Red Hat Enhances Insights to Simplify RHEL Management
This week at its Red Hat Summit event, Red Hat introduced an expanded set of capabilities to Red Hat Insights that simplify management of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). Managing Linux across the hybrid cloud is complex, and it’s made even more so because of current macroeconomic conditions and the challenge of finding and retaining […]
ServiceNow Adds Observability Platform to SaaS Portfolio
At its Knowledge 2023 conference, ServiceNow launched an observability service that runs on its software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform. Based on the observability platform the company gained with its acquisition of Lightstep, the ServiceNow Cloud Observability platform makes it possible to collect and analyze data collected from software running on infrastructure and also from workflows created using […]
Nobl9 Adds Tools to Make SLO Queries More Efficient
At its SLOconf event today, Nobl9 added a Query Tester tool that validates whether queries made against the data its service level objectives (SLO) management platform collects will deliver meaningful results. Nobl9’s SLO management platform collects data in real-time from data sources such as New Relic, Datadog and Dynatrace to help customers meet SLOs. In […]
New Relic Taps Generative AI to Simplify Observability
New Relic has added a tool that takes advantage of generative artificial intelligence (AI) to make it simpler to query the telemetry data collected by its observability platform via a natural language interface (NLI). Jemiah Sius, director of developer relations for New Relic, said New Relic Grok will make the New Relic One platform more […]
The Hidden Configuration Tax Affecting Uptime SLO
This article is a preview of a talk by Greg Arnette for SLOconf 2023 on May 15 – 18. To watch this talk and many more like it, register for free at sloconf.com. Tax season was just a few weeks ago, and that got me thinking about how frustrating it is to get hit with […]
State of Developer Experience Report Finds Growing API Reliance
Web APIs continue to grow in interest among developer users. APIs can empower new customer experiences and help engineers avoid rebuilding common functions. The technology is also powering microservices and headless architectures that we’ve seen gain more traction in recent years as enterprises become more composable. On the provider side, a web API strategy can […]
Spotify Adds More Plugins for Backstage Developer Portal
Spotify this week added additional plugins for its open source Backstage platform that is used to build developer portals. The new plugins make it simpler to address role-based access and access Insights, a tool from Spotify that tracks Backstage usage trends. In addition, Spotify is also enhancing a Soundcheck plugin for Backstage that is used […]
Grafana Labs Reins in Cost of Storing Observability Data
Grafana Labs today made available an ability to customize what observability data is collected via its managed cloud service. This capability can help reduce storage costs in addition to enhancing the dashboard Grafana provides to make it simpler to track metrics usage. Wayne Jin, vice president of product marketing for Grafana Labs, said both capabilities […]
Consider Performance, Growth & Budget When Buying Data Analytics
So, your business needs to invest in data analytics technology to improve efficiencies, competitive advantage or business outcomes. There are a ton of things to consider, but underlying each decision are three driving factors: Performance – The need to meet service level agreements. Growth – The need to accommodate success, as well as deal with […]
Observability Costs are too Damn High
Today, any business that deploys software faces an obscene amount of expenses. It has to pay for cloud hosting, assuming of course that it’s among the 92% of companies that use the cloud. It needs trustworthy networks to connect its apps to its employees and customers. It probably pays for a suite of cybersecurity software […]
Black Box SLIs
This article is a preview of a talk by Stephan Lips for SLOconf 2023, on May 15 – 18. To watch this talk and many more like it, register for free at sloconf.com. SLOs are fast becoming the industry standard to measure reliability and help teams decide when to prioritize it. The first step in […]
mabl Adds Load Testing Tool to Test Automation Suite
mabl today added a load testing capability to its portfolio of application testing tools that it makes available via a software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform. That capability promises to make it simpler to streamline testing within a DevOps workflow by making available load testing tools that measure application peformance alongside existing mabl tools accessible via a test […]
Honeycomb Taps ChatGPT to Simplify Observability
Honeycomb today added a Query Assistant to its observability platform that uses OpenAI’s ChatGPT generative artificial intelligence (AI) platform to launch queries via a natural language interface rather than having to master a query language. That capability complements an existing tool based on machine learning algorithms, dubbed BubbleUP, that DevOps teams already use to debug […]
New Relic Report Surfaces Spike in Amazon JDK Usage
An analysis of the Java applications observed by New Relic showed nearly one-third of organizations (31%) are using the Amazon Java development kit (JDK) compared to 28% using the Oracle JDK as more Java applications are built and deployed in the cloud. The report also found the number of Java applications running in containers is […]
Mezmo Adds Free Community Plan for Managing Observability Data
Mezmo this week added a free trial and a community plan for the Mezmo Telemetry Pipeline service to make it simpler for DevOps teams to store and manage the large amounts of telemetry data they are collecting. Mezmo CEO Tucker Callaway said as more DevOps teams embrace observability to minimize disruptions to application environments, they […]
ClickUp Adds Project Management Templates to Invoke ChatGPT
ClickUp is adding templates and collaboration tools to make it easier to access generative artificial intelligence platforms such as ChatGPT from within its project management application. Haris Butt, head of product design for ClickUp, said ClickUp AI now includes pre-built department-specific prompts that any product managers, developers or designers can easily access rather than having […]
Device42 Brings Power and Carbon Emission Tracking to IT Asset Management
Device42 today made available a power and CO2 Summary Dashboard to its agentless platform that employs machine learning algorithms to discover and track IT assets. Raj Jalan, Device42 CEO, said the dashboard makes it possible for IT teams to combine the tracking of assets and associated dependencies with a capability that enables them to reduce […]
Implementing SLOs-as-Code: A Case Study
This article was co-authored by Stephan Lips, Devin Cunningham and Justin Hoang of Procore and is a preview of their talk for SLOconf 2023 on May 15-18, 2023. To watch this talk and many more like it, register for free at sloconf.com. By managing service level objectives (SLOs) as code, we can co-locate SLO definitions […]
InfluxData Makes Processing Observability Data at Scale More Efficient
InfluxData today made available an update to its open source time series database that can now analyze metric, event and trace data in a single datastore with unlimited cardinality in terms of how they are aggregated. The company is now making available a single-tenant instance of InfluxDB as a managed service alongside its already-existing multi-tenant […]
You’re Already a Distributed Developer
For many coders, the idea of distributed systems development might seem like a dark art. They think of high-performance computing wizards crafting mysterious spells with job schedulers to work magic with hundreds of connected nodes in massively-parallel systems. Or large, distributed content delivery networks that balance resources to deliver content across the world no matter […]
The Fallacy of Continuous Integration, Delivery and Testing
We know that continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) have become a DevOps best practice. And many have learned that by adding continuous testing (CT), they can create a virtuous loop, ensuring perpetual code quality and security. They’re not wrong. Yes, testing continuously is good practice, but some incorrectly equate the concept of continuous with […]
Optimizing SaaS With Automation and Zero-Touch IT
For the first time in 10 years, businesses have slowed their frenetic pace of SaaS adoption. Based on recent BetterCloud research, the average enterprise today uses 130 SaaS applications. While that represents an 18% increase from last year, it’s worth noting that it’s the slowest annual growth rate since we began tracking SaaS usage in […]
Mobb Launches Community Edition of Automated Remediation Tool
Mobb today made available a free community edition of a namesake tool that creates fixes to open source vulnerabilities. The fixes are based on the results of code scanning by a static application security testing (SAST) tool. Fresh from raising $5.4 million in seed funding, Mobb CEO Eitan Worcel said the company developed a tool […]