Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

After an incredible week at IDPCon, we're excited to share one of the major announcements we unveiled during the event: the General Availability (GA) of Cortex Workflows with advanced Role-Based Access Controls (RBAC). One of the most highly requested features for Cortex Workflows, advanced RBAC gives you complete control over who can view, edit, and run workflows, supporting enterprises that deal with sensitive operations.

Observability means you know what’s happening in your software systems, because they tell you. They tell you with telemetry: data emitted just for the people developing and operating the software. You already have telemetry–every log is a data point about something that happened. Structured logs or trace spans are even better, containing many pieces of data correlated in the same record. But you want to start from what you have, then improve it as you improve the software.

Roll out the red carpet! Grafana 11.3 is here and marks the general availability of Scenes-powered dashboards, which set the foundation for what we envision the future of Grafana dashboards will be. But the current state of Grafana dashboards looks pretty awesome as well. The dashboard experience has improved, including the ability to trigger API calls from any canvas element with the new Actions option across many visualizations.

The highly anticipated major update to Alloy Navigator—the ultimate ITSM/ITAM solution—is just around the corner! Let’s take a taste of the exciting new features that are brewing.

Today Canonical announced the release of Ubuntu 24.10, codenamed “Oracular Oriole,” available to download and install from ubuntu.com/download. Ubuntu 24.10 delivers the latest kernel, toolchains and GNOME 47 desktop environment alongside significant improvements to software security.

Great news, Laravel friends! You can now monitor the performance of your Laravel apps with Honeybadger. Yes, you read that right: Laravel performance monitoring in Honeybadger! Many of you have asked for this, and we're excited to tell you about it. Earlier this year, we launched Honeybadger Insights, a new logging and performance monitoring tool bundled with Honeybadger.

.NET Blazor, a robust web development framework, offers developers the unique opportunity to build interactive web applications using C#, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript that can run on the server, on the user’s browser, or even as a mobile application when part of a.NET MAUI application. Its unique approach differentiates Blazor from traditional web development methods.

As businesses increasingly rely on cloud services, managing cloud environments efficiently has become more crucial than ever. Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is a leading cloud service provider, offering a robust suite of cloud services—spanning computing to networking and storage. But to ensure that your cloud resources are always operating optimally, monitoring is not just recommended, it is essential.

That moment when everything’s running smoothly—users engaged, conversions flowing—until your site takes a break, and you find out from a tweet. We’ve all been there, scrambling to fix an issue that’s been broken for who knows how long while social media lights up. A few minutes of downtime, and now you’re not just fixing the issue—you’re dealing with frustrated users and a reputation hit.