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Grafana Incident, Grafana’s powerful incident response tool, comes with a range of integrations out of the box, including Zoom and Google Meet spaces, GitHub and JIRA issues, and even a Google Doc template for post-incident review documents. However, every team has unique needs and workflows, and you may need to integrate with other systems not currently on our roadmap or even use your own in-house tools.

Datadog dashboards and notebooks can be powerful tools for troubleshooting, enabling you to analyze telemetry from across your stack with visualizations customized by service owners, data analysts, and engineers. Many organizations also rely on dashboards and notebooks for key business processes, such as generating reports, creating postmortems, and managing SLOs. This makes it important to keep track of any unintended changes that may result from others accessing your content.

The Grafana k6 browser module simulates how users interact with a browser page and collects web performance metrics about the interaction. Since launching the module in 2021, we’re frequently asked how it compares to Google Lighthouse as a tool to measure web page performance. This blog post compares k6 browser and Google Lighthouse from various perspectives, including: Note: k6 browser is a part of Grafana k6 OSS.

As part of our ongoing commitment to security, we are excited to announce we have partnered with GitHub to protect our users on public repositories via GitHub’s secret-scanning feature. Through the partnership, GitHub will notify Grafana Labs when one of the following secret types is exposed in the code of a public repository: GitHub actively monitors public repositories for leaked secrets. When a secret is detected, its hash is stored in Grafana Labs’ Secret Scanning API.

ClickHouse is an open source, column-oriented database management system designed for OLAP (analytical) workloads. ClickHouse supports various data formats and SQL queries, and is popular for clickstream analysis as well as log processing use cases. We are pleased to announce that ClickHouse now has a dedicated observability integration in Grafana Cloud, which makes it easy to troubleshoot issues, track potential latency, and prevent data loss.

Miquel is a Project Manager at Seidor Opentrends, focused on smart cities, data, and IoT projects. Seidor Opentrends, which is headquartered in Barcelona and has offices around the world, provides end-to-end, high quality IT transformation services and serves as a consultant on open source and software architecture for municipalities throughout Spain. At Seidor OpenTrends, we build and maintain Sentilo, an open source sensor and actuator platform for smart cities.

To ensure the best possible end-user experience, engineering teams must be able to seamlessly transition from performance testing to problem resolution, breaking down any silos that exist between the two. That’s why, earlier this year, Grafana Labs launched Grafana Cloud k6, a unified platform that natively integrates the Grafana k6 performance testing experience directly into Grafana Cloud.

Patrick DeVivo is a software engineer and founder of MergeStat, an open source project that makes it possible to query the contents, history, and metadata of source code with SQL. The security posture of software supply chains has been a significant topic lately. Recent high-profile breaches have shown the importance of managing risks from third party code. Take, for example, the Log4Shell vulnerability (tracked as CVE-2021-44228 — Grafana Labs was not affected).