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Network observability is critical. You need the ability to answer any question about your network—across clouds, on-prem, edge locations, and user devices—quickly and easily. But network observability is not always easy. To be successful, you need to collect network telemetry, and that telemetry needs to be extensive and diverse. And once you have that raw telemetry data, you need to interpret it.

Imagine starting your car in the morning and having your attention captured by a little red check engine light. After expressing frustration in your own unique way, your next objective is to determine why this little light has brought darkness to your morning. Your owner's manual clearly outlines how to operate and routinely maintain your vehicle, but all you know about this little light is that you’ll soon be meeting your local mechanic.

Here at Grafana Labs, we aim to create products which integrate well with open standards and are easy to install everywhere. Today, we’re excited to announce Grafana Agent v0.31, which allows you to connect to even more types of observability signals for both scraping and remote writes. And to help you install the Agent more easily, there is now an official Windows Docker image and an official Helm Chart. Here’s a breakdown of the latest features and upgrades in Grafana Agent v0.31.

Grafana Tempo 2.0 is finally here, and it’s being released with two new important features. It took us longer than we would have liked to get this release going, but it turns out that rewriting your backend AND building a new query language is quite difficult. Thanks to a massive team effort, we are proud to release Tempo with support for TraceQL and with Apache Parquet as the default backend storage format. Read on to get a quick overview of this huge release.

At ScienceLogic, we’ve built our customer operations to ensure our customers have an excellent end-to-end customer experience, with a rock-solid plan for improving our customers’ ability to meet and exceed their desired business outcomes. And well, we must be doing something right: ScienceLogic has been recognized in this year’s TrustRadius ‘Best of’ Awards—through our customer’s direct feedback.

When operating a larger business or project, one problem comes quickly apparent: How can I know that my servers and their applications are up and the performance is good across the board? The answer is, of course, monitoring software.

Observability is the practice of equipping software and infrastructure with tools capable of gathering actionable data showing not only when an application error or issue occurs but why it occurred. Most traditional monitoring tools gather information passively; observability practices are different. They focus on actively gathering relevant data, especially factors driving operational decisions and actions.

1Password uses Checkly to provide transparent, advanced synthetic monitoring to 1Password SCIM bridge customers 1Password is a leader in human-centric security and privacy, with a solution that’s built from the ground up to enable anyone—no matter the level of technical proficiency—to navigate the digital world without fear or friction when logging in.

If you need to deploy a lot of microservices at once and manage them at scale, Kubernetes is hard to beat. But Kubernetes also brings additional complexity that you just might not need. You would be smart to ask yourself these three questions before getting started with Kubernetes.