Datadog is a central hub of information—enabling you to see logs, traces, and metrics from across your stack and providing a centralized source of notifications about potential issues. However, when Datadog notifies you of an issue, you often need to log in to other applications to fully assess and resolve it, which slows down mitigation.

At StatusGator, we’re always looking for ways to make your experience smoother. That’s why we’ve introduced a small but impactful update: you can now see the status and name of each monitor directly on the configuration page. This improvement saves you time and simplifies setup, ensuring you have all the information you need at a glance. Whether you’re adding new monitors or reviewing your existing ones, managing your configuration has never been easier.

It’s very popular to push logs, in a formatted way, to the console output of an application (sometimes referred to as stdout). Although using a push-based approach like OTLP over gRPC/HTTP is preferred and has more benefits, there are many legacy systems that still use this approach. These systems typically use a JSON output for their logs. So, how do we get these JSON logs into a backend analysis system like Honeycomb that primarily accepts OTLP data?

Ahrefs has been at the forefront of SEO innovation for years, and in 2024, the platform introduced several groundbreaking updates to empower marketers, SEO professionals, and businesses. This year’s changes revolved heavily around AI integration, enhanced data visualization, and better tools for competitor analysis and content strategy development.

Back in the spotlight, HAProxy 3.1 builds on its history of innovation, delivering improvements that ensure it remains the go-to open source load balancer! As usual, all the features announced in this release will be incorporated into the next enterprise release (HAProxy Enterprise 3.1). HAProxy 3.1 brings improvements to observability, reliability, performance, and flexibility. So everything we love about HAProxy is now even better!

While we all love open source technology and the community that comes with it, we don’t always have the time or resources to stand up, maintain, update, and troubleshoot a self-hosted OSS stack. This is one of the (many) reasons companies choose to implement Grafana Cloud: you get all the goodness of the open source Grafana LGTM Stack (Loki for logs, Grafana for visualization, Tempo for traces, Mimir for metrics) in a fully managed, end-to-end observability platform.

In the landscape of cloud cost optimization, Azure’s discounted Reservations and Savings Plans stand out for their flexibility. On June 6th, 2024 Azure postponed its decision to limit reservation exchangeson its major compute services for an unlimited “grace period”. As a result, commitments on all of Azure’s compute and other services remain highly flexible to modify or exchange.

Managing costs without sacrificing insights is essential for today’s data-driven teams. With Sumo Logic’s Scan Budgets, your organization can better control and predict costs by setting budget boundaries that align with the value of your insights. Get visibility into which queries and dashboards deliver the greatest impact for your business, so you can invest in the insights that matter most while also managing costs when setting up new searches or monitors.

With automation spanning virtually every sector of society, real-time capable operating systems (OS) are becoming critical across industries, from automotive and telecommunications, to industrial manufacturing. A real-time operating system (RTOS) ensures precise and deterministic responses, meeting strict timing requirements essential for safety and performance.

These days, IT infrastructures are so complex, and cyber threats are so advanced, that it's not a question of if an incident will happen but when. To effectively respond to these challenges, a reliable incident management tool is an absolute necessity. The right tool can significantly reduce the impact of incidents, minimize downtime, keep your data safe, and protect your business.