There's a new metrics service in town – Aiven for Metrics provides Prometheus metrics powered by Thanos. Aiven recently added a new service to our offerings: Aiven for Metrics is now in Early Availability. Similar to Aiven for M3, Aiven for Metrics is a Prometheus-compatible solution powered by Thanos, a CNCF project aimed at providing highly available Prometheus metrics with long term storage capabilities.

We are excited to announce the launch of Elastic's Support Assistant. This blog takes you through a tour of our latest generative AI tool and some common scenarios where it can help with your own use of Elastic technology.

Over the past year since its initial release, the InfluxDB 3.0 product suite has seen numerous new features and performance improvements. These improvements reinforce InfluxDB 3.0’s position as the industry’s leading time series database, offering unparalleled performance with unlimited cardinality, high-speed, independently scalable ingest, real-time querying, and superior data compression using Parquet format on cost-effective object storage.

New capabilities, including faster query performance and management tooling, advance the InfluxDB 3.0 product line InfluxDB Clustered general availability gives developers the power of InfluxDB 3.0 for the self-managed stack.

TLDR: We raised $60M in new funding, led by Scale Venture Partners, with participation from World Innovation Labs, Cross Creek, Alpha Square Group, Patrick and John Collison (Stripe) IVP, Sequoia, and Y Combinator. With this new infusion of capital, we’re looking to further grow developer awareness around IDPs and invest in our platform capabilities with enhanced workflows, engineering intelligence, user interface, and of course, AI.

Search engine optimization (SEO) is the art of bringing your site higher in search engine result pages (SERPs) to increase its discoverability and competitive advantage. It involves detecting keywords that your target audience uses, publishing well-optimized content that's easy to crawl and rank for search engines and valuable to users, posting expert content on trusted sources to build credibility, and so on. Yet, technical SEO is much different.

Rapid, proactive responses to unexpected system behavior and swift, efficient incident remediation are hallmarks of great IT teams. But the most successful NOC and incident management teams share the following: The right context gives teams visibility across systems, helps them collaborate and share knowledge, and makes every team member more efficient.

From time to time we want to bring not so widely known features of Icinga into spotlight. In this effort it’s a not so obvious feature, that was available in the monitoring module of Icinga Web 2 at some point already. It has also been available in Icinga DB Web since its release. We’re talking about selecting multiple list items. Our goal was to make it as obvious as possible, without wasting screen space for those users who are already aware of the feature.

In today’s fast-paced digital landscape, businesses are increasingly relying on Kubernetes (K8s) to efficiently manage their containerized workloads. However, many organizations face a significant challenge when it comes to effectively utilizing compute resources.

As applications grow in complexity, the ability to gather, process, and analyze logs becomes crucial for maintaining system health and troubleshooting issues. Two popular open-source log collectors have emerged as frontrunners in this space: FluentD and FluentBit. But how do you choose between them? This article dives deep into the FluentD vs FluentBit debate, exploring their features, performance, and use cases to help you make an informed decision.