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New in Grafana 9: Search Grafana panel titles, preview dashboards, better navigation, and more!

The entire team at Grafana Labs is thrilled to bring the community our latest and greatest release, Grafana 9, which we introduced at GrafanaCONline this year. In addition to introducing the Grafana Loki query builder, a new command palette, and making role-based access control GA, we also rolled out major updates to the navigation and search functionality in Grafana with the aim of continuing to support the community and users throughout their observability journey.

Unpopular Opinion: OKRs Are the Worst

One of the things about Silicon Valley culture is the obsession around the technology that gets created and the idea of the engineer as the hero of the story. You see the same kind of thing with other professions — like with finance executives in New York, celebrities in Hollywood, or firefighters and police officers in different areas across the US.

How Modern Log Intelligence Meets New Cybersecurity Regulations by CERT-In

According to Norton’s Cyber Safety Pulse Report, India faced over 18 million cyber threats in only Q1 2022, roughly 200,000 threats every day. Of the bulk, 60,000 were phishing attempts, and 30,000 were tech support scams. For perspective, phishing attempts around the world during the same period counted for approximately 16 million. CERT-In also reported over 2.12 lakh (~0.1 million) cybersecurity incidents until February 2022.

Synthetic Transaction Monitoring with Kentik

What is synthetic transaction monitoring and how is it beneficial? Phil Gervasi and Sunil Kodiyan talk STM, how it works, what problems you can solve with it, and how it fits into an overall digital experience monitoring strategy. Learn how synthetic transaction monitoring can be used to test and track application performance from an end-user perspective, in this short talk and technical demonstration.

Sematext Logs Product Overview | Centralized Logging for all of your Applications

Sematext Log is a centralized cloud-based platform for all of your Logs. With hundreds of integrations, you can have one centralized location for all of your log files. Compare logs across apps and systems. Quickly search through thousands of log files from various environments. With sematext logs, you can apply filters or create your own query to analyze your logs. Shipping logs is easy. The sematext agent is installed and automatically discovers and sends logs to your sematext cloud account. The Sematext agent also parses and enriches your logs with metadata.

Unlocking Cribl Stream's LDAP Integration

Cribl Stream has supported external Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) authentication since version 2.0 was released in late 2019. LDAP directories offer many features, and it’s up to clients to implement them for compatibility. Here is a non-exhaustive list of LDAP features that Cribl Stream does not support: This blog post explores how Cribl Stream implements LDAP for user authentication and assumes you have a working knowledge of the topic.

How to monitor Cassandra using OpenTelemetry

We are constantly working on contributing monitoring support for various sources, the latest in that line is support for Cassandra monitoring using the OpenTelemetry collector. If you are as excited as we are, take a look at the details of this support in OpenTelemetry’s repo. The best part is that this receiver works with any OpenTelemetry collector: including the OpenTelemetry Collector and observIQ’s distribution of the collector.