Application Performance Management/Monitoring

Higher Mobile App Stability Begets Higher User Ratings
In the competitive mobile market, application stability is imperative. Downtime leads to poor user experiences, which stunts growth and revenue. Apps that have poor stability suffer the consequences. In fact, new studies ...

Could Full-Stack Observability Help Lessen IT’s Burden?
The year 2020 was a landmark year for many reasons, other than the obvious. The IT world saw the first time that cloud service revenues dwarfed spending on data centers. Across the ...

Why You Should Embrace Incidents and Ditch MTTR
The cliché is that everyone in IT hates incidents, and the natural reaction when assembling incident response metrics is to look for numbers that you can lower over time. Fewer incidents and ...

Visualize Logs to Get More Value from Data
Why do you keep logs? Regardless of the type of logs we're talking about, you keep them because you expect them to provide some value for the organization. Maybe the logs will ...

Using ML/AI to Support Infrastructure Monitoring
Successful infrastructure monitoring enables IT teams to ensure constant uptime and performance of their company's systems. Technologies like machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) benefit infrastructure monitoring by more quickly collecting ...

Bringing Continuous Testing Into the Software Delivery Pipeline
For any highly competitive industry that relies on a smooth and stable user experience, it is vital that their development teams accelerate release cycles, lower operating costs and ultimately reduce risks. Continuous ...

Best Practices for AWS Tagging With Yor
On the surface, AWS resource tags are simple, informational key:value metadata that you can assign to most AWS resources. They also have many hidden benefits, as outlined in this AWS Tagging Best ...

JFrog Acquires Vdoo to Advance DevSecOps
JFrog today announced it has agreed to acquire Vdoo for $300 million in cash to gain a set of analytics tools that discover vulnerabilities in application binaries. Vdoo's scanning tools, infused with ...

Dynatrace Applies AI to Surface App Vulnerabilities
Dynatrace has enhanced the security module to its observability platform that leverages its Davis artificial intelligence (AI) engine to automatically identify the software libraries and open source packages that represent the greatest ...

What Chaos Engineering Is (and Isn’t)
The birth of chaos engineering happened somewhat accidentally in 2008 when Netflix moved from the data center to the cloud. The move didn’t go as planned. The thinking at the time was ...

SREs Say AIOps Doesn’t Live Up to the Hype
What can you expect when investing in artificial intelligence for IT operations (AIOps)? Real-time visibility across huge volumes of information. Lightning-fast event correlation and anomaly detection. Automated remediation and self-healing, without Ops ...

Plutora Dives Deeper into Value Stream Analytics Data
Plutora announced today it has extended the capabilities of its value stream management (VSM) platform to include a common object data model that more efficiently normalizes data collected from multiple DevOps tools ...