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GrafanaCONline IoT Day recap: Real-time streaming in Grafana 8, fun DIY projects, Grafana for trains, plants, and more

Week two of GrafanaCONline 2021 is going strong! To catch the live sessions — or to watch all the videos on demand after GrafanaCONline ends on June 17 — register here. If you didn’t get a chance to watch yesterday’s presentations, here’s what you missed from Day 4 of the conference.

Manage incidents on the go with the Datadog mobile app

The Datadog mobile app enables you to check your alerts and dashboards from anywhere, so you can triage issues—and stay up to date—regardless of whether you have access to a laptop. You can now be even more productive when responding to issues while away from your keyboard by declaring incidents and notifying responders directly from your mobile device.

Interview with AI Ethicist, Alice Thwaite

For our latest expert interview on our blog, we’ve welcomed Alice Thwaite to share her thoughts on the topic of artificial intelligence (AI) as well as the reasons behind founding technology ethics company Hattusia. Alice Thwaite is an AI ethics philosopher and ethicist who specialises in creating democratic information environments.

Get Ready For Industry 5.0: How Enterprises Are Relieving Digital Pressure in the Age of Seamless Connectivity

From connected factories to smart fleet management, technology is driving a new industrial revolution. To stay competitive, industrial enterprises are building on the efficiency gains delivered by automation and other pillars of Industry 4.0 to adopt more advanced digital solutions for smarter, faster working.

Monitor AWS control plane API usage metrics in Datadog

AWS Service Quotas helps you manage limits on the number of resources or API operations that are possible for a given AWS service. Hitting such limits could cause operational disruptions related to getting rate limited on the critical APIs that your applications rely on or being unable to provision additional AWS resources.

How we added custom languages, code completion and highlighting to the Monaco editor

We've recently launched a brand new in-browser editor for our browser check creation experience! Browser checks are Javascript-powered Playwright/Puppeteer scripts that run on deploy or on a schedule for testing and monitoring websites and web apps. While this new experience centers around an upgraded text editor, it is much more than just that.The new browser check creation experience builds on the popular Monaco editor from Microsoft, which also powers VS Code under the hood.

Elastic beats Beats Users with a Breaking Change

Last week Elastic.co started locking down its Beats OSS shippers such that they will not be able to send data to Elasticsearch 7.10 or earlier open source distros, or Non-Elastic distros of Elasticsearch. If you weren’t watching closely this might have slipped under your radar. Embedded within the Beats 7.13 minor release that was published over the weekend, a release note advised of a breaking change in which “Beats may not be sending data to some distributions of Elasticsearch”.