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Grafana 11.3 Now GA! Here's the TL;DR | Grafana

Welcome to Grafana 11.3! Scenes-powered dashboards are now generally available and the Explore Logs plugin is now installed by default. The dashboard experience has also improved in other ways including the ability to trigger API calls from any canvas element with the new Actions option and an update to transformations so you can apply calculations to dynamic fields. We’ve also simplified the alert setup experience, added customizable announcement banners that admins can send to all users, and improved some default permissions.

What is GitOps? Continuous delivery to Kubernetes with ArgoCD

With the increasing adoption of Kubernetes in recent years, there are various means and tools for achieving continuous delivery to Kubernetes. While it is possible to create a consistent CI/CD pipeline up to deploying to Kubernetes using CI/CD tools like CircleCI, there has been a rise in cases combining dedicated CD tools like FluxCD and ArgoCD to achieve this as well. A common aspect among these CD-dedicated tools is their adoption of GitOps.

Monitor your Azure OpenAI applications with Datadog LLM Observability

Azure OpenAI Service is Microsoft’s fully managed platform for deploying generative AI services powered by OpenAI. Azure OpenAI Service provides access to models including GPT-4o, GPT-4o mini, GPT-4 Turbo with Vision, DALLE-3, and the Embeddings model series, alongside the enterprise security, governance, and infrastructure capabilities of Azure.

What is Ubuntu used for?

The launch of Ubuntu in 2004 was a step-change for everyday users and developers everywhere. Nicknamed “Ubuntu Linux” in its early days, to differentiate it from its various cousins in the Linux world, it has since lost the need for its surname and grown to become a powerful force. Besides being used by millions of home users, Ubuntu is widely used in the development and business world. As developers have become a driving force of innovation, so has Ubuntu.

Request Metrics and Perforator - Combining RUM and Load Testing

Your website’s performance can make or break your business. Slow load times, crashes under pressure, and a poor user experience can cost you customers, reduce your search engine rankings, and hurt your bottom line. That’s why monitoring and testing your site’s performance is critical—but not all performance monitoring is the same. At Request Metrics, we focus on Real User Monitoring (RUM), which shows you how real users are experiencing your website in real-time.

Cove Data Protection Release Update 2024.10

The Cove Data Protection team is excited to announce that Standby Image Rollback is now available. This new capability allows users to quickly and easily rollback to an earlier version of Standby Image if the latest one is corrupted or compromised. With this release, we’ve also added Microsoft 365 Restore to Alternate User, improved the delta restore mechanism for Standby Image to Azure, and made several reliability updates and fixes.

Struggling to Unite Your Team? Start by Unifying Your Tools

Facilitating teamwork is often regarded as a matter for HR, while technology is seen as solely an infrastructural concern. But is it really as simple as that? In Tool Sprawl and How To Stop It, we exposed the productivity costs of poorly integrated tools. Now, let’s examine what these conditions can do to hinder collaboration.