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New year, New York, new CivoStack

When we first started our managed Kubernetes beta, we knew utilising K3s as the Kubernetes distribution of choice was the right move. Not only is it light-weight and quick to deploy, K3s has features ideally suited for the scenarios we envisioned our users would encounter. It’s important for us to make sure any service we offer is 100% compatible with industry standards, and K3s allows us to do just that but with simplicity and speed for our users.

The Splunk plugin for Grafana now supports data links for jumping directly from logs to traces

Hey there! This is Éamon Ryan from the Solutions Engineering team. Very recently the Splunk data source plugin, which is available with a Grafana Enterprise license, had a new release: v2.1.0. While it added a few good bug fixes for edge cases, the biggest change, I think, was the addition of support for data links! Data links actually show up in a few places inside Grafana.

Scaling Up and Out With the Orion Platform

SolarWinds Orion Platform products are designed with flexibility in mind to cover networks of all shapes and sizes. Whether you’re monitoring a large datacenter or hundreds of small retail locations, we’ll talk through the different options for the most efficient coverage of your environment. We’ll also showcase a few of the features from recent releases benefitting everyone but are particularly useful when monitoring large environments.