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No one's ever been on their deathbed wishing they'd worked more — and your team knows that too. When people feel like they can be their full selves and actually live their life, they stay longer. And if they do leave, they're far more likely to recommend your company as a great place to work. Watch the full IT Leadership Lab session — linked above.

The open source server connects any AI assistant to everything in your Grafana - dashboards, metrics, logs, alerts, on-call, incidents - and it can make changes for you, not just look things up. Grafana Cloud takes minutes, and you stay in control - choose exactly what the AI can see and do, including a view-only mode.

Learn how to allocate Azure costs across departments and get a clear view of who is spending what. In this video, we’ll show you practical ways to track and allocate Azure costs by department using Azure cost management practices. You’ll learn how to organize cloud spend, assign costs to teams or business units, improve cost visibility, and make Azure cost discussions easier between finance, engineering, and IT teams.

Fragmented telemetry limits what AI can understand. When logs, metrics, and traces remain siloed, AI sees individual signals instead of the full story. That can lead to incorrect conclusions and unexpected outcomes. This is where AI observability matters. Virtana connects telemetry across the stack, giving AI the context it needs to correlate signals, understand dependencies, and identify what is really happening.

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In our penultimate episode of the series we try to hit all the things that didn’t fit anywhere else - Cribl Guard, the API/SDK, Insights, and the FinOps center. By the time the month is over, you will have a pretty good idea of what Cribl can do, and how to do it. You’ll also have consumed more caffeinated beverages than is strictly appropriate...

Who should actually be trusted to oversee AI? As frontier AI systems become more powerful, the question isn't just whether we need more oversight — it's who is actually qualified to provide it. Adam Arellano, Martin Reynolds, and Bryan D. Payne debate whether governments, third-party evaluators, academics, former frontier-lab employees, or independent organizations can realistically hold companies like OpenAI and Anthropic accountable.

In this video, we explore the basics of Transaction Checks on Uptime.com, an advanced multi-step monitoring tool for website elements. Learn how to create customized scripts to mimic user actions such as visiting a site, filling out forms, and clicking buttons. We walk through a step-by-step guide on setting up a Transaction Check to monitor a login process, including navigating to a URL, validating HTTP status codes, and using browser developer tools to configure field entries. Discover different monitoring intervals and tips for organizing your checks with tags and location settings.

"Channel is the heartbeat of any vendor conversation...if your product is not good, the channel is not going to be doing the miracle." In this episode of SolarWinds World Tour Conversations, we sit down with Sheetal Kalra, Regional Channel Manager for META, to discuss why a strong channel ecosystem is essential for bringing in strong customers. We explore the technology-driven nature of channel sales, the 2026 modifications to simplify the Partner Program, and how partners are successfully navigating network and observability challenges for their clients.

We sat down to talk with Lisa, one of our Founding Engineers, about how agents and AI tooling affect the traditional assumptions about scaling a tech business. We also discussed how you balance speed and reliability in this new world.