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It takes a complex IT infrastructure of on-premises and multi-cloud environments to support a satellite communications business like EchoStar’s that serves corporate and government clients around the world. For customers, these services are mission-critical so keeping services operational is vital for the service provider. But EchoStar had a problem. It was trying to manage this complex IT infrastructure with eight different legacy monitoring tools running across 75 different internal servers.

In this tutorial, we’ll learn how to build dashboards using Apache Superset and data from InfluxDB Cloud 3.0. This guide will provide practical steps and insights to integrate these powerful tools, helping you visualize your time series data with ease and precision. Whether you are monitoring IoT devices, applications, or infrastructure, you’ll find valuable tips on leveraging Superset and InfluxDB Cloud to enhance your data analytics capabilities.

Learn more about systems engineering and how to get started with these key resources curated by Google’s Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team.

Last month, we rolled out Raygun4Aspire, our Crash Reporting client for.NET Aspire applications. That release included a free, lightweight version of the full Raygun web app that runs locally. After the successful launch of our recent AI Error Resolution feature for Crash Reporting, we knew that we had to bring this feature into the Aspire local development experience. Today, we’re thrilled to announce that AI Error Resolution for Raygun4Aspire is now available for all Aspire app developers!

OpUtils' network IP scanner empowers network administrators to seamlessly discover the entire network IPs spread across various subnets and supernets and manage them—all from a single console. This allows the administrators to have a single point of control over the entire IP infrastructure, map IPs to the corresponding devices and switch ports, and ensure network security by detecting and restricting access to rogue devices.

A wishlist of things that need to change in the world of software monitoring.

We’re excited to announce that soon after the acquisition, Splunk and Cisco started teaming up to deliver engineers and ITOps teams with an improved leading observability experience. With the forces of Splunk and Cisco joined together, observability practitioners will be able to enjoy a new level of troubleshooting and monitoring across their entire stack, regardless of their deployment model.

Last week, on June 3 -5, I attended the Gartner Security and Risk Summit in National Harbor, MD to learn about the latest trends and happenings in security. One thing was clear, artifical intelligence (AI) is the hot topic along with the growing cybersecurity staff shortage due to burnout and lack of talent.

In recent years, “the biggest needs we’ve heard from our customers have been to make it easier to understand their observability data, to extend observability into the application layer, and to get deeper, contextualized analytics,” said Tom Wilkie, CTO of Grafana Labs, at ObservabilityCON 2023.