Why Your AI Agent is a Black Box and How to fix it With OpenTelemetry
You built the agent. It works in testing. Then it hits production and starts giving wrong answers, timing out or burning through your token budget, and you have no idea why. This is when developers discover that print statements and log files weren’t designed for this. LLM applications fail in ways that traditional tooling can’t see. A hallucination doesn’t throw […]
Why DevOps Is Critical for Modern Business Resilience
Today’s business world operates in a state of constant change. What the customer wants to buy changes quickly, new competitors appear overnight, and cyber threats are changing faster than ever. In this world, the concept of “resilience,” the ability to adapt, to overcome, and to continue to create value for the enterprise despite the changes, […]
Migration Observability: Measure Meaning, Not Movement
Traditional operational observability focuses on latency, errors, throughput and saturation. Migration observability needs a different category: Semantic drift.
The Observability Bill is Coming Due – and AI Wrote Most of It
Observability has always had a data quality problem. AI coding agents just made it catastrophically worse. Shimmy sits down with the co-founders of Sawmills to dig into why unmanaged telemetry is the unglamorous DevOps crisis that is quietly killing budgets — and what an agentic telemetry management platform actually does about it.
Observability, SRE and Uptime in Telehealth Platforms: A DevOps Playbook
Virtual care went from nice to have to must have during the COVID-19 pandemic and while in-person visits are starting to pick up again, telemedicine is here to stay. Its growth will continue: health-tech companies are predicting the telemedicine market will be $143.49 billion by 2025 (it will be $167.74 billion in 2025 and $584.99 […]
When Metrics Overwhelm: How SREs Help Engineers Reclaim Focus
Observability promised insight but delivered alert fatigue. Learn how SREs are redefining observability to empower developers and restore real engineering value.
Why You May Be Dropping Key Mobile Data From Your Observability Solution
If you have a business-critical mobile app, you may be surprised that your observability solution is dropping a large percentage of your mobile app observability data.
Only 10% of Organizations are Doing Full Observability. Can Generative AI Move the Needle?
Generative AI, powered by large language models (LLMs), introduces a transformative solution to the challenges of modern observability.
Building Toward Unified Observability
Observability, AI and automation can help organizations achieve proactive IT management and eschew traditional monitoring. Here’s what’s involved.
Building an Open Source Observability Platform
By investing in open source frameworks and LGTM tools, SRE teams can effectively monitor their apps and gain insights into system behavior.
Database Observability Extends DORA Metrics and More to Database DevOps
Database observability unlocks DORA metrics along with other indicators that matter to your DevOps, application, database and IT teams.
Chronosphere Acquires Calyptia to Process Log Data More Efficiently
Chronosphere has acquired Calyptia to add additional pipeline management capabilities to its observability platform.
A New Year’s Resolution for Observability in 2024
As organizations embrace digital transformation, the need for robust, scalable and cost-effective observability solutions becomes paramount.
Observability: The Central Watchtower Your All-Seeing IT Needs
Database specialists and IT teams need a clear view of database performance telemetry if they want to maintain the health, stability and scalability of their services.
How to Build a Data Platform for Self-Service, Ad-Hoc Analytics
To truly fulfill the promise of self-service, ad-hoc data analytics across huge datasets, teams need to work in real-time.
Observability Leaders: The Mighty Minority Holding Their Own Against Outages
A robust observability strategy can preemptively detect anomalies and potential issues—before they become full-blown outages.
How Observability and Explainability Benefit the SDLC
Software systems require continual modification to meet changing requirements, address errors, improve performance and enhance reliability. Yet, maintaining and modifying complex and distributed software systems as they change and grow can present challenges. When systems are designed with observability and explainability in mind, adapting, expanding and troubleshooting software becomes easier and more effective. Observability refers […]
Using Observability to Create a Smart Data-Driven Culture
The first words that come to mind when talking about smart technologies are often artificial intelligence, machine learning and automation. While these smart technologies play a crucial role in smart-driven cultures, they are not the sole factor in making workplaces “smart.” Organizations that have a smart-driven culture, or data-driven culture, also promote innovation. An innovative […]
Why Your Data Lake Strategy is Broken for Observability
Someone once said, “Life is better at the lake.” That may be true in the physical world, but when it comes to using data lakes for observability, that’s not typically the case. Just about every organization in every industry has a digital presence, whether it’s a website, an app or another digital service. This makes […]
The Best (and Worst) Reasons to Adopt OpenTelemetry
It was a rainy day in Seattle at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America in December 2018 when I first encountered the term ‘OpenTelemetry.’ At that time, I was an active member of a working group focused on developing W3C Trace Context, a standard now extensively employed for context propagation in distributed systems. It is likely […]
Why Monitoring-as-Code Will be a Must for DevOps Teams
Over the last decade, we’ve seen an increasing number of operations teams and development teams using an infrastructure-as-code (IaC) process for provisioning cloud-based infrastructure. In that model, IaC tools like CDK, Pulumi or Terraform are employed to allow developers to code, deploy and manage cloud-based infrastructure. The advent of cloud services and IaC tools has […]
Why Observability is Important for Development Teams
Observability, which allows development teams to understand better how their systems behave in production, is critical to successful software delivery. According to Gartner, by 2026, 70% of organizations that successfully applied this practice will achieve shorter latency for decision-making, enabling competitive advantage for target business or IT processes. Observability allows development teams to identify and […]
DevOps Done Right: How to Succeed in DevOps From Day One
Whether you are diving into DevOps for the first time or trying to do it right this time, DevOps Onramp provides all the information you need for a successful DevOps journey. Join us on May 4, 2023, to learn how to get started with DevOps—and how to do it right. You’ll learn: DevOps best practices, […]