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grafana

Add skills to agents: Use Assistant playbooks for faster answers, investigations

Feb 5, 2026 By Mat Ryer In Grafana
Grafana Assistant is the most general-purpose tool we’ve delivered since dashboards. People use our Grafana Cloud LLM to understand unfamiliar areas of their stacks, generate dashboards and beautiful visualizations out of thin air, build queries, and support investigations.
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Grafana dashboards as code: How to manage your dashboards with Git

Feb 5, 2026 By Roberto Jiménez Sánchez In Grafana
Note: This blog post originally published in May 2025 and was updated in February 2026 to reflect that Git Sync is now available in public preview in Grafana Cloud. As your Grafana instance scales, so does the challenge of maintaining dashboards. Managing dozens—or hundreds—of dashboards through the UI alone can quickly become overwhelming. Tracking changes gets murky, dashboards multiply, and consistency suffers.
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Skylar Advisor: Proactive Guidance for Modern Operations

Feb 5, 2026 By ScienceLogic In ScienceLogic
Meet Skylar Advisor, bringing trusted and verifiable guidance to IT operations by connecting real time observability with your data and knowledge. Built AI native, it helps teams cut through alert floods, understand what matters most and why, and take the next best steps with confidence. Every recommendation is evidence backed and traceable to the exact data and sources used, so guidance is clear, explainable, and defensible when the stakes are high.
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flowmon

What is Cybersecurity?

Feb 5, 2026 By Filip Cerny In Flowmon
Cybersecurity refers to the processes and technology used to protect information technology networks, data, people, servers, endpoint devices and other IT-related systems from cyberattacks. The need for this protection has never been greater. All organizations (in both private and public sectors) now exist in a threat landscape that allows attacks against their IT infrastructure.
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icinga

Sync Your Users Into Icinga Notifications: Introducing the Contacts/Groups API

Feb 5, 2026 By Jan Schuppik In Icinga
If you’ve ever onboarded a teammate at 4:57 PM on a Friday (or offboarded one at 4:58 PM… ), you know the pain: keeping notification contacts and groups up to date is work. With the Icinga Notifications REST API, you can automate that and avoid drift.
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Top 9 Observability Tools for AI-Assisted Development & Deployment

Top 9 Observability Tools for AI-Assisted Development & Deployment

Feb 5, 2026 By OpsMatters In OpsMatters
AI-assisted development is rapidly becoming the default way software is built. Code generation, AI copilots, agentic pull requests, and automated refactoring are now embedded directly into engineering workflows. While this shift dramatically increases delivery speed, it also introduces a new operational reality: production systems are changing faster than humans can fully reason about them. This is where observability becomes mission-critical.
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Why Every MSP Needs Centralized SaaS Monitoring

Feb 4, 2026 By Nuno Tomas In isDown
Your monitoring stack catches server failures, network issues, and application crashes. But what happens when Microsoft Teams goes down across half your client base at 3 AM? Your on-call tech gets bombarded with alerts that all trace back to one root cause they can't see. This is the MSP blind spot: third-party SaaS dependencies that sit outside your monitoring perimeter but directly impact your SLAs.
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