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At InvGate, we are committed to harnessing the power of AI to redefine Service Management practices. Since launching AI Hub, featuring the first wave of AI-powered capabilities within InvGate Service Management and Asset Management, over 50% of our clients have adopted them and saved dozens of thousands of hours. Our most impactful solutions have focused on enhancing decision-making processes, enabling teams to work smarter and achieve better outcomes.

Last month, Datadog announced an interesting and useful new feature they call the Supply-Chain Firewall (SCFW). It offers a real-time scanning approach that identifies vulnerabilities as developers pull packages from public registries like npmjs. It highlights the broader challenge organizations face when securing their software supply chain: managing risk consistently and efficiently at scale.

We’re excited to announce the launch of our new Status Page theme: Inspire. This update brings a modernized design, enhanced customization options, and a sleek dark mode to elevate the way you communicate with your customers. See a live demo of the Inspire theme in action here.

We’re happy to announce that VictoriaMetrics, open source time-series database and monitoring solution, and IHI Terrasun Solutions, a leading energy storage system integrator, have partnered on one of North America’s largest clean energy projects! The Gemini Solar + Storage project, which is carefully situated on less than 5,000 acres, is designed to provide clean energy for up to 10% of Nevada’s electricity needs during peak use times.

Python's logging system provides powerful tools for application monitoring, debugging, and maintenance. This comprehensive guide covers everything from basic setup to advanced implementation strategies, helping you build robust logging solutions for your Python applications.

In the age of digital transformation, adhering to aging cybersecurity rules, policies, and standards set a few decades ago is an open invitation for setbacks. This is why the EU is updating and taking significant steps to strengthen existing regulations and bring new ones to unify existing risk management in individual EU member countries. Keeping pace with the modernization of complex technology is challenging, but resilience in times of adversity is the need of the hour.

Kubecon North America took place in Salt Lake City, Utah, from November 12 to 15, and the SolarWinds team was there to showcase updates to our SolarWinds Observability dashboards and join in the conversation. Here are five key talking points from the event.

This guide provides instructions for setting up an environment for developing, debugging, and programming embedded systems firmware in the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL2). WSL2 provides a convenient and stable Linux development environment for working on embedded systems firmware. If you’re curious about toolchain performance, check out this comparison of firmware development environments, but the summary is that WSL2 is about 2x the speed of Windows and similar to “bare metal” Linux.

It’s been a busy year at Gremlin! We released two new experiments, added an entirely new onboarding process and features for AWS users, added a brand new Test Suite and Detected Risks, and made many UI improvements to our web app. We beefed up our agents with more enterprise capabilities, including support for large Kubernetes clusters and systems with over 64 CPUs, improved experiment behaviors, improved dependency detection, and per-team Private Network Integrations.

On the December episode of This Month in Datadog, Jeremy Garcia (VP of Technical Community and Open Source) covers Kubernetes Active Remediation, Datadog IaC Security, and a trio of new features for monitoring AWS resources. Later in the episode, Natasha Goel (Product Manager) spotlights Datadog Cloud Cost Management for OpenAI. Also featured is a short recap of Datadog at KubeCon North America and AWS re:Invent 2024.