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We are proud to announce that we have been named one of America’s Best Startup Employers 2023 by Forbes! The Forbes list of America’s Best Startup Employers 2023 was compiled by evaluating 2,600 companies with at least 50 employees in the United States. All of the companies considered were founded between 2013 and 2020, from the ground up, and were not spin-offs of existing businesses. Just like other Forbes lists, businesses cannot pay to be considered.

Spring is here and so are the latest G2 Badges! I’m happy to share that G2 has awarded 15 badges to SUSE in its 2023 spring report, including the overarching ‘Users Love Us’ badge (again). G2, the world’s largest and most trusted tech marketplace, recognized Rancher, SLE Desktop, SLE Real Time, SLES and SUSE Manager as High Performers and Momentum Leaders. G2 also awarded the openSUSE Tumbleweed Linux distribution.

As a big proponent of open source and all things open, I jumped at the opportunity to expand on Cribl Stream’s OpenTelemetry implementation. I’m happy to report that as of Cribl Stream 4.1, both our OpenTelemetry source and destination now support OTLP over HTTP!

The Canvas panel, which will be Generally Available in Grafana 10, combines the power of Grafana with the flexibility of custom elements. Canvas visualizations are extensible, form-built panels you can use to explicitly place elements within static and dynamic layouts. This empowers you to design custom visualizations and overlay data in ways that aren’t possible with standard Grafana panels, all within Grafana’s UI.

The use of statistics, advanced algorithms and AI/Ml is becoming omnipresent. The benefits are visible in every walk of life, from web searches, to movie and retail recommendations, to auto-completing our emails. Of course, not many anticipated the dramatic entrance of generative AI in the form of ChatGPT for writing college essays and poetry on arcane topics.