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VMware Management Pack Update Release (21.11.2612.0)

Finally, It's time for a new VMware management pack release, and yes, we heard you! A while ago we asked for your input and feedback in a customer survey. We worked hard to optimize and add new features according to your requests. Some most significant features are mentioned and described in depth below, while you will find all newly added features, changes, and improvements in the release notes.

GCP Integrations for Metrics with Logz.io

Logz.io has dedicated itself to encouraging and supporting cloud-native development. That has meant doubling down on support for AWS and Azure, but also increasing our tie-ins with Google Cloud Platform – GCP. Recently, our team added dozens of new integrations for metrics covering the gamut of products in the GCP ecosystem.

Announcing the General Availability of Splunk RUM Custom Events

With a 70% increase in internet usage, and digital teams adopting cloud-native technologies at a rapid rate, the importance of measuring customer experience on digital properties is not just a technical problem, but a business imperative. Frontend developers and SREs use Real User Monitoring (RUM) to understand critical components of their end-user experience, like how quickly users see content, when a page becomes interactive, and a page's visual stability.

Top title alert! Ivanti recognized by Frost & Sullivan's 2021 Best Practices Award as Asia-Pacific Secure Remote Access Company of the Year

We’re thrilled to announce that Frost & Sullivan has awarded the 2021 Asia-Pacific Company of the Year Award for secure remote access to Pulse Secure (acquired by Ivanti). In determining awards, Frost & Sullivan “applies a rigorous analytical process” that includes “detailed evaluation of best practices criteria.”

k6 introduces browser automation and Prometheus support in k6 OSS

While there is a lot of focus on the three pillars of observability to provide insight into application performance in production, load testing is the other side of the observability story. By using the open source load testing tool k6 — which Grafana Labs acquired earlier this year — developers can simulate real-world traffic to test the reliability and performance of software changes and new features, not to mention flag performance issues before impacting end users.

Announcing support for Graviton2-powered AWS Fargate deployments

AWS Fargate is a serverless compute engine that allows you to deploy containerized applications on services like Amazon ECS without needing to provision or manage compute resources. Now, Datadog is proud to be a launch partner with Amazon for their support of AWS Fargate workloads running on Graviton2, Amazon’s proprietary ARM64 processor.