Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

We had a fantastic time at the Kafka Summit in London this year. It was so great to be meeting everyone face to face again after such a long break. It was interesting to see how people had progressed with their Kafka implementations. At the 2019 event people were just getting started trying out Kafka in small test environments but no one had enough production experience to know understand their needs for management at scale and production support.

Over the next couple of weeks (don't know exactly how many posts will turn out of this) I will blog about how we have developed our documentation site. The site is built on top of MkDocs, a custom theme, and a bunch of Markdown files. In this first post, I'll introduce you to MkDocs and help you get a basic site set up.

Many CXOs believe that Web3 will power the next paradigm shift and transform the world. As a result, they are accelerating their learning curve to spot opportunities and leapfrog to next-gen business models that will catapult their organizations to new heights. But is there really an urgency to explore what Web3 can offer?

We are pleased to announce we have closed our Series D round of funding, led by Tiger Global with participation from existing investors IVP, CRV, Redpoint Ventures, Sequoia, and Greylock Partners. In this round, we raised $150M, bringing our total raised to over $400M. This new fundraising round further validates the value we provide to customers.

As CEO of Cribl, one of my greatest privileges is to spend time on the road and on calls with our customers hearing about their needs and challenges. Cribl is a focused company. We build software for observability and security. With this lens, it becomes clear the industry is neglecting to address the unique needs of our users. There are many reasons, most of which are simply that vendors tend to come at a user’s problem through the lens of their existing technology.

Does the worst case scenario for your company include alert fatigue from false alarms? Maybe it should. No one likes a false positive when it comes to infrastructure monitoring, and false flags are especially irritating because you have to respond to a problem that doesn’t actually exist. Just how bad are false positives? Let’s break down what these annoying little mistakes add up to for your team. You might be surprised to learn just how much they are hurting your DevOps pipeline.

At Grafana Labs, we’ve seen an increasing number of customers who are scraping hundreds of millions of active time series but need a solution to reliably store and query such a huge amount of data. So in March, we announced our new open source TSDB, Grafana Mimir, the most scalable, most performant open source time series database in the world.