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Kubernetes has drastically simplified application deployment. However, managing workloads in Kubernetes is a challenge because of their innate complexity and dynamism. Frequent bottlenecks and unpredictable application behavior can make managing Kubernetes workloads much harder. This has become simpler and lighter after the expansion of AI, which provides a more intelligent approach to managing and optimizing Kubernetes environments.

Cribl’s recent $319M Series E round marks a significant milestone in our journey to becoming a generational company. While this growth opens the door to new opportunities for our company, it also presents a challenge: how do we ensure our amazing culture scales alongside the business? At Cribl, we believe in Culture on Purpose—an intentional, values-led approach to evolving our culture as we grow.

Every pod has its purpose. During an application deployment, all the workloads in the cluster work cohesively and ensure that the deployment launches—without any hiccups. When a pod is created, it starts its lifetime in a Pending state. A pod is in the Pending state when it is still in the process of being scheduled for deployment. When it is scheduled for deployment and the containers have started, it converts to the Running phase. It only takes a few seconds for the phase transition.

Modern websites typically have a backend API and a frontend user interface. Testing both is essential to deliver a reliable user experience and optimize engagement. Historically, Grafana Cloud k6 has helped you check one of these boxes, allowing you to test your website’s backend APIs with protocol tests. Now, we are excited to share that you can also validate your website’s frontend performance with the new browser testing feature in Grafana Cloud k6.

We're honored to announce that Catchpoint has been named a Leader in Gartner's first-ever Magic Quadrant for Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM). We believe this recognition reflects the rapid pace of innovation of our Internet Performance Monitoring (IPM) platform.

Managing observability across hybrid and multi-cloud environments is like flying a fleet of planes, each with different routes, altitudes, and destinations. You’re not just piloting a single aircraft; you’re coordinating across multiple clouds, on-premises systems, and services while ensuring performance, availability, and cost-efficiency. AWS customers, in particular, face challenges with workloads spanning multiple regions, data centers, and cloud providers.

Progress WhatsUp Gold has consistently proven to be an innovative solution in the IT infrastructure monitoring sector. Recently, it emerged as an infrastructure monitoring leader in the prestigious Quadrant Knowledge Solutions’ SPARK Matrix. The SPARX Matrix recognizes products demonstrating exceptional performance, innovation and customer satisfaction through specified criteria.

The UK's largest precast concrete manufacturer ensures peak network performance with OpManager, saves £400,000.

With the new smart grouping feature, OpManager can automatically detect and group devices with matching custom fields. Post discovery, OpManager detects devices with identical custom fields and prompts you whether they should be added as groups, when you enable this, these devices are automatically upgraded as groups. Furthermore, you can now specify custom fields and group names while importing devices from CSV files, this reduces the time required to discover, classify, and organize large networks.