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At Grafana Labs, our mission has always been to empower users with the tools they need to build their own observability solutions. Our big tent philosophy embodies this mission by allowing you to choose the tools and technologies that best suit your needs. In this post, we want to share an update to our LLM plugin that reflects this philosophy in action.

At InvGate, we are committed to harnessing the power of AI to redefine Service Management practices. Since launching AI Hub, featuring the first wave of AI-powered capabilities within InvGate Service Management and Asset Management, over 50% of our clients have adopted them and saved dozens of thousands of hours. Our most impactful solutions have focused on enhancing decision-making processes, enabling teams to work smarter and achieve better outcomes.

Large language models (LLMs) are AI models with billions of parameters, trained on vast amounts of data. These models are typically flexible and generalized. The volume and distribution of training data determines what kind of knowledge a large language model can demonstrate. By training these large models on a variety of information from all knowledge domains, these models can perform sufficiently well on all tasks.

Space.com sums up the Big Bang as our universe starting “with an infinitely hot and dense single point that inflated and stretched—first at unimaginable speeds, and then at a more measurable rate to the still-expanding cosmos that we know today,” and that’s kind of how I like to think about November 2022 for junior developers.

The Managed Service Provider (MSP) industry is highly competitive. The growing demand for IT management and support has led to a proliferation of MSPs, ranging from small to established providers. This saturation intensifies pressure on profit margins and heightens expectations for delivering faster, more efficient services. With many MSPs competing for business, companies must find ways to differentiate themselves to attract and retain clients. At ScienceLogic, we know that AI holds the key to success.

On October 24, NinjaOne launched our 6.0 platform and product updates – including Patch Intelligence AI, which enhances and further automates the NinjaOne Patch Management solution. Just a day later, we saw the impact this new, free feature can make on our customers’ success.

Last week, I attended one of the last conferences of the year with team Mezmo: the Gartner IT Infrastructure, Operations & Cloud Strategies Conference in Las Vegas. Not surprisingly, there were over 20 sessions covering observability and how it is getting increasingly critical in the new complex distributed computing environment. Of course, there were many sessions, including all keynotes that addressed the advent and impact of AI on IT operations and observability.

People keep asking us here at Checkly if and how AI can help create solid and maintainable Playwright tests. To answer all these questions, we started by looking at ChatGPT and Claude to conclude that AI tools have the potential to help with test generation but that "normal AI consumer tools" aren't code-focused enough. High-quality results require too complex prompts to be a maintainable solution.