The second half of 2023 is officially in full swing, and with that comes everyone’s favorite topic of conversation; end of year fiscal targets and annual budget reviews. For IT teams, the perennial ask will come down from above…. “we need to find $X, what can we cut, where can we find efficiencies and how much can your department save?”. You need to figure out how to save money and improve efficiency – and you don’t have much time to do it.

The rise of ChromeOS has been a significant development in the world of technology, particularly in the enterprise world. As an IT professional, I have witnessed firsthand how businesses have shifted their approach towards technology to boost productivity and efficiency. ChromeOS has emerged as a cloud-based operating system that is gaining popularity due to its simplicity, affordability, and security features.

With Grafana 10, the latest major release of our data visualization platform, we wanted to explore new ways to empower our developer community. Case in point: Grafana Scenes, a new frontend library that enables developers to create dashboard-like experiences — such as querying and transformations, dynamic panel rendering, and time ranges — directly within their Grafana application plugins.

Check our July 2023 health report on the top most popular cloud providers. We analyze the health of the cloud providers based on the number of outages and problems during the month. The source of the data is made available by the cloud providers themselves via their status page. We normalize it and use it to generate the report.

Kubernetes reports in CloudSpend In the current era focused on cloud computing, it is essential for businesses to streamline costs. As containerization and Kubernetes become increasingly popular, efficiently managing costs related to Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) and Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) is crucial for maintaining a successful infrastructure.

The post-pandemic world has transformed our work habits and the landscape of conducting business. Organizations now take the hybrid approach to work, wherein employees may work from an office, while travelling, or from a remote location. This fundamental shift has accelerated the pace of cloud adoption, as the cloud makes data access possible from anyplace, anytime. But the cloud brings with it a set of complexities that must be managed.

On-call shifts are part of every developer’s job – we’ve all been there. It’s 3am, suddenly you get an alert for an issue occurring in production. The microservices landscape is complicated and finding the root cause of an issue is like looking for a needle in a haystack. How can you get to the root of what’s happening in the system so you can analyze and resolve the issue quickly and effectively?

Get excited about Grafana Tempo 2.2! Not only is this release on time, but it is also chock full of TraceQL features and performance improvements. I was honestly a little shocked by how much we have accomplished in the last three months when summarizing the changelog.