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We’re living in an unprecedented moment in time. Data is reshaping our world. From enterprise networks and the cloud to the smart refrigerators in our kitchens and the watches on our wrists, data is proliferating at an unprecedented scale, both in volume and velocity. As data owners, we continuously strive to monitor and derive intelligent insights from this data so we can catch performance anomalies and issues – from misconfigured systems to a skipped heartbeat – and quickly intervene.

Developers and SREs choose Microsoft Azure to run their applications because it is a trustworthy world-class cloud platform. It has also proven itself over the years as an extremely powerful and reliable infrastructure for hosting business-critical applications. Elastic Observability offers over 25 out-of-the-box integrations for Microsoft Azure services with more on the way. A full list of Azure integrations can be found in our online documentation.

We're excited to unveil the latest enhancements to Rollbar’s Source Map handling. This new feature, directly influenced by user feedback, simplifies your debugging experience, making Source Mapping more intuitive and user-friendly. Source Map issues are a frequent concern, ranking among the top five monthly support requests. We recognize the challenges you face when dealing with errors that don't make sense due to Source Mapping configuration issues.

For projects integrated with GitHub, Rollbar now has the ability to show the user identified by Git Blame in the Assign Owner field. This can help identify the last user to have dealt with the code in question so they can be assigned as the initial owner in Rollbar.

From reducing risk to optimizing efficiency, your organization has many compelling reasons to enforce policies and procedures. But what happens when a policy hinders productivity more than it helps, causing employees to skirt the rules? For IT departments, this ever-present dilemma is called shadow IT. As cybersecurity risks rise in 2024, it’s more relevant than ever. Before we get into our list of shadow IT statistics, let’s review the basics.

Mark your calendars: From February 1, 2024, AWS is introducing a $0.005 hourly charge for all public IPv4 addresses. With IPv4 addresses becoming rarer and pricier, AWS is pushing us to be more IPv4-efficient and highlights the urgent need for businesses to adopt IPv6. Where’s This Change Happening? This isn’t just a small tweak, it will affect all AWS services that use public IPv4 addresses. We’re talking about everything from EC2 and RDS database instances to EKS nodes.

In Kubernetes, managing containerized applications is essential for modern IT. As more systems move to cloud-native setups, there's a growing need for reliable data management solutions in Kubernetes clusters. Imagine a situation where important application data faces an unexpected issue or, even worse, gets corrupted. Without a reliable backup plan, the consequences could be severe. This is where volume snapshots come in handy.

At Honeycomb, we are very concerned about privacy and data sovereignty—it’s something we take very seriously, and in an effort to serve our customers better, we’re thrilled to announce that we now offer data residency in Europe. This new instance will allow Honeycomb customers to store their data in the US, in Europe, or both. Let’s talk about the details.

Application performance monitoring (APM) has been around for a long time. Odds are if you’re tasked with overseeing app performance, you’ve had to deal with this technology to get an understanding of your applications and any issues that can arise in the name of troubleshooting. But there’s a new approach you should consider: application observability.

This blog post explains how to read a query plan in InfluxDB 3.0 and requires basic knowledge of InfluxDB 3.0 System Architecture. InfluxDB 3.0 supports two query languages: SQL and InfluxQL. The database executes a query written in either SQL or InfluxQL according to the instructions of a query plan.