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Kubernetes is an open source container orchestration platform that significantly simplifies an application's creation and management. Distributed systems like Kubernetes can be hard to manage, as they involve many moving parts and all of them must work for the system to function. Even if a small part breaks, it needs to be detected, routed and fixed. These actions also need to be automated. Kubernetes allows us to do that with the help of readiness and liveness probes.

At Sematext, we are dedicated to making troubleshooting easier for ops teams. We knew we were doing something right when we started to receive awards and positive reviews from our customers around the globe, ranging from startups to enterprise clients across a wide range of industries. In this post, we’re listing just a few of the recognitions Sematext Cloud has received from the community via review platforms such as G2, Capterra, GetApp or SoftwareAdvice.

In the freshly released Grafana 8.4, we’ve enabled the full-range log volume histogram for the Grafana Loki data source by default. Previously, the histogram would only show the values over whatever time range the first 1,000 returned lines fell within. Now those using Explore to query Grafana Loki will see a histogram that reflects the distribution of log lines over their selected time range.

We are excited to announce that Google Cloud Managed Service for Prometheus is now generally available! Now you can get all the benefits of open source-compatible monitoring with the ease of use of Google-scale managed services.