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Grafana Tempo 1.2 released: New features make monitoring traces 2x more efficient

Grafana Tempo 1.2 has been released! Among other things, we are proud to present both our first version to support search and the most performant version of Tempo ever released. There are also some minor breaking changes so make sure to check those out below. If you want ALL the details you can always check out the v1.2 changelog, but if that’s too much, this post will cover all the big ticket items.

Enabling SRE best practices: new contextual traces in Cloud Logging

The need for relevant and contextual telemetry data to support online services has grown in the last decade as businesses undergo digital transformation. These data are typically the difference between proactively remediating application performance issues or costly service downtime. Distributed tracing is a key capability for improving application performance and reliability, as noted in SRE best practices.

Network AF, Episode 5: Building relationships as an internet analyst with Doug Madory

Network AF welcomes Doug Madory to the podcast. Doug is a veteran, a researcher, a writer and Kentik’s director of internet analysis. With his start in the U.S. Air Force within its Information War Center, Doug has now been working in the networking industry for 12 years. After the Air Force, Doug went on to work for Renesys, which was acquired by Dyn, which was later acquired by Oracle.

Icinga Customer Story: Deutsche Telekom IT

We are proud of our many customers and users around the globe that trust Icinga for critical IT infrastructure monitoring. That´s why we’re now showcasing some of these enterprises with their Success stories. It´s stories from companies or organizations just like yours, of any size and different kinds of industries. Some of them are our long-standing customers, others have just recently profited from migrating from another solution to Icinga.

Epsagon-to-Lumigo: a step-by-step migration guide

At Lumigo. we believe in serverless technology, and our mission is to make serverless development easy and fast. For the past few months, we’ve been extending our observability and debugging capabilities, making it a breeze for developers to understand the end-to-end story of every request that goes through the system, find the root causes of issues and be able to easily address them.

Incident Resolution: Do You Remember, the Twenty Fires of September?

From September to early October, Honeycomb declared five public incidents. Internally, the whole month was part of a broader operational burden, where over 20 different issues interrupted normal work. A fraction of them had noticeable public impact, but most of the operational work was invisible. Because we’re all about helping everyone learn from our experiences, we decided to share the behind-the-scenes look of what happened.

Smarter IT Operations Through Actionable Insight

Business leaders talk excitedly about "digital transformation" and "innovative customer experience," but it falls on the shoulders of IT operations to make sure everything actually works. As transformation takes hold, IT teams manage increasingly complex, hybrid, and distributed environments – often comprising traditional on-premises systems and modern infrastructures made up of containers, multiple clouds, and virtualized networks.