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In recent years, we’ve seen many organizations migrate from legacy incident response tools to Grafana Cloud IRM — our unified incident response and on-call management application hosted on Grafana Cloud — as they look to improve reliability, reduce costs, and consolidate their tooling. To help guide those efforts, we offer several IRM migration tools that allow you to more seamlessly migrate away from those legacy solutions and start using Grafana Cloud IRM.

In a world of managed services, details can often be skipped, overlooked, ignored, or just plain avoided. And in many cases, that's fine. But if you're here, reading this, then I will take it for granted that these things interest you, and I welcome you to join me on this journey of exploration, looking under the hood of two prominent container orchestration platforms on the market: Cycle and Kubernetes.

It started with promise: deploy a chatbot, cut service desk costs, and deliver instant support to employees anytime, anywhere. And many large organizations bought in. But several years into this so-called “chatbot revolution,” the results tell a different story—one of inflated expectations and underwhelming outcomes. It’s time to face a hard truth: AI that only talks is no longer enough.

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!

Last week, the cloud-native jamboree that is KubeCon descended on London, UK (my home city), and HAProxy Technologies set out to be the life of the party. This year’s event was our biggest yet, so we brought our A-game – with a huge booth, a lot to show off, and thousands and thousands of T-shirts to fold and give away.

DORA is a recent addition to EU regulations designed to help businesses in the finance industry increase their security by monitoring and preventing cyberattacks by monitoring, identifying, and reacting to incidents that could threaten financial data. Throughout this article, we will explain the DORA regulation, who does the DORA regulation apply to, and how to help gain DORA compliance via implementing new security protocols and secure third-party services.

An incident response platform helps organizations manage, track, and resolve IT incidents quickly and efficiently. With the right platform, teams can minimize downtime, reduce the impact of incidents, and improve overall response times. ‍ In this article, we’ll explore the top 5 incident response platforms for 2025, helping you choose the best solution for your needs. ‍

Monitoring applications shouldn’t be a guessing game. But too often, DevOps engineers end up buried under a pile of metrics that don’t help when things go wrong. That’s where Prometheus APM comes in. It offers a straightforward way to make sense of your systems—especially when you're working with modern, distributed setups like microservices.

When architecting high-performance infrastructure capable of handling substantial traffic loads, the choice of load balancer is a critical decision that can significantly impact system reliability, performance, and cost-efficiency. Among the leading contenders, HAProxy and NGINX stand out as mature, battle-tested solutions with distinct strengths and characteristics.

For decades, advertising has operated on a fundamental assumption - creative excellence alone drives business results. This principle, enshrined in industry awards, agency structures, and marketing departments worldwide, created a system where their ingenuity rather than revenue contribution judged campaigns. The most celebrated advertisements weren't necessarily the most effective; they were the most memorable.