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We consistently roll out helpful updates and fun features in Grafana Cloud, our fully managed observability platform powered by the open source Grafana LGTM Stack (Loki for logs, Grafana for visualization, Tempo for traces, and Mimir for metrics). In case you missed them, here’s our monthly roundup of the latest and greatest Grafana Cloud updates. You can also read about all the features we add to Grafana Cloud in our What’s New in Grafana Cloud documentation.

This post is part of our debugging series, where we share tricky challenges and solutions while building Sentry. On March 4th, 2024, the most metal incident happened - INC-666 INC-666, in a nutshell, was where the issue alert rule post-processing step was flooded with more load than it could handle, and alerts that were supposed to have fired did not. This means that Sentry customers might not be receiving alerts if the query that would have triggered the alert is rate-limited.

Converting multiple data formats into one unified format makes software and DevOps monitoring so much easier, as it brings together all types of metrics for a smoother, more consistent analysis. This approach cuts down on the need for separate parsing setups, saving time and reducing complexity when it comes to managing configurations. It’s also a big help for scaling up—your monitoring tools can handle growing volumes of data without constant adjustments.

Microsoft has announced the generally availability of SCOM 2025. This version brings new features and improvements, and ensures a future-proof SCOM platform with support extending for at least the next decade.

Google recently released its 2024 Cloud DORA (DevOps Research and Assessment) report, bringing together a decade’s worth of trends, insights, and best practices on what drives high performance in software delivery across industries of all sizes. This year’s findings take a closer look at how DevOps teams can achieve greater resilience and efficiency by adopting AI, improving team well-being, and building powerful internal platforms. ‍

The Prometheus monitoring tool can store its metrics either locally or remotely. You can configure a remote data store using the remote_write configuration. This article describes the various data store options available as well as how to set up a remote store.

Salt Lake City, Utah, 13th November 2024 – Today we’re delighted to announce the GA release of our innovative logging solution - VictoriaLogs. Our easy-to-use, open source log management solution combines a powerful query language for easy log searching with minimal resource requirements. It’s perfect for managing and analyzing large volumes of log data, especially in containerised environments such as Kubernetes.