New AI Services, Cloud Security with Falco, and NWS@OSMC
The trees are losing their leaves, we survived daylight savings chaos, and autumn has arrived (not only) at NWS.
For us, this means more time for new features, good technical content from the depths of the internet, and the occasional hot drink at conferences. This month’s newsletter covers these and other topics - enjoy reading!
Product News
NWS AI Services go live
Following the public beta phase of our GDPR-compliant ChatGPT alternative, we are pleased to announce the launch of NWS AI Services in this edition of our newsletter. These consist of four components:
- Our GDPR-compliant, free ChatGPT alternative based on OpenWebUI
- Managed AI models with OpenAI-compatible API, perfect for use with coding agents or in your own software
- AI Individual - a dedicated AI solution for your company including RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) and MCP (Model Context Protocol) integration
- GPU Hosting - dedicated, powerful GPUs for your cloud infrastructure in OpenStack or on Kubernetes
Our colleague Marc has summarized more information about the range of functions, billing models, and underlying technologies in a blog post about the launch.
Blog
Anomaly detection with Falco
To secure our cloud platform, we use Falco, a software solution for anomaly detection on servers, VMs, and in container environments such as Kubernetes. In the background, eBPF ensures seamless monitoring of a wide range of events.
If that just sounds like buzzword bingo to you, our latest blog post from October is for you. Here we explain what Falco is, how we use it, and when it’s worth using.
Events
NETWAYS Web Services @ OSMC 2025
We are delighted to be returning as a gold sponsor at this year’s Open Source Monitoring Conference. From November 18 to 20, we will once again be diving into topics related to observability and monitoring and meeting with old and new customers.
Maybe you too? We have two free tickets to give away - just get in touch with us. If the tickets are already sold out, you can get a 20% discount on your conference ticket with the code OSMC_NMS20_2025.
Reading Corner
This month’s collection of links comes from a wide variety of sources. You’ll find use cases for AI as well as postmortems, discussions about software design, and other technical content. Enjoy reading!
- Daniel drew inspiration for using AI to create technical documentation:
How to improve technical documentation with generative AI - Valeria looked at a postmortem from monday.com on the “incorrect” use of a singleton:
Unmasking a hidden singleton - Kleon has devoted himself to part 8 of a series on databases on Kubernetes:
Databases on K8s - Really? - Justin dreams of a future in which our cloud will also have to process 100 trillion events in real time:
Inside Husky’s query engine: Real-time access to 100 trillion events
CLI Quick Win
The kubectl plugin tree from GitHub user ahmetb, whose blog posts we often share in our newsletter, helps you keep track of your Kubernetes cluster.
With kubectl tree, you can output and inspect Kubernetes resources in a hierarchical tree structure – very handy for Deployments, CustomResources, and other objects that manage a large number of components.
The plugin can be installed via kubectl’s package manager krew. The source code and further information can be found on GitHub.
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Until next month,
Daniel & the NWS-Team
