Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

Today, cloud computing has become the backbone of modern business operations. Companies across the globe rely on cloud services for computing, networking, storage, cybersecurity, and their day-to-day operations. However, the outage involving Microsoft and CrowdStrike has underscored vulnerabilities and risks associated with dependence on the cloud.

Splunk and CloudFabrix are both powerful tools in the realm of IT operations management, but they serve different primary functions, have different use cases and are complementary to each other. Splunk focuses on organizations requiring real-time visibility into IT operations with powerful search and analysis capabilities for large volumes of data, real-time monitoring and alerting for IT operations, log management, security incident response, Observability, and rich visualizations for AIOps.

Continuously building upon the industry-leading Nexthink DEX Score and Experience Central, we are pleased to announce an extensive set of new, high-value features to amplify Senior IT Leader’s ability to manage all aspects of their employees' digital experience proactively and strategically. Building upon the capabilities described in Strategic DEX Management earlier this summer, the following capabilities have been added.

At Cox Enterprises, employee experience has a direct connection to productivity. Technology errors, hiccups, and poor performance aren’t just frustrating, they can cause employees to disengage from their top priority work, slowing down crucial business projects. These problems impact employee satisfaction, retention, and turnover, creating reputational and financial risks that can hinder long-term success.

In today's fast-paced digital economy, businesses are constantly seeking innovative solutions to streamline their operations, enhance agility, and drive growth. As enterprise IT infrastructure environments get more distributed and complicated to meet evolving demands, the need for robust IT monitoring, management and automation becomes even more important.

The software monitoring world is broken because of a TSDB. We deserve a TSDW.

A constant challenge in business is aligning stakeholders, customers, and employees behind a single mission. Carefully crafted plans often fail spectacularly as a result of complexity. Some of these efforts fail slowly; some even before execution begins. Especially when collaboration is important, simplicity can make challenging work innately more understandable, measurable, and engaging.

In the fast-paced world of technology, change is constant — and nowhere is that more evident today than in the flood of new features and advancements involving large language models (LLMs). They power various applications, from chat bots to advanced copilots. And as these LLMs and applications become more sophisticated, it will be vital that they work well and reliably. This is where observability, with the help of OpenTelemetry (using OpenLIT), plays an essential role.

We are excited to share a significant update for Grafana Pyroscope users and the broader open source community: the launch of Explore Profiles, a new application that makes it easier and faster to surface meaningful insights from your profiling data. Explore Profiles is a Grafana app plugin designed to integrate seamlessly with Grafana Pyroscope, the open source continuous profiling backend, providing a smooth, queryless experience to browse and analyze your profiling data.