Observability

September 27, 2023

Navigating observability pricing models can be compared to solving a perplexing puzzle which includes financial variables and contractual intricacies. Predicting all potential costs in advance becomes an elusive endeavor, exemplified by a recent eye-popping $65 million observability bill ...

September 21, 2023

Companies implementing observability benefit from increased operational efficiency, faster innovation, and better business outcomes overall, according to 2023 IT Trends Report: Lessons From Observability Leaders, a report from SolarWinds ...

September 14, 2023

Earlier this year, New Relic conducted a study on observability ... The 2023 Observability Forecast reveals observability's impact on the lives of technical professionals and businesses' bottom lines. Here are 10 key takeaways from the forecast ...

August 07, 2023

Complexity caused by increased adoption of cloud native technologies, economic challenges slowing down cloud migration efforts, and continued proliferation of both hybrid and on-premises environments are driving more IT organizations to consider application observability for monitoring and optimizing application performance, according to The Age of Application Observability, a new report from AppDynamics ...

June 14, 2023

"My research has identified two major benefits: Faster resolution of security issues and reduced overall risk of security incidents," says Shamus McGillicuddy, VP of Research, Network Infrastructure and Operations, at Enterprise Management Associates (EMA). "We've also identified four secondary benefits ..."

June 13, 2023

If you have already read the previous blogs in this series exploring the convergence of observability and security, the challenges will not surprise you. The experts cite compatibility of tools, teams and cultures as challenges to convergence, among others ...

June 12, 2023

In the previous blog, Part 4 in this series, we examined the convergence of tooling and dashboards. Now we ask the question: Will security teams converge with ITOps, NetOps and DevOps? ...

June 08, 2023

Interestingly, some experts say that — although convergence is happening, and sharing the data has great value — the security dashboards should not necessarily be combined with observability dashboards for ITOps, NetOps or DevOps ...

June 07, 2023

The experts have all agreed that security teams can gain great benefits from utilizing observability data. But does this mean security and observability tools should be integrated, or even combined? ...

June 06, 2023

One reason why observability and security make a good pairing is that traditional telemetry signals — metrics, logs, and traces — are helpful to maintain both performance and security ...

June 05, 2023

Observability and security — are they a match made in IT heaven, or a culture clash from IT hell? Sorry to be so dramatic, but it's actually a serious question that has gravity. The convergence of observability and security could change IT operations as we know it. And many IT authorities see this as a good thing. With input from industry experts — both analysts and vendors — this 8-part blog series to be posted over the next two weeks will explore what is driving this convergence, the challenges and advantages, and how it may transform the IT landscape ...

June 01, 2023

The journey of maturing observability practices for users entails navigating peaks and valleys. Users have clearly witnessed the maturation of their monitoring capabilities, embraced DevOps practices, and adopted cloud and cloud-native technologies. Notwithstanding that, we witness the gradual increase of the Mean Time To Recovery (MTTR) for production issues year over year ...

May 24, 2023

As SLOs grow in popularity their usage is becoming more mature. For example, 82% of respondents intend to increase their use of SLOs, and 96% have mapped SLOs directly to their business operations or already have a plan to, according to The State of Service Level Objectives 2023 from Nobl9 ...

May 23, 2023

Observability has matured beyond its early adopter position and is now foundational for modern enterprises to achieve full visibility into today's complex technology environments, according to The State of Observability 2023, a report released by Splunk in collaboration with Enterprise Strategy Group ...

April 26, 2023

Although 78% of organizations surveyed have an observability practice in place, 91% said they face challenges that prevent them from realizing the full potential of the systems they have already deployed, according to Observability and Demystifying AIOps, a report from Chronosphere and ESG ...

April 24, 2023

In today's digital landscape, providing a seamless customer experience (CX) has become a top priority for IT operations teams. They are increasingly turning to observability and AIOps to achieve this. However, a study conducted by ManageEngine — State of ITOM in 2023— found that organizations face several challenges while adopting both technologies ...

April 13, 2023

Logs are one of the most useful tools for observability and application performance monitoring. However, getting the most mileage from logs requires paying careful attention to planning what data to collect, the best way to display it, and the proper context for log entries ...

March 29, 2023

Most organizations suffer from some form of alert noise. Alert noise is only going to increase as organizations support cloud-native applications spanning multiple public and private clouds, including ephemeral deployments and more. It's not going to get easier for organizations to understand the signal from all those alerts being sent. So what can be done about it? ...

March 15, 2023

Harnessing the power of network-derived intelligence and insights is critical in detecting today's increasingly sophisticated security threats across hybrid and multi-cloud infrastructure, according to a new research study from IDC ...

February 14, 2023

Organizations find increasing difficulty in maintaining software reliability and security as the demand for continuous release cycles and the rising complexity of cloud-native environments create more risk for undetected defects and vulnerabilities to escape into production, according to the 2023 Global CIO Report, Observability and Security Convergence: Enabling Faster, More Secure Innovation in the Cloud, from Dynatrace ...

January 25, 2023

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 ...

January 24, 2023

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 ...

January 13, 2023

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 ...

January 11, 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 ...

December 06, 2022

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 2 covers more on observability ...

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