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Reducing Burnout: The AI Agent That Never Sleeps
The High Cost of Always Being On Network operations don’t stop at 5 PM—incidents can happen any time, putting pressure on teams to be...
Jul 9, 20251 min read
No-Code Automation: Democratizing the Power of Agents
Making Automation Accessible to Everyone Automation and AI agents have often been the domain of engineers and coders.But no-code...
Jul 8, 20251 min read
Human-in-the-Loop Observability
Blending Machine Insight with Human Intuition AI agents are powerful, but the best results come when they work alongside skilled...
Jul 7, 20251 min read
Telemetry Tuning: Feeding Agents with the Right Data
Quality Over Quantity in Data Collection More data isn’t always better—especially when it comes to AI-powered automation.Too much...
Jul 3, 20251 min read
Detecting the Unknown: AI Agents and Anomaly Discovery
The Limits of Rule-Based Monitoring Traditional network monitoring works well for known issues—but what about “unknown unknowns”?Static...
Jul 2, 20251 min read
Breaking Data Silos: Unifying Logs, Metrics, and Traces
The Challenge of Fragmented Data Network and application data is often scattered across multiple tools and systems—logs here, metrics...
Jul 1, 20251 min read
Observability-Driven Agents: From Signals to Action
Why Observability Powers the Smartest Agents Observability isn’t just about collecting data—it’s about turning vast streams of signals...
Jun 30, 20251 min read
Explainable Agents: Trust and Transparency in Automation
Why Explainability Matters As AI agents take on more responsibility in NetOps, understanding how and why they make decisions is...
Jun 26, 20251 min read
Intelligent Escalation: Getting the Right Eyes on the Problem
The Escalation Overload Problem Traditional alerting and escalation can quickly become overwhelming—flooding teams with tickets and...
Jun 25, 20251 min read
Predictive Operations: Proactive Over Reactive
Moving Beyond Firefighting Traditional network operations are often stuck in firefighting mode—scrambling to resolve issues after users...
Jun 24, 20251 min read
Closing the Loop: Real-Time Feedback and Adaptive Learning
Automation That Doesn’t Stand Still Classic automation is built on fixed rules: set it, forget it—until something changes.AI agents are...
Jun 23, 20251 min read
From Ticket Triage to Self-Remediation: Daily Use Cases
AI Agents Are Already on the Job Forget the hype—AI agents are quietly transforming daily network operations.From automatically...
Jun 19, 20251 min read
The Human in the AI Agent Loop
Full Autonomy? Not Quite—And That’s Okay Despite the promise of fully autonomous operations, most real-world environments still need...
Jun 17, 20251 min read
Not All “Agents” Are Equal: Separating Hype from Reality
The Rise—and Risk—of the “Agent” Label With the growing popularity of AI and automation, almost every tool now claims to be powered by...
Jun 16, 20251 min read
Anatomy of an AI Agent: Sensing, Thinking, Acting
• The Three Core Functions Every true AI agent combines three fundamental capabilities: sensing, thinking, and acting. Sensing involves...
Jun 6, 20251 min read
What Makes an AI Agent “Autonomous”?
Beyond Static Rules — The Essence of Autonomy Traditional automation depends on human-written rules: “If X happens, do Y.” But real-world...
Jun 5, 20251 min read
Beyond Automation: The Start of the AI Agent Era
• Automation Got Us Here — Now AI Agents Take Us Further Over the past decade, network automation has become the industry standard....
Jun 4, 20251 min read
The Future Is Collaborative: AI, Observability, and the Empowered Engineer
• Not AI vs. Humans, but AI + Humans Despite the hype, AI isn’t here to replace engineers — it’s here to empower them. A 2024 Cisco study...
Jun 3, 20251 min read
From Dashboards to Decisions: What Engineers Really
More Dashboards, More Overload The average enterprise now maintains more than 25 monitoring dashboards across operations, according to a...
Jun 2, 20251 min read
Logs, Metrics, and Traces — United by Intelligence
• Each Data Type Tells Part of the Story Logs record every detail, metrics track trends, and traces map out the journey of every...
May 30, 20251 min read
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