While there is a lot of focus on the three pillars of observability to provide insight into application performance in production, load testing is the other side of the observability story. By using the open source load testing tool k6 — which Grafana Labs acquired earlier this year — developers can simulate real-world traffic to test the reliability and performance of software changes and new features, not to mention flag performance issues before impacting end users.

With a 70% increase in internet usage, and digital teams adopting cloud-native technologies at a rapid rate, the importance of measuring customer experience on digital properties is not just a technical problem, but a business imperative. Frontend developers and SREs use Real User Monitoring (RUM) to understand critical components of their end-user experience, like how quickly users see content, when a page becomes interactive, and a page's visual stability.

The Tanzu RabbitMQ team is excited to announce the general availability of VMware Tanzu RabbitMQ 1.2. This version contains RabbitMQ 3.9, a milestone core broker release that introduces Streams, a new data structure allowing for replay and higher throughput. In addition to Streams, Tanzu RabbitMQ 1.2 has some exciting new capabilities and improvements.

Today we are introducing Local Tail-Based sampling in Kamon Telemetry! We are going to tell you all about it in a little bit but before that, let’s take a couple minutes to explore what is sampling, how it is used nowadays, and what motivated us to including local tail sampling in Kamon Telemetry.

We can now notify you of changing DNS records and let you know when we've detected a problem with your domain nameservers. Woohoo! 🥳

Register for our live webinar to learn more about this release. HAProxy 2.5 is now available! It adds improvements to a number of areas including better usability around setting variables, more descriptive error reporting and logging, and enhanced HTTP and WebSocket support. The HAProxy Runtime API has expanded its coverage of SSL-related commands and now includes the ability to add and remove CA files and revocation lists on-the-fly.

Welcome to a new update of “What’s new in Sysdig.” Happy All Saints’/Souls’ Day! Happy International Pianist Day! Happy Thanksgiving! Happy Diwali! Glad alla helgons dag. The “What’s new in Sysdig” blog has been rotated to a new team, and this month, Peter Andersson is responsible for the publishing. Thanks to Chris Kranz for an excellent job compiling these articles earlier.

Checkly has released a new runtime version 2021.10. This is great news for anyone creating browser checks in Checkly, as we have added some new features and brought everything up to date.

In the domain of cyber threat response, there’s a critical resource that every organization is desperately seeking to maximize: time. It’s not like today’s DevOps teams aren’t already ruthlessly focused on optimizing their work to unlock the greater potential of their human talent. Ensuring your organization to identify and address production issues faster – and increase focus on innovation – is the primary reason why Logz.io and its observability platform exist.

It’s that time again; we’re really happy to announce Calico v3.21! As always, thank you to everyone who contributed to this release! For detailed release notes, please go here. Alongside the usual-but-essential bug fixes and other improvements, there are some big new improvements to be aware of.