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The past year has seen a transformational change in the cloud computing landscape, spearheaded by the advent of AI technology, the ongoing economic challenges for businesses to achieve successful results, and the evolving data regulations surrounding security and privacy. To navigate these changes, and create future opportunities, here are the major trends for 2024 and beyond.

If you Google, “What is the shortest, complete sentence in American English?”, then you may get, “I am” as the first answer. However, “Go” is also considered a grammatically correct sentence, and is shorter than, “I am”.

From AI to OTel, 2023 was a transformative year for open source observability. While the advancements we made in open source observability will be a catalyst for our continued work in 2024, there is even more innovation on the horizon. We asked seven Grafanistas to share their predictions for which observability trends are on their “In” list for 2024. Here’s what they had to say.

The Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipeline has evolved as a cornerstone in the fast-evolving world of software development, particularly in the field of cloud computing. This blog aims to demystify how CI/CD, a set of practices that streamline software development, enhances the agility and efficiency of cloud computing.

About seventy-two percent of businesses operate in a hybrid IT environment, mixing their cloud-based services with traditional on-premises infrastructure. These hybrid environments offer many benefits, from scale, speed, and flexibility to security, cost savings, and control, blending the best of both worlds.

As a Shopify theme gets more fully featured, it is likely that large amounts of JavaScript are being used to improve and expand the user experience. Making theme changes gets more nerve wracking as the amount of code increases. Did my sales go down because I broke something with the last JavaScript change? If you’re worried about that next theme publish, it’s time to start monitoring user experiences for JavaScript errors. TrackJS makes error monitoring quick and easy to do!

Modern-day engineering teams rely on continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) providers, such as GitHub Actions, GitLab, and Jenkins to build automated pipelines and testing tools that enable them to commit and deploy application code faster and more frequently.

In the ever-evolving global business landscape, companies are continually seeking new frontiers to expand their operations. Recently, I returned from one of the most thrilling and innovative regions of the world: Australia and New Zealand (ANZ), where we anticipate a 30%+ growth in our sales, service, and support offerings in the coming year.

Are you tired of sifting through data without context? Cribl Search adds valuable depth to your data, making it much easier to understand and analyze. No more squinting at cryptic logs or puzzling over unknown IP addresses! ️ Some common examples of how Cribl Search can enrich your data are adding service names or matching to threat intelligence. Another popular data enrichment is adding geographical location to events based on IP addresses.

You know the feeling when you are peacefully cruising through your day as a network admin and suddenly, bam! Wi-Fi at the entire head office decides to play hide-and-seek, leaving you stuck in no man’s land. All you hear from everyone is “Fix it now!”. Frustrating, right? That's where network monitoring swoops in to save your day.