Nobl9 Allies With Microsoft to Simplify SLO Creation
Nobl9 integrated its reliability center platform for managing SLOs as code with the Microsoft Azure Monitor service to simplify creation and tracking of service levels.
Grafana Labs Acquires Asserts.ai to Bring AI to Observability
Grafana Labs has acquired Assert.ai to automate configurations and customization of dashboards.
Survey Surfaces Benefits of Applying AI to FinOps
Organizations that have infused AI into FinOps workflows to reduce IT costs are 53% more likely to report cost savings of more than 20%.
Using DORA Metrics to Measure DevOps Success
DORA metrics enable developers to understand their process’ weak points and identify areas for improvement internally.
Survey Sees Observability Costs Spiraling Out of Control
While organizations are investing in observability to increase overall resiliency, the cost of that investment is higher than anticipated.
Latest DORA Report Highlights Importance of DevOps Culture
The 2023 Accelerate State of DevOps Report from the DORA team at Google Cloud found teams with generative cultures performed better.
Observe Inc. Brings Generative AI to Observability
Observe, Inc. revamped the Hubble user interface to its observability platform infused with generative AI.
LinearB to Provide Free DORA Metrics Dashboard
LinearB’s free dashboard allows users to visualize DORA metrics from within the company’s software delivery management platform.
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.
Cisco Acquires Splunk to Create Observability Powerhouse
Cisco today revealed it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Splunk for $28 billion in cash.
Survey Surfaces Major Observability Challenges
A survey found the biggest obstacles to observability were the pace of technology change, IT blind spots and the complexity of modern applications.
Mezmo Simplifies Management of DevOps Telemetry Data
Mezmo has added additional capabilities to streamline the flow of telemetry data within DevOps workflows.
Webb.ai Launches AI-Based Continuous Root Cause Analysis
Webb.ai opened an early access program for a Continuous Automated Root Cause Analysis platform that uses AI combined with a knowledge graph to dynamically keep track of and analyze changes to IT environments.
Roadie Adds Scorecard Tool to Backstage SaaS Platform
Roadie today made generally available a tool that automatically tracks and reports how software development teams are performing against engineering standards defined by a DevOps team. The Tech Insights tool is an addition to Roadie’s implementation of the open source Backstage developer portal and is delivered via a software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform. Roadie CEO David Tuite […]
The Metrics Disconnect Between Developers and IT Leaders
A survey of 350 software developers found a majority (91%) of respondents are unhappy with the actual metrics leadership teams are measuring. The survey, conducted by Atomik Research on behalf of Uplevel, an enterprise intelligence platform provider, found the top metrics developers say should be tracked include hours worked (52%), work allocation (49%) and the […]
Mezmo Adds Free Community Plan for Managing Observability Data
Mezmo this week added a free trial and a community plan for the Mezmo Telemetry Pipeline service to make it simpler for DevOps teams to store and manage the large amounts of telemetry data they are collecting. Mezmo CEO Tucker Callaway said as more DevOps teams embrace observability to minimize disruptions to application environments, they […]
InfluxData Makes Processing Observability Data at Scale More Efficient
InfluxData today made available an update to its open source time series database that can now analyze metric, event and trace data in a single datastore with unlimited cardinality in terms of how they are aggregated. The company is now making available a single-tenant instance of InfluxDB as a managed service alongside its already-existing multi-tenant […]
DORA Report 2022: The Magnitude of Software Supply Chain Security
The term ‘software supply chain security’ (SSC) can be interpreted in many ways. Following the White House executive order in May 2021 and the European Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) of 2022, both governments and corporations are taking a more active role in ensuring their software is secure. Fundamentals such as having a software bill of […]
Fiberplane Adds Open Source Libraries to Automatically Collect Metrics
Fiberplane today added an ability to automatically collect metrics in real-time and make them accessible either via its namesake notebook software for debugging infrastructure or an open source Grafana dashboard. Fiberplane CEO Micha Hernandez van Leuffen said Autometrics is an open source set of libraries the company created to make it simpler for developers to […]
CircleCI Report Surfaces DevOps Productivity Gains
An analysis of more than 14 million workflows from thousands of organizations conducted by CircleCI, a provider of a continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform, revealed the mean-time-to-recovery (MTTR) decreased by about 13% year-over-year. Half of CI workflows (50%) recovered from a failed run in 64 minutes or less. That compares to 73 minutes or more […]
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 […]
Grafana Labs Acquires Pyroscope to Add Code Profiling Capability
Grafana Labs this week announced it acquired Pyroscope and plans to merge Pyroscope’s open source continuous profiling project with the open source continuous profiling database that Grafana Labs launched last year. Richard Hartmann, director of community at Grafana Labs, said after logs, metrics and traces, continuous profiling is now the fourth pillar of observability that […]
New Relic Adds Module to Surface Code Metrics
New Relic today added a free CodeStream module to its observability platform to give developers access to metrics and telemetry data that will enable them to write higher-quality code faster. Peter Pezaris, group vice president and general manager of strategy and experience for New Relic, said this capability is part of an effort to shift […]