Observability 2.0: Much more than the Three Pillars
The digital panorama is a dynamic and ever-moving entity. Applications are no longer monolithic giants dwelling on predictable servers. Instead, they are complex webs of microservices, ephemeral serverless capabilities and containerized workloads, all operating across dispersed, multi-cloud environments. While this complexity fuels innovation and scalability, it also presents a formidable challenge: how do you truly […]
Centreon Extends Monitoring Reach into Observability Realm
Centreon this week generally made available an open source agent for monitoring IT and operational technology (OT) environments that incorporates the open source OpenTelemetry agent for instrumenting applications that is being advanced under the auspices of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). Raphaël Chauvel, chief product officer at Centreon, said now that the Centreon Monitoring […]
7 Best Practices to Monitor Your Microservices
Effective monitoring isn’t a single thing; it’s a synergistic approach built on three foundational pillars. Neglect even one, and you’re flying blind.
IBM and DBmaestro Expand Strategic OEM Partnership to Deliver Enterprise-Grade Database DevOps and Observability
Orlando, FL, July 1, 2025 — IBM (NYSE: IBM) and DBmaestro, the leading enterprise-grade database DevOps platform, today announced the signing of a landmark OEM partnership agreement. This expansion will make DBmaestro’s advanced database DevSecOps and observability suite available through IBM’s solutions portfolio, empowering customers to achieve end-to-end DevOps automation, real-time database visibility, and unmatched […]
New Relic Adds Support for Model Context Protocol to Observability Platform
New Relic this week added support for the Model Context Protocol (MCP) to its observability platform to surface insights into artificial intelligence (AI) agents and applications. Originally developed by Anthropic, MCP is rapidly becoming a de facto application programming interface (API) for enabling interoperability between AI agents and other sources of data. New Relic has […]
Gearset Extends Reach of DevOps Platform for Salesforce Applications
Gearset has extended the scope of the observability of Salesforce applications it provides to include software developed using low-code Flex and object-oriented Apex programming tools.
From Noise to Narrative: Rethinking Observability for AI-Augmented DevOps Pipelines
Supporting today’s DevOps — where AI is involved — requires developers to switch from seeing observability as a solely technical aspect to thinking of it as a way to explain what happens in the system
Zero-Trust, Full Stack: Embedding Cybersecurity Principles Into Site Reliability Engineering Culture
These days, with digital threats everywhere, cybersecurity must evolve beyond just being a perimeter measure. Given the rapid delivery of software and the transient nature of infrastructure, security must be built into DevOps. This shift presents both a challenge and an opportunity for site reliability engineers (SREs) to apply zero-trust principles everywhere, starting with infrastructure […]
Logz.io Unveils Observability Platform Designed First for AI Agents
Logz.io today launched an edition of its observability platform that is intended to be primarily used by artificial intelligence (AI) agents rather than DevOps engineers. Company CEO Tomer Levy said that as DevOps continues to evolve it’s become apparent that most tasks pertaining to observability will soon be assigned to AI agents. This edition of […]
New Relic Integrates AI Agents with Copilot Coding Agent from GitHub
New Relic this week made available a preview of an integration with the artificial intelligence (AI) agents it created for its observability platform with the AI agents that GitHub has developed. Nic Benders, chief technical strategist for New Relic, said AI agents that the company has developed will now be able to create an issue […]
Datadog Expands Scope of Observability Ambitions
Datadog is expanding the scope of its DevOps portfolio following a pair of acquisitions that add feature flagging and data observability capabilities to its portfolio of services.
If Planes Can Fly Themselves Then Why Can’t IT Management be Autonomous?
Autonomous reliability platforms of the future will surface actionable insights and be competent enough to make autonomous decisions.
LaunchDarkly Acquires Highlight to Bring Observability to Application Release Management
LaunchDarkly is looking to bring observability to feature flag management by acquiring Highlight, a provider of an open-source application monitoring tool.
Next-Generation Observability: Combining OpenTelemetry and AI for Proactive Incident Management
OpenTelemetry and AI integration change the nature of observability for organizations in their quest to manage distributed systems.
Dynatrace Ushers in the AI-Powered Future of Observability
Observability has come a long way – Alois Mayr shares his insights on its evolution and how today’s AI-driven landscape is reshaping it.
The Observability Blind Spots That Could be Costing You Your Best Customers
The future of observability isn’t just about collecting more data; it is about truly understanding what is happening at the most granular level and fixing issues before they cost you your biggest customers.
Survey Surfaces Open Source Observability Gains
A survey of 1,255 observability practitioners and IT leaders finds that reliance on open-source software to enable observability continues to increase, with 76% of respondents now using open-source software tools and platforms such as OpenTelemetry and Prometheus.
Dynatrace Acquires Metis: Revolutionizing Database Observability with AI
Dynatrace’s acquisition of Metis brings AI-powered database observability to DevOps teams, enhancing troubleshooting and optimization for developers and SREs.
Profiles, Traces and the Power of Unified Telemetry Data
Metrics, logs, traces and profiles hold information that businesses need to run more cost-effective and resilient infrastructure.
Go Compile-Time Instrumentation Gets a Major Boost: Alibaba, Datadog, and Quesma Join Forces
Three major tech players, Alibaba, Datadog and Quesma are pooling their expertise to tackle one of the most persistent challenges in the Go ecosystem: Streamlining instrumentation for telemetry collection.
New Relic Infuses Additional AI Capabilities into Observability Platforms
New Relic today added more than 15 additional capabilities to its observability platform, including retrieval augmented generation (RAG) tools, which are all enabled to one degree or another by artificial intelligence (AI).
Digma Adds Ability to Predict Coding Issues to Observability Platform
Digma this week added a predictive analytics capability to its observability platform that makes it possible to identify issues before code is added to a production environment.
How AI-Based Insights Can Transform Observability
How AI-powered insights can help transform observability and enable organizations to better comprehend and manage their applications.