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Introducing Grafana Cloud k6

We are excited to introduce Grafana Cloud k6, a fully managed, scalable solution for cross-functional load and performance testing. This new offering within Grafana Cloud empowers developers, operations, and QA teams to prevent system failures and consistently deliver fast and reliable applications. Grafana Cloud k6 is generally available today for all Grafana Cloud customers who are not existing k6 Cloud customers.

Easily configure Elastic to ingest OpenTelemetry data

Watch how to easily configure your application to ingest Elastic OpenTelemetry data. About Elastic Elastic is the leading platform for search-powered solutions, and we help everyone — organizations, their employees, and their customers — find what they need faster, while keeping applications running smoothly, and protecting against cyber threats. When you tap into the power of Elastic Enterprise Search, Observability, and Security solutions, you’re in good company with brands like Netflix, Uber, Slack, Microsoft, and thousands of others who rely on us to accelerate results that matter.

You can now save notes on a site

We implemented a small, but valuable feature requested by some of our users. You can now store some free form notes on a site. When heading over a site's settings, you'll see the new "notes" field. Here you can add some important information to the site, for example, some details on the SLA or technical details, ... When you saved notes on a site, we'll show it when hovering over the site on the site list. Of course, you can also get to these notes via the API.

The Forrester Wave: Infrastructure Automation Platforms Reviewed

Over two years after releasing The Forrester Wave™: Infrastructure Automation Platforms, Q3 2020, Forrester recently released The Forrester Wave™: Infrastructure Automation, Q1 2023 report. If you are unfamiliar with the most recent report, it examines eleven top vendors within this space, and their capabilities to help guide purchasing decisions based on need.

Weathering the IT Storm

The tech world has been on a rollercoaster since the COVID-19 pandemic. During the large-scale shift to remote work throughout 2020-21, big tech firms invested heavily in talent and infrastructure and there was plenty of growth in the IT space. Since the second half of 2022, however, high inflation, big tech layoffs, and the threat of an economic recession have organizations focused more on remaining cost-effective than investing in growth.

SaaS Observability Platforms: A Buyer's Guide

Observability is the ability to gather data from metrics, logs, traces, and other sources, and use that data to form a complete picture of a system’s behavior, performance, and health. While monitoring alone was once the go-to approach for managing IT infrastructure, observability goes further, allowing IT teams to detect and understand unexpected or unknown events.

Top 6 Cybersecurity Best Practices for MSPs and Enterprises

MSPs own and process large amounts of sensitive data and act as gateways to the sensitive data and infrastructure of their clients, which is why cybercriminals view them as good potential targets. To adequately protect this sensitive data from today’s sophisticated attacks, it is crucial that MSPs leverage cybersecurity best practices to ensure the safety and security of their own systems and their customers’ systems.