3 Observability Strategies to Reduce Debugging Cycles
These observability tips can help developers uncover issues that impede performance and derail customer experience Modern technologies and methodologies such as cloud services, containers, DevOps, microservices and serverless have made it easier for organizations to deploy application code to production. However, the additional layers within the modern tech stack have increased complexity, making it more […]
Performance Issues: Looking Beyond the Infrastructure
In most cases today, resolving performance issues will require architecture changes or code refactoring Imagine you’re a software reliability engineer with your service-level objectives clearly laid out on your Grafana dashboard. Suddenly, an alert appears: Your 99th percentile latency is going through the roof! A quick glance at the relevant metrics reveals the culprit: A […]
Sentry Adds Application Performance Monitoring to Platform
Sentry has extended the reach of its agentless monitoring platform to now track performance issues in addition to surfacing errors in code. Company CEO Milin Desai said IT organizations can now consolidate the number of monitoring platforms they employ to reduce their overall costs. Previously, the Sentry platform only identified errors in applications. The Sentry […]
OpsRamp Adds Synthetic Monitoring to AIOps Platform
OpsRamp has extended the capabilities of its namesake AIOps platform to include synthetic monitoring capabilities alongside existing tools for monitoring end user experiences. Bhanu Singh, senior vice president of engineering and DevOps for OpsRamp, said the Summer 2020 Release of the software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform adds synthetic monitoring that not only identifies bottlenecks across multi-step transactions […]
How to Synchronize Jira Projects Between 2 Jira Instances
Most of us are aware that Jira is a highly regarded application lifecycle management tool. One of its main features is team collaboration. Sometimes, however, collaboration between a business team and its partners can pose a challenge due to their network restrictions. In this article, we will see how this problem can be addressed and […]
SolarWinds Extends APM Reach to Infrastructure
SolarWinds has updated its application performance management (APM) platform to provide more visibility into the IT infrastructure on which applications depend. Jim Hansen, vice president of products for application management at SolarWinds, said the AppOptics service map within SolarWinds APM Suite now enables DevOps teams to visualize dynamic relationships between services and their dependencies. IT […]
5 Business Insights to Gain From APM
My son is a commercial on-demand cargo pilot, and it’s his job to move around auto parts when they’re needed in the supply chain. During a recent auto strike, he ended up flying a few fenders to a factory for something around $20,000. The profit margin on those fenders was blown to bits, but it […]
The Top 5 Challenges to Overcome with Heroku Logging
Heroku can be a very powerful tool for monitoring the massive amount of data generated by your applications, systems, APIs and add-ons. One thing you may have discovered with Heroku logging is that making sense of data within your log files can be time-consuming. When you’re running large numbers of applications which process tons of […]
5 Reasons Why Your App Needs an Error Monitoring System
All software applications have errors. Bugs are simply part of software development. That’s why engineering organizations need to know exactly what errors are occurring so decisions can be made around which bugs to fix. The fastest way to identify and fix application errors is to implement error monitoring software. However, not all solutions are created […]
Micro Focus Updates LoadRunner Testing Tools
Micro Focus has revamped its venerable line of LoadRunner testing tools as part of an effort to both unify code bases and provide tighter integration with third-party application performance management (APM) tools from AppDynamics, a unit of Cisco Systems. Vicky Giavelli, director of product management for performance engineering at Micro Focus, said Micro Focus in […]
Grafana Labs Update Aims to Simplify Observability
Grafana Labs today released an update to the open source Grafana project that adds a viewer that simplifies tracking the path of a single request through a distributed system. Version 7.0 also adds a plug-in for Amazon CloudWatch Logs along with support for Apache Arrow, a unified data and plugin framework that promises to make […]
F5 Networks Surfaces Application Insights
F5 Networks, at its Agility 2020 online event today, unfurled Beacon, a software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform that enables IT teams to better monitor and troubleshoot applications using telemetry data collected from networking equipment from both F5 and third-party sources. In addition, the company announced an update to NGINX Controller that enhances application analytics along with improvements […]
Report: More Appreciate the Value of Observability
Observability may be a core tenet of any best DevOps practice, but the number of organizations that actually engage in it is still not nearly as high as it should. A survey of 400 software engineers published this week by Honeycomb, a provider of an observability platform, finds nearly half said they are not currently […]
New Relic Moves to Democratize Distributed Tracing
New Relic has launched a service that leverages cloud resources to make analytics based on distributed tracing more accessible to DevOps teams. Andrew Tunall, general manager for New Relic serverless and emerging cloud services, said the New Relic Edge with Infinite Tracing service democratizes access to distributed tracing analytics by providing access via a software-as-a-service […]
Overcoming Hybrid and Multi-Cloud Management Challenges with APM
When companies move toward hybrid and multi-cloud, both leadership and IT can struggle to adapt their organizational structures and processes to a new, more complex way of doing things. With the classic form of DevOps, for example, operational monitoring and management procedures are radically new and different: from a management perspective, it almost appears as […]
Build Better CX Across the Entire User Journey with AIOps
Ready or not, digital experiences are now the gateway to customers and the standard-bearer of a company’s brand. Yet, as apps become more distributed, more intelligent and more real-time, they continue to run on infrastructure that resides within on-prem data centers as well as multiple public clouds. This complexity is underscored by gaps across IT […]
New Relic Extends Reach and Scope of AI Capabilities
New Relic this week announced it has extended the capabilities within its New Relic AI module to include support for additional data sources and provide access to more advanced analytics. Integrations with Splunk, Grafana, Prometheus and Amazon CloudWatch are now provided along with support for a number of incident management platforms, including ServiceNow, OpsGenie and […]
APM and Application Stability: Where Two Monitoring Roads Merge and Diverge
In software development, application performance management (APM) is one of the grown-ups in the room. Not only has APM been around for a long time, but its solutions have evolved over several generations, making it one of the more mature product categories. APM’s longevity makes perfect sense when you consider its fundamental purpose, which is […]
Uncover the Secrets in Your Apps Through Observability
When it comes to your applications, the question to ask yourself is: “How helpful is monitoring if you aren’t proactively capturing the data you need to understand what is causing the errors you find?” The answer: Not very. That is why it is important for us to go beyond monitoring and work on expanding our […]
Compuware Shifts Mainframe App Testing Left
Compuware today announced it is making it easier to shift application performance testing further left on to the shoulders of developers by adding support for a REST application programming interface (API) to its application performance management (APM) platform for mainframe applications, along with a plug-in for Jenkins continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) environments. Sam Knutson, vice […]
Splunk Updates SignalFx APM Platform
Splunk today unfurled its first major update to the SignalFx application performance management (APM) platform since acquiring it last October. Karthik Rau, general manager for application performance management (APM) at Splunk, said SignalFx Microservices APM combines for the first time the SignalFx platform with Omnition, a software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform for implementing distributed tracing as an […]
New Relic Gives COVID-19 Relief Agencies Free 90-day Access
New Relic will provide free access to the entire New Relic One observability platform for 90 days to any organization engaged in COVID-19 pandemic relief efforts that have a specific benefit to the public. Erin Dieterich, director of corporate social responsibility at New Relic, said it’s apparent that the IT platforms of both nonprofits and […]
Day 2 for the Operator Ecosystem
The original focus for Kubernetes was very much on stateless applications, which don’t rely on coordination between instances or sharing data between client sessions. In practice, that usually means that we can stop and start our stateless applications without data loss or impacting on client connections. If all applications were stateless, the world of application […]