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Netdata Agents and Parents now have a new UI! Steady to our schedule, this is another great Netdata release!

According to the Uptime Institute’s 2022 Outage Analysis report, one out of every five companies has experienced a “serious” or “severe” incident over the past three years—a percentage that’s increasing. Those incidents are expensive: over 60% cost more than $100,000, while 15% set their companies back close to $1 million.

The art of monitoring the influence of an application’s performance on business outcomes is constantly evolving. It used to be directing IT teams to act on insights from an Application Performance Monitoring (APM) solution was enough to drive business outcomes. Now we know the user experience has a heavy hand in determining whether a digital platform survives or dies. An APM solution keeps tabs on the performance of application components such as servers, databases, and services.

There’s been a lot of talk about GitHub Copilot recently, loudly touted as Your AI pair programmer. According to GitHub, Copilot for Business brings the power of generative AI to engineering teams, accelerating the speed of software development and innovation. At the back end is OpenAI Codex, a modified version of the GPT-3 Large Language Model (LLM) used in ChatGPT. At the front end it integrates with code editors like Visual Studio and JetBrains to automatically generate code.

In this blog post, we will explore the concept of Kubernetes topology aware routing and how it can enhance network performance for workloads running in Amazon. We will delve into topology aware routing and discuss its benefits in terms of reducing latency and optimizing network traffic flow. In addition, we’ll show you how to minimize the performance impact of overlay networking, using encapsulation only when necessary for communication across availability zones.

Learn about website performance monitoring, why you need it, and how to set up automated transaction testing using Kentik’s network observability platform in this step-by-step tutorial. You can even follow along using the free trial version of Kentik.

I firmly believe in never letting a good incident go to waste. Incidents expose weak spots and create opportunities for medium and long-term investments. In analyzing incidents and understanding their root causes, organizations can identify areas that require additional resources or enhancements. When incidents are used to align your platform and product engineering, it opens up opportunities to enhance the performance and security of your product.

In an age prone to cybercrime, online privacy and data security are becoming increasingly important. As a result, many people have considered minimizing their reliance on Google’s services. The term “DeGoogle” has become a big talking point in online communities. It involves several steps to transition Google apps to alternative services that align with your privacy preferences. However, the change won’t be simple.

Running a business in today's digitalized world comes with many challenges, such as industry regulations, escalating costs as businesses grow and continuity planning. To effectively manage IT services and align them with business goals, organizations are turning to service management solutions to optimize their resources, budgets and cross-functional collaboration.

There’s no end in sight for the more-than-fair share of technological advancements the telecommunications sector has seen. And with change, comes challenges. The infrastructures that establish digital communication and connectivity that nearly everyone depends on are in regular, ongoing need of upgrades, which calls for significant investments in building and maintaining them. Much of the relevant decision-making comes from Communication Service Providers (CSPs).