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SRE Survey 2021: Where do we go from here

What a difference a year makes. In a matter of 365 days, the entire planet stared down at uncertainty, and while most of the world is far from recovered, we are starting to see a time where some level of normalcy will return. But what will this look like? How will the past year transform our social interactions, our time out of the house, and how we conduct business?

New in Grafana 7.4: Export usage data to Loki to help manage dashboard sprawl and troubleshoot faster

We first released the usage insights Enterprise feature in Grafana 7.0 based on feedback from customers that they would like to better understand how their users are interacting with Grafana, including the dashboards they visit, the information they query, and where they run into issues. What we learned was that dashboard sprawl is a real issue: Administrators estimate that almost 60% of dashboards might not be used at all.

New Feature: Searching Through Samples in AppSignal

Your wishes are being granted. Search is now available for all AppSignal customers. 🎉 You can now quickly find specific samples inside of AppSignal. This is especially useful when searching for an error/slow request for a particular customer in a specific revision or request ID. You can access the search in AppSignal from any screen in an application. It’s located in the dark top bar. Let’s take a look at the new search in action.

appfleet is now production ready!

First of all what is appfleet? appfleet is an edge compute platform that allows people to deploy their web applications globally. Instead of running your code in a single centralized location you can now run it everywhere, at the same time. In simpler terms appfleet is a next-gen CDN, instead of being limited to only serving static content closer to your users you can now do the same thing for your whole codebase. Run the whole thing where just your cache used to be.

Announcing AppSignal for Ruby Gem 3.0!

We’re very happy to present you with version 3.0 of AppSignal for Ruby - a new major release for the Ruby gem. 🎉 We have changed the way we instrument apps and gems to provide better compatibility with other instrumentation gems. Support for Ruby version 1.9 has been removed and deprecated classes, modules, methods, and instrumentations have also been removed. Read our upgrade guide! In the rest of the post, we’ll explain what the new version of our gem brings to you and your apps.

Announcing Updated Analytics Filters to Dive Even Deeper into your Historic Incident Data

After successfully implementing a conditional evaluation engine into Runbooks, we started looking at other places in FireHydrant that would be improved with this engine. After hearing a lot of feedback from you, we’ve implemented conditions into our Analytics page. Let’s dive in and see what new things are possible with this new filtering.

DFI and Canonical offer risk-free system updates and reduced software lead times for the IoT ecosystem

Feb. 25, 2021 – DFI and Canonical signed the Ubuntu IoT Hardware Certification Partner Program. DFI is the world’s first industrial computer manufacturer to join the program aimed at offering Ubuntu-certified IoT hardware ready for the over-the-air software update. The online update mechanism of and the authorized DFI online application store combines with DFI’s products’ application flexibility, to reduce software and hardware development time to deploy new services.