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We’re excited to share that SCIM provisioning is available in public preview for Grafana Enterprise and Grafana Cloud Advanced! This powerful feature, introduced last week at GrafanaCON 2025 as part of the Grafana 12 release, transforms how organizations manage users and teams in Grafana, bringing automated user lifecycle management and enhanced security to your observability platform.

One of our biggest goals at Grafana Labs is to help you unify and derive value from your data, regardless of where that data lives. As a result, we’re fully committed to making Grafana an open, composable, and extensible observability platform. Last week at GrafanaCON 2025, where we celebrated the launch of Grafana 12, we highlighted one of the key ways we deliver on this promise of openness and extensibility: our broad ecosystem of Grafana data sources.

Internet Information Services, commonly referred to as IIS, is Microsoft's web server software. It is built to host websites, applications, and services for Windows systems. If you are considering IIS for hosting your website or applications, let us take you through the basics of IIS, its benefits over the other options available, and the common pitfalls organizations face when they opt for IIS. IIS has evolved a lot since its GA release in 1995.

Observability isn’t about collecting more telemetry — it’s about making that telemetry data meaningful. Contextual observability transforms raw telemetry into actionable insights by enriching it with consistent tagging and metadata. Without context, telemetry data remains fragmented, troubleshooting slows, and aligning with business priorities is nearly impossible.

‘Without the internet, Digital Experiences do not exist,’ begins Increase Revenue and Improve Customer Experience with Internet Performance Monitoring, a study commissioned by Catchpoint to quantify the financial damage from internet outages. At first glance, that might seem painfully obvious—like pointing out that water is wet. But pause for a moment and consider: the digital experience today isn't just an aspect of business; it is the business. Suddenly, the stakes feel very different.

In recent months, the IT monitoring landscape has seen notable investment activity: These developments are part of a larger trend, with investment firms showing growing interest in the IT monitoring sector. Although such activity isn’t unusual in the tech industry, the current intensity and frequency indicate that IT monitoring is emerging as a key area for growth-oriented strategies.

Cycle.io is taking a giant leap forward in 2025. Today, we're announcing the biggest platform release in years -- a release that catapults Cycle into a new era of hybrid infrastructure orchestration and cements its status as a true alternative to both Kubernetes and VMware. Now, with two massively impactful features: Virtual Providers and Virtual Machines.

We all want growth, but often find ourselves unequipped to deal with it. It’s a bit like going to the gym, lifting weights, and seeing real results, only to realize that you no longer fit into your old clothes. Now you have to decide whether to modify them or buy new clothes. We can use this very simple analogy to understand horizontal vs. vertical scaling.