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AI is generating more code than ever, but delivery hasn’t kept pace. The Harness IDP Knowledge Agent helps teams close that gap by turning their internal developer portal into an intelligent platform for faster, safer software delivery. Joining a new engineering team can be exciting, but it can also be overwhelming. You spend the first few days figuring out what each service does, where documentation lives, and who owns what.

Availability describes how often a system is operational and accessible when users need it. It answers a basic question: Can I access the service right now? Availability is often expressed as a percentage over a set time window.

As excitement builds for KubeCon North America 2025 in Atlanta, Densify has released its latest innovation for Kubernetes and AI-driven infrastructure resource management: the Densify Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server. This new capability enables organizations to securely integrate Densify’s Kubex resource optimization intelligence directly into popular LLM-powered tools — including ChatGPT, Claude, Cursor, and Gemini CLI.

Ubuntu images on Microsoft Azure have recently started shipping with the open source package azure-vm-utils included by default. Azure VM utils is a package that provides essential utilities and udev rules to optimize the Linux experience on Azure. This change results in more reliable disks, smoother networking on accelerated setups, and fewer tweaks to get things running. Here’s what you need to know.

As Chief Legal Officer, I’ve personally navigated the complex, ever-shifting landscape where privacy compliance meets rapidly evolving technologies. Whether it’s the sweeping reach of a law protecting personal data in the EU, the specific demands of a law giving California residents more control over their personal information, or the critical protections of a law safeguarding sensitive patient health information in the U.S., one challenge remains.

Recommendation: Focus your next AI initiative on one high-impact workflow. Measure, iterate, and scale. Agentic AI has quickly become the next frontier of enterprise automation. Instead of static AI tools that wait for human prompts, agents act on behalf of users by autonomously reasoning, sequencing steps, and taking action within defined guardrails.

We’re expanding the Open 360 AI experience to more users with a modernized navigation and full access to Grafana and OSD dashboards. Your existing dashboards, alerts, bookmarks, and integrations remain unchanged, while new AI-powered capabilities provide deeper explanations and actionable insights. Existing customers can request early access through their account team.

A Building Management System (BMS) is commonly used in data centers to monitor and control the facility’s mechanical, electrical, and environmental systems. With a BMS in place, it’s reasonable to ask: do you still need Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) software? The short answer is yes—DCIM and BMS serve occasionally overlapping but fundamentally different purposes.

In October’s episode of This Month in Datadog, Jeremy shows how you can use AI to query with natural language in DDSQL Editor, ensure teams stay continually updated during outages, mitigate the impact of flaky tests, and ingest OpenTelemetry Protocol (OTLP) metrics from serverless and third-party SaaS environments.