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Earlier this year we launched Grafana Cloud Fleet Management to address the pain that comes with managing scores of telemetry collectors across departments and environments. We've been excited to see how organizations are using it to manage collectors at scale, but we've also heard from users who aren't sure how Fleet Management fits with their existing infrastructure-as-code tooling. The good news is Fleet Management is designed specifically to complement—not replace—tools like Terraform.

Setting up on-call is simpler than it seems. It comes down to a few clear decisions about your team and what your service actually needs. This guide walks you through those decisions. You’ll learn who to add in your rotation, how long shifts should last, when to hand off, and what coverage makes sense for your service. By the end, you’ll know exactly how to set up your first schedule and move from ad-hoc firefighting to organized incident response.

Some releases break new ground. Others clear the path. GitKraken Desktop 11.8 does both. You know that moment when you’re three commits deep into an interactive rebase and realize you’ve made a terrible mistake? Or when you’re trying to explain what changed on a feature branch, but it means manually selecting 47 commits? Or when you just want to preview a README without opening another app?

Let’s start with a question. What is DevOps all about? I’ll tell you my answer. In retrospect, I think the entire DevOps movement was a mighty, twenty year battle to achieve one thing: a single feedback loop connecting devs with prod. On those grounds, it failed. Not because software engineers weren’t good at their jobs, or didn’t care enough. It failed because the technology wasn’t good enough.

January 15, 2026 – Canonical, the publisher of Ubuntu and provider of open source security, support, and services, announced today that it is a launch partner for the AWS European Sovereign Cloud, a new independent cloud for Europe, with Ubuntu and Ubuntu Pro now available. Canonical’s Ubuntu Pro delivers a securely designed, stable, and enterprise-ready foundation for open source innovation while providing customers with the same security, availability, and performance they expect from AWS.

Security data collection has become a first-class architectural concern for modern SOCs. Once collection is treated as a dedicated layer, separate from analytics and detection, the next question becomes practical: how should telemetry be collected in a way that aligns with this architecture? In the previous article, we examined why this shift occurred. Here, we focus on how different collection models (agent-based, agentless, and hybrid) fit into modern security data collection architectures.

The Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) came into force across the EU on January 17, 2025, fundamentally changing how financial institutions must approach infrastructure and technology assets resilience. Its requirements around ICT risk management, operational resilience, and third-party oversight signal a broader shift that will ripple across regulated industries worldwide.

SQL Prompt’s January release brings support for Microsoft Fabric and an exciting new preview feature.