for one.
Unlocking Skin Radiance with the Power of Peptides
In the ever-evolving world of skincare, peptides have emerged as quiet game-changers. These powerful amino acid chains are naturally found in the body and serve as building blocks for proteins like collagen, elastin, and keratin. But as we age, our body's ability to produce these proteins diminishes, leading to wrinkles, dullness, and a loss of firmness. That's where peptide-based skincare treatments come in and they're rapidly becoming a top choice for individuals seeking anatural glow and youthful appearance.
Why Hiring a Professional Is a Smart Move for Business Growth
Operating a business today is not all about possessing a great idea or providing a great product. It's about making the correct moves in the proper time, particularly in marketing, operations, and planning for growth. With increasingly competitive markets and higher customer demands, handling everything in-house can easily overwhelm your staff. This is where experts come in.
Turbo360: Optimizing Compute Costs in Azure
When everybody talks about the economic recession, many companies try to reduce their cloud bills even more than usual. Compute resources usually contribute to the largest portion of those costs, making them the number one target for cost optimization initiatives. Despite cloud providers, like Microsoft Azure, offering many tools, approaches, and guidelines for optimizing cloud compute costs, many companies still stick to very few options without looking at the larger picture.
Elastic: The impact and importance of GenAI, LLMs, and logs on modern observability
Join us for a look at how GenAI and LLMs applied to logs is uncovering new insights for modern observability. From log ingestion and processing to analytics, visualization, and automation, GenAI is now able to extract new and actionable insights from the mountains of log data you collect. Join Elastic's David Hope and John Knoepfle as they walk you through recent advances in log management and analytics and show you how to take advantage of your logs to support your investigations and post-mortems while also reducing toil.
Elastic: Context engineering that works: Production-grade RAG with Contextual AI and Elastic
Retrieval augmented generation (RAG) has rapidly evolved from a novel concept to an essential enterprise capability. As data volumes grow, traditional RAG implementations have revealed limitations that are now being addressed through next-gen approaches. Join RAG pioneers and vector database leaders to explore the concept of RAG 2.0. Learn how context-aware architectures deliver deeper semantic understanding, more accurate retrieval, and personalized responses that adapt to user intent and org-level frameworks.