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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.
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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.
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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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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.
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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
Connect PagerDuty, Jira, and Slack without losing incident state
A design guide for an incident assistant that handles duplicate events, partial failures, and reviewed AI summaries across tools.
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Collect and aggregate operational data with Python
Validate the source data, preserve useful denominators, and distinguish a failed collection from a real zero before aggregating metrics.