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Developing Modules for Puppet and the Forge in 2025

Since announcing changes to our OSS plans as well as introducing the new licensing starting with PDK 3.5.0, the team has received questions from the community around how the changes will affect them. In this article, we’ll highlight some helpful resources about how you can develop and contribute to modules on the Forge and ensure compatibility with Puppet Core and Puppet Enterprise.

Kubernetes Is Powerful-But It's Slowing You Down. Here's How to Fix It.

Ask any SRE what slows them down in a Kubernetes incident, and the answer is usually too much information in too many different places. Kubernetes has changed the way we run software. It’s given us incredible flexibility, scalability, and power. But in the years I’ve worked in cloud operations and platform engineering, I’ve also seen how that power comes at a price: complexity.

9 Best Incident Response Tools (Plus 4 Open-Source Options)

I’ve curated a list of 9 best incident response tools, plus 4 open-source options for you. But first, a quick note: Many people mix up alerting, monitoring, and incident response. Incident response is what you do after receiving an alert. It includes alert acknowledgment, escalations, incident communication, post-incident analysis, and response automation. Yes, some of these (incident communication and post-incident analysis) overlap with incident management.

Factors That Define a Scalable Reseller Hosting Plan

Many entrepreneurs are drawn to reseller hosting as an accessible and profitable business model. As you explore various options, it's important to understand the factors that contribute to a scalable reseller hosting plan. A plan that supports growth must include key elements like performance, flexibility, price, and support. Let's break down these crucial aspects in more detail.

Stop guessing! Speedscale's Notebook finds anything in your traffic.

Debugging complex microservices just got an upgrade. This video demonstrates Speedscale's innovative Notebook capability, allowing you to perform advanced substring searches and filter production traffic based on deeply nested JSON fields within request and response bodies. Unlike traditional observability tools that only record telemetry, Speedscale's always-on recorder captures full traffic payloads, empowering you to precisely pinpoint issues, identify specific user calls, or validate API versions. Streamline your troubleshooting, enhance your testing, and gain unprecedented visibility into your production environment.

Why Your Loki Metrics Are Disappearing (And How to Fix It)

Grafana Loki is up and running, log ingestion looks healthy, and dashboards are rendering without issues. But when you query logs from a few weeks ago, the data's missing. This is a recurring problem for many teams using Loki in production: while the system handles short-term log visibility well, it often lacks the retention guarantees developers expect for historical analysis and incident review.

New in OTel: Auto-Instrument Your Apps with the OTel Injector

As distributed systems scale, maintaining manual instrumentation across services quickly becomes unsustainable. The OTel Injector addresses this by automatically attaching OpenTelemetry instrumentation to applications, no code changes needed. This blog covers how the OTel Injector works, how it integrates with Linux environments, and how to set it up for consistent telemetry across your stack.

Introducing the Cortex MCP Server

Cortex gives engineering teams full visibility and control over their services, from ownership and standards to service history and production readiness. Our goal is to help teams stay aligned and move faster so they are ready for whatever is ahead. The reality for any engineering team is that developers spend the most of their time in their IDE, not their IDP. And while developers love the context Cortex provides, they don’t love context switching.