Datadog Observability Pipelines provides greater control over observability data
The monitoring company Datadog has announced a new tool for collecting, managing, and routing observability data. Datadog Observability Pipelines will allow companies to have more control of their observability data, which will enable them to scale their observability practice. “As the amount of telemetry continues to grow at an organization, teams are often completely overwhelmed—if … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Grafana OnCall
Grafana Labs recently open-sourced its solution for managing on-call employees, Grafana OnCall. It was developed in 2018 at Amixr, which was previously the name of the tool as well. Grafana Labs acquired Amixr in 2021 and then launched the tool on Grafana Cloud. It integrates with your monitoring system so that when something abnormal is … continue reading
Grafana 9.0 available with new visual query builder
Grafana Labs is introducing new visualizations and alerting improvements in the latest version of its platform, which is Grafana 9.0. A new visual query builder is available for Prometheus and Grafana Loki, as writing queries for those data sources can be a barrier for those new to those tools. By offering a visual builder, users … continue reading
Pure Storage expands its portfolio with new modular architecture, subscription-based storage offering
Pure Storage is holding its annual conference Pure//Accelerate techfest22, and at the event the company made several announcements, including the FlashBlade//S family of products and Evergreen//Flex. FlashBlade//S utilizes a modular architecture for storage and provides double the density, performance, and power efficiency of previous versions. According to Pure Storage, FlashBlade//S disaggregates compute from capacity, which … continue reading
Elastic launches new offering for protecting cloud workloads
Elastic Security for Cloud has been revealed as a new offering for managing cloud risk and protecting cloud workloads. According to Elastic, this offering extends the capabilities of the existing Elastic Security product to the cloud. “To protect applications and workloads in the cloud, security operations teams require deep visibility across their organizations’ underlying infrastructure … continue reading
PagerDuty reveals Incident Workflows, Automation Actions to help companies with incident response
At its annual conference PagerDuty Summit 2022, PagerDuty announced new capabilities to help companies deal with incidents and improve their efficiency in doing so. One of the new capabilities is Incident Workflows, which will be available later this year. Incident Workflows utilizes no-code to enable IT workers to add responses that trigger when common incident … continue reading
Micro Focus NOM update adds new Performance Troubleshooting capabilities
Micro Focus has announced an update to its Network Operations Management (NOM) solution. This release, NOM 2022.05, introduces an update to the Performance Troubleshooting module. Performance Troubleshooting allows IT teams to identify where troubles arose by comparing data on what has been changed. It uses network devices’ diagnostic data to identify slowdowns caused by configuration … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: OpenCost
OpenCost is a new open-source project that was created by Kubecost, a Kubernetes spend management company. OpenCost follows Kubecost’s core mission of enabling users to track their Kubernetes costs. OpenCost provides real-time allocation of Kubernetes of costs; integrations with AWS, Azure, and GCP billing APIs to enable dynamic asset pricing; and support for on-premise clusters. … continue reading
EraStreams launches to bring down observability costs using no-code
Era Software has announced a new no-code observability data pipeline called EraStreams. IT teams can use it to integrate, transform, and route observability data to EraSearch or other third-party monitoring tools. According to the company, siloed monitoring tools that are leftover from the pre-cloud era can’t keep up with the volume of data that is … continue reading
KubeCon EU 2022: D2iQ and GitLab partnership, Sysdig Advisor, and more
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2022 has been taking place in Valencia, Spain this week. As usual, a number of companies in the Kubernetes and cloud native spaces have taken the opportunity to announce news at the event. Here are some of the highlights from this week: D2iQ announces partnership with GitLab Customers will now be … continue reading
Qualys launches new solution for remediating threats efficiently
Security and compliance company Qualys has announced the launch of Qualys Custom Assessment and Remediation. This solution allows security teams to orchestrate workflows, secure applications, and take action to remediate threats. According to the company, traditionally when threats arise, typical responses include creating new processes and custom scripts that then need to be rolled out … continue reading
Red Hat and Accenture expands partnership to develop new solutions across four focus areas
Today at the Red Hat Summit, Red Hat announced an expansion to its 12 year partnership with Accenture. The companies will be working together to develop new solutions across four main areas. These include: Open hybrid cloud application and mainframe modernization Automation Edge computing Sovereign cloud For the first focus area, the companies will work … continue reading
