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“The big challenge is to become all you could possibly be”, Jim Rohn. “The only way to grow is to challenge yourself,” Ashley Tisdale. “The bigger the obstacle, the more glory there is in overcoming it”, Molière… And so we could continue with a long list of inspiring and fighting-spirited people who faced life and came out victorious (probably). Pandora FMS is the same. Unbreakable and litigant.

For the last few months, I have been actively contributing to the InfluxDB community by building InfluxDB Templates for InfluxDB 2.0. InfluxDB is the purpose-built time series database used for metric collection and storage. Let’s build an InfluxDB Template to monitor PostgreSQL together! 👏

AWS Outposts is a fully managed service that extends AWS infrastructure, AWS services, APIs, and tools to virtually any datacenter, co-location space, or on-premises facility for a truly consistent hybrid experience. The rapid adoption of hybrid IT has driven the need for a more consistent and standardized availability of cloud resources and operations so IT teams can rapidly deliver services deployed either on the public cloud or on-premises.

From investigating slow performance to digging into inefficient API calls, there are many ways we can approach improving application performance on any given day. Raygun gives developers actionable metrics on performance bottlenecks so you can prioritize your day to day workflow around creating better customer experiences.

Kemp, known for its well-tuned and easy-to-use load balancer LoadMaster, has acquired Flowmon, extending its product portfolio and growing through acquisition. So you may ask, how does the technology fit?

For more than a decade we have been concentrating our best talents into two areas. Improving technology and making our products available globally. Now, the time has come to massively scale up our business and technological power.

Logz.io Smart Tier gives you the flexibility to place data on different tiers to optimize cost, performance and availability. Unlike the traditional hot-warm-cold paradigm, Logz.io Smart Tier gives you a “hot” real-time experience while on a “warm” tier, at a reduced cost.

The observability market is undoubtedly hot. Consider the headline-grabbing evidence: multiple IPOs, hundreds of millions of dollars in venture capital funding for startups, and huge market caps of vendors playing in the space totalling more than $80 billion. Still, it has to be asked: Is all the hype warranted, or is this really just “absurdability”? We asked seven industry watchers to weigh in.