How DevOps can Optimize Their Tech Stack and Streamline Strategy for 2025 and Beyond
To keep up to speed, every DevOps team needs to take a hard look at its processes and tech stack heading into the new year.
Mezmo Simplifies Management of Telemetry Data to Reduce Observability Costs
Mezmo has added a more opinionated option to its platform for managing telemetry data that makes it simpler to add additional sources and ultimately reduce the volume data being collected to help reduce overall costs.
Splunk Tightens Integration Across Observability Platforms
Splunk this week made a bevy of updates to its observability platforms including the addition of a revamped user interface that provides a more consistent experience across Splunk Cloud and Splunk AppDynamics.
Kloudfuse Adds Raft of Additional Capabilities to Unify Observability
Kloudfuse today updated its namesake observability platform to add support for continuous profiling and real user monitoring (RUM) along with additional analytics and artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities.
Observability in 2030: A Practitioner’s Wishlist
Observability in 2030 will require integrated telemetry across layers, events for context, and decoupling telemetry collection from analysis, ensuring seamless multi-signal observability.
New Relic Relies on AI Agents to Launch Intelligent Observability Platform
New Relic this week unfurled a revamped observability platform based on an artificial intelligence engine that enables anyone from application developers to business analysts to employ natural language to surface insights.
Survey Surfaces Spike in Observability Investments Among DevOps Teams
A survey of 504 DevOps practitioners finds 63% working for organizations that will be making additional investments in observability over the next two years, with 21% describing those investments as significant.
Honeycomb Extends Observability Reach to Front Ends of Applications
Honeycomb has made available an extension to its observability platform that provides the ability to analyze front ends of applications.
Observe Adds Generative AI Agents to Observability Platform
Observe, Inc. today launched a Project Voyager update that adds generative artificial intelligence (AI) agents to its namesake observability platform.
OpenTelemetry Isn’t the Hero We Need: Here’s Why it’s Failing our Stack
OpenTelemetry promised to be a unified standard that would make it easier for everyone to collect and correlate traces, logs and metrics from distributed systems. Sounds like a dream, right? Well, here is the hard truth: OpenTelemetry is only satisfactory. When I compare it to deeper tracing technologies such as eBPF, OpenTelemetry feels bloated, inefficient, […]
Apica Adds Ability to Centrally Manage Telemetry Data Collected via Multiple Agents
Apica today added the ability to centralize the management of telemetry data collected from multiple types of agents to its Apica Ascent observability platform.
Want to Stop Kernel Panics? Use eBPF
eBPF is so groundbreaking. It is not just about kernel modules. User-level tools are also beginning to be outperformed by eBPF equivalents.
Coralogix Extends Reach of Observability Platform to Mobile Applications
Coralogix this week extended the reach of its observability platform to add real-time user monitoring (RUM) capabilities for mobile applications.
Cloud Canaries Emerges to Provide Alternative to Observability Platforms
Cloud Canaries emerged from stealth today to provide a set of lightweight agents that leverage a neural network to detect issues, monitor performance in real-time and identify how to resolve software engineering issues.
Let’s Finally Build Continuous Database Reliability! We Deserve It
Over the past few decades, we have undergone significant transformations, enhancing our ability to improve software delivery and creating new methodologies and frameworks to improve collaboration among teams. Despite these advancements, the existing software development lifecycle (SDLC) is still far from flawless. Teams invest a considerable amount of time in the handover of artifacts, and […]
The Future of Observability: How OpenTelemetry is Shaping IT Operations in the Age of AI
OpenTelemetry (OTel) is going to do for IT operations what open-source software originally did for application development.
Why Generic AI Models Fall Short for Root Cause Analysis
Bringing together the power of LLMs (for conversational troubleshooting) with ML purpose-built for root cause analysis gives your team the best of both worlds
How to Migrate an Observability Platform to Open-Source and Cut Costs
Migrating to an open-source stack is a better solution as it gives you control over telemetry data and reduces observability costs, despite challenges with existing service provider commitments.
Why You May Be Dropping Key Mobile Data From Your Observability Solution
If you have a business-critical mobile app, you may be surprised that your observability solution is dropping a large percentage of your mobile app observability data.
Datadog Extends Scope and Reach of Observability Platform
Datadog at its DASH 2024 conference added a bevy of tools and capabilities to streamline DevSecOps workflows, including integration with open-source OpenTelemetry agent software developed under the auspices of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) and the Datadog On-Call tool to optimize incident management workflows in a way that maintains context with observability data already collected.
Why Business Risk Observability is Becoming Critical for Modern Applications
Full visibility into hybrid infrastructures is crucial for supporting the secure development and deployment of modern applications.
Only 10% of Organizations are Doing Full Observability. Can Generative AI Move the Needle?
Generative AI, powered by large language models (LLMs), introduces a transformative solution to the challenges of modern observability.
Embrace Extends Mobile App Alliance with Grafana Labs
Grafana Labs and Embrace, a provider of a platform for troubleshooting mobile applications, this week extended their alliance to include integration with Grafana Cloud.