New Relic Debuts Command-Line Observability Tool for Developers and AI Agents
New Relic has unveiled Ground Truth CLI, a command-line tool that enables software developers and AI agents to analyze system performance and verify whether technical issues have been resolved without needing to use dashboards. The release reflects a big shift in enterprise IT as AI agents take on more advanced troubleshooting tasks. Traditional observability dashboards […]
Why Log Monitoring Is the Missing Link in Most Incident Response Workflows
Modern engineering teams have invested heavily in observability. Dashboards are populated, alerts are configured, on-call rotations are set. Yet when production incidents occur, the average time to resolution hasn’t dropped nearly as fast as the tooling has improved. The reason, in many cases, comes down to one overlooked gap: logs aren’t being used the way […]
New Relic Adds Open Source Tool to Observe AI Coding
New Relic has made available an open source extension to its observability platform for coding tools at no additional cost. Nic Benders, chief technical strategist for New Relic, said the New Relic AI Coding Observability capability will make it simpler for DevOps teams to centrally monitor usage of a diverse range of artificial intelligence (AI) […]
Why Your Observability Stack Is Costing You More Than Your Cloud Bill
There’s a pattern playing out across engineering teams right now that nobody talks about openly: the tool meant to reduce operational complexity has quietly become one of the biggest line items on the infrastructure budget. Observability spending is out of control, and for most teams, it’s not because they’re monitoring too much. It’s because they’re […]
OpenTelemetry Achieves CNCF Graduated Project Status
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) today announced that the open source OpenTelemetry (OTel) project has officially graduated a little more than seven years after its initial adoption. Announced at the Observability North America Summit, OpenTelemetry was first donated to the CNCF in 2019 following the merger of separate OpenTracing and OpenCensus projects that sought […]
Arm Adds Free Toolkit to Analyze AI Agent Performance
Arm this week made available a free toolkit for analyzing agentic artificial intelligence (AI) workloads as they are being developed by DevOps and platform engineering teams. Earlier this year, Arm unveiled a 3nm processor based on its Neoverse V3 architecture that is specifically designed for AI workloads. The Arm Performix toolkit provides system-wide analysis across […]
How to Manage Operations in DevOps Using Modern Technology
How modern DevOps teams manage operations using automation, observability, AIOps and self-service to reduce toil and improve reliability.
AI Agents in DevOps: Hype vs. Reality in Production Pipelines
The demos look super cool! An AI agent detects a failing deployment, rolls it back, opens a GitHub issue, and notifies Slack — all before the on-call engineer has finished reading the alert. If you’ve been following the DevOps tooling space over the last 18 months, you’ve probably seen some version of this pitch. But […]
Grafana Labs Extends Observability Reach Deeper Into AI
Grafana Labs debuts Grafana 13, a specialized AI application observability platform, and an MCP-powered AI agent at GrafanaCON 2026 to streamline telemetry across complex cloud-native environments.
Coralogix Taps Skyflow to Anonymize Log Data Using Tokens
Coralogix and Skyflow have allied to protect sensitive log data that DevOps teams might inadvertently expose while investigating incidents or as data is shared with downstream applications. Skyflow has developed a platform that instead of eliminating or masking sensitive data applies tokens to enable that data to be searchable and auditable while preserving privacy. Coralogix […]
The Green Side of Observability: Why Less Data Can Mean More Insight
Observability can generate massive data volumes. Learn how sustainable observability reduces telemetry waste, lowers costs and improves insight.
Zero Downtime Multicloud Migrations for Observability Control Planes
Most platform teams aren’t deciding whether they’ll run across multiple clouds. They already are, or they’ll be soon. The real question is how to migrate critical systems without turning on-call into a guessing game. Observability raises the stakes more than almost any other domain. An observability control plane isn’t just a dashboard. It’s the operational […]
How We Got Here: Alert Fatigue to Decision Fatigue
AI and observability reduced alert fatigue, but decision fatigue remains. Decision architecture helps DevOps teams scale operational judgment.
The 10-Layer Monitoring Framework That Saved Our Clients From 3 a.m. Pages
A practical 10-layer monitoring framework for Kubernetes and VM environments that prioritizes what to watch—system, application, HTTP/RUM, databases, caches, queues, tracing, SSL, external deps, and log patterns—to prevent outages and reduce noisy alerts.
Survey Surfaces Disconnect Between DevOps Metrics and Business KPIs
A survey of 418 DevOps professionals finds that while DevOps teams closely monitor and observe the performance of applications, not nearly as many are able to correlate the value of those efforts to the business. Conducted by Catchpoint, a unit of LogicMonitor, the survey finds more than two-thirds (67%) believe application degradations are either always […]
Designing Privacy-Safe Logging at Scale: Lessons from Building Compliance-Aware Observability Systems
As regulatory scrutiny increases and distributed systems grow more complex, many organizations have accepted that privacy-safe logging is important. Fewer have figured out how to actually build it without sacrificing observability, developer velocity, or incident response effectiveness. The failure mode is consistent: logging controls are bolted on late, enforced unevenly, and trusted only when no […]
Multi-Agent System Promises Faster Bug Detection and Resolution
IT outages cost companies over $14,000 per minute. IBM Research’s Project ALICE uses multiple AI agents to help engineers find bugs faster and restore systems. Software bugs are expensive. When a critical system goes down, every minute of downtime costs revenue, frustrates customers, and strains engineering teams scrambling to find the problem. The challenge isn’t […]
Before You Go Agentic: Top Guardrails to Safely Deploy AI Agents in Observability
Observability platforms are evolving from passive monitors to active participants. Agentic AI promises a self-healing infrastructure that detects anomalies and fixes issues before users notice, reducing resolution time from hours to minutes. The potential is transformative, turning observability from reactive alerting into proactive, intelligent operations. But with that promise comes risk. Autonomous agents can misdiagnose […]
Chronosphere Streamlines Management of Log Data to Reduce Costs
Chronosphere today added additional capabilities to its log management platform that enable DevOps teams to both reduce costs and surface more actionable insights. Alok Bhide, head of product innovation for Chronosphere, said Chronosphere Logs 2.0 provides DevOps teams with more granular control over how log data is collected and stored. The overall goal is to […]
LambdaTest Kane Goes End-To-End on AI Testing
Cloud-based testing platform company LambdaTest has launched KaneAI, an end-to-end software AI test agent. With AI software in (some would say dire, or at least thorough) need of deep-level testing to eradicate hallucinations, to identify bias and to ensure that wider ratification systems are in place including retrieval augmented generation, there is much to test.
Best of 2023: Microservices Sucks — Amazon Goes Back to Basics
In this week’s #TheLongView: Amazon Prime Video has ditched its use of microservices-cum-serverless, reverting to a traditional, monolithic architecture. It vastly improved the workload’s cost and scalability.
Where Does Observability Stand Today, and Where is it Going Next?
As we move into the second half of 2023, it’s only natural to engage in the annual ‘state of the industry’ reviews and take a general inventory of the past year while looking out into the immediate future. Observability has gained traction among DevOps and platform engineering teams over the past year and is poised […]
4 Ways to Uplevel Your Software Engineering Team
In my 20 years leading software development teams, I’ve witnessed the industry’s continuous growth alongside technology’s evolution. The only thing we know for certain is that the industry will continue to change and winning businesses will be those that build with change in mind, backed by effective, fast-moving software teams. This is the year we […]