We are excited to announce the rollout of our new Rollbar Improve component, Analyze. As we strive to provide you with the best possible tools to monitor, understand, and improve your code, we've combined two powerful features, RQL and Metrics API, into one comprehensive package. Analyze is designed to deliver even more powerful insights to help your teams better understand your code and make data-driven decisions.

To get visibility into highly distributed applications, organizations often use various tracing tools that are best suited to each individual service owner’s specifications. However, when a request travels between services that have been instrumented with different tools, the trace data may be formatted differently, resulting in broken traces.

Elasticsearch is used for a wide variety of data types — one of these is metrics. With the introduction of Metricbeat many years ago and later our APM Agents, the metric use case has become more popular. Over the years, Elasticsearch has made many improvements on how to handle things like metrics aggregations and sparse documents. At the same time, TSVB visualizations were introduced to make visualizing metrics easier.

At Grafana Labs, we value the open source community and recognize the power of crowdsourcing. This is why we have decided to launch our very own bug bounty program, managed in-house by our own team, to encourage ethical hackers from around the world to help us find and responsibly report security vulnerabilities in Grafana Labs software.

Microsoft recently acknowledged a critical vulnerability in the WMI connection affecting the DCOM protocol, which allowed attackers to bypass DCOM server security, elevate their privileges, and gain unauthorized access into the systems.

Running your business using Teams isn’t without its challenges. We already did a post here about some of the Microsoft Teams alerts IT teams need to be alerted to sooner rather than later. But, because of how complex large Teams setups are, we’ve got a few more to add to the collection. Today, we’re focusing on the Microsoft-specific challenges you might face.