We’ve had an eventful year here at Grafana Labs. As 2019 comes to a close, here’s a look back. Here’s to an equally exciting 2020!

Cloud migration is more than just a buzzword. According to several reports released at the beginning of 2019, almost 70% of enterprise organizations are moving their applications and infrastructure from local, self-managed hardware to one of the big cloud providers. Multiple case studies have been written about companies like Spotify, Dropbox, Gitlab, and Waze, all of which have replaced their core business infrastructures with cloud data centers.

IT Infrastructure monitoring (ITIM) and IT operations monitoring (ITOM) has been evolving at an unprecedented rate as business grows. The focus area of IT administrators is changing with the technology advancement & how they can support & contribute to business strategy. “There’s a gigantic evolution happening right now, it is not about software or hardware anymore — it’s more about delivering business services smoothly that can fulfil business needs.

We love Mattermost and have been using it for seamless team communication. It simplifies document-sharing and team work to boost productivity. Recently, we asked ourselves a few questions: What if we could extend the capabilities of our favorite collaboration tool to cater to our clients? Better yet, what if anyone from the customer support or sales department could answer customer queries that originated from our website directly through Mattermost?

As another year is coming to an end, let's take time to look at what happened in Lucene land in 2019.

The volume and ambiguity of log files makes them impossible for humans to process. The promise of logs is revealed when AIOps is applied to analyze their deep structure.

In the world of IT operations and infrastructure management, the year 2019 was full of jaw-dropping deals in the startup community and notable strategy shifts among the major cloud and tech players. Suffice to say that CIOs and VPs of infrastructure are faced with the ongoing challenge of delivering business value and agility amid heightened IT complexity.

With 2020 around the corner, we’re entering a new decade in the cybersecurity landscape. What does the future hold for security professionals? We’d like to ring in the new year with good news, but the truth is that hackers will become smarter and breaches will grow in scale and number, creating an even greater pressure for security teams to keep up. Read our five predictions for 2020 to understand what to look out for and how to prepare for the new decade.

Would you like to detect problems in your Amazon Redshift environments? Does your team need a high-level overview of what monitoring options they can choose from when they deploy Redshift nodes and clusters? First, we’ll start with one of the most important components of any monitoring strategy: performance and availability monitoring. Then, we’ll continue with monitoring Redshift configuration changes and how to meet compliance requirements with Redshift.

Software of all kinds requires information to do its work. At the back end of most programs you’ll usually find some form of database, which has been created or selected and configured to run specifically with that application. In creating that database or making a selection from the wide range of products available, there are several factors to consider. We’ll be looking at these criteria, in this article.