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How to Troubleshoot BGP Faster with Kentik AI Advisor

Jan 22, 2026 By Kentik In Kentik
A BGP session goes down because a transit provider exceeded the maximum prefix limit. How do you find the root cause — fast? In this 10-minute demo, we walk through two approaches using Kentik AI Advisor. First, we troubleshoot step by step using natural language: asking AI Advisor to identify the affected interface, check for interface flapping, and review syslog messages until we find the maximum-prefix violation. Then we show how custom network context and natural language runbooks let AI Advisor do the entire investigation autonomously — following the same four steps a senior engineer would.
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grafana

React 19 is coming to Grafana: what plugin developers need to know

Jan 22, 2026 By Timur Olzhabayev In Grafana
As part of the upcoming Grafana 13 release in April, we will be updating to React 19, the latest major version of the frontend library for building user interfaces. Grafana uses React as the core technology for its frontend UI and its vibrant ecosystem of plugins. This update ensures we stay aligned with the broader React ecosystem, and allows us to take advantage of ongoing performance enhancements and new functionality provided by React APIs.
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ChatOps that actually works: Grafana Cloud, Slack, and AI-powered observability

Jan 22, 2026 By Ksenia Yadav In Grafana
Context switching isn’t just inefficient—under pressure, it’s exhausting. It slows decision-making, increases the risk of mistakes, and makes even experienced engineers feel like they’re always a step behind the system they’re responsible for. At Grafana Labs, we want to build tools that meet you where you are. That's why we embedded Grafana Assistant, our context-aware AI assistant, directly in Grafana Cloud.
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honeycomb

Measuring Claude Code ROI and Adoption in Honeycomb

Jan 22, 2026 By Mae Capozzi In Honeycomb
At Honeycomb, we’ve been using Claude Code across our engineering team for a while. Anecdotally, I had a sense of who the power users were, and I had seen some examples of complex usage. But I wanted to be able to confidently answer questions, like: Claude Code supports OpenTelemetry out of the box, which means sending telemetry to Honeycomb takes just a few minutes of configuration.
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sentry

Monitoring microservices and distributed systems with Sentry

Jan 22, 2026 By Richard C. In Sentry
If you’ve ever tried to debug a request that touched five services, a queue, and a database you don’t own, you already know why monitoring distributed systems is hard. Logs live in different places, requests disappear halfway through a flow, and when something breaks in production, you’re reconstructing what happened from fragments. Microservices make this worse by design. A single request fans out across small, independently deployed services, often communicating asynchronously.
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request metrics

Understanding Lighthouse: Largest Contentful Paint

Jan 22, 2026 By Todd H. Gardner In Request Metrics
Your hero image takes 5 seconds to show up. Your headline sits invisible while JavaScript churns away. Your users? They’ve already hit the back button. That’s the cost of a slow Largest Contentful Paint, and it’s killing your conversions and search rankings. LCP is one of Google’s Core Web Vitals, which means it directly impacts how Google ranks your website. A slow LCP doesn’t just frustrate users, it actively hurts your SEO.
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datadog

Unify and correlate frontend and backend data with retention filters

Jan 22, 2026 By Stella Ma In Datadog
Teams can use Datadog Real User Monitoring (RUM) and RUM without Limits to get full visibility into the frontend health of their applications while retaining only the sessions that contain critical problems that affect the end-user experience. But application errors or slowness often result from backend issues, such as database bottlenecks. To diagnose these issues, you need to correlate the frontend data from RUM with the backend data from Datadog Application Performance Monitoring (APM).
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env0

Drift Under Control: Keep Your Infrastructure Consistent with Continuous Detection, Intelligent Analysis, and Safe Remediation

Jan 22, 2026 By Hadas Weinrib In env0
In cloud-native environments, infrastructure is in constant flux. Teams move fast, leveraging Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC), ephemeral resources, and automation to iterate quickly. But speed brings a cost: configuration drift. A single manual change in the cloud console, an untracked automation script, or an out-of-band fix can cause your infrastructure to fall out of sync with code. Over time, this erodes trust, breaks pipelines, and introduces silent risk.
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influxdata

From Monitoring Signals to Observability Maturity

Jan 22, 2026 By Allyson Boate In InfluxData
Efficient monitoring delivers fast results: alerts fire within seconds, dashboards refresh continuously, and teams know the moment something changes. Understanding arrives later. An alert may show that a value shifted, but it does not explain why it shifted, how far the impact will spread, or which components truly matter. Teams see the signal, not the system behavior behind it. This gap defines the limit of traditional monitoring. Detection has improved, but explanation has not kept pace.
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