LogDNA Extends Log Management Reach
LogDNA has extended the reach of its log management platform to add support for a Node.js platform from Vercel and a feature flagging tool from LaunchDarkly. In addition, LogDNA has expanded an existing alliance to IBM to add support for instance of Red Hat OpenShift running on VMware platforms hosted on the IBM Cloud, which […]
Algorithmia Allies With Datadog on MLOps Observability
Algorithmia today launched a performance monitoring for machine learning (ML) model that tracks algorithm inference and operations metrics generated by the enterprise edition of its namesake platform for building these models. Company CEO Diego Oppenheimer said Algorithmia Insights provides a level of observability into ML models that DevOps teams have come to expect from applications. […]
SREs: Stop Asking Your Product Managers for SLOs
One of the fundamental premises of software reliability engineering is that you should base your reliability goals—i.e., your service level objectives (SLOs)—on the level of service that keeps your customers happy. The problem is, defining what makes your customers happy requires communication between software reliability engineers (SREs) and product managers (PMs) (aka business stakeholders), and […]
AppDynamics Expands APM Data Consumption
AppDynamics, a unit of Cisco Systems, this week extended the observability capabilities of its namesake application performance management (APM) platform to ingest data from open source tools and agentless services alongside metric collected via its agent software. At the same time, AppDynamics has added a Cloud Data Collector that automatically captures data from public cloud […]
Vercel Optimizes Apps Based on React Framework
Vercel, during its online Next.JS Conf event, announced an update to its open source reactive programming framework that adds support for automatic image optimization along with access to continuous Web Vitals analytics. Company CEO Guillermo Rauch said Next.js 10 also adds support for internationalized routing and automatic language detection and quick-start e-commerce capabilities. Pioneered by […]
Help Developers Thrive by Finding the Right Platform
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Grafana Labs Looks to Simplify Observability
Grafana Labs, at its online ObservabilityCON conference today, unveiled a distributed tracing platform dubbed Grafana Tempo that makes it possible to leverage existing object storage platforms and services to analyze traces. At the same time, Grafana Labs announced version 2.0 of Loki, which normalizes different structured, unstructured or JSON log formats in a way that […]
Cracking Production Performance Issues With Open Source Observability
I would like to share a recent case study on our organization, Logz.io, which battled a very serious performance issue, the solution for which turned out to be a small change in code but with a huge impact on all of our HTTP endpoints in our platform. Among other topics, I’ll cover: How we investigated […]
Splunk Adds Plumbr and Rigor to Observability Portfolio
Splunk this week at its online.conf20 conference revealed it has acquired Plumbr, a provider of an application performance management (APM) platform, and signed a definitive agreement to acquire Rigor, a provider of synthetic monitoring and application optimization tools. Both platforms are destined to be integrated with the Splunk Observability Suite, a suite of IT management […]
Splunk Dives Deeper Into Observability
Splunk, during its online .conf20 conference today, launched the Splunk Observability Suite, which combines tools for infrastructure monitoring, application performance monitoring, digital experience monitoring, log investigation and incident response in a single offering. Kia Behnia, vice president of ITOps for Splunk, said IT teams can correlate metrics, traces and log data in real-time to go […]
APM: Helping Overcome Custom App Management Woes
In any economic climate, every business deploying custom apps needs to assess their APM needs to protect their business There are numerous use cases for custom-made apps, but only one reason they’re deployed: Something off-the-shelf just won’t cut it. When we launch a new kind of digital business, or if operations are far too complex […]
Survey Uncovers Issues Even With Advanced IT Teams
Even in the best of times, IT teams struggle with myriad issues related to managing their application environments A survey of 1,000 C-level executives at software-as-a-service (SaaS) application providers finds that while the bulk of respondents are “highly confident” or “confident” that their cloud applications were running efficiently (91%), many also are still concerned about […]
Observe Unveils Observability Platform Built on Snowflake DBaaS
After raising $35 million in seed funding, Observe Inc. has emerged from stealth with early access to a namesake observability service that leverages the database-as-a-service (DBaaS) platform created by Snowflake Inc. Company CEO Jeremy Burton said rather than build another data lake platform, it makes more sense to make an observability platform available using a […]
Sumo Logic Extends Observability Reach
Sumo Logic, at its online Illuminate conference today, announced the availability of a bevy of extensions to its observability and security information event management (SIEM) cloud services that span everything from hybrid cloud computing to cloud-native platforms such as Kubernetes. The company also announced the general availability of a free Software Development Optimization (SDO) service, […]
Oracle Launches Observability Platform
Oracle, at its online Oracle Live event today, unveiled the Oracle Cloud Observability and Management Platform, which combines newly added logging, log analytics, database management, application performance monitoring, operations insights and service connector hub services with existing Oracle monitoring, notifications, events, functions, streaming and operating system management capabilities. Dan Koloski, vice president of product management […]
Instana Makes Maintaining App Service Levels Easier
Instana announced today it has made it easier for DevOps teams to achieve and maintain service level objectives (SLOs) for applications when employing its application performance management (APM) platform. Announced at the DevOps World 2020 conference hosted by CloudBees, the Instana tools provided to configure, monitor and manage SLOs are based on a series of […]
Catchpoint Acquires Webpagetest.org Service
Catchpoint this week announced it has acquired Webpagetest.org as part of an effort to expand use of the open source web performance testing service. Led by Patrick Meenan, the Webpagetest service is already relied on by more than 1 million users per month to instantly run tests of websites and applications from various locations, which […]
Instana Applies Continuous Profiling to Distributed Traces
Instana today announced it has added a continuous profiling capability to its application performance management (APM) that makes it easier for DevOps teams to leverage distributed traces to troubleshot issues. Chris Farrell, technical director and APM Strategist at Instana, said that while distributed traces make it easier to identify bottlenecks, continuous profiling makes it possible […]
Instana Discovers Root Cause of a Microservices Crash
Instana has added an automated process crash and root cause detection capability to its namesake application performance management (APM) platform optimized for microservices. Microservices prevent application outages by automatically rerouting application traffic in the event any microservice becomes unavailable. The overall performance of an application will degrade gracefully instead of allowing the entire applications to […]
Datadog Expands Scope of Monitoring, Analytics Services
Datadog, at its online Dash conference today, launched an incident management platform along with additional analytics tools to identify application errors and performance and compliance issues. Amit Agarwal, chief product officer, said these latest additions to the Datadog platform are intended to further consolidate IT management and monitoring. IT organizations should not find themselves acquiring […]
Instana Applies DevOps to APM Agent Management
Instana has announced it has become the first provider of an application management platform (APM) to enable IT teams to automate the deployment of agent software to monitor IT environments using any Git repository of their choice. Jim Hirschauer, director of product management and sales enablement for Instana, said agent software used to instrument an […]
CNCF Provides Jaeger Distributed Tracing Update
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) has made available a report detailing the progress being made around the open source Jaeger distributed tracing software. Among other things, the report notes there are now more than 300 organizations contributing to the project. Jaeger is designed to provide a framework for monitoring microservices-based applications in a way […]
Sumo Logic Expands Observability Platform Scope, Reach
Sumo Logic announced today it has extended the reach of its monitoring platform to provide deeper insights across application and infrastructure logs, metrics, traces and metadata in real-time. The latest additions to the company’s suite of software-as-a-service (SaaS) offerings include Sumo Logic AWS Observability Solution, which focuses exclusively on AWS services, and additions to the […]