For the last couple of years, I have been highlighting yearly predictions at the beginning of each year. For 2023, I would like to expand on one of the trends that I briefly mentioned in my 2022 predictions: superclouds. Since then, there have been a lot of discussions, vendors staking their claims, and clarity around superclouds. In this article, I will look at how observability, AIOps and automation are going to be key tenets for supercloud abstraction and adoption in 2023.

Today we are happy to announce that after many delays, re-writes, pushbacks and restructuring Icinga for Windows v1.11.0 is finally released! First, we would like to thank everyone for contributing feedback over the past month to track down issues and testing new integrations.

SaaS management platforms are helping IT solve a new version of an old problem: user behavior and software application visibility. With endpoint solutions like remote monitoring and management (RMM) agents, MSPs and IT teams have had deep visibility into desktop applications for years. But, once a user opens a browser and logs into a SaaS app, it’s a different story. Apps and user accounts are often manually tracked via spreadsheets, and shadow IT is common.

As cyber attacks have become ever more sophisticated, the means of protecting against cyber attacks have had to become more stringent. With zero trust security, the model has changed from “trust but verify” to “never trust, always verify.” Joining D2iQ VP of Product Dan Ciruli for an in-depth discussion of zero trust security was Dr. John Sahlin, VP of Cybersolutions at General Dynamics Information Technology (GDIT), and David Sperbeck, DevSecOps Capability Lead at GDIT.

In an age where data is the new gold, safeguarding personal information has become more vital than ever before. The General Data Protection Regulation, or GDPR, is no longer a buzzword in the corporate corridors of Europe; it’s a binding legislation that has set the global standard for privacy and security. Enter the world of Microsoft Azure, one of the leading cloud computing platforms that’s shaping the way businesses store, manage, and analyze data.

Datadog Network Performance Monitoring (NPM) gives you visibility into all the communication that takes place between the network components in your environment, including hosts, processes, containers, clusters, zones, regions, and VPCs. As organizations scale, and as their networks grow in complexity, the massive volume of network data to be monitored can become overwhelming. Knowing precisely what network data to surface to resolve issues within these larger environments can be a challenge.

In this article, we will implement distributed tracing for a Golang application with three microservices. To implement distributed tracing, we will be using open-source solutions - SigNoz and OpenTelemetry, so you can easily follow the tutorial.

Data pipelines are the foundational support to any business analytics project. They are growing more critical than ever as companies are leaning on their insights to drive their business: 54% of enterprises said it was vital to their future business strategies. Data pipelines play a crucial role as they perform calculations and transformations used by analysts, data scientists, and business intelligence teams.

Logz.io is excited to announce Easy Connect, which will enable our customers to go from zero to full observability in minutes. By automating service discovery and application instrumentation, Easy Connect provides nearly instant visibility into any component in your Kubernetes-based environment – from your infrastructure to your applications. Since applications have been monitored, collecting logs, metrics, and traces have often been siloed and complex.

When I first met Uria Franko, the CTO of Novacy, I immediately knew we’d hit it off. He was looking for an observability solution for his team with a specific need around Celery, after they had been using logs but found they lacked the depth and granularity they needed. Luckily, our mission at Helios is to help organizations gain visibility and drill down into services through traces. So this was a perfect match.