Observability and security company Cribl has had a front-row seat to the rise of generative AI, AI agents, and their impact on data management in IT. The company, which grew from log management into federated search, a data pipeline, a data lake, and a cloud-based managed service, also expanded its product offerings this week with notebooks for observability experts, a Model Context Protocol server, and support for bring-your-own-AI. Its co-founder and CEO joined us for a discussion about this week's news, his perspective on how AI will continue to influence the industry, and whether we're in an AI bubble. Featuring: Clint Sharp, co-founder and CEO, Cribl In today’s episode, we’ll cover… AI data management challenges and opportunities The state of the Model Context Protocol standard Cribl Notebooks vs other data science notebooks and more! References: Cribl positions for IPO with $319M in latest funding round Post-lawsuit, Splunk and Cribl meet again in data pipelines NetApp adds AI Data Engine, expands Nvidia partnership Hybrid data management strategy for enterprise AI success To learn more about software development and platform engineering, check out Search IT Operations. To watch clips from our podcast, subscribe to our YouTube channel, @EyeOnTech.