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Grafana 12 release: observability as code, dynamic dashboards, new Grafana Alerting tools, and more

Grafana 12 is here! During the opening keynote of GrafanaCON 2025, we unveiled dozens of new reasons to fall in love with everyone’s favorite dashboarding and visualization tool—especially if your job is to keep teams, services, and, of course, a whole lot of beautiful Grafana dashboards organized. Grafana 12.0: Download now!

GitKraken Desktop 11.1: AI That Pulls Its Weight

Written by author, adapted by AI Tasteful AI features? Is that even a thing? With GitKraken Desktop 11.1, we think we’ve struck the right balance of adding useful AI capabilities that stay out of your way until you actually need them. In our previous release, we introduced GitKraken AI, which helps explain selected commits and generate commit messages. With 11.1, we’re building on that foundation with two major enhancements that bring even more context-aware assistance to your workflow.

GitKraken Desktop 11.1: Auto-gen PR Title & Descriptions, Stash Messages, & More

Tasteful AI features? Is that even a thing? With GitKraken Desktop 11.1, we think we’ve struck the right balance of adding useful AI capabilities that stay out of your way until you actually need them. In our previous release, we introduced GitKraken AI, which helps explain selected commits and generate commit messages. With 11.1, we’re building on that foundation with two major enhancements that bring even more context-aware assistance to your workflow.

Announcing Amazon Q Developer's First And Only Cost Optimization Plugin

Managing AWS costs just a whole lot more convenient. CloudZero now integrates with Amazon Q Developer, AWS’s AI-powered engineering assistant. A natural language processor, Amazon Q Developer helps engineers write, analyze, and debug code, accelerate workload transformations, and adopt AWS best practices, enhancing developer productivity by as much as 80%.

Densify 3.0: Introducing Cloudex, Smarter K8s Automation, and Enhanced API Power

We’re excited to announce the release of Densify 3.0, a major step forward in our mission to deliver precision-driven cloud optimization across Kubernetes and public cloud environments. This release brings to life a new user experience, powerful automation capabilities, richer data insights, and smarter APIs—all designed to simplify and scale your optimization journey.

Assist 2.0: The New Era of DEX for Everyone

For many years, I've spoken with power users in IT departments who love the insights they get from Nexthink. They can run complex queries, create dashboards, drill down into the network view, or implement new automations across thousands of digital workplaces. I've also noticed that these same teams have increasingly asked us to share the power of Nexthink with other IT functions, HR teams, or even employees.

Elastic Observability 9.0/8.18: Elastic Distributions of OpenTelemetry (EDOT) now GA, LLM observability, and more

Elastic Observability 9.0/8.18 announces several key capabilities: Elastic Observability 8.18 and 9.0 is available now on Elastic Cloud — the only Elasticsearch offering to include all of the new features in this latest release. You can also download the Elastic Stack and our cloud orchestration products — Elastic Cloud Enterprise and Elastic Cloud for Kubernetes — for a self-managed experience. What else is new in Elastic 9.0/8.18? Check out the 9.0/8.18 announcement post to learn more.