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Latest — 13 Mar 2026

Give your IDE a new superpower

Firetiger is now available in the Cursor Marketplace! If you use Cursor to write code, you can now also use it to operate the software in production with Firetiger: Using our Cursor plugin, you can create agents, instrument services, and resolve issues without leaving your IDE. How do you give

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Custom programming languages make agents really, really good

Agents are good at both creating and using new domain-specific languages You’re probably sleeping on how effective domain-specific languages have become in the last few months. If you’re building a product on top of LLMs and agents (and even if you aren’t, really), you should probably be

Networking with Agents: How to Put Them in the Right Conversations

We briefly considered prompting our agents with the classic networking playbook: polish the profile, craft a compelling personal narrative, ask for warm intros, comment “Insightful perspective” on questionable posts about politics in the workplace. Sadly, this did not help them reach your private Postgres database. In theory, Firetiger Database Agents

Free-range agentic parenting: If you love your agents, set them free!

The hardest part of building autonomous agents is not making them smart. It is deciding what to do when they are smarter than what you designed for. As we build agents at Firetiger, we keep running into this problem. We always ask ourselves whether we should further constrain our agents

Firetiger Database Agents make your database better, faster, and stronger

Today, we’re excited to announce Firetiger Database Agents (DBAs). DBAs are your always-on, expert database administrators. They connect to your database and application telemetry to proactively spot issues and performance wins, then escalate and even apply fixes before your customers notice. You can use DBAs today on Firetiger, with

Incident postmortem in the age of AI agents: Firetiger ingest outage on March 1, 2026

For approximately 8 hours on Sunday, March 1, 2026, Firetiger's ingest system for most customers was in a degraded state, failing to accept OpenTelemetry data and GitHub webhooks. The system is fully restored. We're sorry for the impact that this outage has had on your observability

I Joined Firetiger as an AI Skeptic

I didn't buy it I didn't believe in any of this stuff. I was an engineer student at the University of Wisconsin. The AI hype was mostly something I saw on X. LLMs could write a function. Cool. Ask one to fix a bug in an

Dynamically generating agents to monitor PRs

Aka deploying changes faster with Firetiger We're excited to announce Deploy Monitoring with Firetiger, available right now. This new agent lets you ship faster and with more confidence by building sophisticated agents on-the-fly to watch signal after you deploy, automatically detecting bugs and confirming expected behavior. Connect Firetiger

Introducing Firetiger

Observability is dead. Long live outcome engineering. Today, we’re excited to announce Firetiger. You and your AI agents write code. Firetiger makes sure it works. Our team, Achille, and I have plenty of incident war stories to share from our time helping build Cloudflare, Segment, Twitch, and more. The

How Firetiger works: long horizon agents in production

I’ve been operating systems in production since my first job as a software engineer back in 2011, when Emmett Shear, Kyle Vogt, and Justin Kan convinced me to drop out of college, move to San Francisco, and help build the video delivery system at Twitch. I’ve experienced first-hand