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Elastic Observability 9.0/8.18: Elastic Distributions of OpenTelemetry (EDOT) now GA, LLM observability, and more

Elastic Observability 9.0/8.18 announces several key capabilities: Elastic Observability 8.18 and 9.0 is available now on Elastic Cloud — the only Elasticsearch offering to include all of the new features in this latest release. You can also download the Elastic Stack and our cloud orchestration products — Elastic Cloud Enterprise and Elastic Cloud for Kubernetes — for a self-managed experience. What else is new in Elastic 9.0/8.18? Check out the 9.0/8.18 announcement post to learn more.

Datadog named a Leader in the Forrester Wave: AIOps Platforms, Q2 2025

We are thrilled to announce that Datadog has been named a Leader in the Forrester Wave: AIOps Platforms, Q2 2025. We believe this placement reflects Datadog’s commitment to offering an AI-driven platform that enables customers to observe and secure systems, orient teams, and take action in one place. Datadog sits within your most critical workflows, processing trillions of telemetry data points every hour through your alerts, service maps, teams, on-call schedules, and more.

InfluxData Announces General Availability of InfluxDB 3 Core and InfluxDB 3 Enterprise, Simplifying How Developers Build with Time Series Data

InfluxDB 3 Core is an open source, high-speed, recent-data engine; InfluxDB 3 Enterprise adds performance, high availability, security, and scalability for mission-critical workloads Built-in Python Processing Engine brings collection, transformation, monitoring, alerting, and automation on time series data.

Meet Our Newly Updated ODBC Solutions

Here we go with another update of ODBC, our reliable and high-performance tools for connecting to popular databases and cloud services from ODBC-compatible tools. This release features enhanced performance, essential new options, expanded capabilities, and much more. This time, the spotlight is on our ODBC Driver for Jira, which has been significantly optimized in terms of data retrieval.

Honeycomb Acquires Grit: A Strategic Investment in Pragmatic AI and Customer Value

We’re excited to share that Honeycomb has completed our first-ever acquisition: we’re joining forces with Grit, bringing on board not only a strong team, but also compelling technology that supercharges our ability to deliver on our mission: to bring observability to every software engineer. This is a strategic move that will help us deepen the value we deliver to customers and accelerate our vision for what modern observability can and should be.

GitKraken Desktop 11: Meet Your New Development Co-Pilot

Written by author, adapted by AI GitKraken Desktop 11.0 is here, and it’s more than just a version bump. We’re introducing AI-powered features designed to accompany your workflow and help you stay focused on what matters most. It’s changed how I approach commits, and I’m sure it will help y’all too!

Squadcast Strengthens Its Leadership in IT Alerting and Incident Management in the G2 Spring Report

2025 has already started out to be a remarkable year for Squadcast—with our key wins in the G2 Spring Reports, our acquisition by SolarWinds, and a series of impactful product releases and improvements. Our mission has always been clear: to deliver a unified platform that seamlessly integrates On-Call Management and Incident Response, empowering teams to boost service reliability and productivity—all without the burden of context switching.

Announcing Charmed Kubeflow 1.10

We are thrilled to announce the release of Charmed Kubeflow 1.10, Canonical’s latest update to the widely-adopted open source MLOps platform. This release integrates significant improvements from the upstream Kubeflow 1.10 project, while also bringing a suite of additional capabilities targeted towards enterprise deployments. Charmed Kubeflow 1.10 empowers machine learning practitioners and teams to operationalize machine learning workflows more efficiently, securely, and seamlessly than ever.