Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

Why pay for continuous ingestion of data you rarely use? Learn how to maintain a lean data strategy by keeping long-term logs in cheap S3 storage, while retaining the power to "promote" specific slices into Splunk whenever an audit or investigation arises. See how Promote for Amazon S3 gives you the speed of local indexing without sacrificing speed in investigations.

In this episode, Benedict Lelijveld joins us to unpack what it feels like to start a career in an era shaped by COVID disruption, hybrid work, and accelerating AI. We dig into his writing on Mustafa Suleyman and the idea of “pessimism aversion”: holding genuine hope for breakthroughs (from personal AI to advances in biology) while staying clear-eyed about risks like misuse, weak regulation, and who really benefits. Benedict also reflects on what early-career professionals lose when work becomes too remote—and why protecting your voice, curiosity, and craft matters more than ever as automation spreads.

In this demo, Kevin shows how you can use Honeybadger's MCP server with Claude to investigate a production incident — going from a natural language prompt to a complete incident dashboard in minutes. Honeybadger is an application health monitoring platform that helps developers catch errors, track performance, and stay on top of incidents. The MCP server lets AI assistants like Claude query your Honeybadger data directly, so you can investigate issues conversationally without digging through dashboards manually.

This webinar focuses on Monitoring and Optimizing a Hybrid Cloud Environment. Downtime is an expensive inconvenience. Yet many IT teams still face monitoring blackouts due to rigid licensing models and outdated failover strategies. In this session, we’ll introduce a smarter approach: High Availability by Design. Whether you're scaling operations or modernizing infrastructure, this session will enable you with the tools and insights to build a resilient, future-ready monitoring strategy.

Learn how to create, update and manage terraform synthetic monitoring checks in Grafana Cloud Synthetic Monitoring. In this video, we walk through the steps you need to follow.