AIOps
GPU capacity depends on power and cooling
When inference slows without obvious application errors, test physical constraints alongside queueing, workload changes, and software regressions.
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OpenTelemetry’s Kubernetes milestone matters for AI agent tracing
The stable Kubernetes attributes processor helps connect AI-agent traces to their workloads. Check the metadata joins before upgrading.
AIOps
Observability With AIOps: A Practical Evaluation Guide
Use AIOps to connect operational evidence, then test whether it improves investigation without hiding missing signals or unsupported conclusions.
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Splunk agent observability: follow the work, then the bill
Splunk’s September release connects agent evaluation and cost monitoring. The useful test is whether a responder can trace spending back to an outcome.
AIOps
NotebookLM for SRE: build a source-backed incident dossier
Use a curated notebook to compare runbooks and incident evidence, while keeping citations, freshness, and operational authority in view.
AIOps
Evaluate Claude Opus 4.6 for operational work
Test evidence retrieval, long-session consistency, tool boundaries, and cost before letting a model influence production changes.
How-To
Canary deployments: limit exposure and test the comparison
Choose representative traffic, define promotion criteria, and verify rollback compatibility before expanding a release.
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Mean time to detect: calculate MTTD and expose measurement gaps
Use consistent onset and discovery timestamps, include customer-reported incidents, and interpret the average with its sample and uncertainty.
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Metrics for observability: choose the question before the chart
Counters, gauges, and distributions answer different questions. Build metrics that preserve scope, denominators, and the evidence behind an incident.
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Read a distributed trace without mistaking it for the whole system
Understand spans, parent-child relationships, retries, and missing evidence so traces support a careful diagnosis.