KubeCon 2023: Elevating Observability
Alan Shimel talks with Alex Burkhardt about Observe, Inc. and the company’s mission to elevate observability.
KubeCon 2023: Telemetry and Data Management
Alan Shimel talks with Mezmo’s Tucker Callaway about observability, data management and the challenges of too much telemetry data.
Data Observability and its Importance: Everything you Need to Know
If you want to modernize your data management practices and improve your data quality, data observability is the way forward.
5 Reasons to Move Beyond SRE to Observability
SRE and observability are both often erroneously equated with monitoring. Organizations should shift focus from the former to the latter.
Three Strategies for Reducing MTTD and MTTR as Outage Costs Spiral
In a business environment where most interactions with customers, suppliers and business partners are conducted digitally, downtime has become a problem and an existential threat.
Observability: The Central Watchtower Your All-Seeing IT Needs
Database specialists and IT teams need a clear view of database performance telemetry if they want to maintain the health, stability and scalability of their services.
Grafana Labs Acquires Asserts.ai to Bring AI to Observability
Grafana Labs has acquired Assert.ai to automate configurations and customization of dashboards.
Elastic Previews Unified Query Language for Search Platform
Elastic this week previewed a standard query language that can be used across its portfolio to streamline investigations into IT and cybersecurity events.
DevOps Halloween: Tricks and Treats
In the spirit of Halloween, let’s explore the tricks and treats of DevOps choices to ensure your team ends up with a bag full of treats rather than some nasty tricks.
Measuring the Progress of the OpenTelemetry Project
OpenTelemetry has become a ‘boring’ standard for open source data and application performance measurement and observability.
How to Alleviate Your Observability Challenges
Observability is becoming a keystone of contemporary DevOps practices. Even departments that weren’t traditionally a part of DevOps are seeing the benefits of being brought under the auspices of observability teams. In 2023, however, organizations are finding that the road to adoption is bumpier than expected. Here are seven of the biggest challenges DevOps teams […]
LaunchDarkly Extends Scope and Reach of Feature Management Platform
LaunchDarkly added a range of tools to address delivery of specific capabilities to end users after deployment and increased workflow observability.
How to Build a Data Platform for Self-Service, Ad-Hoc Analytics
To truly fulfill the promise of self-service, ad-hoc data analytics across huge datasets, teams need to work in real-time.
Survey Sees Observability Costs Spiraling Out of Control
While organizations are investing in observability to increase overall resiliency, the cost of that investment is higher than anticipated.
Observe Inc. Brings Generative AI to Observability
Observe, Inc. revamped the Hubble user interface to its observability platform infused with generative AI.
The Role of Observability Engineers in Managing Complex IT Systems
Observability engineers are increasingly becoming essential for managing the complexity and unpredictability of modern IT systems.
Digma Leverages ML to Bring Observability Insights to IDEs
Digma’s eponymous platform provides developers with continuous feedback from observability data directly within their IDEs.
SolarWinds Adds Service Management Platform to Portfolio
SolarWinds has added a service management capability to its portfolio as part of an effort to make it simpler for IT teams to align support services with specific functions. At the same time, SolarWinds has updated its SQL Sentry observability tool for databases and DataOps workflows to add query-level wait statistics along with a revamped […]
Why Data Silos Are Killing Your Developer Productivity
Data silos are draining developers’ productivity. Here’s how to break away from these silos with better observability.
There’s No Value in Observability Bloat. Let’s Focus on the Essentials
Most companies only need the essential ingredients to satisfy their observability strategy, which means costs will be much more modest.
Observability Leaders: The Mighty Minority Holding Their Own Against Outages
A robust observability strategy can preemptively detect anomalies and potential issues—before they become full-blown outages.
Cisco Acquires Splunk to Create Observability Powerhouse
Cisco today revealed it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Splunk for $28 billion in cash.
Survey Surfaces Major Observability Challenges
A survey found the biggest obstacles to observability were the pace of technology change, IT blind spots and the complexity of modern applications.