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What $24 Million Means for Our Open Source Community

This morning, we announced that Grafana Labs has raised $24 million in Series A funding. Here’s what that means for our open source community. Our company was established five years ago to accelerate the adoption of the Grafana project and to build a sustainable business around it, which could in turn help support the community.

Could You Be the DevOps Evangelist We're Looking For?

Have you ever been in charge of your company’s observability stack? Does the pain of implementing, configuring, scaling, and maintaining (oh, and correlating the data between) various monitoring, troubleshooting, and security tools resonate with you? If so, you might be our next tech evangelist – our next DevOps Evangelist!

New dashboard pack for SCOM Self-Maintenance MP

We are excited to announce that we have a new dashboard pack on offer – this time for Tao Yang’s SCOM Self-Maintenance Management Pack! Earlier this year, our sister company Cookdown acquired Tao Yang’s MP, which (as its name suggests) basically ensures that SCOM is always running smoothly. It has a bunch of monitors, rules, views and tasks that help you monitor and maintain your SCOM Management Group.

Rollbar CTO, Cory Virok, Shares His Expertise on Creating an Enterprise Solution for Today's Modern Software Company

We sat down with Rollbar CTO, Cory Virok, for a Q&A on how his leadership role and industry expertise helped create an enterprise solution for today’s modern software company.

Elasticsearch Service: Getting Started with Hosted Elasticsearch

Elasticsearch Service is a hosted Elasticsearch and Kibana solution from Elastic. Get started with a free 14-day trial (no credit card required). https://www.elastic.co/cloud/elasticsearch-service Elasticsearch Service makes it easy to deploy and manage your Elasticsearch clusters. Just tell us the size of your cluster, your preferred cloud provider, and the geographic location; we take care of the rest.

First Impressions of 'Managed K3s'

The k3s project was started by Darren Shepherd, Chief Architect at Rancher 7 months ago and has already become one of the most popular Kubernetes options on the CNCF Landscape by number of GitHub stars. To put this into context, k3s is more popular than OpenShift by IBM/Red Hat and only Rancher Kubernetes itself is more popular than k3s. Now stars are indicative of interest and popularity only and that should be noted.

Enable GitOps for Kubernetes Security - Part 1

“How do I enable GitOps for my network policies?” That is a common question we hear from security teams. Getting started with Kubernetes is relatively simple, but moving production workloads to Kubernetes requires alignment from all stakeholders – developers, platform engineering, network engineering, security. Most security teams already have a high-level security blueprint for their data centers.