Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

I’m delighted to share that you can now run Redgate Monitor’s data repository on PostgreSQL with TimescaleDB, achieving dramatically improved performance and scalability at reduced cost.

Kentik and ServiceNow are teaming up to bring network intelligence to the ServiceNow AI Platform. This integration enables ServiceNow ITOM customers, even those without deep network expertise, to answer questions about connectivity, performance, and more.

Imagine this: Your IT team has invested in cutting-edge observability tools to keep systems running smoothly. But does that imply you are following observability best practices? As your business grows, so does the flood of logs, traces, and metrics—along with a skyrocketing cloud bill. What started as a way to gain better visibility is now a major expense, and suddenly, you’re asking: Are we paying too much for too little value? This challenge is becoming all too common.

When you’re up and running with FireHydrant, there’s no better incident management experience out there. We built it that way — fast, intuitive, reliable when it matters most. Now, the first five minutes are just as streamlined and enjoyable as the rest. We rebuilt our onboarding flow from the ground up and cut setup time by over 90% in the process. With the new onboarding experience, you get a guided experience to connect your tools and get the most out of FireHydrant.

GrafanaCON 2025 is in full swing in Seattle, where members of our open source community have gathered to explore the latest updates to Grafana Labs’ OSS projects, share their inspiring use cases, and build lasting connections at our biggest community event yet.

Grafana 12 is here! During the opening keynote of GrafanaCON 2025, we unveiled dozens of new reasons to fall in love with everyone’s favorite dashboarding and visualization tool—especially if your job is to keep teams, services, and, of course, a whole lot of beautiful Grafana dashboards organized. Grafana 12.0: Download now!

Managing your InfluxDB Cloud Dedicated environment just got easier. We’ve introduced an admin UI to streamline everyday tasks, so you can spend less time navigating settings and more time working with your data. The update is built for speed and usability. Whether you’re creating tables, managing tokens, or checking database status, the new UI helps you move faster with: This update is all about reducing friction for developers and teams managing time series infrastructure at scale.

As more teams rely on public repositories in their software supply chain, the dependency chain has become both a critical foundation and a potential blind spot. Dependency chain abuse is not new, but a growing list of attack vectors - like typosquatting, dependency confusion, and now slopsquatting - means security leaders need to respond quickly as attackers adopt new techniques.

You can’t defend against what you can’t see. That’s why the first essential requirement in cybersecurity is to know everything happening in your systems. To achieve this, we implement an IDS (Intrusion Detection System)—a solution that tirelessly monitors every corner of your network like the Eye of Sauron, instantly alerting you to breach attempts and suspicious behavior. Among IDS options, Snort stands out as one of the most popular.