HAProxy 2.3 adds exciting features such as forwarding, prioritizing,and translating of messages sent over the Syslog Protocol on both UDP and TCP, Stats Contexts, SSL/TLS enhancements, an improved cache, and changes in the connection layer that lay the foundation for support for HTTP/3 / QUIC. This release was truly a community effort and could not have been made possible without all of the hard work from everyone involved in active discussions on the mailing list and the HAProxy project GitHub.

I’m very excited to announce the general availability of Mattermost Cloud starting today. The new offering brings Mattermost’s industry-leading open-source, self-managed collaboration platform to the cloud as a SaaS platform.

Industry analyst firm Forrester Research just released a new report entitled The Forrester Wave™: Artificial Intelligence for IT Operations, Q4 2020. In a 33-criterion evaluation of AIOps providers, Forrester identified the 11 most significant ones and researched, analyzed, and scored them. We are excited to be recognized as a Strong Performer in this report, scoring the highest possible score in the infrastructure and cloud monitoring category.

As our CEO Kevin McGibben stated during LogicMonitor’s Level Up virtual customer conference last month, “LogicMonitor is well on its way to becoming a unified IT observability platform.” As of this morning, we are one step closer to fulfilling our product vision of becoming the most comprehensive, extensible, and intelligent monitoring platform in the world.

We have some important news to report: Uptrends becomes part of the ITRS Group in a transaction to acquire 100% of the company.

Under the hood, Moogsoft Observability Cloud extends AI-based intelligence so that it starts with raw observability data analysis. It discovers your infrastructure services to collect and analyze the time-series metrics locally, along with turning time-series metrics and event data from your existing tools into actionable insights.

Today, we are excited to announce PagerTree has added support for public calendars! Public calendars allow you to share a team’s on-call calendar with the rest of the world. Public Calendars are available on our Pro and Elite pricing plans. If you don’t already have an account, sign up for a free-trial now. By default, all calendars are private, so to make use of this feature you must enable it.

VirtualMetric — the all-in-one monitoring solution provider and CloudLand — one of the leading IT distributors in the Netherlands, join efforts to help SMEs from the DACH region and the Netherlands to overcome the top IT challenges during the pandemic. Although the IT sector is one of the most stable during the global pandemic crisis, small and medium enterprises need to battle their specific problems – internal and external.

Logz.io has a comprehensive API that allows you to send and query logs or metrics easily. Now, that process is getting even easier for infrastructure monitoring. Logz.io has added support for the open source grafana API. In other words, you can use the OSS grafana’s integration within Logz.io.

As data continues to explode across the enterprise, we are finding that it is becoming increasingly challenging for organizations to keep up. A recent Splunk report, "The Data Age is Here," found that 57% of companies interviewed expressed that the volume of data is growing faster than they can manage, with 47% bluntly saying they will fall behind when faced with rapid data volume growth.