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How to use AI to analyze and visualize CAN data with Grafana Assistant

Note: A version of this post originally appeared on the CSS Electronics blog. Martin Falch, co-owner and head of sales and marketing at CSS Electronics, is an expert on CAN bus data. Martin works closely with end users, typically OEM engineers, across diverse industries, including automotive, maritime, and industrial. He is passionate about data visualization and AI—and he’s been working extensively with Grafana Assistant.

Major Cloud Outages of 2025

Cloud outages in 2025 ranged from minor ones affecting some sections of users, to major ones affecting hundreds or thousands of users. Services like Cloudflare and AWS on which many other services depend experienced outages that affected many due to the cascading effect. Let's look at some of the major cloud outages in 2025.

The Impact of Network Downtime on Enterprise Productivity - and How Monitoring Helps

Enterprise IT teams operate under relentless pressure to maintain seamless connectivity, yet many business leaders underestimate the financial gravity of Network Downtime. Studies consistently show that even a brief outage can cost enterprises hundreds of thousands of dollars per hour, positioning downtime as one of the most disruptive threats to business continuity.

Fresh from AWS re:Invent: Supercharging HAProxy Community with AWS-LC Performance Packages

The timing couldn’t have been better. Last week, the tech world descended on Las Vegas for AWS re:Invent. It was the perfect venue to talk about cloud infrastructure, scale, and the future of application delivery. While we enjoyed talking shop at our booth, we didn't just bring swag and demos; we brought a significant performance improvement for our open-source community.

Using AI + Rollbar's Session Replay to Understand Complex Errors

Front‑end bugs are notoriously hard to reproduce. By the time an error shows up in your monitoring tool, the most important context is already gone: what the user actually did. Session replay helps—but only if someone has the time and patience to scrub through recordings, correlate events, and form a hypothesis. That’s where Rollbar’s MCP server, paired with an AI agent like Github Copilot, changes the game.

OTel Updates: OpenTelemetry Proposes Changes to Stability, Releases, and Semantic Conventions

Over the past year, the Governance Committee ran user interviews and surveys with organizations deploying OpenTelemetry at scale. A few patterns came up consistently: Stability levels aren't always obvious. When you install an OTel distribution, some components might be experimental or alpha without clear markers. This makes it harder to evaluate what's production-ready. Instrumentation libraries sometimes wait on semantic conventions.

How Coverage Options Influence Long-Term Planning for Insurance Needs

The insurance options you pick can set the tone for how you handle health costs, home repairs, and income gaps years from now. The right mix helps you absorb shocks and keep room for growth in your savings. Policies and riders create routes that either shorten or complicate your path to big milestones. If you plan well, you can protect against high-consequence risks without paying for features you do not need.

What Should You Consider When Trying To Improve Business Marketing?

What should you consider when trying to improve your business marketing? There are many different ways that this can be done, but a lot of businesses find that they struggle with it. It's time that you stop worrying about getting it wrong though, and start worrying about doing everything you can with the knowledge that you've got. In this article, we're going to be discussing some of the different things that you should be doing when you're trying to improve your business marketing. If you would like to find out more, feel free to read on.

Why Cloud-Based Startups Dominate

If you've been following developments in the business world, you will have noticed that cloud-based startups are dominating. But why is this? Why is almost every new unicorn a business that's in the cloud that appears on people's iPhones? Why isn't it something in the physical world? That's the topic we're going to discuss in this article. We're going to explore why cloud-based startups are the way to go in 2025 and 2026 and how you can leverage them to your advantage.

Top Ten Upgrades To Make Your Car Feel More Responsive

The driving experience is at its best when you have the most control, and a vehicle that reacts quickly and efficiently to your demands not only represents an enjoyable drive, but also a safe one. You're able to respond and adapt to changes on the road at a moment's notice, so no matter who you are, everyone can benefit from a few upgrades. Of course, the question then becomes, what do you choose? There are hundreds of different parts you could have fitted, and for the uninitiated, deciding can be totally overwhelming.