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
Canonical Ubuntu Core 22 now available
Today, the software company Canonical announced that the fully containerized Ubuntu 22.04 LTS variant, Ubuntu Core 22, is now generally available. This release is optimized for IoT edge devices and, combined with Canonical’s technology offer, provides Ubuntu’s comprehensive operating system (OS) and services to a range of embedded and IoT devices. Ubuntu Core 22 works … 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
Mind the gap in your network monitoring software
Traditional network monitoring software fills basic needs but also leaves critical gaps in modern network performance and end-user experience visibility, pushing IT leaders to rethink their network monitoring strategies. The blog reveals how the Broadcom Software approach to Experience-Driven NetOps can help your organization bridge the gap between network delivery and the digital experience monitoring, … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Orb
Backed by NS1 Labs, Orb is an open-source tool for edge observability that utilizes dynamic policy orchestration in order to extract real-time insights from traffic streams at the edge. Those insights are then transformed into actions through integration with modern observability stacks, leading to accelerated time-to-action and a reduction in price. With Orb, users can … 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
Qualys launches VMDR 2.0 with TruRisk scoring
Qualys, provider of cloud-based IT, security, and compliance solutions, today announced the release of Qualys Vulnerability Management, Detection and Response (VMDR) 2.0. This release offers users insights into an organization’s unique risk posture as well as the ability to use drag and drop workflows to orchestrate responses. According to the company, VMDR 2.0 offers TruRisk … continue reading
How LogicMonitor evolved their monitoring
Digital transformation and making the transition into the cloud is a topic that has been widely discussed within the technology community. While the process of moving away from on-premise and towards the cloud can seem daunting, there are countless benefits that make this shift worth the trouble. In a recent ITOps Times Live! event sponsored … 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
LogicMonitor announces new framework for measuring IT readiness
LogicMonitor launched an assessment of IT readiness that identified 40 potential readiness KPIs across seven key criteria. The KPIs enable CIOs and IT teams to begin to self-assess readiness, continuity, and resiliency that is critical to supporting today’s digital businesses. The company announced the availability of the framework as part of its LM Elevate 2022 … continue reading
Riverbed releases beta for its Alluvio unified observability solution
Riverbed released a beta program for its new Alluvio Unified Observability solution that transforms massive amounts of data and alerts that lack context into actionable insights to empower all IT skill levels. “The Beta is exciting news for our customers as they help us define the leading Unified Observability solution in the market,” said Jim … continue reading
