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More enterprises are adopting cloud computing to ensure that they can accelerate innovation, stay competitive, and enjoy cost savings. This trend has only increased in the last two years with the rise of remote work necessitated by the COVID-19 pandemic. With the rise of cloud adoption, multi-cloud and hybrid cloud deployments are increasing in popularity as well. According to a Gartner survey, 81% of survey respondents are using two or more cloud providers.

This year's Monitorama is quickly approaching. This year, the event is hosted in Portland, Oregon, from June 27 to 29th. It features talks from industry experts and community leaders on all things monitoring, observability, SLI/SLO, and most importantly, what practitioners are doing (not vendors and providers).

The latest long-term support (LTS) and continuous delivery (CD) release of IBM MQ will be released for the distributed platforms on June 23, 2022. MQ 9.3, again, has a focus on securely powering cloud-native applications across hybrid-multicloud as well as making it easier to get started. MQ 9.3 includes: Nastel has been participating with the development team on this technology and analyzing the impact and benefits to our customers as part of our own cloud and container initiatives.

In this post, we will address the common monitoring use case of filtering metrics within the observIQ OpenTelemetry (OTEL) collector. Whether the metrics are deemed unnecessary, or they are filtered for security concerns, the process is fairly straightforward. For our sample environment, we will use MySQL on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8. The destination exporter will be to Google Cloud Operations, but the process is exporter agnostic.

We're very excited to release AppSignal for Phoenix 2.1, which adds automatic instrumentation for LiveView through Telemetry. You can now receive performance and error insights for your LiveView, without manually instrumenting each of its methods.

If you’re managing IT or infrastructure these days, you almost certainly depend on dozens of hosted services or cloud applications. From major cloud services like Amazon, Azure, or Google, to customer service tools and marketing platforms, your business depends on the uptime of others. Each of these services publishes a status page where they warn about maintenance, outages, and performance issues but can you keep track of all of those at the same time?

GrafanaCONline 2022 wrapped up on Friday, and the big finish featured sessions that covered important changes in Grafana Labs technical documentation, Grafana Cloud’s role in activist engineering projects, and the benefits of load testing with k6. There was also a great success story out of East Africa, where a major bank switched to a business monitoring system with Grafana and improved its customer satisfaction and revenue.