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If your IT department is generating a tsunami of JSON-based log and event data, ChaosSearch® JSON Flex® can fast-track automatic, flexible indexing for custom insights of your valuable business data. JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) has become the de facto standard for log and event data created by business applications and services. The easy-to-read, semi-structured format can hold a wealth of information and statistics.

OpenTelemetry and Prometheus are classified as monitoring tools, but they also have significant differences that your company should know about. For cloud-native applications, OpenTelemetry is the future of instrumentation. It’s the first critical step that allows companies to monitor and improve application performance. OpenTelemetry also supports multiple programming languages and technologies.

Last week InfluxData announced IOx, the new time series engine for InfluxDB. We’ve revisited the core of our database to achieve big things with the underlying technology. Users can expect higher performance and more options for querying data. Here’s a quick intro to some of the most exciting things coming with InfluxDB IOx.

This week at InfluxDays we announced that Flux 1.0 is coming soon. Version 1.0 of Flux lang is a commitment to no longer make breaking changes to the Flux language. Importantly, today’s Flux scripts will work on Flux 1.0, and no breaking changes will be introduced between now and the release of Flux 1.0. Along with version 1.0, we have some features we are also releasing soon. Here are the features we have coming and a short explanation of why you might want to leverage them.

According to the old adage, life’s a journey not a destination. The same can be said for software. It’s unlikely that any developer would ever say that something they built was truly done. There are always bugs to squash, features to add, and updates to implement. As a company intensely focused on time and the context of time, it comes as little surprise that these themes played a significant role in Paul Dix’s presentation for InfluxDays.

Today we’re excited to announce that BindPlane OP Enterprise is now generally available. With single-sign-on support for LDAP/AD authentication and 24/7 customer support from one of the largest contributors to OpenTelemetry, BindPlane OP is now ready for your enterprise environment.

In today’s article, I will be highlighting eG Enterprise’s monitoring capabilities for Amazon’s AWS NICE DCV VDI protocol that was used first in Amazon’s AppStream 2.0 and now subsequently also in WSP 2.0 for the Amazon WorkSpaces service for digital workspaces.

In the last few years, the usage of databases that charge by request, query, or insert—rather than by provisioned compute infrastructure (e.g., CPU, RAM, etc.)—has grown significantly. They’re popular for a lot of the same reasons that serverless compute functions are, as the cost will scale with your usage. No one is using your site? No problem: you’re not charged.

Today’s Managed Security Service Providers (MSSPs) are trying to grow their business quickly, improving margins and onboarding customers with high-quality tool sets that scale with the business. This means reducing cost, improving onboarding time and building the next generation of Managed Detection and Response (MDR) to deal with threats that are increasing in volume and sophistication.

The health management APIs in Netdata allows teams to eliminate unnecessary alerting during scheduled maintenance, testing, auto scaling events, and instance reboots. For all SREs, it is absolutely crucial to filter out expected events during maintenance windows and quickly pinpoint critical issues in your infrastructure. Every minute is crucial while dealing with troubleshooting issues and any distractions that may hijack the troubleshooting process should be subdued.