Since Grafana started 10 years ago, there have been more than 43,000 commits to the open source project. Grafana founder Torkel Ödegaard has made more than 7,600 of those commits, and he recently reflected on some personal favorites he’s worked on, ranging from early query builders to the latest navigation updates. Torkel isn’t the only one who has strong feelings.

In today’s fast-paced technological landscape, organizations heavily rely on IT assets to drive their operations and deliver value to customers. Efficient and effective management of these assets is crucial for ensuring optimal performance, cost savings, and regulatory compliance. This is where IT Asset Management (ITAM) software plays a vital role.

DevOps engineers are under intense pressure to provide reliable, high-quality services to teams and stakeholders. In large part, this is because end users today demand seamless access to software and a great user experience – a trend that will only increase as digital transformation accelerates and we move further into the future. DevOps professionals rely on various metrics to meet performance and reliability goals, one of the most important being service level objectives (SLOs).

If you are trying to figure out how to measure the performance of your application, you are in the correct place. We spend a lot of time at Stackify thinking about application performance, especially about how to monitor and improve it. In this article, we cover some of our most important application performance metrics you should be tracking.

Cybercrime is one of the greatest threats to modern businesses, so naturally, cybersecurity is becoming a top priority among business leaders worldwide. It’s easy to see why. Cybercrime can result in significant losses for companies, particularly financially. In fact, the global cost of cybercrime is expected to rise to $23.84 trillion by 2027, up from $8.44 trillion in 2022. Businesses collect and store mountains of data daily, and are obligated to keep that data secure.

It’s fair to say that delivering software faster has never been more relevant. But in doing so, it’s easy to let your bar for quality slip. Often, the guardrail to avoid this is to hire dedicated QA Engineers, whose sole job is to ensure your software works as it should and to spot any issues that arise. Seems sensible, right? Well, at incident.io, we take a different approach.

In the dynamic world of Information Technology (IT), incident tracking is a critical process within the realm of incident management that can significantly influence an organization’s operational efficiency and service quality. Incident management refers to the identification, recording, and management of incidents—unplanned events or disruptions—that can impact IT services.

Knowledge is power. Especially when it’s a collection of knowledge about challenges in your specific IT organization. To streamline knowledge access for technicians, we’re adding Knowledge Base to our Alloy Navigator mobile app. IT specialists can now access the knowledge base on the go through the same mobile interface that they use to respond to and collaborate on tickets.

Navigating the complex terrain of IT systems, operational issues, and security breaches is no easy job, even for the seasoned CIO. And when tasked with the lofty goals of improving operational resilience, mitigating security risk, and enhancing customer experiences, dealing with the day-to-day operations is all the more challenging. Achieving these goals can often feel overwhelming, with no end to the journey in sight.

Working on software infrastructure for the sake of infrastructure is rarely a good use of time. That probably sounds obvious, but perhaps the next question is less straightforward: what should engineering platform teams do instead?