Catchpoint News Catchup Episode 06
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AI for Grafana onboarding: Get your teams started quicker with Grafana Assistant
Grafana puts a powerful set of observability capabilities right at your fingertips, but onboarding entire teams to the sophisticated platform is often a nontrivial exercise—one that can slow adoption and prevent organizations from getting immediate value. We want to make the process as frictionless as possible, which is why we’re excited to tell you that Grafana Assistant is now available in public preview to all Grafana Cloud users.
AI in observability at Grafana Labs: Making observability easy and accessible for everyone
Did you know that observability has been around for more than six decades? It all goes back to a Hungarian-American inventor named Rudolf Kálmán who thought about how external outputs could measure the internal state of a machine. Kálmán wrote about monitoring single-input single-output systems, but our demands are very different today. We need to observe monoliths, microservices, clusters, pods, regions, and many more.
Network Switch Monitoring: How to Monitor Switch Performance with SNMP
If you’ve spent any time managing networks, you know the switch is the backbone that keeps everything connected, but it’s easy to take them for granted until something breaks. Monitoring network switches isn’t just “nice to have”; it’s critical if you want to avoid those sudden outages that bring everything to a halt.
Building MCP - 0 to Monitored with Vercel, Next.js and Sentry
Build an MCP server starting from 0 using Vercel's Next.js template, and ends in generating hot takes in the tone of David Cramer. Scaffold Sentry, add tool calls via Cursor CLI, and setup MCP monitoring with Sentry's new wrapMcpServerWithSentry method.
Sentry MCP server monitoring
We just launched MCP server monitoring in beta. You can instrument most server-side JavaScript SDK based MCP servers with one line of instrumentation code within your MCP SDK implementation using: wrapMcpServerWithSentry(McpServer) See details like protocol usage, client usage, traffic, tool usage, and performance across your MCP implementation so you you can get visibility into all the sharp edges that your MCP server has — who’s using it, how it’s working (or not), and get alerted when things break.
MCP Server Observability is here!
Lets be real, who really knows whats happening inside MCP Server? Well, now you can! We've been building our MCP Server for the past few months, and we've taken all the tools that we've used to debug it and turned them into a set of observability tools to help you monitor your MCP servers end to end.
Simplify XML log collection and processing with Observability Pipelines
In Microsoft-based environments, Windows event logs capture critical security events like user logins, privilege escalations, and system changes. These logs are vital for compliance and investigations. However, they’re natively formatted in XML, a verbose and deeply nested structure that is hard to search without preprocessing and inefficient to store.
You built the MCP server. Now track every client, tool, and request with Sentry.
TL;DR - Starting today, you can instrument most server-side JavaScript SDK based MCP servers with one line of instrumentation code within your MCP SDK implementation. Click to Copy Click to Copy With this in place, you’ll be able to see details like protocol usage, client usage, traffic, tool usage, and performance across your MCP implementation.
Optimize Your E-Commerce Platform with PHP Performance Monitoring
In e-commerce, seconds can mean millions. A one-second delay during checkout can slash conversion rates by 7% and send frustrated customers straight to your competitors. Most modern e-commerce platforms, such as Magento and WooCommerce, and Laravel-based solutions, run on PHP, making PHP application performance monitoring (APM) not just a nice-to-have, but a revenue-critical necessity.