AppSignal Launch Week 2026 Recap
That's a wrap on Launch Week 2026. In case you missed a day, or you want the short version, here is everything we shipped.
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Install AURA to Debug Incidents Using an Open Source SRE Agent
AURA is a fully open-source agentic harness built for SRE and production operations work. In this walkthrough, Mezmo forward deployed engineer Jeff iinstalls AURA on a local desktop, runs `aura init` to generate the config and connect it to an Anthropic Sonnet model, then wires in a Grafana MCP server pointed at his homelab. He hands AURA a live incident: a set of addressable LED lights that stopped responding to Home Assistant.
How GPS Ankle Monitors Work in Ohio: A Complete Guide to Electronic Monitoring and Bail Bonds
When someone you care about is arrested, the experience can be overwhelming. Along with concerns about bail, court dates, and legal representation, many families are surprised to learn that a judge may require a GPS ankle monitor as a condition of release. If you've never dealt with the Ohio criminal justice system before, you probably have questions. What is a GPS ankle monitor? How does it work? Can someone still go to work? Do you still need a bail bond? What happens if the monitor stops working?
What SREs Can Learn from Revenue Operations (and Vice Versa)
Site reliability engineers and revenue operations teams rarely sit at the same desk. Software engineers look after cloud infrastructure while operations professionals look after data pipelines and sales funnels. Yet both teams spend their days managing complex systems that can't afford to crash. When you look past the different tools they use, the underlying principles of both roles are almost identical. Let's examine how these two technical worlds can share practical insights to build better business systems.
Are You Audit-Ready? SecOps for SAP in the Age of Constant Change
Drift Happens. Six months ago, your SAP landscape passed audit cleanly. Today? You couldn’t say for certain without a manual scramble across Basis, security, and infrastructure teams to reconstruct what’s true right now. You did exactly that for the audit, after all. That gap between “was compliant” and “is compliant” is where most SAP security programs quietly fail.
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No SAP Expertise? No Problem. Automation Just Got Easier
Avantra 21 introduced the concept of Automation workflows. By Avantra 23, compatibility with Ansible was added. Along the way, Avantra became the tool SAP teams reached for when they wanted system copies, refreshes, and backup orchestration to just run - predictably, on a schedule, without a senior engineer babysitting them. So, automation isn't new to Avantra users. Avantra made automation for SAP practical to deploy, predictable in operation, and easier to maintain.
Real-Time Satellite Monitoring with InfluxDB 3 & Claude
See how InfluxData built an AI-powered satellite fleet dashboard using InfluxDB 3 Enterprise. Head of Product Marketing Ryan Nelson demonstrates how the system handles high-cardinality telemetry and burst ingestion, detects anomalies in real time, and connects live operational data to Claude through the InfluxDB 3 MCP server. The result is faster fleet-wide analysis, reliable telemetry ingestion, and an integrated workflow for anomaly detection, investigation, and response.
It was surprisingly hard to break CloudNativePG replication
I wanted a Postgres replica that falls behind its primary. Sounds easy. It wasn't. Every time I cut the replica off from the primary, its lag jumped for a moment and then dropped right back to zero. It just would not stay behind. Chasing down why turned into a fun little tour of how a Postgres standby keeps itself alive, and what CloudNativePG quietly sets up behind the scenes.
Firewall High Memory Usage: How to Troubleshoot and Fix It
A firewall running low on memory rarely fails all at once. It degrades first. Connections drop intermittently, policies take longer to process, and by the time the device becomes unresponsive, the problem has been building for days or weeks. This article walks through what firewall memory usage actually means, what causes it to climb, how to spot the symptoms early, and how to troubleshoot and fix it before it takes your network down with it.
Should you still use MCP?
Watch the full episode: MCP vs CLI: Does it even make a difference? Live Laugh Logs ep. 3.