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Pandora FMS has changed a lot since its inception, and you, dear reader, may have noticed it. Through effort and hard work it has grown older and become someone strong and capable. As you know, a tool, hard as well as flexible, that recognizes, connects and interprets different types of technologies to present them in a single environment. A system monitoring software that has gained lots of popularity in the market and has just launched its new interface.

We’re on a mission to build the industry’s most open, secure and interoperable Kubernetes management platform. Over the past few months, the team has made significant advancements across the entire Rancher portfolio that we are excited to share today with our community and customers.

Clear and frequent communication carries considerable weight in today's era of hyper-competition among businesses—especially during incidents. Because of this, status pages have become the go-to choice for companies looking to prioritize trust, transparency, and clarity with their customers, even during downtime. Unfortunately, current status page solutions have made these communications particularly frustrating and stressful.

Today we’re announcing our new Spend Allocation feature and updates to Spike Protection, giving you more control over how your projects consume events. While we’ve made it super easy for teams to add Sentry to their projects, we kept hearing from the community that they wanted more guardrails to ensure their noisy projects don’t eat through their event quota.

Complex systems require many different monitors to assess the health of their infrastructure and applications, creating a wealth of alerts that can be hard to track. Due to a lack of effective triage processes, many organizations page engineers for every alert that comes in, making it difficult to separate false positives from issues that actually require immediate attention.

Today we’re announcing the general availability of the Icinga Certificate Monitoring in version 1.2.0. You can find all issues related to this release on our Roadmap. Please also refer to the corresponding upgrade section in the documentation.

Following the release of upstream Kubernetes on 11th of April, Canonical Kubernetes 1.27 is generally available in the form of MicroK8s, with Charmed Kubernetes expected to follow shortly. We consistently follow the upstream release cadence to provide our users and customers with the latest improvements and fixes, together with security maintenance and enterprise support for Kubernetes on Ubuntu.

In 2021, we started Request Metrics as a simple and developer-friendly service to measure and improve web performance. We built an incredible platform that distilled complex data down into simple reports and recommendations. Lots of teams around the world found valuable insights in Request Metrics that they couldn’t get anywhere else. But web performance data can be very unpredictable—the web slows down in all sorts of ways.

Aiven Terraform Provider 4.x is an important step on our move to the new Terraform Plugin Framework, providing better type checking. Read on for details.

Grafana Loki 2.8 is here — and it’s at least 0.1 better than Loki 2.7! Jokes aside, this release includes a number of improvements users will appreciate. In addition to graduating our TSDB index from Experimental to General Availability, we’ve added a number of nifty LogQL features, and we’ve made the Loki deployment and management experience much easier. This also marks the release of Grafana Enterprise Logs (GEL) 1.7.