The Key Benefits of Observability for SREs
In today’s technology landscape, organizations strive to champion innovative ideas, techniques and technologies to achieve success and outshine their competitors. For this reason, site reliability engineering (SRE) has become one of the fastest-growing enterprise roles and a set of organizational practices for fast and reliable software delivery. SREs use various tools and practices at their […]
CircleCI Bets on Webhooks to Streamline DevOps Integrations
CircleCI today announced CircleCI webhooks, a feature that enables software engineering teams to build integrations that react to CircleCI job and workflow status notifications in near-real-time. Tom Trahan, vice president of business development at CircleCI, said this latest iteration of the company’s implementation of webhooks, which send messages any time an event occurs, will become […]
EP 17: Lies, Damn Lies and Metrics
In this episode of DevOps Unbound, hosts Alan Shimel and Mitch Ashley are joined by Helen Beal of the DevOps Institute, Viktoria Praschl of Tricentis, Frank Ohlhorst, principal analyst with Accelerated Strategies Group and Alex Hidalgo of Nobl9 to discuss how to use DevOps metrics effectively to improve delivery performance and help teams become high-performing with a culture of continuous improvement. The video is below and a transcript of the conversation follows.
Datadog Cloud Security Platform Advances DevSecOps
Datadog has launched a Datadog Cloud Security Platform that promises to advance DevSecOps by identifying potential threats using the same agent software many DevOps teams already rely on to instrument applications. Renaud Boutet, senior vice president of product for Datadog, said organizations that rely on the Datadog software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform can now more easily invoke […]
EP 13: Observability and Performance Testing
In this episode of DevOps Unbound, Alan Shimel is joined by Christine Yen of Honeycomb, Paul Bruce of Tricentis and Mitch Ashley from ASG/MediaOps to discuss how to effectively test the performance of your applications and how bringing observability into testing environments helps DevOps teams identify and resolve issues early in the SDLC. The video is below, followed by a transcript of the conversation.
How to Build an Options-Based Observability Strategy
The global pandemic forced companies to accelerate their digital transformations, pushing them toward new technologies and architectures as they struggled to adapt to a changing world. Companies wanted fast development and deployment and were happy to trade off efficiency, reliability and sometimes, security, to pursue their goals. Now that the pandemic is receding in many […]
Logz.io Allies with Microsoft on Open Source Observability
Logz.io this week announced an alliance with Microsoft that enables DevOps teams to deploy its observability platform—based on open source platforms such as ElasticSearch, Logstash, Kibana (ELK), Prometheus and Jaeger—on the Azure public cloud. Jonah Kowall, Logz.io’s CTO, said the multi-year effort enables those teams to deploy the Logz.io platform via the Azure Console with […]
EP 10: Observability & Continuous Improvement
Observability at enterprise scale brings with it additional application life cycle management requirements. Success requires knowing which changes result in improvements and which don’t produce positive results and how that information must make it back to the DevOps team through feedback loops. In this episode of DevOps Unbound, Alan Shimel and Mitch Ashley talk with Kurt Chase, senior director, global release management at Tricentis, Charity Majors, co-founder at Honeycomb and Ravyn Manuel, senior application manager at the Smithsonian as they discuss observability and continuous improvement.
Could Full-Stack Observability Help Lessen IT’s Burden?
