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Grafana Loki 3.4: Standardized storage config, sizing guidance, and Promtail merging into Alloy

The Grafana Loki 3.4 release is here, and it brings a fresh wave of enhancements aimed at standardizing Loki’s object storage, helping you right size your instance, and improving the ability to ingest out-of-order logs. Loki 3.4 also represents the official merging of Promtail into Grafana Alloy as part of our efforts to give our users a single telemetry collector. There’s a lot to go over, so let’s dive in.

Deloitte Recognizes Internxt As One Of The Top 50 Fastest-growing Companies

Today, Deloitte released its prestigious Deloitte Technology Fast 50 list, which recognizes the 50 most scalable technology companies, based on their turnover, within the entrepreneurial ecosystem in Spain. Internxt, for its part, has closed 2024 with a turnover of €3.4M and it expects to be close to €5M EUR this 2025. The company also has wide profit margins and achieved profitability in Q4 2024, which it intends to maintain for most of 2025.

Your App Might Be Down; Let's Fix It - Introducing Sentry Uptime Monitoring

Even at Sentry, we're not immune to downtime. In a moment of "oh-the-irony," we once took down our own application with a bad migration. We were adding a field to a critical database table, and the migration locked it completely. Since this table was essential to Sentry’s operation, the entire app went down. The website wouldn’t load, ingestion paused—everything ground to a halt.

NiCE VMware Management Pack 5.8

Great news for all VMware users! NiCE just rolled out VMware Management Pack 5.8 for Microsoft SCOM, bringing full support for VMware vSphere 8.0.1, 8.0.2, and 8.0.3. This update keeps your monitoring sharp and up-to-date with the latest VMware environments. Plus, we’ve polished up the docs to make life easier. If you’re an existing customer, this update is ready for you! Stay ahead of the game and keep your virtual environments running smoothly!

Grafana Beyla 2.0: distributed traces, scalable Kubernetes deployments, and more

In November 2023, we released Grafana Beyla 1.0, the first major milestone in our pursuit of zero-code (and zero-effort) eBPF instrumentation. We delivered a way — through a single command-line — to automatically instrument any application supporting HTTP/gRPC protocols, as well as provide basic network packet flow information.

Introducing Megaport NAT Gateway

Cut your traditional NAT gateway costs by 70% or more with Megaport’s new software solution. For large businesses, Network Address Translation (NAT) is a must. But when speaking with our enterprise customers about the software side of their architecture, the complaint was always the same: The ballooning egress fees that come with moving massive amounts of data quickly become a major cost burden.