New Relic Bolsters Serverless Monitoring Strategy
New Relic has strengthened its ability to monitor serverless computing frameworks by acquiring IOpipe, a provider of a monitoring tool for the serverless computing framework service provided by Amazon Web Services (AWS). Andrew Tunall, general manager for serverless and emerging cloud services at New Relic, said IOpipe’s monitoring technology will be used to augment the […]
Cloud Native Tracing and Observability: Why You Care
Is observability the new monitoring? Or is observability, and tracing, fundamentally different? Like any IT industry trend, it can be difficult to discern as many jump on the trend bandwagon, appropriately or not. The Splunk .conf 2019 event presented Splunk with the opportunity to bring clarity to the terms and the reasoning behind the acquisitions […]
Four Steps to Implement an Observability Strategy for Microservices
You’ve finally decided. You’re making the move to microservices and re-architecting your entire infrastructure. Some services will still be on-premises (those databases and their legacy apps are never moving), but a cloud-based microservices architecture will allow your teams to build and bring new products to market faster. But how do you handle the complexity that […]
How Monitoring and Observability Feed Each Other to Create a Holistic Approach to Visibility
Monitoring versus observability is a hotly debated topic. It’s been argued they’re two distinct things—the former just a high-level overview of a problem after the fact, while the latter enables you to be proactive. Observability has also been dismissed as jargon, much how DevOps sounds to the seasoned operator. The thing is, the whole debate […]
New Relic Extends Observability Reach and Scope
At its FUTURESTACK 2019 event in New York today, New Relic announced it has extended the New Relic One Observability Platform to add support for its new Logs, Traces, Metrics and AI module offerings. Ken Gavranovic, general manager and senior vice president of products for New Relic, said his company is committed to extending the […]
Measuring Success in DevOps: Top Four DevOps KPIs
There is no news in DevOps concept. Many companies have integrated DevOps to improve and accelerate software development and help drive their digital transformation, and that number continues to grow exponentially. There are now entire tool ecosystems, methodologies and transformation models—as well as endless resources—available to guide companies along the DevOps journey. But DevOps success […]
Datadog Fetches Bevy of Additional DevOps Services
At its Dash 2019 conference today, Datadog launched a series of DevOps initiatives that significantly expand the use cases for the agent software that drives the company’s monitoring services. Additions to the Datadog portfolio include Network Performance Monitoring and Real User Monitoring (RUM) services as well as general availability of a previously announced service for […]
Using Automation to Control Cloud Costs
By building in cost control automation from the very beginning, you can keep your cloud costs low while encouraging innovation. Infrastructure automation has become vital for every modern sys admin and operations team. Applications and systems are evolving from single-host mainframes to distributed microservices architectures. This automation has gone from basic operating system installation and […]
New Relic Doubles Down on DevOps
New Relic today unfurled an extension of its monitoring platform specifically designed for DevOps teams tasked with managing complex IT environments. Nadya Duke Boone, vice president of product management for New Relic, said New Relic One, available to existing customers at no additional cost, makes it possible for DevOps teams to now visualize all the […]
Open Source Versioning: The Race to Stay Up-to-Date
Open source libraries, once shunned as risky and not ready for prime time, are now used extensively across major corporations, including insurers. The reason is simple: In time- and resource-constrained companies trying to stay technologically competitive, it doesn’t make sense anymore to try to reinvent a wheel that’s already been battle-tested. However, having made the […]
Wavefront Provides Map for Microservices
VMware announced it is adding a service mapping capability to the Wavefront 3D Observability platform it provides with the Wavefront by VMware monitoring tools. Stela Udovicic, senior director of product marketing for Wavefront, said Wavefront Service Maps will make it easier for IT organizations to visualize what will soon be thousands of microservices running highly […]
Keeping NoOps From Going Rogue
