As enterprises work to implement or improve their observability practices, tool sprawl is a very real phenomenon ... Tool sprawl can and does happen all across the organization. In this post, though, we'll focus specifically on how and why observability efforts often result in tool sprawl, some of the possible negative consequences of that sprawl, and we'll offer some advice on how to reduce or even avoid sprawl ...
As companies generate more data across their network footprints, they need network observability tools to help find meaning in that data for better decision-making and problem solving. It seems many companies believe that adding more tools leads to better and faster insights ... And yet, observability tools aren't meeting many companies' needs. In fact, adding more tools introduces new challenges ...
Driven by the need to create scalable, faster, and more agile systems, businesses are adopting cloud native approaches. But cloud native environments also come with an explosion of data and complexity that makes it harder for businesses to detect and remediate issues before everything comes to a screeching halt. Observability, if done right, can make it easier to mitigate these challenges and remediate incidents before they become major customer-impacting problems ...
The spiraling cost of energy is forcing public cloud providers to raise their prices significantly. A recent report by Canalys predicted that public cloud prices will jump by around 20% in the US and more than 30% in Europe in 2023. These steep price increases will test the conventional wisdom that moving to the cloud is a cheap computing alternative ...
Despite strong interest over the past decade, the actual investment in DX has been recent. While 100% of enterprises are now engaged with DX in some way, most (77%) have begun their DX journey within the past two years. And most are early stage, with a fourth (24%) at the discussion stage and half (49%) currently transforming. Only 27% say they have finished their DX efforts ...
While most thought that distraction and motivation would be the main contributors to low productivity in a work-from-home environment, many organizations discovered that it was gaps in their IT systems that created some of the most significant challenges ...
The US aviation sector was struggling to return to normal following a nationwide ground stop imposed by Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) early Wednesday over a computer issue ...
APMdigest and leading IT research firm Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) are teaming up on the EMA-APMdigest Podcast, a new podcast focused on the latest technologies impacting IT Operations. In Episode 1, Dan Twing, President and COO of EMA, discusses Observability and Automation with Will Schoeppner, Research Director covering Application Performance Management and Business Intelligence at EMA ...
APMdigest is following up our list of 2023 Application Performance Management Predictions with predictions from industry experts about how the cloud will evolve in 2023 ...
As demand for digital services increases and distributed systems become more complex, organizations must collect and process a growing amount of observability data (logs, metrics, and traces). Site reliability engineers (SREs), developers, and security engineers use observability data to learn how their applications and environments are performing so they can successfully respond to issues and mitigate risk ...
As recent research uncovered, IT leaders invest in a lot of single-domain monitoring tools. In fact, teams rely on an average of 16 monitoring tools — and up to 40 — according to the Moogsoft State of Availability Report. Despite this heavy investment, teams are not achieving positive availability outcomes ...
There are two words that strike fear in every IT professional: "unplanned outage." These come with a steep price tag: A recent report, The Modern IT Outage: Costs, Causes and Cures, found that downtime due to unplanned outages costs businesses $12,900 per minute ...
Since IT Ops and application performance are an important part of e-commerce, APMdigest is following up our list of 2023 Application Performance Management Predictions with predictions from industry experts about how e-commerce will evolve in 2023 ...
Since WFH (Work from Home) and remote work impact IT Ops and application performance, APMdigest is following up our list of 2023 Application Performance Management Predictions with predictions from industry experts about how WFH will impact work and application performance in 2023 ...
Industry experts offer thoughtful, insightful, and often controversial predictions on how APM, AIOps, Observability, OpenTelemetry and related technologies will evolve and impact business in 2023. Part 8, the final installment, covers NetOps and Network Performance Management (NPM) ...
Industry experts offer thoughtful, insightful, and often controversial predictions on how APM, AIOps, Observability, OpenTelemetry and related technologies will evolve and impact business in 2023. Part 7 covers the user experience ...
Industry experts offer thoughtful, insightful, and often controversial predictions on how APM, AIOps, Observability, OpenTelemetry and related technologies will evolve and impact business in 2023. Part 6 covers more on AIOps ...
Industry experts offer thoughtful, insightful, and often controversial predictions on how APM, AIOps, Observability, OpenTelemetry and related technologies will evolve and impact business in 2023. Part 5 covers AIOps ...
Industry experts offer thoughtful, insightful, and often controversial predictions on how APM, AIOps, Observability, OpenTelemetry and related technologies will evolve and impact business in 2023. Part 4 covers monitoring, site reliability engineering and ITSM ...
Industry experts offer thoughtful, insightful, and often controversial predictions on how APM, AIOps, Observability, OpenTelemetry and related technologies will evolve and impact business in 2023. Part 3 covers OpenTelemetry ...
