The Fallacy of Continuous Integration, Delivery and Testing
We know that continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) have become a DevOps best practice. And many have learned that by adding continuous testing (CT), they can create a virtuous loop, ensuring perpetual code quality and security. They’re not wrong. Yes, testing continuously is good practice, but some incorrectly equate the concept of continuous with […]
5 Key Performance Metrics to Track in 2023
It’s never a bad time to adopt healthy new habits for the mind and body, and for developers, it’s always a good time to consider new best practices at work. As 2023 rolls on, I’ve been thinking about some key performance metrics that help to ensure critical applications and websites perform optimally throughout the year—especially […]
Checkly Adds Monitoring-as-Code to Testing Platform
Checkly this week added a monitoring-as-code (MaC) workflow capability to its software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform that is used to create synthetic tests for applications. The Checkly platform spins up browsers to test and can now monitor how applications are performing at both the user interface and application programming interface (API) level. That capability, currently available in […]
Vercel Adds Observability Tools to Web Application Framework
Vercel today announced it has added a suite of observability tools to its platform for building web applications using Next.js, an instance of the open source React framework based on a JavaScript library. Vercel CTO Malte Ubl said the Vercel Monitoring tools make it simpler for developers to troubleshoot applications without relying on a DevOps […]
Opvizor Extends Monitoring Reach to the Cloud
Opvizor, a unit of Codenotary, has extended its monitoring capabilities to cloud computing environments starting with support for Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure. Codenotary CTO Dennis Zimmer said Opvizor aggregates data to provide a more efficient approach to applying analytics to surface performance and risk issues. Previously, Opvizor was optimized for instances of […]
Three is the Magic Number: Planning and Executing a Successful DevOps Project
Diligent preparation, clearly defined workflows and watchful monitoring are key to delivering a high-performing DevOps project. DevOps is one of the hottest buzzwords in programming, but everyone seems to have their own ideas when it comes to structuring and deploying a DevOps team. In basic terms, DevOps is the integration of developers and IT operations […]
Optimizing Prometheus Implementations With Managed Services
Prometheus is a leading metrics-based open source monitoring solution and time series database used across the IT community to collect metrics from systems, applications and services. According to the 2021 Cloud Native Survey from the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), the use of Prometheus in production has reached 65%, an increase of 43% year-over-year. “As […]
Embrace Change in Production to Improve MTTR
DevOps creates value through constant deployment changes. When done right, more frequent deployments allow teams to continuously improve their products or services while making it easier to manage the effects of the change. One way to do this is with continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD). CI/CD helps to reduce the risks to each build […]
Grafana Labs Aligns with Elastic on Observability
Elastic and Grafana Labs have allied to create a plugin through which DevOps teams that are employing Elasticsearch within a DevOps workflow will be able to invoke a monitoring platform, based on Prometheus, that is managed by Grafana Labs. Raj Dutt, Grafana Labs CEO, said both companies are dedicating engineering resources to building and maintaining […]
Splunk Adds Plumbr and Rigor to Observability Portfolio
Splunk this week at its online.conf20 conference revealed it has acquired Plumbr, a provider of an application performance management (APM) platform, and signed a definitive agreement to acquire Rigor, a provider of synthetic monitoring and application optimization tools. Both platforms are destined to be integrated with the Splunk Observability Suite, a suite of IT management […]
Splunk Dives Deeper Into Observability
Splunk, during its online .conf20 conference today, launched the Splunk Observability Suite, which combines tools for infrastructure monitoring, application performance monitoring, digital experience monitoring, log investigation and incident response in a single offering. Kia Behnia, vice president of ITOps for Splunk, said IT teams can correlate metrics, traces and log data in real-time to go […]
DeepFactor Unifies Performance and Security Monitoring for Developers
