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More than 20,000 companies around the world use Ansible as their Infrastructure as Code and configuration management tool. With the rising popularity towards managing infrastructure using IaC and config management tools, Ansible is one of the best open source tools to choose from. That is why we are excited to announce a new Grafana Ansible collection available to all Grafana Cloud users, including those in the generous free tier.

It’s no secret that application containerization has revolutionized the digital world as we know it by providing a transient gateway into elastic infrastructure that can scale and grow as needed. Where traditional virtualization was all about creating a single homogenous entity, containers are self-contained units of software, able to run in just about any environment, making them extremely portable.

We recently hosted a Twitter Space, and a question came in regarding speaking to executives about instrumenting for observability. It’s a great topic we love expanding on. Here’s the answer we provided.

Many organizations use Kubernetes to orchestrate their containerized applications. But because Kubernetes is complex, application developers may take some time to ramp up on the intricacies of monitoring a Kubernetes environment. This means that teams often need to create internal documentation and offer hands-on training to bridge the knowledge gap.

Microsoft 365 services help companies worldwide improve business and revenue by providing best in class digital workspace experience. The NiCE Active 365 Management Pack complements this by advanced M365 monitoring such as full Teams Call analysis integrated into Microsoft SCOM. Advanced monitoring and analytics help you reveal unwanted micro-events influencing the health and performance of the system and its users.

As in any high-growth environment, expanding your suite of products and capabilities can contribute to a growing backlog of errors, and challenges prioritizing them… a scenario not lost on the team at Airtable, a connected apps platform that more than 300k organizations, including 80% of the Fortune 100, rely on to connect their teams, data, and workflows. To support organizations like Amazon and IBM, Airtable ships new features and updates through multiple deployments a week.