<p>It's Monday afternoon and that feature you've been working on is mostly done. There's just one item still sitting untouched at the bottom of the ticket: "Add monitoring."</p><p>You know you should…
Observability platform company Dynatrace announced a set of advancements to its Dynatrace Intelligence service on Monday that aim to take The post Dynatrace’s new agents can reveal the single hardest…
<p>Observability has traditionally been tacked on after your code hits production, but with agentic operations on the rise, that's no longer sustainable.</p><p>Agents have dramatically increased the…
Every multi-region setup eventually meets the same awkward moment: a whole cluster goes away, and the identical copy of your service running two regions over might as well not exist, because nothing…
In digital operations management, AI agents give organizations a competitive edge by reducing incident volume and accelerating recovery. The potential The post 5 ways SRE AI agents are set to augment…
According to OpenAI, the Hugging Face security breach was an “unprecedented cyber incident, involving state-of-the-art cyber capabilities.” Critics may disagree. Back The post What really happened in…
Open source has been a defining part of my career for many years. As an engineer working in the cloud native ecosystem, I have spent the last five years building and contributing to technologies arou…
In case you missed it: OpenTelemetry (OTel) has officially achieved CNCF graduated status! It now stands proudly alongside amazing open source projects such as Kubernetes and Prometheus, to name just…
Japanese article follows English one. As we all know, AI is advancing from generative AI to agents, driving growing demand for scalable, efficient infrastructure. Kubernetes and the broader Cloud Nat…
<p>If your network restricts inbound or outbound traffic, you likely <u><a href="https://grafana.com/docs/grafana-cloud/security-and-account-management/allow-list/">maintain an allowlist</a></u> of G…
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A follow-up to our earlier post: “Sustaining OpenTelemetry: Moving from Dependency Management to Stewardship” *** In April 2026, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), the OpenTelemetry (OTel)…
The symptom that made no sense The first time we saw it, we didn’t trust the dashboard. A distributed training job was scheduled and healthy — every pod was running, no crashes, no OOMKills, nothing…
Kubernetes has become the de facto operating system for AI. In CNCF’s 2025 Annual Cloud Native Survey, 82% of container users now run Kubernetes in production, and 66% of organizations hosting genera…
HCP Terraform and Terraform Enterprise boost resiliency, governance, and scalability, helping platform teams manage infrastructure and deliver faster at scale.
The CNCF Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) has voted to accept Confidential Containers as a CNCF incubating project. About Confidential Containers Confidential Containers addresses the need to prot…
<p>Knowing what you're spending on observability is useful. Knowing which team, service, or project is driving that spend is what actually lets you act on that information. </p><p>Cost attribution is…
Introduction Running a database on Kubernetes is well understood. Running one that survives a complete regional failure, a corrupted control plane, or a severed network requires a fault-resistant arc…
Kyverno is a Kubernetes-native policy engine that validates, mutates, and generates resources before workloads reach your cluster, enforcing security and compliance rules as code, without requiring a…
Terraform Stacks simplify provisioning and managing resources at scale, reducing the time and overhead of managing infrastructure.
The DevOps movement, set in motion nearly 20 years ago, broke down the traditional divide between software developers and IT The post Kubernetes made deploying easy. Nobody warned you about the datab…
Platform engineering is evolving Platform engineering has become one of the defining disciplines of the cloud native era. As organizations embraced Kubernetes, microservices, GitOps, and distributed…
What 1,192 agent conversations taught us about knowledge base search A few months ago we shipped an agent inside our own product. It lives in our web app and lets users ask questions about their depl…
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A special half-day ArgoCon Japan (1:30pm – 6:30pm) will be held July 28, 2026 in Yokohama, Japan as a colocated event with KubeCon + CloudNativeCon. This is a chance to hear from and meet both end...
When we benchmark an LLM serving setup, the number almost everyone reaches for first is throughput: how many requests per second the system can push through. It is easy to measure, easy to compare, a…
When you run Kubernetes at the scale we do on Amazon EKS, nodes break constantly. GPUs fall off the PCIe The post Self-healing GPU nodes in Kubernetes: What we learned building the EKS node monitorin…
There’s a pattern I’ve watched repeat for two years. A team builds an agent, hits reliability problems, upgrades the model, The post The bottleneck for AI agents isn’t the model anymore. It’s the con…
Platform engineering has won the argument. Some 90% of organizations have adopted at least one internal platform; golden paths are The post Platform engineering’s new job: serving environments at age…
Kubernetes controllers are what make the platform’s declarative model real. They observe the state, reconcile toward the intent, and keep The post From intent to enforcement: Lessons from operating K…
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon India 2026 brought the cloud native community to Mumbai on June 18-19. For LitmusChaos, this was not just another conference. It was one of our most significant events to dat…
<p>This fall, prepare to leave your heart in San Francisco. </p><p>Registration is officially open for <a href="/events/observabilitycon/2026/">ObservabilityCON 2026</a><a href="/events/observability…
Collaboration with CNCF reflects Broadcom’s continued investment in open source innovation, cloud native resilience and the technologies powering the next generation of AI workloads Key Highlights SA…
Terraform policy brings HCL-based policy as code into Terraform, helping teams define and enforce governance policies with more lifecycle context.
Running large language model (LLM) workloads in-house is one of several patterns teams adopt alongside managed API services. Managed API services are convenient and well suited to many workloads. Sel…
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<p>We’re delighted to share that <a href="/analyst-reports/gartner-magic-quadrant-observability-platforms">Grafana Labs has been named a Leader in the Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Observability Platf…
The CNCF Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) has voted to accept HAMi as a CNCF incubating project. About HAMi Modern AI infrastructure teams run into the same problem over and over: expensive GPUs o…
For application teams, databases should feel like a solved problem. A team needs PostgreSQL, MariaDB, Redis, or another data service, submits a request, receives credentials, and starts building. In…
The countdown is officially on. In just a few weeks, the cloud-native ecosystem meets in Yokohama for KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Japan 2026. Taking place on Tuesday, July 28 from 09:00 – 12:30, Keycloa…
<p>When you're the on-call engineer and something breaks, you can quickly find yourself deep in a series of tools you don't regularly use—switching tabs, copying query results, and manually stitching…
<p>Kubernetes ships with built-in awareness of CPU and memory, but most real-world scaling decisions depend on signals that live entirely outside that narrow window: how many messages are waiting in…
Introduction Automated incident remediation – turning investigation findings into deployed fixes without manual toil – is the next frontier for operations teams running distributed workloads on AWS.…
When we first started building kagent, we didn’t run every agent in its own Kubernetes Pod, Service, and ServiceAccount. Instead, agents were simply executed inside the kagent runtime. It was the sim…
<p>Kubernetes has quietly become the default platform for AI and machine learning. Whether you run notebook servers for data scientists, schedule distributed training jobs, tune hyperparameters, or o…
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As more organizations move to use OpenTelemetry in production at scale, with multiple Collectors across heterogeneous environments, a new challenge arises: how to remotely manage, configure, and upda…
Opinions on AI range from transformative optimism to deep skepticism, but one thing is clear: AI is becoming an increasingly important part of enterprise technology strategies. Feel free to pick whic…
<p>In this episode of "Grafana's Big Tent" podcast, hosts Mat Ryer, Senior Director of AI at Grafana Labs, and Tom Wilkie, CTO at Grafana Labs, sit down with Eric Burns, Field Executive Architect at…