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We are proud to announce that we have been named one of America’s Best Startup Employers 2023 by Forbes! The Forbes list of America’s Best Startup Employers 2023 was compiled by evaluating 2,600 companies with at least 50 employees in the United States. All of the companies considered were founded between 2013 and 2020, from the ground up, and were not spin-offs of existing businesses. Just like other Forbes lists, businesses cannot pay to be considered.

Spring is here and so are the latest G2 Badges! I’m happy to share that G2 has awarded 15 badges to SUSE in its 2023 spring report, including the overarching ‘Users Love Us’ badge (again). G2, the world’s largest and most trusted tech marketplace, recognized Rancher, SLE Desktop, SLE Real Time, SLES and SUSE Manager as High Performers and Momentum Leaders. G2 also awarded the openSUSE Tumbleweed Linux distribution.

As a big proponent of open source and all things open, I jumped at the opportunity to expand on Cribl Stream’s OpenTelemetry implementation. I’m happy to report that as of Cribl Stream 4.1, both our OpenTelemetry source and destination now support OTLP over HTTP!

The Canvas panel, which will be Generally Available in Grafana 10, combines the power of Grafana with the flexibility of custom elements. Canvas visualizations are extensible, form-built panels you can use to explicitly place elements within static and dynamic layouts. This empowers you to design custom visualizations and overlay data in ways that aren’t possible with standard Grafana panels, all within Grafana’s UI.

The use of statistics, advanced algorithms and AI/Ml is becoming omnipresent. The benefits are visible in every walk of life, from web searches, to movie and retail recommendations, to auto-completing our emails. Of course, not many anticipated the dramatic entrance of generative AI in the form of ChatGPT for writing college essays and poetry on arcane topics.

How frustrating is it when you’ve just landed on a web page, you click on a certain element and an ad or something else pops up and you end up clicking that thing instead? That’s a layout shift, which is bad for the user’s experience and the later they happen, the worse it is. Research from HTTP Archive shows that over 80% of websites use web fonts. Web fonts also cause layout shifts, if they’re not being loaded strategically.

We asked Chris Kline, the Head of Cloud Sales at LogicMonitor, to discuss the challenges he sees customers facing with infrastructure monitoring, their changing expectations, the big disruptors in the industry, and how LogicMonitor addresses these modern monitoring needs.

Unlocking the full potential of monitoring through ML integration, anomaly detection, and innovative scoring engines. Machine Learning has been making waves in various industries, but its adoption in the monitoring and observability space has been slower than expected. Many “ML” features remain gimmicky and do not provide actual real world value to users that encourages their further use.

As more and more organizations undergo digital transformation, IT automation is becoming more important and essential to implement. A report by Smartsheet found that more than 40% of those surveyed spend about a quarter of their time working on repetitive tasks, and almost 70% of them say that automation’s biggest opportunity would be that it significantly reduces the amount of time spent on these tasks.

In today's interconnected world, maintaining seamless network connectivity is crucial for businesses and organizations of all sizes. Network connection monitoring tools play a vital role in ensuring the performance, security, and reliability of network connections. With a myriad of options available, choosing the right monitoring tool can be a daunting task. To simplify the process, we have curated a comprehensive list of the top 30 network connection monitoring tools.