Last year we announced an expanded partnership with Google to bring Elasticsearch Service to even more Google Cloud users. We were also named one of Google Cloud's partners of the year! We've since deepened our partnership, and today we are proud to announce new ways to purchase and discover Elasticsearch Service in the Google Cloud Marketplace. You can now purchase monthly Gold and Platinum subscriptions as well as Standard, Gold, and Platinum annual subscriptions through the marketplace.

Jaeger is a popular distributed tracing project hosted by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). In the Elastic APM 7.6.0 release we added support for ingesting Jaeger traces directly into the Elastic Stack. Elasticsearch has long been a primary storage backend for Jaeger. Due to its fast search capabilities and horizontal scalability, Elasticsearch makes an excellent choice for storing and searching trace data, along with other observability data such as logs, metrics, and uptime data.

When it comes to cybersecurity, the landscape is constantly changing: the number of cyberattacks is always on the rise, the attacks themselves are becoming more sophisticated, and there’s a serious skills shortage in the industry. There’s a lot to learn about cybersecurity if you want to keep up and keep your users protected.

Here at Sumo Logic, we share a lot of thoughts about managing data at scale, and the innovative ways we help customers address their unique use cases. It’s not just about analysis of logs. In this article, I will talk about another important observability signal: distributed traces. I will share a few observations about how we at Sumo think about the future of adoption of distributed traces, a very important concept, taking from our own experience.

Microsoft Build, Microsoft’s annual developer conference, is taking place virtually May 19-20. Ubuntu will be featured throughout the event, in announcements of new WSL features, demos of cloud-native development on Microsoft Azure, and by presenters using Ubuntu desktop with native Microsoft applications like Teams, Code, and Edge. In an address by Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella the company announced new features coming to WSL 2.

A Content Delivery Network (CDN) is a collection of distributed nodes, called edge servers, connected to the same origin servers and placed local to the users’ location. If you are using a CDN, your website content is delivered to the user from the nearest edge server to their location. Without a CDN, you are putting stress on the origin server every time a user requests something.

NiCE is introducing a new line of monitoring solutions for Microsoft Azure. The kick-off for the new Azure monitoring solutions will be the NiCE Active 365 Monitor for Azure, a brilliant monitoring set for Microsoft Teams, SharePoint, OneDrive and Office Platform hosted on Microsoft Azure Monitor. Get a sneak preview on how the new NiCE Active 365 Monitor will boost your efficiency in Azure performance and availability monitoring.

We are happy to announce that ManageEngine has been recognized by Gartner in its 2020 Magic Quadrant for Application Performance Monitoring. Applications Manager has helped thousands of customers across the globe streamline and manage their servers and applications effectively.

We are happy to announce that our widely popular free Ping Management Pack just got a community dashboard for SquaredUp. The dashboard is now available for download at SquaredUp Community site. The Ping Management Pack Dashboard includes one dashboard and one perspective. We would love to hear your feedback and listen to improvements to get this even better in the future.

We are thrilled to announce that Grafana 7.0 has been released for general availability. Join us as Torkel Ödegaard, the creator of Grafana, hosts a full demo of 7.0 during GrafanaCONline today. With Grafana v7.0, our goal was to extend on the Grafana platform by making it easier and more consistent for existing users, and intuitive and simple for those not familiar with Grafana.