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Real-Time Analytics Made Simple with Kafka and Iceberg

AIVEN DATA PLATFORM The Aiven Platform is more than a collection of open source services for streaming, storing and analyzing data. The platform ensures that all services run reliably and securely in the clouds of your choice, are observable, and can easily be integrated with each other and with external 3rd party tools.

Using GreptimeDB as Prometheus Data Lake in Coroot

Coroot is excited to feature an editorial from the open source observability database GreptimeDB as an Open Source Spotlight. We hope to improve the work of our global community of SREs and DevOps professionals by sharing exciting projects like GreptimeDB, which make innovation accessible for everyone through the freedom of open source.

9 Best Incident Response Tools (Plus 4 Open-Source Options)

I’ve curated a list of 9 best incident response tools, plus 4 open-source options for you. But first, a quick note: Many people mix up alerting, monitoring, and incident response. Incident response is what you do after receiving an alert. It includes alert acknowledgment, escalations, incident communication, post-incident analysis, and response automation. Yes, some of these (incident communication and post-incident analysis) overlap with incident management.

Get Kafka-Nated Episode 3: Greg Harris on Contributing to KIP 1150 diskless

The Aiven Platform is more than a collection of open source services for streaming, storing and analyzing data. The platform ensures that all services run reliably and securely in the clouds of your choice, are observable, and can easily be integrated with each other and with external 3rd party tools.

Get Kafka-Nated Episode 2: Josep Prat - Life of a Kafka contributor

The Aiven Platform is more than a collection of open source services for streaming, storing and analyzing data. The platform ensures that all services run reliably and securely in the clouds of your choice, are observable, and can easily be integrated with each other and with external 3rd party tools.

9 Best IT Alerting Software in 2025 (Plus 3 Open-Source Options)

I’ve curated a list of 9 best IT alerting software and 3 open-source alternatives for you. Every tool on this list handles the core alerting functions you need: incident detection, fast alert delivery, clear escalation paths, and reliable incident logging. Since all these tools tick those boxes, I focused on what makes each tool special. You’ll find their unique features under “Standout Alerting Features of ” for each option.

OpenTelemetry at Grafana Labs: the latest on how we're investing in the emerging industry standard

Here at Grafana Labs, open source has always been core to what we do. So it should come as no surprise that we’re going all in on OpenTelemetry—an open source project that’s quickly becoming an industry standard for vendor-neutral telemetry.

Why Branding Still Matters in the Age of DevOps and SaaS Automation

In a landscape dominated by automation, CI/CD pipelines, and observability dashboards, branding can feel... secondary. After all, if your platform ships fast, scales reliably, and integrates with everything - why should anyone care what it looks or sounds like? The answer is simple: they do.

Enhancing authentication security: Inside Microsoft's open source contribution to Grafana

When Microsoft engineers went looking for a modern visualization platform to help track critical signals and make quicker decisions, Grafana emerged as the clear favorite. But there was just one hitch: the available authentication methods didn’t quite meet their needs.