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Elastic Universal Profiling™ agent is now open source! The industry’s most advanced fleetwide continuous profiling solution empowers users to identify performance bottlenecks, reduce cloud spend, and minimize their carbon footprint. This post explores the history of the agent, its move to open source, and its future integration with OpenTelemetry.

Access to critical business data, such as cloud cost data, is both incredibly important for finance, engineering, and DevOps teams, but also a privilege that should be managed carefully. This month, our engineering teams put a major focus on developing industry-leading capabilities related to access control, while also making it easier for people who require certain kinds of data to get it where it needs to be.

After watching part one and part two of our FinOps Automation Series, hopefully you’re chomping at the bit to adopt your first automation solution. In part three below, our experts — Erik Peterson (CTO and Founder of CloudZero), Alan Hand (Founder and CEO of Xosphere), Steven O’Dwyer (Senior FinOps Specialist at ProsperOps), and Mike Fuller (CTO of the FinOps Foundation) — are going to walk you through what you need to know before you take any concrete steps.

The rise of the digital era has led to increasing concerns among individuals around the protection of their personal data. In 2022, for example, 24% of individuals exercised their right to Data Subject Access Requests, and this rose to 28% in 2023 according to Statista research results.

Relying on their traditional observability 1.0 tool, Pax8 faced hurdles in fostering a culture of ownership and curiosity due to user-based pricing limitations and an impending steep price increase. Pax8’s platform engineering team was keen on modernizing the company’s cloud commerce platform, but they were hitting obstacles with their traditional observability 1.0 tool, which relied on the three pillars of logs, metrics, and traces.

In this livestream, I had a great discussion with Paul Stout and Scott Gray from nth degree about how the service model has evolved from a focus on time and materials to outcome-based services. Watch the full conversation here and leave with a roadmap for improving your next service engagement. Security teams often have a love-hate relationship with onboarding new tools.

The digital revolution is upon us, and businesses are under immense pressure to adapt. Customers demand seamless online experiences, competitors innovate at breakneck speed, and market landscapes shift in the blink of an eye. The traditional response – a large-scale digital transformation – while alluring, can often be daunting and time-consuming. The IT ecosystem is a constantly evolving battleground.

"In a world where change is the only constant, the rapid advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a formidable force that is redefining life and commerce. As we witness firsthand the seismic shifts occurring in the business world due to the advent of AI, the landscape is changing rapidly, and with it, the rules of engagement for companies across the globe.

If your business is growing, then so too must your IT infrastructure. Servers, VMs, databases, nodes, pods, containers, and all of your digital resources spawn up and down—all in accordance to your business' needs. The catch is all of these infrastructure elements have to be monitored without it being a herculean task to your team to do so. Here are some pain points that arise every time a server or VM is added: Configuration rules will help you solve all these problems and more.

Incidents impacting your customer and user-facing services can be stressful, both for the responders on your team who are working on a resolution, and for the other stakeholders in your business. For teams to solve incidents quickly and effectively, responders need to be able to trust each other and stakeholders have to trust the responders. This level of trust is hard to cultivate if your organization doesn’t have a significant amount of psychological safety.