With every major release of Grafana, we strive to give our users a broader, more powerful and more streamlined set of features for data visualization. Grafana 10, unveiled this month at GrafanaCON 2023, is certainly no exception. From more intuitive navigation to updated plugin development tools, Grafana 10 enhancements benefit new and seasoned users alike.

N-able started its Business Transformation Program a few years ago, and since then it’s been helping N-able partners boost their business growth. In a recent video shot during Empower in Prague, Robert Wilburn, VP partner growth, and Chris Massey, senior product marketing manager, Partner Success, discussed how and why it was important for N-able to create this program for its partners.

For this first blog post, I selected a problem related to a few tips and tricks I have been writing: Message validation inside Logic Apps or JSON schema validation.

While reading a GitHub issue on the OpenTelemetry Collector about trying to send two versions of a metric, one with higher and one with lower cardinality, it occurred to me that we’ve never written on this blog about what is high-cardinality data exactly and how it matters to your OpenTelemetry observability. High-cardinality data refers to a dataset or data attribute that contains a large number of distinct values relative to the total number of data points.

MySQL migration, caching with PostgreSQL® and Redis®*, pgvector for PostgreSQL® and more!

This week Lightrun attended the annual FinOps X event. The event was sold out and packed with great speakers, practitioners, and amazing atmosphere. Compared to last year which had over 300 attendees, this year the event brought over 1200! Above is a screenshot taken from the venue entrance reminding the audience with the core principles of FinOps.

How can anyone forget the photos and images of mounds of luggage sitting wherever they could find a spot at most major airports, back during the winter storm of 2022? And what about the thousands of stranded passengers in dismay during the holidays, with plans and gifts that literally couldn’t get off the ground?

We recently introduced a new version of InfluxDB, rewritten from the ground up to improve performance across the board. As with any undertaking of this nature, developers will need to make some adjustments to their applications in order to incorporate the new database. We even faced this challenge internally. We had many Telegraf instances sending data to legacy versions of InfluxDB.

In recent years, network operations teams have had to contend with several critical challenges, including: In response to these challenges, teams are increasingly turning to SD-WAN. The market for SD-WAN is massive, and continuing to grow, potentially reaching $47 billion by 2031. Through SD-WAN technologies, organizations are able to realize a number of benefits. However, these benefits aren’t a sure thing. In fact, many teams encounter challenges with their SD-WAN implementations.