A few weeks ago I attended the Digital Workplace & Employee Experience Summit in Berlin hosted by Platinum Edge. I’ve been to hundreds of conferences in my professional career but none like this one. Surprisingly, the attendees and speakers weren’t just IT engineers like myself, but instead a mix and mash of human resources, change management, content marketing, and digital analytics professionals—all with skin in the proverbial workplace experience game.

While SIP Voice over IP (VoIP) technology has come a long way to improve connectivity and quality of service, there remains numerous potential points of failure along the path of devices over which the data flows. Unfortunately, if a remote location is experiencing an issue with their data connections, not only won’t they be able to call support to troubleshoot the issue, but they may not be able to send an email either, as both lines of communication rely on the same network.

Cookie consent banners and popups are a little like that annoying friend who turns up at your house unannounced when you’re trying to do the washing, asks too many questions and is tricky to get to leave. They’ve also brought their 3 year old with them who’s favourite past time is to pull on your dog’s tail and stare at their private parts. Unlike such visitors, cookie consent banners can be prevented in your synthetic user journeys if you know how.

This morning, we announced that Grafana Labs has raised $24 million in Series A funding. Here’s what that means for our open source community. Our company was established five years ago to accelerate the adoption of the Grafana project and to build a sustainable business around it, which could in turn help support the community.

Have you ever been in charge of your company’s observability stack? Does the pain of implementing, configuring, scaling, and maintaining (oh, and correlating the data between) various monitoring, troubleshooting, and security tools resonate with you? If so, you might be our next tech evangelist – our next DevOps Evangelist!

We are excited to announce that we have a new dashboard pack on offer – this time for Tao Yang’s SCOM Self-Maintenance Management Pack! Earlier this year, our sister company Cookdown acquired Tao Yang’s MP, which (as its name suggests) basically ensures that SCOM is always running smoothly. It has a bunch of monitors, rules, views and tasks that help you monitor and maintain your SCOM Management Group.

We sat down with Rollbar CTO, Cory Virok, for a Q&A on how his leadership role and industry expertise helped create an enterprise solution for today’s modern software company.

AIOps is a new solution to an age-old problem: How do I stop my team from going insane managing 15 million different tool consoles? The tool bloat problem is not new for anyone who has been in this business for more than a minute. In the old days, when IT teams were comprised of specialists in servers, storage, networking, databases and so forth, each group of specialists had a favored tool set that showed them how their little patch of the world was functioning.

The k3s project was started by Darren Shepherd, Chief Architect at Rancher 7 months ago and has already become one of the most popular Kubernetes options on the CNCF Landscape by number of GitHub stars. To put this into context, k3s is more popular than OpenShift by IBM/Red Hat and only Rancher Kubernetes itself is more popular than k3s. Now stars are indicative of interest and popularity only and that should be noted.

Let’s face it: It’s been a long time since messaging was just about human-to-human communication (for high-performing organizations, at least). Today, bots and integrations are first-class citizens of messaging tools, and with good reason.