DeepFactor today launched what it describes as the first continuous monitoring platform designed specifically for pre-production environments. Company CEO Kiran Kamity said the DeepFactor Pre-Production Monitoring platform combines security, performance and behavior monitoring in one offering. Based on a “Deep Passive Monitoring” capability that requires developers to add a file to a container image to […]
Datadog Expands Scope of Monitoring, Analytics Services
Datadog, at its online Dash conference today, launched an incident management platform along with additional analytics tools to identify application errors and performance and compliance issues. Amit Agarwal, chief product officer, said these latest additions to the Datadog platform are intended to further consolidate IT management and monitoring. IT organizations should not find themselves acquiring […]
DataStax Brings AIOps to Cassandra Database Management
DataStax today unveiled a private beta release of artificial intelligence tool dubbed Vector that provides advice on how to optimize clusters running the open source Cassandra wide column store database. Vector analyzes individual nodes and then compares behavior to other nodes in the cluster to identify opportunities to improve deployments. Ed Anuff, chief product officer […]
Continuous Security Through Developer Empowerment
Every organization is embracing DevOps to one degree or another. The business impact of shipping software quickly and adapting to market needs is so immense that it has become a requirement—you’re either heading toward DevOps or heading toward bankruptcy. Yet, while our need for speed has increased, so has our need for security—and combining both […]
Six Routing Challenges When Managing Microservices in Production and How to Avoid Them
Even experienced DevOps teams can struggle with the nuances of managing microservices in production–where a greater spotlight on network communications can introduce new operational challenges beyond those common to traditional architectures. But, by being smart about your software-based routing components, it’s possible to avoid or reduce the impact of roadblocks in the following areas. Implementing […]
Red Hat Bolsters RHEL 8 Monitoring
Red Hat is looking to expand the number of organizations embracing best DevOps practices by expanding the monitoring capabilities included in Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). The beta release this week of RHEL 8.2 includes an update to Performance Co-Pilot (PCP), a system performance toolkit that now includes collection agents for Microsoft SQL Server 2019 […]
IBM Open Sources SysFlow Monitoring Platform
IBM has announced that its SysFlow monitoring platform is now available as an open source project. Fred Araujo, a research scientist in the Cognitive Cybersecurity Intelligence Group at IBM Research, said IBM developed lightweight SysFlow agent software and monitoring tools as a way to provide more context around the telemetry data being collected while simultaneously […]
GitLab Open Sources Monitoring Tools
GitLab has decided to make its monitoring and observability tools available as part of its core open source platform to help reduce the total cost of DevOps. Previously, the tools were available as part of the commercial tools in GitLab’s DevOps platform. Kenny Johnston, director of product/Ops products for GitLab, said that as responsibility for […]
SolarWinds Acquires VividCortex for Database Monitoring
SolarWinds announced this week it is extending its portfolio of DevOps tools with the acquisition of VividCortex, a provider of tools for monitoring a wide range of databases that is delivered as a set of software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications. Company president and CEO Kevin Thompson said the acquisition of VividCortex adds a database monitoring platform capable […]
LogicMonitor Embraces AIOps
LogicMonitor today announced the general availability of LM Intelligence, an extension of its monitoring platform that leverages machine learning algorithms to identify potential issues that are indicative of a major impending outage. Sarah Terry, manager of product management for LogicMonitor, said rather than acquiring a separate AIOps platform, it makes more sense to employ machine […]
Logz.io Adds Monitoring Service Based on ELK and Grafana
Logz.io today at the AWS re:Invent 2019 conference launched Cloud Observability Platform, a monitoring and security cloud service based on ELK—open source Elasticsearch, a search engine; Logstash, a data processing pipeline; and Kibana, a set of visualization tools—and Grafana, an analytics and monitoring platform. Company CEO Tomer Levy said it’s become apparent that developers have […]
What It Really Takes to Build a Reliable App
What makes an app reliable? If you ask most IT professionals that question, their minds immediately go to uptime. That’s not surprising; after all, it’s fashionable for software and infrastructure vendors these days to boast about how many nines of uptime they guarantee. To be sure, uptime is one component of delivering a reliable application […]