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Together with you, our fabulous community, Netdata is changing the way the world thinks of high fidelity monitoring – and we are gaining momentum. Our chief troublemaker and CEO, Costa Tsaousis, is the pioneer and architect of this revolution that’s brewing in the monitoring and troubleshooting space. Watch him explain the Netdata way of troubleshooting.

On March 30th, 2022, rumors began to swirl around a GitHub commit from a researcher containing proof of concept (POC) exploit code. The exploit targeted a zero-day in the Spring Core module of the Spring Framework, and was quickly confirmed against specific versions of Spring Core with JDK 9 and above. Anything running Tomcat is most at risk given the POC was based on Tomcat apps. This threat posture will evolve over time as new vectors and payloads are discovered and distributed.

The one certainty you will find in IT, developer, and SRE roles is that things always change! One hot topic in DevOps communities is observability. A long word, you may be wondering what it really means and how you can add it to your skillset. Here’s a quick primer to get you going on your path to observability.

In our ongoing efforts to provide our customers with a best-in-class log management solution, we’re excited to launch improvements to our Agent. This new, robust version (3.4) provides significant performance improvements for our customers. Specifically, we focused on two main areas of the Agent: error handling and endurance.

One year ago we launched what would become our most popular feature yet: a page you could publish with your name and logo that aggregated the status of all of your cloud vendors. We called it a “public dashboard” because it did not require a StatusGator account to view, and it published your StatusGator dashboard for your entire team. We’ve now renamed this feature a “status page” and made it even more accessible inside of StatusGator. Why the change? Read on.

A leading provider of innovative digital and cloud services, part of the Microsoft ecosystem, chose VirtualMetric to get critical insights and complete visibility over their cloud environment. With 38,000 professionals in 24 countries, the company is specialized in cloud and application services, managed services, analytics, AI and helps companies to implement the latest technologies to various industries, leveraging the Microsoft platform.

I recently had a wonderful opportunity to contribute to the Computer Weekly Developer Network (CWDN) ultimate series on “Infrastructure as Code” that collected articles and overviews from vendors and experts operating in the IaC space to form a formidable reference on all aspects of IaC. My contributions were to offer some insight into our architecture that has been designed to monitor infrastructure that has been deployed as code automatically and without tedious manual configuration.