Already a quarter of the way into 2024, we’re seeing a lot of shake-up in on-call best practices. We’re excited to see AI in the mix, but we’re also seeing a renewed focus on existing and neglected best practices. Some current topics in on-call best practices include: In this article, we’ll review some best practices and explore the 2024 trends.

We are delighted to announce that we are in the process of joining forces with BMC Software, a company trusted by 86% of the Forbes Global 50, delivering AI-powered software solutions that enable customers to connect their entire technology landscape. The deal is expected to close in the first half of 2024, subject to customary closing conditions. BMC shares Netreo’s core value of customer-centricity and vision to connect observability silos and accelerate innovation across the enterprise.

Apache Spark is an open-source, distributed application framework designed to run big data workloads at a much faster rate than Hadoop and with fewer resources. Spark leverages in-memory and local disk caching, along with Apache Spark is an open-source, distributed application framework designed to run big data workloads at a much faster rate than Hadoop and with fewer resources.

Despite advances in the world of observability, log management hasn’t evolved much in recent years. Users are familiar with the experience of Kibana or OpenSearch Dashboards (OSD), but those don’t always meet modern use cases. Logz.io is ready to change the conversation with the introduction of Explore, the new path forward for Log Management for users of the Logz.io Open 360™ observability platform.

Bitbucket Pipelines has seen amazing adoption over recent years, with millions of developers and teams using it to build better software every day. As part of our ongoing commitment to improving performance and reliability, we are in the process of making enhancements to our cloud infrastructure. These changes will also unlock a range of powerful new capabilities for customers that will turbocharge their CI/CD workloads and empower engineers to focus more of their energy on building great software.

In a recent live stream, Jackie McGuire and I looked into a crucial topic that many IT and security teams face: delivering value in your organization without budget increases. In this age where technology underpins every facet of business, how can teams maximize their impact with finite resources?

How should we define technological progress in the digital era? Is it merely the proliferation of gadgets and gizmos, or does it lie in the seamlessness of our digital encounters? Recently, I moved to Dubai, the Gulf Cooperation Council’s (GCC) major trading hub and a city celebrated as the “City of the Future.” But does Dubai’s technological innovation extend to the resilience of its digital service vendors?

We are consistently releasing helpful updates and fun features in Grafana Cloud, our fully managed observability platform powered by the open source Grafana LGTM Stack (Loki for logs, Grafana for visualization, Tempo for traces, and Mimir for metrics). This month is no exception.

As complex as Kubernetes is, much of it can be distilled to one simple question: how do we keep containers available for as long as possible? All of the various utilities, features, platform integrations, and observability tools surrounding Kubernetes tend to serve this one goal. Unfortunately, this also means there’s a lot of complexity and confusion surrounding this topic. After all, most people would agree that availability is important, but how exactly do you go about achieving it?

The Monitoring Configuration Service (MCS), under continued innovation since 2017, is a feature for DX UIM that helps solution administrators expedite device configuration and alarm policy deployment for the most popular monitoring technologies. The release of DX UIM 23.4 offers enhanced workflows for using MCS to do both local and remote monitoring.