We consistently release helpful updates and fun features in Grafana Cloud, our fully managed observability platform powered by the open source Grafana LGTM Stack (Loki for logs, Grafana for visualization, Tempo for traces, and Mimir for metrics). In case you missed it, here’s a roundup of the latest and greatest updates for Grafana Cloud this month. You can also read about all the features we add to Grafana Cloud in our What’s New in Grafana Cloud documentation.

Domain Name System (DNS) is an important part of the internet that changes human-readable domain names into machine-readable IP addresses. This article will explain the parts of DNS, including its pieces, query types, and the lookup process. We will also talk about DNS caching and how it makes the DNS resolution process faster.

LogicMonitor stands at the forefront of innovation in IT infrastructure monitoring, and our newest solutions help our customers optimize performance, manage costs, and gain deeper visibility into their network operations. Our vision is to empower businesses with the observability needed to navigate modern IT complexities with AI-powered solutions that drive efficiency.

Editor’s Note: This is the second installment of a series of blog posts previewing our State of Observability 2024 survey report. In the first episode of this blog series, we looked at where IT organizations are in their observability journeys and found, rather surprisingly, that most enterprise IT organizations and MSPs were just getting started in observability. Yet 96% of respondents told us their observability solution was delivering the value they expected.

Grafana is a resilient open-source dashboard and visualization platform celebrated for its ability to help users grasp complex data. The alerting system is an essential element enhancing its capabilities. By notifying users of data shifts or irregularities, the alerting system significantly improves the user experience. This guide covers the basics of Grafana alerts, emphasizing their importance and offering practical tips for seamless setup.

In this post, Doug Madory digs into the latest submarine cable failure impacting internet connectivity in Africa: the Seacom and EASSy cables suffered breaks on May 12 near the cable landing station in Maputo, Mozambique.

Writing optimal code is crucial for developers, and human collaboration is key to achieving this. Code review tools are essential for maintaining the integrity of well-built products, which are vital for software development. We are a team of developers that love building tools that optimize our worlds. As engineers, designers and product managers, we identified many challenges in standard Git workflows that inhibited us from working more effectively together.

OpenSearch has grown to be one of the most widely used open-source search engine projects. The high flexibility of the solution enables it to be the perfect option for a broad range of use cases, such as log and event data analysis, application monitoring and metrics analysis, and security information and event management (SIEM).

Spot by NetApp is once again thrilled to be named a leader and outperformer in FinOps by tech industry analyst firm GigaOm – for the third year in a row!

You are probably in the quest to find the best method to host your organization’s software and data. Out of all the options out there, a big part of the decision comes down to choosing between on-premise vs. cloud. Apart from asking yourself which of them fits the IT budget better and how much you need to worry about security, from a technical standpoint you also have to understand the types of management. The key difference lies in the ownership and control/monitoring of the IT infrastructure.