The demands on IT, observability, and security teams have never been greater. With data volumes exploding at a 28% CAGR and hybrid environments becoming the norm, organizations are facing significant challenges: those rapidly growing data volumes I mentioned, the intricacies of hybrid and cloud-native architectures, and the need for real-time insights. Oh, and don’t forget the constant threat of security breaches.

We are thrilled to announce that, for the fourth consecutive year, Datadog has been named a Leader in the 2024 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Observability Platforms. We believe that this placement reflects Datadog’s continued commitment to solving our customers’ most sophisticated challenges and building products that provide unmatched visibility into the performance, security, and cost of their traditional, cloud-based, or hybrid tech stack—from code to production.

Puppet 8 is here, and it’s included in the latest release of Puppet Enterprise. It’s the biggest update to Puppet since Puppet 7’s first release in November 2020, and it carries a host of enhancements and improvements to make managing and scaling your infrastructure easier than ever. Read on for a list of the major changes included in Puppet 8, how they benefit you, and how to get going with Puppet 8 fast.

There’s a major outage. Support tickets are mounting. Everybody from engineering to legal is scrambling for information. You have more Teams notifications clamouring for attention than you do minutes to address them, and it’s hard to know where to begin. What comes next is a balancing act—mitigating the impact, updating colleagues, managing action items, or updating a status page that will be seen by millions.

Today, we are pleased to announce the general availability of Elastic 8.15.

Elastic Observability 8.15 announces several key capabilities: New and enhanced native OpenTelemetry capabilities: Elastic AI Assistant enhancements: Large language model (LLM) observability for Azure OpenAI: Elastic Observability now provides deep visibility on the usage of the Azure OpenAI Service. The integration includes an out-of-the-box dashboard that summarizes the most relevant aspects of the service usage, including request and error rates, token usage, and chat completion latency.

After a successful rollout for Flyway Teams and Flyway Enterprise, we are pleased to announce Git integration has been extended to Flyway Community users for Flyway Desktop. Today, Flyway Community users can enjoy seamless version control for their databases, integrated with popular Git systems like Azure DevOps Git, AWS CodeCommit, GitHub, GitLab, and Bitbucket – to name a few.

We are excited to announce the release of the NiCE HMC VIOS Management Pack, designed to provide comprehensive monitoring and management for IBM’s Hardware Management Console (HMC) and Virtual I/O Server (VIOS) environments. This highly efficient tool empowers IT administrators to maintain optimal health and performance within their IBM Power infrastructure, ensuring seamless operations and minimizing downtime.