Tag: IT observability
Grafana Labs Slashes Time to Create Observability Dashboards
At its GrafanaCON 2023 event today, Grafana Labs updated its core platform for visualizing data which makes it simpler to set up dashboards in minutes. The updates are part of a celebration ...
What the Convergence of Observability and Security Means for Devs
There is a scene in the movie Apollo 13 when the mission control flight director asks why the carbon dioxide scrubber in the command module was a different shape than the one ...
Datadog Dives Into Universal Service Monitoring
Datadog, Inc. today made generally available a Universal Service Monitoring service that takes advantage of the extended Berkeley Packet Filtering (eBPF) microkernel in a Linux operating system to automatically detect all the ...
Switching From FluentD to Vector Log Aggregation Tool
Log files are extremely important to the data analysis process as they contain essential information about usage patterns, activities and operations within an operating system, application, server or device. This data is ...
Fastly Adds Observability Tools for Edge Computing Environments
Fastly, Inc. this week added a set of observability tools to its portfolio that are optimized for edge computing platforms connected to its content delivery network (CDN). Laura Thomson, senior vice president ...
Cribl Simplifies Telemetry Data Analytics
Cribl today announced general availability of a search capability that makes it simpler to query observability data where it resides without having to first collect and centrally store it. Nick Heudecker, senior ...
Mezmo Adds Observability Pipeline to Analyze DevOps Data
At the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America conference this week, Mezmo launched an Observability Pipeline platform that promises to make it simpler to manage, enrich and correlate machine data. Previously known as ...
Of Max and Min: The Non-Interference Prime Directive (for Visibility)
Last issue, I cited CPU utilization as an example of a metric that is often misused to describe/explain/infer system performance and asserted that improved visibility can help to overcome such misuse. In ...
Datadog Extends Reach of Integrated DevOps Platform
At its Dash 2022 conference, Datadog announced today it is extending the reach of its namesake cloud-delivered monitoring and observability platform to address continuous testing, application security and cost management. In addition, ...
Transforming Observability
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Walking into an unfamiliar operations center some time ago, I immediately noticed database error alerts racing down the primary monitor faster than a Matrix screensaver morphs letters. Strangely, no one seemed particularly ...
New Relic Reports Major Spike in Volume of Log Data
New Relic today shared a report based on anonymized data it collects that showed a 35% increase in the volume of logging data collected by its observability platform. The report also identified ...
Scaling Predictive Analytics With AIOps to Drive Next-Gen SRE
Enterprise systems are only as valuable as they are reliable, in the sense that they don’t suffer excessive breakdowns. Otherwise, companies experience costly downtime and added stress for engineers due to the ...