The year 2020 was a landmark year for many reasons, other than the obvious. The IT world saw the first time that cloud service revenues dwarfed spending on data centers. Across the board, budgets have been increasing around cloud adoption. And in this ‘new normal,’ digital experiences are slated to remain just as crucial of […]
The New Norm for Modern Apps: Security Observability
Observability has burst onto the scene across all types of operational and security-focused activities. Its need is being driven by increased demands for businesses to be more responsive to changes and more proactive when dealing with potential problems. In particular, security observability holds the promise to help reduce the time to detect a cyberattack. And […]
TraceAI : Machine Learning Driven App and API Security
API security Modern applications are mobile first and are built around cloud-native distributed microservices architectures. These architectures have become the basic building blocks for complex and reliable distributed web and mobile applications. Many of these distributed APIs expose the business logic directly over the web; hence the attack surface and attack vectors are very different […]
Observe Seeks to Put More IT Metrics in Context
Observe, Inc. announced today it has updated it observability platform to add support for metrics based on time series data. In addition, the company is revamping how the platform generates alerts as part of an effort to surface more actionable intelligence. Jeremy Burton, Observe CEO, said rival observability platforms require IT teams to sift through […]
Grafana Labs Advances Open Source Visualization and Observability
During the online GrafanaCONline conference today, Grafana Labs announced that version 8.0 of its open source visualization software widely employed by DevOps teams is now generally available. In addition, version 1.0 of Grafana Tempo, an open source back end platform for collecting distributed traces that are needed to drive observability across an application environment, is […]
Fixing Risk Sharing With Observability
Incentives are mismatched among SREs, SecOps, and application developers. These mismatches create challenges around how and what information is shared across siloed teams. This asymmetrical information creates a moral hazard where one team can shift deployment risk to another team, with no accountability back to the originating team. Risk shifting results in unstable applications, inefficient […]
Consider Telemetry When Rearchitecting Applications
Australia and New Zealand have seen a big move to the public cloud, and “… when I talk to customers, I see huge interest in rearchitecting applications rather than doing a lift-and-shift right into public cloud,” said Scott van Kalken, F5 ANZ solution architect for DevOps and modern applications. That migration to the public cloud […]
Security Observability: Why Tracing?
Detecting a cyberattack can take more than 200 days. During this time, attackers might be exploiting your system while you are completely unaware. Cyberattacks can cost affected organizations as much as $13 million per year. What if we could reduce the time to detect a cyberattack all the way down to zero? How much money […]
OpsRamp Extends AIOps Reach to Embrace Prometheus
OpsRamp today announced it has added the ability to ingest data captured via the open source Prometheus monitoring software into its namesake IT operations platform infused with machine learning algorithms. In addition, the company is adding support for customizable dashboards using the Prometheus Query Language to create visualizations of hybrid infrastructure performance. Also, a set […]
The Evolution of SRE and Developer Roles
As an industry, we’ve seen cultures and roles shift throughout IT teams — specifically, the role of ITOps site reliability engineers (SREs), various developer roles and the culture of DevOps. Most of these roles operated – or still operate – in silos, and didn’t understand (or care to understand) how each other’s role worked. More […]
ServiceNow Acquires Lightstep to Gain Observability Platform
ServiceNow today announced it has acquired Lightstep as part of an effort to add an observability platform to its IT operations portfolio. Terms of the deal, expected to close this quarter, were not disclosed. The Change Intelligence observability platform from Lightstep is based on a time-series database that is capable of processing a trillion events […]
Splunk Unveils Unified Observability Platform
Splunk today unveiled an observability platform delivered as a cloud service that captures all metrics, traces and logs in real-time without relying on sampling. Spiros Xanthos, vice president of product management for observability and IT Ops at Splunk, said Splunk Observability Cloud collects all that data via a single agent based on open source OpenTelemetry […]
Blips and Downtime: Incident Management 101
Nothing gets the blood pumping like seeing an IT incident alert flash across the screen. Is the network traffic anomaly a potential intrusion? Are we about to have an outage? Is it just a random blip on the radar? The implications of these different potential incidents vary wildly, and each requires a different set of […]
Red Hat Extends Reach and Scope of Insights Analytics Service
During its online Red Hat Summit event, Red Hat today announced it has extended the Red Hat Insights predictive analytics cloud platform for managing IT to now include support for editions of Red Hat OpenShift based on Kubernetes and the Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform. In addition, Red Hat has extended Red Hat Insights for […]
How Low-CodeOps Can Transform DevOps
Over the past year, enterprise adoption of low-code software development platforms surged across the world economy as COVID-19’s economic consequences drove an unprecedented number of digital initiatives. Enterprises are turning to low-code platforms to rapidly build new apps that empower customers, remote workers and external end users conducting business operations or pivoting to new opportunities. […]