“We’re NoOps—everything is in the cloud and we have no infrastructure to manage.” Before running that victory lap and shifting everyone to the dev side, consider several NoOps risks carefully. I’m really thinking about teams using all-SaaS stacks, especially in martech, edtech and other areas. However, the rise in microservices and serverless means more teams […]
The Changing Role of APM in a Microservices World
Microservices usage has skyrocketed. Fully 91 percent of organizations are using or have plans to use microservices and 92 percent expect to grow their use of microservices in the coming year. It is no longer if but when: 86 percent of organizations expect microservices to be the default within five years. With the growing use […]
APIs and DevOps
As always, there are interesting trends in DevOps, and I wanted to point out one that is starting to bother me: the “API economy,” and how it impacts DevOps decision-makers. Traditional infrastructure—SAN, LAN, physical systems, etc.—were generally controlled the best from the command line. While there are a million of them, Cisco IOS is probably […]
IoT, Not People, Now the Weakest Link in Security
Do a quick search on “people weakest link” and you’ll see a raft of articles in which cybersecurity experts and computer scientists point to employees or end users as the biggest vulnerability. No doubt, people do silly (or outright abusive) stuff and open the door for a variety of enterprise security problems. Spoiler alert: There’s […]
Best of 2018: Log Monitoring and Analysis: Comparing ELK, Splunk and Graylog
As we close out 2018, we at devopsy.kinsta.cloud wanted to highlight the five most popular articles of the year. Following is the fifth in our weeklong series of the Best of 2018. As organizations face outages and various security threats, monitoring an entire application platform is essential to understand the source of threat or […]
VMware Wavefront Adds AI, Distributed Tracing
VMware has updated its Wavefront monitoring service to include support for distributed tracing along with anomaly detection capabilities enabled by machine learning algorithms. Stela Udovicic, senior director for product marketing for Wavefront by VMware, said the addition of the distributed tracing support, now available as part of a public beta, means that a single monitoring […]
The (Tool)Chains That Bind
As DevOps functionality continues to expand, we’re looking at a new vista for freedom of applications. Our apps can be moved around as we need them; we can build-test-deploy on the fly; and we have the ability to monitor whatever is needed. The price we pay is one we gladly take up: implementing new toolchains […]
DB-Engines’ Latest Industry Results Reveal InfluxData’s Overwhelming Leadership Position in Rapidly Growing Time Series Database Category
InfluxData Increases Industry Lead with Growing Popularity of 49 Percent; Overall Industry Popularity Nearly 3 Times More than Closest Competitor SAN FRANCISCO — Oct. 16, 2018 — InfluxData, a modern Open Source Platform built specifically for metrics, events and other time series data that empowers developers to build next-generation monitoring, analytics and IoT applications, today announced its continued position as the […]
Splunk Aims to Trigger DevOps Processes
Splunk this week at its .conf18 conference continued a campaign to extend the reach of its operational analytics platform into the realm of DevOps through a partnership with Puppet. Spunk also announced the 4.0 release of Splunk IT Service Intelligence (ITSI), which extends a platform for managing IT using machine learning algorithms by integrating it […]
A Vendor Guy Goes To Monitorama
I attended my very first Monitorama this year, in Amsterdam, and I have thoughts! First of all, it’s deeply weird speaking at Monitorama when you work for a vendor in the monitoring and observability space, but you’re not there as a sponsor. This would be pretty odd at the best of times, but the crowd at […]
GDPR and Data Leakage: How Semantic Graphing Can Help
Many of the hallmarks of modern application development that drive efficiencies in the software development life cycle (agile, CI/CD, microservices, cloud infrastructure, open source libraries and third-party APIs) also create significant data leakage risks. Meanwhile, the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which took effect May 25, creates a need to protect more types of […]
DevOps Chat: Modern Applications with SignalFx CEO Karthik Rau
Monitoring has come a long way since the days of 2 a.m. alerts, with automation and analytics now integrated in—and integral to—the life cycle of modern applications. It’s a topic Karthik Rau, CEO of SignalFx, knows well, and one we discuss in this latest DevOps Chat. In its three years of selling, SignalFx has grown […]