Monitoring WebSocket Health: Heartbeats and Prometheus in 2026
How to actually observe a WebSocket fleet: ping/pong heartbeats, Prometheus metrics that matter, dead-man switches, and the alerts that fire before customers notice.
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How to actually observe a WebSocket fleet: ping/pong heartbeats, Prometheus metrics that matter, dead-man switches, and the alerts that fire before customers notice.
WebTransport is Baseline as of March 2026. Media Over QUIC ships in production within the year. Here is what changes for AI voice agents — and what stays the same.
The 2024 NPRM proposes mandatory penetration tests every 12 months and vulnerability scans every 6 months. Here is how an AI voice agent should be tested in 2026.
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Run STT, LLM, and TTS entirely on Cloudflare's edge — no OpenAI, no ElevenLabs. Real working code with Whisper, Llama 3.3 70B, and Deepgram Aura.
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The Official MCP Registry hit API freeze v0.1. Smithery has 7,000+ servers, mcp.so has 19,700+, PulseMCP is hand-curated. We compare discovery, install, and security across the major catalogs.
Haystack 2.7's Agent component plus an Ollama-served Llama 3.2 gives you tool-calling RAG with citations. Here's a complete pipeline against your own document store.