CLI and MCP Basics for AI Agents (The Context Window #4)
MCP vs CLI: which one should your AI agent actually use? We get into it with Grafana's cloud and OSS MCP servers and gcx.
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Grafana Assistant Context Offloading
Context Offloading is a pipeline solution for managing Observability with AI Agents. If you are building AI Agents that work with real data, the context window can very easily get filled with bloated context that the Agent does not really need. Sven demonstrates "Context Offloading", a solution that stores the JSON result and sends only the summary of the JSON blob, making the LLM loop performance much quicker and keeping your context window small.
AI Observability Deep Dive Demo | Grafana Cloud
Grafana AI Observability is our new database and platform for observing AI Agents. Over the past year at Grafana Labs, we built Agents and we needed a way to understand how they are performing, what are the costs associated with them, what's the error rate or time to the first token as well as how they are behaving. Grafana Staff Engineer, Ivana Hučková provides a deep dive demo on how Grafana AI Observability connects our experience building Agents with our experience building observability systems.
Shipped: Keep your cost allocation logic out of the wrong hands
CostFormation is how your organization models cost allocation. As more teams adopt it, protecting that logic matters. RBAC for CostFormation Namespaces lets you scope access at the namespace level, so the right people can view and edit Dimensions, and everyone else can’t.
Introducing Bits Agent Builder: Build agentic workflows for alert response and remediation
Building automated workflows that adapt to real-world complexity can be a challenge. As systems scale and scenarios multiply, teams often end up hardcoding endless logic branches just to handle every potential outcome. That’s why we’re introducing Bits Agent Builder, a powerful new tool that lets you create custom AI agents that are fully hosted by Datadog.
Overview Of Dashboard
Learn how to create and customize dashboards on Uptime.com, including setting up the General and Display Settings tabs, configuring check cards, filtering by state, setting sort orders, displaying metrics, managing alerts, and creating multiple dashboards.
What Is IPoDWDM? A Guide to Converged IP and Optical Networking
IP over Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing (IPoDWDM) is a network architecture that integrates optical transmission capabilities directly into IP networking equipment such as routers and switches. This approach represents a significant evolution from traditional network designs, where IP and optical layers were managed as separate domains with distinct hardware and operational teams.
Rocky reads your stack, not just your check
You get an infrastructure alert. Something's off, so you task your agent to investigate, and it ends up grepping through the logs. You both wonder if there's customer impact. There’s a simple rule: AI agents in the incident loop are only as good as the signal you feed them. And logs alone aren't a great signal.
Autonomous IT Is Here. Are You Prepared?
Enterprise IT was built for a more predictable workplace, where support began when an employee reported a problem and IT worked backward from the details they could provide. That model made sense when devices, applications, and ways of working were easier to control. Today, the digital workplace moves too quickly for IT to rely on reported issues alone. By the time a ticket appears, employees may have already lost time, worked around the problem, abandoned the tool, or turned to an unmanaged alternative.
UK GDPR compliance for cloud & hosting: requirements, risks and responsibilities
UK organisations using cloud services carry a clear legal obligation: they must demonstrate compliance with UK GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018, not simply assert it. The shift to cloud and hosted infrastructure does not transfer that responsibility to a provider. It distributes it across a chain of controllers and processors that regulators expect you to understand and manage. Post-Brexit, that obligation is set within a distinct legal framework.