Explore the reasons behind the decline in global channel M&A activity in 2023 and the increasing number of buyers compared to sellers in this conversation with Matt Takhar, Business Development Director at N-able. Takhar also delves into the factors driving M&A, such as the need for strategic fit and expansion into new markets. The conversation highlights two key models for structuring MSP acquisitions: the centralized model, where the acquired MSP is consolidated into the buyer's brand, and the decentralized model, where the acquired MSP retains its own brand but receives support from the buyer. The pros and cons of each model are discussed, along with the importance of due diligence for both buyers and sellers.

Writing a good commit message is time-consuming. With GitLens, you can use AI providers like OpenAI, Anthropic, or Gemini to generate a commit message based on your staged changes in git. If you go to Settings and modify the prompt, you can also convert the commit to a "Conventional Commit" format, which provides context and helps with automations like generating changelogs.

Session Replay for mobile SDKs like React Native, Android and iOS is now available in Alpha. Watch this video to see a preview of features like breadcrumbs, visible R gestures on the screen and networking. Note: The featured application, Bluesky, is an OSS application and the data shown is not sensitive.

Join Prabhat Sharma, founder of Open Observe, as he delves into the realm of high-performance observability. Learn about the challenges faced by cloud workloads and explore innovative solutions to enhance observability at the edge, in servers, and across cloud environments. Prabhat shares his journey from addressing persistent problems with existing solutions to building Open Observe, an open-source platform revolutionizing logs, metrics, traces, and dashboards. Gain valuable insights into the power of Apache Arrow Data Fusion in optimizing data storage and analytics performance.

Grafana 11 is now GA! In this video, we do a deep dive exploring all of the new features for our users.

In this quick start guide, we will cover the basics of getting started as an account admin within PagerTree. Transcript: In this quickstart guide, we will show you the basics of an account admin in PagerTree. Before watching this video, it is suggested to read and watch the Architecture Guide to build a strong foundation for your understanding of PagerTree and how it works. Here is a brief overview of the alert workflow.

Developers waste countless hours managing logs and juggling tools. Control Plane centralizes log management, making it easy to filter and analyze logs from apps running on any cloud: AWS, Azure, GCP, on-prem, etc. In this video, we demonstrate how Control Plane simplifies log management for your applications deployed across any cloud (or multi-cloud). We showcase the intuitive Log QL query language, built-in Grafana integration, and the flexibility to ship logs to your favorite external log providers like Datadog, S3, Elastic, and CloudWatch.

"I promise we can make this fun", said nobody ever when talking about security. But we're damn well going to try! Our CTO, Richard Jones, joins us on this episode to answer all those burning questions that your security teams need to ask whenever you're looking at a new SaaS tool for your stack.

In this clip, Pete explains why we've taken the approach of "exoskeletons, not robots" when building with AI. It’s fair to say that AI is here to stay. So, as companies grapple with this reality, they’re putting their best foot forward to build AI features that really make a difference for their customers. But should you be building these features if there’s no obvious fit in your product? And even if there is, are you making sure to stay true to your product principles?