Application Performance Management/Monitoring
5 Mean-Time Reliability Metrics To Follow
Most folks working in DevOps or SRE roles are familiar with metrics like mean-time-to-recovery (MTTR). Keeping track of the average time a team takes to respond to incidents is crucial to identifying ...
Survey Reveals High Cost of Application Modernization
A survey of 250 software developers and architects in the U.S. found nearly three-quarters of respondents (74%) reported that the average cost of an application modernization project is nearly $1.5 million, with ...
Dynatrace Adds Synthetic Tests to Validate App Experiences
Dynatrace today extended the application release management capabilities it provides to include synthetic tests for validating and assuring user experiences. Saif Gunja, director of product marketing for Dynatrace, said the user experience ...
Quality Is a Top Challenge for Data-Driven Projects
Software systems continue to produce more and more data. And making use of it has proven benefits — so much so that many analysts have, over the years, referred to data as ...
ServiceNow Adds Lightstep Notebooks to Visualize Observability Data
ServiceNow today added a visualization tool to its Lightstep observability platform that will make it simpler for DevOps teams to correlate metrics, logs and traces. Ben Sigelman, general manager for Lightstep at ...
Cloudflare Outage Outrage | Yet More FAA 5G Stupidity
Richi Jennings | | 5G, BGP, Cloudflare, FAA, FCC, IATA, incident management, Look like the innocent flower—but be the serpent under it, outage, The Long ViewIn this week’s The Long View: Cloudflare suffers another huge outage while the FAA and FCC still disagree over 5G/NR near airports ...
ShiftLeft Report Reveals State of Application Security
Mike Vizard | | Apache Log4j, application security, application vulnerability, shift left, ShiftLeftA report published today by automated application security testing platform ShiftLeft found only one in three applications has an attackable vulnerability. The report also found organizations that prioritized their remediation efforts based ...
Improving Observability With ML-Enabled Anomaly Detection
Nowadays, DevOps and SRE teams have many tools to access and analyze logging data. However, there are two challenges that prevent these teams from resolving issues in a timely manner: They aren’t ...
Splunk Adds Data Management Tools to Observability Platform
At its .conf22 event, Splunk today announced it is making it easier to both onboard data and then manage it across hybrid IT environments via the Splunk Cloud Platform. In addition, Splunk ...
Grafana Labs Adds Visual Tools to Simplify Prometheus Queries
At its GrafanaCONline event, Grafana Labs today announced an update to the open source Grafana dashboard. The update adds visual query tools to make it easier for IT professionals of any skill ...
How to Adopt an SRE Practice (When You’re not Google)
Site reliability engineering (SRE) isn’t a new term or practice. The practice of applying software engineering skills and principles to operations problems and tasks happened even before site reliability engineer was a ...
AppSmith Adds Git Support to Low-Code App Dev Framework
Mike Vizard | | application development, AppSmith, Git repository, JavaScript, low-code applicationsAppSmith has added support for Git repositories to an open source framework for building custom applications using a low-code platform based on the JavaScript programming language. Rishabh Kaul, head of marketing for ...
