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IT response teams find themselves battling against an overwhelming onslaught of incidents. Frustratingly long response times, challenges with prioritization, and the relentless pursuit of root cause are formidable adversaries that test even the most skilled teams. I remember customers’ electrifying anticipation with AI and automation a decade ago. They hoped AI could be used to instantly decode the business impact of incidents and automation to respond to incidents without human intervention.

We all know that artifact management is an important part of our development lifecycle, and if you’re using Jenkins you’ll also need to store your builds and binaries. In the world of DevOps, efficient integration and management of artifacts and dependencies are crucial for successful software delivery. Together, Jenkins and JFrog Artifactory offer a powerful combination for streamlined build processes.

ManageEngine CloudSpend, a cloud cost management tool, is excited to announce the release of its new, Reports feature. CloudSpend’s Reports feature automates report generation for integrated cost accounts, utilizing tags like Region, Service, and Billed Accounts for each one.

We are proud to announce that we have released HAProxy Data Plane API 2.8, available on our GitHub page. This release follows the recent HAProxy 2.8 release and incorporates its changes, along with some improvements and changes specific to the API. HAProxy Data Plane API 2.8 adds new keywords focused on QUIC, OCSP stapling, and tuning options that allow you to customize your HAProxy process using the HTTP REST API programmatically.

Wouldn’t it be great if Rancher could provision and manage not only Kubernetes clusters but also the OS running on the cluster nodes? This is the goal we had in mind when we started working on Elemental. Elemental adds to Rancher the ability to install and manage a minimal OS based on SUSE Linux Enterprise technology, delivered and managed in a fully cloud native way. This simplifies the infrastructure (you only need a container registry) and day 2 operations.

One of the most painful parts of incident response is contextualizing the problem and understanding how and where it fits within your organization. If responders are unable to answer basic questions such as: Then you waste valuable time talking to the wrong people or solving the wrong problems — ultimately extending impact and hurting your response. It’s a common issue that, up until now, didn’t have a clear solution or workaround.

Kentik customers can now map traffic and performance of Microsoft Azure infrastructure with visibility into Azure Firewalls, Express Routes, Load Balancers, VWANs, and more in Kentik Cloud.

Grafana k6 v0.45.0 has been released, featuring a new experimental module for gRPC streaming support, a new browser recorder extension for Firefox and Chrome, and tons of improvements for Grafana k6 OSS and Grafana Cloud k6. Here’s a quick overview of the latest k6 release and all the news from the community.

Meet the Summer 2023 Release of Alloy Navigator Enterprise, the next generation of our award-winning ITSM/ITAM platform. Taking a big step forward in our technological evolution, this platform harnesses the power of cloud and on-premise capabilities, encapsulating our commitment to innovation, versatility, and user-centric design.