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Design Concept: User-Created AI Agents with External Tool Support

Here's an early look at user-created AI agents with external tool support in Mattermost — designed to integrate AI into daily workflows while maintaining governance and security. We’d love your feedback on this design. Contact the Fast Futures team at fastfutures@mattermost.com.

Grafana Campfire - Using the Drilldown Apps (Grafana Community Call - August 2025)

In this Campfire Community call, we will discuss about the new Grafana Drilldown Apps and how they differ from Explore. We will discuss how it has been continuously evolving to become a core part of Grafana OSS, enabling users to access data easily.

Elasticsearch Explained for Beginners: From Spreadsheets to JSON, Indices & Shards

Ever wondered how Elasticsearch actually works? In this quick breakdown, I’ll use a simple spreadsheet analogy to explain the basics from documents and indices to shards, CRUD operations, and mappings. You’ll see how Elasticsearch stores data as JSON documents, splits indices into shards for scalability, uses CRUD with ID hashing for fast lookups, and applies mappings to organize text, numbers, and labels.

The Outage You Didn't See Coming: How to Discover and Monitor Certificates Proactively

Progress WhatsUp Gold Certificate Discovery and Monitoring is a seamless capability included out of the box. It’s a proactive safeguard designed to help you spot certificate issues before they escalate into business problems.

True reliability takes the whole team

Reliability takes the whole team working together. Full transcript:  If you really want to get good at measuring your reliability, then you have to work together as a team. Once your software engineer organization has decided, "We're gonna test these applications to make sure that they have redundancy, availability, resilience." Just stick to that framework that you come up with as a team.

Self-Service Query UI for Logs in Azure Data Explorer (ADX)

This video focuses on how to create a self-service user interface (UI) for querying logs using Azure Data Explorer (ADX) and the Business Activity Monitoring (BAM) module. Perfect for developers and business users aiming to gain actionable operational insights from log data with simple visualizations and monitoring.