Tag: observability

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

One of the most important shifts of this decade is the rise of interconnected data across distributed systems. This explosive growth not only sparked the need to rethink cloud and global IT ...

The modern data center is constantly evolving to keep up with the demands of always-on, anywhere computing. Long gone are the days of monolithic, on-premises data centers. Today, the computing modus operandi ...

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 ...

Microservicin' ain’t easy, but it’s necessary. Breaking your monolith down into microservices is a must in a cloud-native world, but it doesn’t automatically make everything easier. Some things actually become more difficult ...

Or, why IT systems keep breaking The tension between the two halves of DevOps is long-standing, going back long before the term was even invented. What underlies the split between Development and ...