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ITRS named in Gartner Magic Quadrant for Observability Platforms

When Uptrends became part of ITRS, we knew we were joining a team deeply committed to innovation, precision, and people — whether those people were troubleshooting transaction journeys from their laptops at 8am or keeping enterprise-scale operations online 24x7. We’ve come far since then.

ScienceLogic Named a Visionary in the 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Observability Platforms

It’s official: ScienceLogic has entered the observability arena. Named a Visionary in the 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Observability Platforms, we believe we’re helping define where observability is heading, not just where it’s been. This marks our first inclusion in this Magic Quadrant and, in our opinion, validates our mission to redefine intelligent, actionable observability in the era of AI and automation.

Kubernetes Monitoring backend 2.2: better cluster observability through new alert and recording rules

We’re excited to announce version 2.2.0 of the backend for our Kubernetes Monitoring solution in Grafana Cloud is now available. The app’s backend is supported by kubernetes-mixin, an open source Prometheus Monitoring Mixin, and this latest version features significant improvements to alert rules and recording rules that will enhance your cluster observability and monitoring experience. There’s a lot to tell you about, so let’s dive in.

Monitor agents built on Amazon Bedrock with Datadog LLM Observability

As large language models (LLMs) grow more powerful, organizations are deploying agentic AI applications to tackle complex, multi-step tasks. With Amazon Bedrock Agents, developers can orchestrate these agents to manage tasks such as triggering serverless functions, calling APIs, accessing knowledge bases, and maintaining contextual conversations—all while breaking down complex user requests or tasks into manageable steps.

How to Troubleshoot Outages Faster Using Elastic Observability [2 Min Live Demo]

In this video, I’ll show you how Elastic Observability helps you reduce downtime, accelerate root cause analysis, and unify logs, metrics, and traces in one powerful dashboard. With native OpenTelemetry support, AI-powered troubleshooting, and built-in anomaly detection, you can streamline your workflows and boost service reliability.

Arie's Adventures with Coroot

Arie van den Heuvel is an engineer, a System and Application Management Specialist, and a valued member of our community. Below he has shared his journey using Coroot, and how it has helped improve observability for his team. You can read more of Arie’s writing and support the resource articles he has created for open source on his blog.

Splunk Named a Leader in the 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Observability Platforms

We are proud to announce that Splunk has been named a Leader in the 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Observability Platforms for the third year in a row. In our opinion, our recognition in the Observability category comes on the heels of Splunk being recognized for a tenth consecutive time as a Leader in the 2024 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Security Information and Event Management (SIEM). Splunk was the only vendor named a Leader in both SIEM and Observability for the Gartner Magic Quadrant three times.

Climbing the Security Pyramid: From Awareness to Automation with AI and Observability

Modern threats don't wait. They move fast, hide deep, and often strike without warning. That's why old-school security isn't enough anymore. You need more than firewalls and login rules. You need layers. You need clarity. And most of all, you need speed. This is where the security pyramid comes in. It shows how smart security stacks-from the ground up. It starts with awareness and ends with advanced tools like automation and AI. In this article, we'll break it down step by step-and show how observability and automation help you climb it.

Uptrace v2.0: The Future of Observability is Here

The Uptrace team is thrilled to announce the release of v2.0—our biggest update yet! This release represents a complete reimagining of how observability data should be stored, queried, and managed. With multi-project support, revolutionary JSON-based storage, powerful data transformations, and a host of developer-friendly features, Uptrace v2.0 is designed to scale with your growing infrastructure needs.

The Fast Path to More Useful Telemetry

Over and over, we’ve seen that teams who invest in adding rich, relevant context to their telemetry end up debugging faster and collaborating more effectively during incidents. Getting meaningful context added can feel like a big cross-team project, but some of the highest-leverage improvements don’t require app code changes or coordination across services.