AppDynamics Applies AIOps to Automate IT
AppDynamics, a unit of Cisco, today announced it is melding the worlds of AIOps and application performance management (APM) with the launch of Cognition Engine. At the same time, AppDynamics is making good on a promise to integrate metrics drawn from Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI), the software-defined networking (SDN) that Cisco is embedding in […]
xMatters Incorporates Stackdriver APM Metrics from Google
As a set of application monitoring services on the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) for driving DevOps processes, Stackdriver has been steadily gaining adherents, especially since Google extended the reach of that service into the realm of on-premises systems. Today xMatters, a provider of incident management tools, announced it is integrating alerts and data generated by […]
Kong Applies AI to API Management
Kong today announced today two offerings that rely on artificial intelligence (AI) to automate the management of application programming interfaces (APIs). The first offering, dubbed Kong Brain, collects data from any existing platform to auto generate documentation, which can then be used to automate the configuration of the Kong Enterprise API management platform. The second […]
How AIOps Makes DevOps Less Noisy
For DevOps engineers, “noise” is the enemy of productivity. In this context, the noise we’re talking about is unnecessary or low-priority alerts and notifications that distract engineers from identifying serious issues—and ultimately can cause alert fatigue syndrome, in which alerting systems are ignored altogether. Without the application of a well-constructed noise reduction plan, alert noise […]
DevOps Chat: AIOps and APM with Unravel’s Kunal Agarwal
Unravel is making a name in the AIOps, APM and big data markets. In this DevOps Chat, we speak with Unravel CEO Kunal Agarwal about what makes Unravel a must-have for its customers. We also take a sneak peek ahead to what the near and not so near future holds for big data, AIOps and […]
Best of 2018: Log Monitoring and Analysis: Comparing ELK, Splunk and Graylog
As we close out 2018, we at DevOps.com wanted to highlight the five most popular articles of the year. Following is the fifth in our weeklong series of the Best of 2018. As organizations face outages and various security threats, monitoring an entire application platform is essential to understand the source of threat or […]
Atlassian Brings Postmortem Analysis to DevOps
Atlassian has added a postmortem capability to JiraOps, which gathers a list of all the key events from any IT incident in chronological order to make it easier to analyze what happened, identify root causes and raise issues directly within the JiraOps platform to ensure subsequent actions are taken. At the same time, Atlassian is […]
The Power of Autoscaling and the Mistake You’ll Never Make Again
Many years ago when I was interning as a software engineer, I made a mistake that could have ended my career just as it was getting started … It was my birthday, and I was given the task of loading queries to a database. The task was straightforward—even then, when I was only an intern […]
DevOps Chat: Managing Apple Devices with Fleetsmith
Managing Macs, iPhones, iPads and other Apple devices at scale is not something really native to iOS or OSX. Enter Fleetsmith. In sort of a Puppet-meets-Apple environment, the Fleetsmith team automates configuration, management and security of your Apple devices. In this DevOps Chat we sit down with Fleetsmith co-founder and CEO Zack Blum and company […]
Metrics, Logs and Traces: The Golden Triangle of Observability in Monitoring
It isn’t surprising that the job of monitoring infrastructure and application environments has grown more complex as the underlying technologies evolve. Nor is it surprising that the need to get monitoring right has expanded as our business reliance on IT grows ever deeper, so it is important to have a good grasp of the core […]
Cost Per IT Ticket: Think Beyond Opex in Your Cloud Journey
Globally, organizations have embraced cloud computing and delivery models for their numerous advantages. Gartner predicts the public cloud market is expected to grow 21.4 percent by the end of 2018, from $153.5 billion in 2017. Cloud computing services provide an opportunity for organizations to consume specific services with delivery models that are most appropriate for […]
Solving the ‘Automagical’ Apps Automation Problem
The DevOps Revolution started with a handful of simple principles. A key one was that systems should be managed by code, not by humans, to eliminate complexity and ensure better security, compliance and scalability. To manage compute infrastructure at any scale, the process should be automated with logic captured in code. And, ideally, automation also […]
Perforce Acquires Perfecto Mobile to Drive DevOps Consolidation
Perforce this week announced it plans to acquire Perfecto Mobile, a provider of automated application development tools, in a move that signals a potential wave of consolidation across the DevOps sector. Perfecto Mobile is the fifth acquisition Perforce has made in the last two years, and company CEO Mark Ties said there will be more […]
Splunk Aims to Trigger DevOps Processes
Splunk this week at its .conf18 conference continued a campaign to extend the reach of its operational analytics platform into the realm of DevOps through a partnership with Puppet. Spunk also announced the 4.0 release of Splunk IT Service Intelligence (ITSI), which extends a platform for managing IT using machine learning algorithms by integrating it […]
Log Management: What DevOps Teams Need to Know
One of the most important shifts of this decade is the rise of interconnected data across distributed systems. This explosive growth not only sparked the need to rethink cloud and global IT strategies, but it also disrupted traditional development, DevOps and ITOps practices. These changes are pushing requirements for higher-velocity development of features and products—together […]
The Art of Software Performance Testing
When users turn away from applications or have critical feedback, it’s often because the application is slow, hangs/freezes or, worse, it isn’t available when needed. In this era of limited—or, zero—patience for app instability, delivery teams should ensure that their performance testing capability is sound. First though, let’s start with definitions. Despite popular opinion, performance […]
The Value of APM in Application Building and Management
There are literally billions of smartphone users on the planet. Many of these users interact with apps on a daily basis. With all of the competition in the app market, developers have to stay on the cutting edge of technology to keep their programs both functional and popular. It is imperative that you adequately monitor […]
Moogsoft Extends AI Reach into IT Operations
Moogsoft, at a Moogsoft 2018 AIOps Symposium last week, extended the reach of its IT operations analytics software out to where applications are deployed, rather than requiring data to be moved into a Big Data platform. Will Cappelli, CTO and vice president of product strategy for Moogsoft, said Moogsoft Observe, available in beta, discovers anomalies […]
How to Use APM to Hold Cloud Providers Accountable
Here’s the challenge: Cloud providers’ service level agreements (SLAs) typically stop at the edge of their cloud, while your internal service level expectations run end to end. Measuring performance from the end user to the application and back, including device details, user productivity and page load times, is essential for customer satisfaction and continuous performance […]
VMware Looks to ‘Ruthlessly’ Automate IT
VMware, at VMworld 2018 this week, advanced an ambitious campaign to automate IT management by announcing a deal to acquire CloudHealth Technologies and then previewing a Project Magna initiative that employs machine learning algorithms and other forms of artificial intelligence (AI) to create what VMware describes as self-driven data centers. VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger told […]
Rethinking the APM Paradigm: A New Vision for Enterprise Application Monitoring
Traditional APM systems today can’t measure up to tomorrow’s processes IT today is inordinately complex; continually pushing the boundaries and comprehension for even the most sophisticated minds. And while modern IT is unlocking new, innovative experiences and capabilities, the advent of cloud computing and its distributed, ephemeral nature has also made it extremely difficult for […]
Predictive QA: Why Performance is so Important in a ‘Big Data’ World
As organizations across all industries face opportunities and threats in the new digital era, they increasingly look to leverage their full power of the data they possess. Data is a treasure trove for enterprises, and big data mining has grown into much more than a sales tool. Advanced, predictive analytics are now used to hone […]
Automated Management with Modern Architectures
We’ve come a long way. Just five years ago, with virtual machines (VMs) and decent monitoring, I would never have considered active automated system repairs for the average organization. There were many reasons for that. Monitoring was spread out and required a lot of work to spin together. The volume of logs from monitoring was […]