2024 has been a momentous year for ScienceLogic. In May, we launched our vision of Autonomic IT, which combines data, AI, and automation to create a fully autonomous state of IT operations. We followed that up in July with the introduction of Skylar AI, a suite of services that empower organizations to automate ITOps processes, reach AIOps maturity, and make more accurate and data-driven decisions. A lot of hard work went into the creation of these solutions.

I’m a big fan of tasting menus. In the culinary world they let us sample a variety of dishes in small portions, helping us understand and appreciate different flavors and options. Inspired by this concept and a talk I gave earlier this year, I have crafted a “tasting menu” of OpenTelemetry Collector configurations in Grafana Cloud.

Picture this: your alerting system needs to tell you it's broken. Sounds like a paradox, right? Yet that’s exactly the situation we face as an incident management company. We believe strongly in using our own products - after all, if we don’t trust ourselves to be there when it matters most, why should the thousands of engineers who rely on us every day? However, this poses an obvious challenge.

In this update, we’re excited to introduce the latest improvements and new features for the status page. From enhanced navigation to a refreshed design for the Service History Calendar and Event Cards, these changes are designed to provide a smoother and more efficient experience.

In April, we published a Part I blog on the topic of how we planned to use our own Telemetry Pipelines product here at Mezmo to manage metrics data. Remember that utopia of observability we dreamed about? Well, we’re not quite there yet, but we’ve made progress.

HAProxy ALOHA 16.5 is now available, and we’re delighted to share that this release includes one of the cornerstone security features announced earlier this year—the new Bot Management Module. HAProxy ALOHA customers will also benefit from the new Network Management CLI, secure Wireguard VPN synchronization between appliances, updated root filesystem packages, and the features announced in open source HAProxy 3.0.

It's easy to get caught up in the latest software trends and forget about the physical components that make it all possible. Hardware—the tangible parts of our devices—forms the foundation of all computing systems. Without it, our favorite apps and programs would have nowhere to run. But what exactly is hardware? Do we have a definitive hardware definition? And how important is it?

No piece of hardware lasts forever. On the contrary, all hardware eventually deteriorates. That’s why it’s crucial to understand and manage each stage an asset goes through, from procurement to disposal. This journey is called the hardware lifecycle, and its management is known as Hardware Lifecycle Management (HLM).

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