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Generative AI at Grafana Labs: what's new, what's next, and our vision for the open source community

As you’d imagine, generative AI has been a huge topic here at Grafana Labs. We’re excited about its potential role in bridging the gap between people and the beyond-human scale of observability data we work with every day. We’ve also been talking a lot about where open source fits in — especially if that Google researcher is right and OSS will outcompete OpenAI and friends. What role can we play to bring the community along?

The Leading APM Use Cases

The majority of users continually depend on a variety of web applications to meet their everyday needs, so a business’s success is now often proportionate to the success of its application performance. As a result, the importance of using an appropriate APM solution has become even greater to businesses globally. Application Performance Monitoring (APM) still continues to grow in popularity and is now considered a must for observing the health and performance of your organization's applications.

Rogers Outage: How to Identify Network Outages & Internet Outages

The nationwide Rogers outage in Canada majorly disrupted the lives of many, affecting wireless, Internet, and even people’s ability to call 911. When major network outages or Internet outages occur, it’s important to be notified as soon as they happen. Understanding the causes and identifying network outages or Internet disruptions is not only essential for individual users but also for businesses striving to maintain uninterrupted operations.

Introducing Error Groups to the Raygun API

We’re excited to announce an important extension to our API. After rigorous research, testing, and feedback, we’ve launched the Error Groups endpoints. This powerful new addition aims to enhance your monitoring experience and better handle errors across your applications. Our primary aim with the introduction of these endpoints is to offer you a more detailed view into your applications’ error groups, and to offer a way to update their statuses using the API.

Blackhat 2023 Recap: How Will Advanced AI Impact Cybersecurity?

Ed Bailey and Jackie McGuire from Cribl will recap Black Hat 2023, focusing on emerging trends in cybersecurity, including the rise of advanced AI. We’ll share insights and anecdotes from our time at the event. Tune into the live stream for an engaging discussion, and come prepared with your thoughts and questions about Black Hat and the future of cybersecurity.

25 Essential Salesforce Monitoring Strategies for Optimal Performance and Security

In this definitive guide, we present to you the “25 Essential Salesforce Monitoring Strategies for Optimal Performance and Security.” The health of your CRM environment is pivotal to your organizational success. From analyzing user activity to optimizing API usage, from monitoring data quality to fortifying compliance measures, we’re here to equip you with the tools and knowledge to thrive.

Getting started with Grafana Loki (Grafana Office Hours #09)

Senior Principal Solutions Engineer Ward Bekker talks about getting started with Grafana Loki: what Loki is, why you need log aggregation, and how it fits into the rest of the Grafana stack. He is joined by Developer Advocates Paul Balogh and Nicole van der Hoeven to tell you everything you need to know about Loki.

New Feature: Enhance Security with Status Page SSO

We’ve heard your feedback and it’s here: Status page SSO is now available on our Enterprise plan. Status Page Single Sign-On (SSO) empowers StatusGator customers to safeguard their status pages through a seamless Single Sign-On experience. You can now restrict access to your status page to only your team, employees, or users who have SSO access through your organization’s identity provider.

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How Nagarro transforms SAP operations with Avantra

E-3 Magazine, in the June 2023 issue, featured a cover story about Avantra and the collaboration with our customer Nagarro. Reason enough to let the mind wander a bit and write a little more about this exceptionally good collaboration. It all started in 2013, back when CIBER Managed Services GmbH and our solution was not yet called Avantra, but Xandria. From the initial product presentation in Freiburg im Breisgau, my hometown, it was easy to see how well the attendees understood the solution, and from the questions and answers, it became clear how well we, at Avantra, knew the problems of a fast growing managed services business.