Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

Elastic has been named a Leader in the 2024 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Observability Platforms. The need for observability platforms continues to evolve as operations teams deal with increased complexity and exponential data growth. Emerging trends like generative AI are driving a paradigm shift in proactive root cause detection and resolution.

By Christina Kosmowski, CEO, LogicMonitor It’s been a remarkable year, with exceptional moments accelerating value and impact for our customers. Now, I am excited to announce an incredibly significant recognition as a Visionary in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Observability Platforms, 2024.

The demands on IT, observability, and security teams have never been greater. With data volumes exploding at a 28% CAGR and hybrid environments becoming the norm, organizations are facing significant challenges: those rapidly growing data volumes I mentioned, the intricacies of hybrid and cloud-native architectures, and the need for real-time insights. Oh, and don’t forget the constant threat of security breaches.

We are thrilled to announce that, for the fourth consecutive year, Datadog has been named a Leader in the 2024 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Observability Platforms. We believe that this placement reflects Datadog’s continued commitment to solving our customers’ most sophisticated challenges and building products that provide unmatched visibility into the performance, security, and cost of their traditional, cloud-based, or hybrid tech stack—from code to production.

Puppet 8 is here, and it’s included in the latest release of Puppet Enterprise. It’s the biggest update to Puppet since Puppet 7’s first release in November 2020, and it carries a host of enhancements and improvements to make managing and scaling your infrastructure easier than ever. Read on for a list of the major changes included in Puppet 8, how they benefit you, and how to get going with Puppet 8 fast.

There’s a major outage. Support tickets are mounting. Everybody from engineering to legal is scrambling for information. You have more Teams notifications clamouring for attention than you do minutes to address them, and it’s hard to know where to begin. What comes next is a balancing act—mitigating the impact, updating colleagues, managing action items, or updating a status page that will be seen by millions.

Today, we are pleased to announce the general availability of Elastic 8.15.