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The new Sqlyze data source plugin (in beta) allows you to connect your Grafana instance to all your favorite SQL databases, many NoSQL databases, and many other non-SQL data sources — from document databases, to ERP systems, to even Slack. You don’t have to know the native query syntax for these data sources; you can just use SQL. The Sqlyze plugin uses ODBC at its core. Hundreds of ODBC drivers are available for various databases/data sources.

Everybody is used to dealing with the bugs on their smartphone and other technology devices In their homes that have been an issue for years. The fact that they may never be resolved is just one of those things that we’ve decided to accept. At Cribl, we approach this situation differently — we’re not okay with bugs of any size.

Without logs, or a good understanding of them, debugging an application or looking through an error stack trace can be challenging. Luckily, Flask logging can change the way you understand debugging and how you interact with logs produced by the application. The Flask logging module gives you a way to record errors over different severity levels. A default logging module is included in the Python standard library, and it provides both simple and advanced logging functions.

The explosive growth of ecommerce has slowed in the last year. But the need for businesses to deliver a great digital user experience continues to grow. Companies that don’t rely on online customer purchases can still suffer blows to revenues due to a poor online experience. Market conditions are raising the importance of Application Performance Monitoring (APM) tools to ensure every digital interaction with your company is positive. APM tools vary by design, features and functionality.

Splunk is all-in on OpenTelemetry, as exemplified by our native support for it in Observability Cloud, Splunk Enterprise and Enterprise Cloud’s usage of the OpenTelemetry Collector with Splunk Connect for OpenTelemetry Kubernetes, our long-term ambition to use OpenTelemetry as the main way that all Splunk Products capture data from customers’ infrastructure and applications for analysis, and our massive level of contribution to the project.

Each device's overall health and security affect the overall organization, and if an endpoint is not in good health, it could be a significant security risk. For example, the IDC discovered that endpoints such as laptops, desktops, or mobile devices are the origin of 70% of successful breaches. Because those endpoints often serve as a gateway for a security breach, robust endpoint management is essential for today’s modern organizations.

There are few organizations left today without some of their business operating in the cloud. A recent IDG Cloud Computing Study found that 92% of businesses globally moved to the cloud. According to Gartner, cloud adoption spending will surge to about $482 billion by the end of 2022. Most companies make the move to take advantage of the speed, innovation, and flexibility offered by cloud computing solutions. Operating in the cloud can also provide cost savings and improved productivity.

Welcome to a special Monthly Moo - Product Edition. We have so much to share that we needed to create a special edition of the Monthly Moo to cover all the latest features that are now available. And to see these in action, sign up for our webinar that's coming on Tuesday. More details below. With many new features recently rolled out we need to group them in logical order to cover each of the following categories.