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AI-Powered Observability: From Reactive to Predictive

If there’s one thing clear from our AI-powered observability webinar, it’s that observability has officially graduated from a “nice-to-have” to a business-critical discipline, and AI is helping lead that charge. Our webinar brought together guest speaker Stephen Elliott, Group VP at IDC, and Ranbir Chawla, former SVP of Engineering at RB Global, for an hour of insights that mixed data, experience, and hard-won lessons from the trenches.

Home Assistant Hardware: Requirements and Recommendations

Choosing the proper Home Assistant hardware can be overwhelming. Whether you’re new to home automation or a seasoned pro, the hardware you select can make or break your experience. This comprehensive guide will demystify the requirements, delve into the various options, and help you make an informed decision. From the compact Raspberry Pi to the powerful Intel NUC, we’ve got you covered. So, strap in, and let’s dive into the world of Home Assistant hardware!

How to Build a Clear AI Implementation Strategy

Organizations see AI’s transformative potential, but success requires more than technology – it demands a clear strategy led by IT. A structured AI implementation roadmap aligns initiatives with business goals, establishes governance, and enables measurable ROI, while improving employee and customer experiences. Yet, 66% of organizations view AI as critical, but only 38% report meaningful competitive advantage, highlighting the need for disciplined adoption.

Why Web Synthetic Monitoring essential for Modern Web Performance

Your analytics dashboard is green, which indicates that your application is up 99.9% of the time, pages load in under three seconds on average, and conversion rates are stable. But here’s the uncomfortable reality, you’re probably missing 40% to 60% of the actual performance problems which impact real customers every day.

Planning a Smooth Cutover When You Change Critical Business Tools

A cutover is when you change from an old IT system to a new one. With technology advancing at a rapid rate, more and more businesses are learning about and implementing cutovers. If now's the time for you to execute a cutover, it's important that you plan everything effectively so that it goes smoothly. Planning a smooth cutover is easier said than done, however. There are some important things you need to know first. Until you conduct extensive online research, you're never going to be able to effectively plan a cutover.

3 Questions I Expect You to Ask Me

As a product specialist, I’ve had countless conversations about network observability. I’ve seen the good, the bad, and the downright confusing. The market is flooded with vendors, all claiming to have the magic bullet for your network woes. Everywhere I go, the story is the same. The neat and tidy world of the on-premises data center is gone, replaced by a sprawling environment that stretches across multiple clouds, your own facilities, and out to the edge.

Prioritizing Bugs with Sentry Logs

Learn how to use Sentry Logs to measure how often a bug occurs and which users it impacts. In this example, a React Native app with an Express.js backend crashes when the diet value becomes undefined. After identifying the root cause, we use Explore Logs to count how many times users switch their diet to “none,” filter the related log messages, and group results by user type to understand the impact.

Sage AI: Dashboard, events, knowledge base

It's starting to take shape. We have a dashboard, we're collecting some metrics, and I'm getting a daily briefing every morning. Also, I have an event log where all the events are going into (the spine of the system), and there's a knowledge base which consists of a GitHub repository which is vectorized and indexed. Its first use is adding context to Herald, the agent that sends me the morning briefing. More details to come.

Automate Weekly Rollbar Reports with Zapier + Google Sheets

In this video, we cover how you can use Rollbar, Zapier AI, and Google Sheets to create a completely automated reporting pipeline—one that generates weekly reports of Rollbar occurrences, organizes them in Sheets, and arms PMs with insights they can use to guide roadmap decisions, reduce risk, and improve user experience.