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For the past 20 years, the various stakeholder communities that together constitute the IT industry have attempted to address sustainability. The original efforts grew out of the realisation that even as far back as 2005, the hardware and software that underlay the digital world were responsible for approximately 5% of overall energy consumption and that both the percentage and absolute amounts of energy required were growing in the double digits.

AIOps — a term coined by Gartner back in 2017 has emerged as one of the hottest talking points in the realm of ITOps. Since its inception, its adoption by large enterprises has gone up from 5% to 30% in 2023. This impressive 6X growth is a clear indicator that AIOps is here to transform how businesses manage their IT operations. But what is it that makes AIOps special? What are the benefits of AIOps that businesses are looking to leverage.

The most noticeable takeaway from All Things Open 2023 was how visibly and demonstrably people were there for the event itself. Not to check a box or browse the swag but to be together, show their support of open source, and glean every last bit of knowledge they could.

Today, more than ever, as IT environments become more diverse and complex, the need for an effective network monitoring solution has become paramount. However, with the digital environment, it’s constantly ever-evolving, so, these tools must keep pace with these changes to ensure they are still effective for users diagnosing issues and identifying bottlenecks within their network.

Are you one of the many companies harnessing the power of Heroku to build, deliver and scale your applications seamlessly? If so, you're likely aware of the need for robust observability to ensure your Heroku environment runs smoothly. Let’s delve into the world of Heroku monitoring and explore how Sumo Logic, a leading observability platform, can provide invaluable insights into your Heroku infrastructure and application logs.

Cribl Search is reshaping the data search paradigm, empowering users to uncover and analyze data directly from its source. Cribl Search can easily reach out and query data already collected in Amazon S3 (or S3 compatible), Amazon Security Lake, Azure Blob, Google Cloud Storage, and more. By searching data where it lives, you can dramatically speed up your search process by avoiding the need to move data before analyzing it.

Shining a light on the dark corners of the new enterprise network doesn't have to be as scary or overwhelming as some think. While “ghost issues” typically lurk in these sometimes unexplored places on the internet or in cloud environments, during this Halloween season your network operations teams can gain the confidence to not only uncover these network ghosts, but compel and cast them out forever.

Understanding limitations and challenges scaling Prometheus in modern cloud-native environments. Here we delve into long-term retention, downsampling, high availability, and other challenges.

Grafana’s plugin tools help developers extend Grafana’s core functionality and create plugins faster, with a modern build setup and zero configuration. Grafana Scenes, meanwhile, is a new front-end library, introduced with Grafana 10, that enables developers to create dashboard-like experiences — such as querying and transformations, dynamic panel rendering, and time ranges — directly within Grafana application plugins.

For those who have limited experience with OpenTelemetry, it can be intimidating to instrument.NET applications. But the OpenTelemetry community created a welcome shortcut with the first stable release of.NET Automatic Instrumentation. It simplifies the process of collecting metrics, logs, and traces from your.NET applications, without applying any changes to the source code or adding any dependencies to the OSS project.