Grafana Tempo 1.3 has been released! We are proud to add the capability to search the backend datastore. This feature will also appear soon in Grafana Cloud Traces. If you want to dig through the nitty-gritty details, you can always check out the v1.3 changelog. If that’s too much, this post will cover the big ticket items. You can also register for our upcoming webinar “Distributed tracing in Grafana: From Tempo OSS to Enterprise” on Jan.
The managed services provider (MSP) industry has been rapidly consolidating for the past several years as private equity (PE) firms buy up small IT firms and cobble them together into larger platforms. But that process is evolving quickly for two main reasons: there aren’t enough sellers of quality assets and PE firms have shortened how long they hold their investments. That means they need to hunt for bigger game—and with a rifle, not a shotgun—before they cash out and exit.
Container technology is considered one of the most rapidly evolving in the software industry's recent history. There has been a seismic shift towards more and more organizations adopting containerization for their applications. Containers offer a lightweight, portable, and more efficient alternative to virtual machines and help us run software securely and reliably across different server environments.
SOAR — or security orchestration, automation and response — is a collection of processes, software and tools that allows teams to streamline security operations. SOAR platforms are a hot topic in the realm of cybersecurity these days, and with good reason.
With the ScienceLogic SL1 platform correlating and contextualizing data to generate actionable events that accurately reflect the issues that need attention, how do you make sure all your engineers and system admins are on the same page?
Nowadays, easy access to data is table-stakes for high-performing companies. Easy access doesn't come for free, though: it requires investment and a careful selection of tools. For young companies like us, the question is how much? And when do you make that investment? Having grown to ten people, several without engineering backgrounds but with strong data needs, we decided 2022 was going to be that time.
Included with Avantra Enterprise edition, Avantra Add ins are pre-packaged best practice scenarios that accelerate your business time to value using our expertise. One such Add in is SUSE hardening and is based on the hardening guide from the makers of SUSE Enterprise Linux. This Add in is a collection of eight custom checks that are designed to be extensible by you to match your organizational requirements.
As much as I enjoy writing firmware, I am, at heart, a hardware engineer. I love hunting for minutia in chip datasheets. I love fiddling with eval boards, tacking on wires, and reworking nets together. I love flipping through The Art of Electronics, finding a new circuit, and piecing through its operation. This is why, when invited to write for Interrupt, I jumped at the chance to write about a hardware-related topic that’s near and dear to my heart: debug tools.
