Puppet 8 is here, and it’s included in the latest release of Puppet Enterprise. It’s the biggest update to Puppet since Puppet 7’s first release in November 2020, and it carries a host of enhancements and improvements to make managing and scaling your infrastructure easier than ever. Read on for a list of the major changes included in Puppet 8, how they benefit you, and how to get going with Puppet 8 fast.

The demands on IT, observability, and security teams have never been greater. With data volumes exploding at a 28% CAGR and hybrid environments becoming the norm, organizations are facing significant challenges: those rapidly growing data volumes I mentioned, the intricacies of hybrid and cloud-native architectures, and the need for real-time insights. Oh, and don’t forget the constant threat of security breaches.

There’s a major outage. Support tickets are mounting. Everybody from engineering to legal is scrambling for information. You have more Teams notifications clamouring for attention than you do minutes to address them, and it’s hard to know where to begin. What comes next is a balancing act—mitigating the impact, updating colleagues, managing action items, or updating a status page that will be seen by millions.

After a successful rollout for Flyway Teams and Flyway Enterprise, we are pleased to announce Git integration has been extended to Flyway Community users for Flyway Desktop. Today, Flyway Community users can enjoy seamless version control for their databases, integrated with popular Git systems like Azure DevOps Git, AWS CodeCommit, GitHub, GitLab, and Bitbucket – to name a few.

Elastic Observability 8.15 announces several key capabilities: New and enhanced native OpenTelemetry capabilities: Elastic AI Assistant enhancements: Large language model (LLM) observability for Azure OpenAI: Elastic Observability now provides deep visibility on the usage of the Azure OpenAI Service. The integration includes an out-of-the-box dashboard that summarizes the most relevant aspects of the service usage, including request and error rates, token usage, and chat completion latency.

Today, we are pleased to announce the general availability of Elastic 8.15.

We are excited to announce the release of the NiCE HMC VIOS Management Pack, designed to provide comprehensive monitoring and management for IBM’s Hardware Management Console (HMC) and Virtual I/O Server (VIOS) environments. This highly efficient tool empowers IT administrators to maintain optimal health and performance within their IBM Power infrastructure, ensuring seamless operations and minimizing downtime.

Even as we officially launched MDM in June, our product team continued burning the midnight oil, building and testing additional features that would expand NinjaOne MDM use cases and enable our MSP customers to better serve their clients. The result? New multiple Android and Apple MDM connections (multi-tenancy) is available today – roughly one month ahead of schedule! That’s right!

We’re excited to announce the release of Coroot v1.4! Along with various UI improvements, this update brings a new feature: network traffic monitoring. Now, you can easily see how much data is being transferred between your applications and, more importantly, how much it costs. Let’s dive into the details. In this post, we’ll explore the enhancements and new features included in this release.

Today we announce the launch of the Cycle Toolbox, a suite of tools that are designed to streamline the workflows of Devops professionals and developers. Our goal is to create a toolkit that not only simplifies your daily tasks but also helps alleviate some of those common frustrations. This is just the beginning, but for our initial release, we're excited to introduce the following tools.