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"Let us support different relational databases apart from SQLite. Nobody likes to run SQLite in production." This was one of the most requested features from our community. Your requests have been heard, and we've added support for different relational databases, starting with PostgreSQL. If you're self-hosting SigNoz, you no longer need to worry about SQLite's limitations. Let's dive into what we've built and why it matters for your production deployments.

We recently released Grafana Assistant into public preview for Grafana Cloud, and we’ve been excited to see how our customers have already made it part of their daily observability routines. At the same time, Assistant is becoming a go-to companion for developers right here at Grafana Labs, whether they’re debugging on-call issues, helping customers, or trying to remember tricky PromQL syntax.

Serverless computing helps teams move faster by removing the need to manage servers. Code runs only when needed, scaling up or down automatically. For DevOps engineers, this means quicker deployments and less infrastructure work. But serverless also brings new challenges. Functions run for short periods, making it hard to track errors, performance, and costs.

We’ve added Tiered Storage to Diskless Kafka—using plain old KIP-405 as the read-optimizer, Diskless Kafka materializes fast-to-read segments—unifying Tiered and Diskless into a single path. This leverages production-grade Tiered Storage plugin, removes the need for bespoke components, and simplifies the community discussion. We’ve also upgraded KIP-1150 and KIP-1163 to address the community’s most pressing questions such as transactions and queues support.

At Sentry, we build in public and we move fast. But moving fast means we don’t always get everything right on the first try. That’s where feedback comes in: it helps us validate what’s working, spot what’s missing, and catch issues we wouldn’t always see through error tracking alone.

In the rapidly evolving landscape of IT operations, businesses face the constant challenge of staying ahead of emerging technologies and shifting market demands. Implementing new systems or solutions is not just about the initial setup. It is about ensuring long-term success, reducing risk, and unlocking sustained value for the organization. That is exactly what SL360, our comprehensive customer success framework, was designed to deliver.

Email downtime or email delays can significantly disrupt business operations, making proactive monitoring essential to avoid problems. In today’s hybrid work environments, email remains a critical communication channel for customer interactions, internal collaboration, and workflow approvals. Even brief outages or delays in email delivery can lead to missed opportunities, poor customer experience, SLA (Service Level Agreement) breaches and reputational damage.

SSL certificates secure the digital backbone of businesses. They encrypt data, protect customer trust, and ensure compliance with strict regulations. Yet many companies still face the cost of ignoring expired SSL certificates every year. When a certificate expires, the consequences hit hard: websites go offline, users see security warnings, and revenues drop. Let's break down the risks, costs, and ways to prevent expired SSL certificates from damaging your business.

Avoid the pitfalls of cloud database migration with Redgate Flyway. Learn how automation, schema discipline, rollback strategies, and traceability reduce risk and enable fast, compliant cloud deployments, with these insights from John Q. Martin, Technology Partner Manager at Redgate Software. Cloud migrations promise faster releases and more flexible scaling, but a poorly executed database migration will stop you from exploiting them.

In my previous post I made a bold, sweeping statement that APM is not - in the most specific sense - a subset of observability. Still standing by it I stand by that because words matter and - like many "monitoring engineers" (IT folks who make monitoring and observability their specialty) - I, too, bear scars from the flame-wars on Twitter back in the 2020's where we fought internecine battles over the proper definition of (and number of pillars in) “observability”.