In order to continuously improve your Ruby application, you need to understand everything your code touches. That means visibility into how your frontend responds to the database queries that are central to your Ruby application. Sentry’s new Ruby SDK collects and monitors the data surrounding your traces, logs, and key metrics. With it, you now have the context to connect backend issues to frontend performance.

A couple of days ago, Elastic announced that it will change the licensing of Elasticsearch and Kibana as of the 7.11 release to a proprietary dual license (under the SSPL license) and away from the open-source Apache-2.0 license. This move has caused extensive turmoil and frustration in the open-source community, especially with organizations that rely on Elasticsearch. Let me start with the end in mind.

As a customer-focused company, which pays a lot of attention to its client’s needs and requests, while keeping pace with the market dynamics, VirtualMetric has always followed the approach of continuous product development. Our ongoing improvement process allows us to develop, test and release new features and product capabilities of your all-in-one monitoring software at short time intervals.

Exciting news for our Heroku community — Raygun Real User Monitoring (RUM) is now available on the Heroku Marketplace. Now, you can monitor performance trends, identify and diagnose performance problems, and improve your customers’ experience directly through your Heroku account.

We just released a Magic Dashboard for Garbage Collection stats for our Node.js integration. If you are leaking memory, this dashboard will help you discover and fix this problem. No setting up is required, this dashboard will magically automatically appear among the rest of your dashboards. ✨

Shipa (https://www.shipa.io), the full lifecycle application-centric framework for Kubernetes and multi-cluster portability, just got better! Version 1.2 is now available, and we are excited to share these key new features and improvements with the Shipa community.

Gartner’s Market Guide for Emergency Mass Notification Solutions (EMNS) is a trusted report for security and risk management leaders. It provides insight into effective crisis communication procedures and identifies solutions that help perfect emergency management plans. The EMNS Market Guide has a large, loyal readership in several industries including, state and local government, healthcare, IT support and higher education.

Mattermost v5.31 is generally available today. This is an Extended Support Release and includes bug fixes for increased stability (see changelog for details) as well as the following new features: Enterprise Edition All Editions

Bitbucket Cloud’s pull request sidebar is useful because it displays all the relevant details of the pull request you’re looking at. However, with so much information present, it can be hard to find the information you need. To address feedback we’ve received about its readability and usability, we’ve given it a redesign.

The HAProxy Data Plane API 2.2 lays the foundation for first-class service discovery and introduces native support for Consul. It also adds storage and file handling for SSL certificates, Map files, and SPOE configuration files.