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The aspirational target state for a cognitive system is to “take responsibility” for a domain (e.g., an autonomous car). To reach that level of sophistication, the system must achieve high levels of maturity simultaneously along two dimensions: Reasoning ability and Automation ability.

Apache Kafka has become the go-to platform for organizations handling high-throughput, real-time data streaming. Its ability to manage massive data volumes while ensuring reliability is second to none. However, as businesses grow and demand for data increases, scaling Apache Kafka isn’t always a walk in the park.

Coralogix is proud to announce a new phase in its partnership with AWS through a Strategic Collaboration Agreement (SCA) focused on bringing AI-powered observability and security to the enterprise. At the heart of this collaboration is Amazon Bedrock, AWS’s managed service for foundation models.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has rapidly become a cornerstone of modern IT operations. Yet, despite its transformative potential, many IT professionals harbor apprehensions about integrating AI into their workflows. This growing AI fear, while understandable, often stems from misconceptions and a lack of clarity about AI's role and capabilities. This discussion aims to address and debunk common fears associated with agentic AI.

London, 8 July 2025: Global API downtime increased by 60% in Q1 2025 compared to Q1 2024, shows new data from web service monitoring provider Uptrends, part of ITRS’ comprehensive observability platform. The State of API Reliability 2025 report — based on over 2 billion API monitoring checks across 20 industries in Q1 2024 and Q1 2025 — reveals a year-on-year drop in average API uptime from 99.66% to 99.46%, representing a decline of 0.2%.

When Checkly launched, it was the first of its kind, enabling developers to monitor complex workflows easier than ever using the automation tooling (Playwright, Terraform, etc) they already knew and loved. We’ve helped detect and resolve issues for 1000s of companies—ranging from monitoring crucial log-ins, to purchasing products, to setting up client instances for millions of monthly users But what about the simpler stuff?

Ubuntu Pro isn’t just for enterprises – it’s for the passionate community that powers and supports open source every day. From secure remote access to homelab hardening, Ubuntu Pro helps users get more from their systems, whether at work or at home. In this series, we talk to real users about how they use Ubuntu Pro in their personal and professional lives. We begin with Marc Grondin, a longtime Linux user and Ubuntu Pro subscriber based in Quebec, Canada.

In cybersecurity, defense-in-depth is a fundamental principle – you never rely on a single security measure to protect your systems. The same philosophy applies to application monitoring. No single monitoring approach, no matter how sophisticated, can capture every possible failure mode of your application. This is why layered monitoring isn't just a best practice – it's essential risk mitigation.

As modern infrastructure grows more dynamic and distributed, collecting logs alongside metrics becomes a critical part of any observability strategy. To make this easy and powerful, MetricFire now supports a direct logging pipeline using Grafana Loki. This allows you to forward system logs from your servers to Hosted Graphite's Loki backend and visualize them in your Hosted Grafana dashboards with full control over queries, filtering, and alerting.

This is the second post in a series examining the requirements necessary to achieve operational excellence. Did you miss the first post? You can find it here. Maintaining continuous uptime and resolving issues swiftly has never been more critical in the rapidly changing digital operations landscape. Automation must become the industry standard, yet the distinction between native process automation and reliance on external tools has a significant impact on operational efficiency and responsiveness.