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Winter 2021 Updates for Alloy Software ITSM/ITAM Platform

We are pleased to announce the immediate availability of a new update (8.7.3) for the Alloy Software ITSM/ITAM platform, including Navigator, Navigator Express, and Discovery. This maintenance update resolves issues reported in previous versions, offers Apple M1 Chip support, and expands API integration capabilities. For detailed information about all changes in this update, please see Release Notes on the Alloy Documentation Portal.

Taloflow raises new funding and joins Y Combinator W21 Batch

We're excited to share some updates on what we've been working on at Taloflow. We've come a long way since we launched Tim - AWS cost management for developers, which was a finalist for Product Hunt Dev Tool of the Year. Since launch, we've had the opportunity to work with nearly 100 companies and developers. We've helped digital native companies like NS1, Bluecore and Modusbox save money, improve performance, and get a better grasp of their marginal costs on the cloud.

Introducing Splunk OpenTelemetry Java Lambda Wrapper

AWS Lambda has become a core technology in the shift to cloud-native application development, eliminating infrastructure management and fixed costs. But there are trade-offs with serverless environments. Not having access to the production infrastructure can make debugging difficult and there are a lot of moving parts, adding distributed complexity. Monitoring serverless functions in production requires observability beyond CloudWatch logs and metrics.

Our Relentless Roll: D2iQ Konvoy 1.7 and D2iQ Kommander 1.3 are GA!

The latest versions of Konvoy and Kommander are now generally available: the D2iQ Kubernetes Platform (DKP) continues on its relentless roll. DKP is the leading independent Kubernetes platform for enterprise grade production at scale and Konvoy and Kommander are the reason why. You can learn more about Konvoy here, Kommander here, and our general approach here.

Series D: Moving Faster and (Not) Breaking Things

In the software lifecycle, you need to know what is affecting the customer from your frontend code to your underlying infrastructure. However, no one to date has solved for monitoring the health of software code vs. systems at the level that we have taken on — or at the scale that our customers require, as everything from grocery shopping to gaming is now digital.

Puppet's new Scaling DevOps Service helps orgs scale DevOps practices

I’m really pleased to announce Puppet’s new Scaling DevOps Service, a pop-up consultancy inside Puppet designed to advise businesses on how to automate, streamline, and scale DevOps practices. This service was established as a result of conversations with dozens of customers who all stagnated in their DevOps evolution and turned to us for advice on how to scale that wall.

Introducing Grafana Enterprise Logs, a core part of the Grafana Enterprise Stack integrated observability solution

Today, we are launching a new Grafana Labs product, Grafana Enterprise Logs. Powered by the Grafana Loki open source project for cloud native log aggregation, and built by the maintainers of the project, this offering is an exciting addition to our growing self-managed observability stack tailored for enterprises.