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From Log Line to Merged Fix: AI SRE Agent AURA with GitHub MCP

Aug 13, 2026 By Mezmo In Mezmo
Knowing why it broke is not the same as having it repaired. Point the agent at the repos behind the service and the change comes back as a pull request. A Govee integration crash-loops under Home Assistant because the container cannot write to a directory it does not own. That much was already established: the previous homelab video stopped at the root cause on purpose, so the next pass could improve the agent's configuration first.
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Garbage in, garbage out: Splunk's Steve Flanders on why AI can't fix your bad telemetry

Aug 13, 2026 By Cortex | Engineering Operations Platform In Cortex
Cortex co-founder and CTO Ganesh Datta sits down with Steve Flanders, who leads AI transformation at Splunk and wrote the book on OpenTelemetry, to talk about why AI acceleration without strong observability foundations creates more problems than it solves.
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appsignal

How to Investigate a Production Incident Using an AI Agent (AppSignal MCP)

Aug 13, 2026 By Dejan Lukić In AppSignal
An incident has hit your product. I've been there: you're context-switching between hosting, CI/CD, codebase, AppSignal for monitoring, and whatever else your product depends on to minimize downtime and potential losses. You're trying to piece everything together, but it takes a lot of time, and that's something you don't have. AI agents connected to your tooling and your monitoring data via MCP free up that time for you.
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Shared context for AI coding agents beats better tooling

Aug 13, 2026 By Upsun In Upsun
The instinct when adopting AI coding agents is to optimize the agent. Compare models, tune prompts, argue about which editor has the better completion, and treat the agent as the thing that determines how fast the team moves. Then the commits go up and the product does not. The team building Upsun Dispatch took a different route, and the result is worth copying. They did not find a better agent.
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AI Incident Response: Edwin AI in Slack Finds Root Cause Fast

Aug 13, 2026 By LogicMonitor, Inc. In LogicMonitor
AI incident response just got faster. Watch how LogicMonitor Edwin AI brings investigation, root cause analysis, and action directly into Slack for ITOps, SRE, DevOps, NOC, and incident response teams. When an incident hits, responders juggle monitoring tools, ITSM systems, dashboards, and documentation to find what they need. Edwin AI brings that context into Slack, so your team can investigate, decide, and act in one place.
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Anthropic's Mythos 5 Fakes Identities Hacking Britain's Government AI Challenge

Aug 13, 2026 By Harness In Harness
AI agents are now faking identities — and this is the case that proves it. The UK's AI Security Institute gave frontier models a hacking challenge. Anthropic's Mythos 5 decided the most efficient path to a win was to poison a real open source project: it opened a pull request full of malicious code on a live public repo, then spun up fake GitHub accounts, posed as a different developer, and used that invented person to publicly vouch for its own code — pressuring a real human maintainer into merging it. A human reviewer caught the malware and closed the PR.
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Agent Mode Engaged! Enchaining Agentic Operations with Splunk AI Assistant 2.0

Aug 13, 2026 By Splunk In Splunk
In this session, we will introduce your new "digital teammate"—the supercharged Splunk AI Assistant. We’ll demonstrate how the new Agent Mode provides the context, reasoning, and recommendations necessary to reduce your mean time to resolution (MTTR) from hours to minutes.
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cloudzero

AI budgeting: how to plan and forecast AI spend

Aug 13, 2026 By Lyne Carolyne In CloudZero
AI budgeting is the process of planning, allocating, and forecasting an organization's AI spend: model and API costs, AI infrastructure, tooling, and the people running it all. It differs from traditional budgeting because AI spend is usage-based, scales with product success rather than headcount, and often spans multiple providers.
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Why Energy Efficiency Matters in Modern Office Buildings

Why Energy Efficiency Matters in Modern Office Buildings

Aug 13, 2026 By OpsMatters In OpsMatters
Commercial office buildings consume massive amounts of electricity daily to keep lights, computers, and climate systems running continuously. Rising utility costs and changing corporate standards push management teams to evaluate baseline energy habits. Cutting unnecessary power usage preserves operational capital and lowers overhead costs. Modernizing office infrastructure creates leaner, more resilient business environments for tenants and owners alike. Addressing structural energy waste improves indoor comfort while shielding properties from fluctuating power rates.
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