Grafana 10.3 is here! Download Grafana 10.3 The latest version of Grafana brings advanced controls for anonymous access in your Grafana instance and new options for multi-stack data source configuration in Grafana Cloud. The release also enhances Grafana visualizations, with additions like pan and zoom for the canvas panel and updated tooltips for better data interpretation. Plus improvements in Grafana Alerting and log analysis capabilities provide more efficient monitoring and troubleshooting tools.

We are very excited to share that we have added an innovative new capability to the Exgience platform – generative AI-powered incident summaries.

Starting software products is hard, and it’s easy to make mistakes. We’ve started a lot of products – and we’ve made a whole lot of mistakes along the way. But that’s not going to stop us. We’re stubborn like that. Today we are launching Request Metrics for the third time, and I’m reflecting on what we did wrong in the first two attempts, and how we’re going to be better, faster, and strong next time.

We are thrilled to be recognized with the 2024 EMA Allstars award. This award acknowledges Elastic’s focus on delivering a full-stack observability solution that provides unified visibility and AI-powered insights into complex hybrid cloud deployments. The EMA Allstars award celebrates trailblazers and innovators who are reshaping the enterprise technology landscape.

Mattermost v9.4 includes several new features designed to significantly enhance digital security and compliance, including the introduction of IP filtering, bring your own key (BYOK) for data control, and cloud-native compliance export. IP filtering tightens access control, BYOK offers greater data protection through personalized encryption, and streamlined compliance reporting ensures adherence to regulatory standards.

This week was a particularly exciting one for us at incident.io. We launched not one, not two, but four AI-powered features to help folks get the most out of their incidents. In this episode of The Debrief, we sit down with Ed Dean, Product Analyst, and Charlie Revett, Product Engineer, to talk through all of these features and discuss how they're already making a measurable impact. You'll also hear them talk about: You can learn more about our AI features here.

Elastic® Observability 8.12 announces general availability (GA) for the AI Assistant, Service Level Objectives (SLO), and Mobile APM support: Elastic Observability 8.12 is available now on Elastic Cloud — the only hosted Elasticsearch® offering to include all of the new features in this latest release. You can also download the Elastic Stack and our cloud orchestration products, Elastic Cloud Enterprise and Elastic Cloud for Kubernetes, for a self-managed experience.

Elastic Search 8.12 contains new innovations for developers to intuitively utilize artificial intelligence and machine learning models to elevate search experiences with lightning fast performance and enhanced relevance. This version of Elastic® is built on Apache Lucene 9.9, the fastest Lucene release ever, and updates some of our most popular integrations such as Amazon S3, MongoDB, MySQL, and more.

I'm happy to announce that visual regression & snapshot testing for our Playwright powered browser checks is now GA. If you have used these capabilities with your Playwright tests on your local machine or in your CI/CD pipeline, you can now use them 1:1 on Checkly.