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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.

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.

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.

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*. By letting an AI agent like Copilot analyze Rollbar's session replay data directly, teams can move from *“something broke”* to *“here’s exactly why it broke”* in minutes, not hours.

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.

Google SecOps Forwarder Deprecation: Migrate to Bindplane and OpenTelemetry

Google Cloud Security Operations is deprecating the legacy SecOps Forwarder, and OpenTelemetry with Bindplane is the official telemetry ingestion method. In this workshop, you’ll learn how to migrate from the SecOps Forwarder to Bindplane and OpenTelemetry Collectors, the officially supported ingestion model for Google SecOps going forward. We walk through the why, the what, and the how — with practical guidance you can apply immediately.

Elastic and Microsoft partnership achievements in 2025

Highlights of another successful year of customer-centric collaboration Once again, our partnership delivered an impressive year of innovation with Microsoft Azure, Azure AI Foundry, and Azure OpenAI. This blog highlights our continued collaboration with Microsoft to better serve customers throughout 2025 and our key moments at Microsoft Ignite.

How Aerospace Companies Use InfluxDB

Over the past two decades, we’ve witnessed the instrumentation of virtually everything in the aerospace industry, from manufacturing floors to satellites orbiting Earth. And it’s no longer just NASA and other government organizations leading the charge. The commercial space industry has grown exponentially, with private companies developing everything from GPS satellites to electric VTOL aircraft.