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Explore real use cases of how Obkio revolutionizes SMB network monitoring, enhancing efficiency, and delivering top-notch user experiences. The heartbeat of success for Small and Medium-sized Businesses (SMBs) often echoes through the intricate network infrastructures that keep operations running smoothly. Yet, the journey to maintain and optimize these networks is riddled with challenges, a story familiar to many SMBs worldwide.

The Continuous Compliance content hub is a set of guides for DevOps teams who need to move fast while remaining in compliance for audit and security purposes. We know that the old change management processes for software releases that happened once every 6 months don’t scale for DevOps teams who want to deploy every day. This is where Continuous Compliance comes in.

Jason Mallory is a senior MySQL/SQL server database administrator who develops monitoring and alerting solutions for operations departments in the aerospace industry. Jason is also a Grafana Champion. MySQL Network Database — or NDB, for short — is an in-memory, sharded database platform. Consisting of several moving parts, NDB can be one of the most challenging database platforms to monitor. However, monitoring NDB cluster health is crucial to ensure reliability and performance.

Downtime costs money. That's why an effective incident management system is crucial. We're excited to announce our new partnership with Tulip to help manufacturers manage incidents better. This integration is an important advancement for complex production processes that require an in-depth operational strategy.

Every quarter, we host a roundtable discussion centered around the challenges encountered by incident responders at the world’s leading organizations. These discussions are lightly facilitated and vendor-agnostic, with a carefully curated group of experts. Everyone brings their own unique perspective and experience to the group as we dive deep into the real-world challenges incident responders are facing today.

Elastic® Observability 8.12 announces general availability (GA) for the AI Assistant, Service Level Objectives (SLO), and Mobile APM support: Elastic Observability 8.12 is available now on Elastic Cloud — the only hosted Elasticsearch® offering to include all of the new features in this latest release. You can also download the Elastic Stack and our cloud orchestration products, Elastic Cloud Enterprise and Elastic Cloud for Kubernetes, for a self-managed experience.

Elastic Search 8.12 contains new innovations for developers to intuitively utilize artificial intelligence and machine learning models to elevate search experiences with lightning fast performance and enhanced relevance. This version of Elastic® is built on Apache Lucene 9.9, the fastest Lucene release ever, and updates some of our most popular integrations such as Amazon S3, MongoDB, MySQL, and more.

I'm happy to announce that visual regression & snapshot testing for our Playwright powered browser checks is now GA. If you have used these capabilities with your Playwright tests on your local machine or in your CI/CD pipeline, you can now use them 1:1 on Checkly.

For users using monitoring module, migrating their custom dashboards, navigation items and permissions and restrictions to Icinga DB Web has been made easier with the recent Icinga DB Web release (v1.1.1) through its migrate command. Once Icinga DB Web has been upgraded to v1.1.1, run the command icingacli icingadb migrate --help to see the avaliable actions under migrate command and what each action does.

Establishing effective IT management frameworks hinges on selecting the right solution, vital for optimizing efficiency and safeguarding security. In a recent survey, 72% of small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) prioritized enhancing security in response to growing cyber threats, with 47% recognizing the importance of automation for operational efficiency in 2024. In this context, two prominent contenders are NinjaOne and VMware’s Workspace ONE.