Gold topped $4k an ounce last week while global gold mining production has already reached or is close to its peak, having stagnated at between 3,000 and 3,300 metric tons …

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122 years ago, after 15 years of experimentation, an aviation pioneer prepared to demonstrate the world’s the first manned flight. A wire snagged on the launch mechanism and the aeroplane …

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What caught my eye this week was SoftBank dumping its entire stake in Nvidia, writes David Manners, the Electronics Weekly components editor…

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Qualcomm and Synaptics are getting together to develop passwordless  authentication for AI PCs. The two companies are combining their strengths in touch and fingerprint sensing and biometric security to promote …

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Panmnesia, the Korean CXL specialist, is sampling its PCIe 6.0/CXL 3.2 Fabric Switch to support port-based routing (PBR). The company is currently providing switch silicon samples to early access partners. …

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EnduroSat has announced a new funding round of $104 million, which will be used to boost its satellite production capability. Investors include Riot Ventures, Google Ventures, Lux Capital, European Innovation …

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TDK has introduced higher-power versions of its i7 range of 1/16 brick dc-dc converters, culminating in the 1,000W I7A24080A033V. This converter measures ~34 x 37 x 20mm tall and can …

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DigiKey has signed a distribution agreement with Silanna Semiconductor, adding its 10- to 16-bit Plural ADCs to its portfolio. Using a standard base design, the ADCs are factory-configurable using the …

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Tachyum, the Las Vegas processor startup with a Universal Processor integrating CPU, GPU and TPU,  claims that its 2nm Prodigy Ultimate processor provides up to 21.3x higher AI rack performance …

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Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus collector, a fully-managed agentless collector for Prometheus metrics, now enables you to discover and collect Prometheus metrics from your Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka cluster while ensuring high availability and scalability.

So far, customers who were seeking to benefit from open monitoring in an Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka cluster had to set up dedicated infrastructure and deploy, right-size, and scale agents to discover and scrape the Prometheus metrics in the cluster. With this launch, you can configure a Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus collector to scrape metrics from the JMX exporter and the Node exporter, covering metrics including host-level, JVM-level, as well as broker-related metrics to implement use cases such as message queue health and partition balancing.

Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus collector is available in all commercial regions where Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus is available. To learn more about Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus collector, visit the user guide or product page .