Kubernetes is a highly popular and widely used container orchestration platform designed to deploy and manage containerized applications at a scale, with strong horizontal scaling capabilities that can support up to 5,000 nodes; the only limit in adding nodes to your cluster is your budget. However, its vertical scaling is restricted by its default configurations, with a cap of 110 pods per node.

Grafana 9.5 has arrived! 🔥🎉 Get Grafana 9.5 The latest Grafana release introduces new features and improvements, such as major Grafana Alerting improvements, dashboard and visualization enhancements, a redesigned navigation experience, support bundles for faster issue resolution, and much more to provide you with better insights into your data.

Open source project InfluxDB IOx becomes InfluxDB 3.0, the next-generation time series database powering all InfluxDB products. InfluxDB Cloud Dedicated added to suite of enterprise-grade cloud services.

ManageEngine’s flagship ITSM platform, ServiceDesk Plus, has been named a Technology Leader in the latest SPARK Matrix: IT Service Management Tools report. This recognition reaffirms our efforts to make ServiceDesk Plus a capable ITSM platform that helps enterprises manage and deliver IT and business services.

We are pleased to announce that a tech preview version of Rancher Desktop with support for Docker Extensions has just been released!

Lightrun, the leading Developer Observability Platform for production environments, announced today that it has extended its support to include C# on its plugins for JetBrains Rider, VSCode, and VSCode.dev. With this new runtime support, .NET developers can troubleshoot their apps against.NET Framework 4.6.1+, .NET Core 2.0+, and.NET 5.0+ technologies.

Spring marks a season of growth, and HAProxy was in full bloom in the Spring 2023 G2 reports. Our users continue to share their positive experiences on G2 and show how new users can use HAProxy to simplify, scale, and secure their application delivery infrastructure.

We’re excited to announce an expanded partnership with CrowdStrike and introduce CrowdStream, a powerful new native platform capability that enables customers to seamlessly connect any data source to the CrowdStrike Falcon platform.

We recently introduced the LogicMonitor Exporter which is now a part of OpenTelelemetry Collector Contrib distro. This allows you to bring your collector for streaming telemetry data from your environment to LM Envision, LogicMonitor’s hybrid and multi-cloud monitoring platform. LogicMonitor associates the exported logs and traces from a single OpenTelemetry collector to simplify your application’s operations and troubleshoot issues.

Thanks so much Meenakshi Srinivasan! We are honored to be chosen over the competition and are excited and looking forward to helping our joint enterprise and cloud-native customers. Thanks to the IBM Consulting team for the joint Proof of Technology and joint GTM team.