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Two years ago, we shared our experiences with adopting AWS Graviton3 and our enthusiasm for the future of AWS Graviton and Arm. Once again, we're privileged to share our experiences as a launch customer of the Amazon EC2 R8g instances powered by AWS Graviton4, the newest generation of AWS Graviton processors. This blog elaborates our Graviton4 preview results including detailed performance data. We've since scaled up our Graviton4 tests with no visible impact to our customers.

DASH 2024 was our biggest event yet! Over two days, thousands from the Datadog community gathered at North Javits in New York City for an impactful experience. The 2024 keynote featured numerous new product launches and updates, but there was much more to enjoy beyond this speech. Attendees got to experience breakout sessions, workshops, certification exams, one-on-one Datadog consultations, and a bustling expo hall.

The data you need to monitor AI-powered applications differs from other parts of your tech stack. Whether you need to debug an error, improve performance, or better understand costs, the context you need for an app calling a large language model (LLM) is different from an app that isn’t.

Maturity models have proved to be powerful tools for assessing performance and driving improvement in a wide range of industries and disciplines from cybersecurity and quality control to project management and HR. With hybrid and remote work here to stay, organizations now have a new kind of maturity to aspire to, one that has a significant and direct impact on business results: virtual collaboration maturity.

Financial services firms face a multitude of complex IT challenges. Banking is a 24×7 affair, and firms must ensure their infrastructure is “always on” — consistently running at the highest efficiency and reliability. Banking customers also expect frictionless experiences across mobile and digital banking services. Slow application response times and service outages are simply not an option. Commercial banking is also competitive.

AppSignal is a powerful error tracking and performance monitoring tool that can help you maintain reliability and speed in your Elixir applications. In this tutorial, the first of a two-part series, you'll learn how to integrate AppSignal into your Elixir application, configure it for error tracking, interpret error reports, and leverage AppSignal's features to debug and resolve issues.

At Grafana Labs we believe in shipping features early and often, and in recent years we’ve doubled down on that philosophy. We no longer wait for the yearly major release to give you access to the next big thing. Instead, we regularly make new features, bug fixes, and security patches available to our self-managing users (Grafana OSS and Grafana Enterprise) throughout the year.

With observIQ’s contributions to OpenTelemetry, you can now use free, open-source tools to easily aggregate data across your entire infrastructure to any or multiple analysis tools. The easiest way to use the latest OpenTelemetry tools is with observIQ’s distribution of the OpenTelemetry collector. You can find it here. In this blog, we cover how to use OpenTelemetry to monitor SNMP.