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Grafana Labs Slashes Time to Create Observability Dashboards
At its GrafanaCON 2023 event today, Grafana Labs updated its core platform for visualizing data which makes it simpler to set up dashboards in minutes. The updates are part of a celebration of the 10th anniversary of a tool that is now widely used by DevOps teams. Ryan McKinley, a distinguished engineer for Grafana Labs, […]
What the Convergence of Observability and Security Means for Devs
There is a scene in the movie Apollo 13 when the mission control flight director asks why the carbon dioxide scrubber in the command module was a different shape than the one used in the lunar module (and therefore incompatible). The engineer simply replied, “This just isn’t a contingency we’ve even remotely looked at.” A […]
A History of Distributed Tracing
Organizations are increasingly using distributed tracing to monitor their complex, microservice-based architectures. Distributed tracing has become essential in microservice applications, cloud-native and distributed systems. Microservices and serverless applications can grow exponentially, which makes observing them at scale very challenging. The traditional logging method becomes expensive, and if there’s an issue, time-series data can reveal symptoms […]
Datadog Dives Into Universal Service Monitoring
Datadog, Inc. today made generally available a Universal Service Monitoring service that takes advantage of the extended Berkeley Packet Filtering (eBPF) microkernel in a Linux operating system to automatically detect all the services that make up an application environment without changes to the code used to construct them. Yrieix Garnier, vice president of product at […]
Datadog Extends Reach of Integrated DevOps Platform
At its Dash 2022 conference, Datadog announced today it is extending the reach of its namesake cloud-delivered monitoring and observability platform to address continuous testing, application security and cost management. In addition, Datadog has made available in beta a Data Streams Monitoring tool that makes it simpler to identify upstream issues that are likely to […]
Transforming Observability
Walking into an unfamiliar operations center some time ago, I immediately noticed database error alerts racing down the primary monitor faster than a Matrix screensaver morphs letters. Strangely, no one seemed particularly excited about it. The situation was a head-turner for me, coming as I did from the “everything must balance” banking world. A senior […]
New Relic Reports Major Spike in Volume of Log Data
New Relic today shared a report based on anonymized data it collects that showed a 35% increase in the volume of logging data collected by its observability platform. The report also identified logs generated by NGINX proxy software (38%) as being the most common type of log, followed by Syslog (25%) and Amazon Load Balancer […]
Driving Organizational Success With the 2022 State of DevOps Report
“Ship it!” We have just completed the research and analysis for the 2022 Accelerate State of DevOps Report (SODR) and oh boy, do we have some interesting things to share! First, let me take a short step back for those of you that may be new to the DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA) and our […]
Latest DORA Report From Google Surfaces Raft of DevOps Challenges
The annual Accelerate State of DevOps 2022 report published today by the DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA) team at Google found the percentage of high performers is at a four-year low, with the percentage of low performers rising dramatically from 7% in 2021 to 19% in 2022. Based on a survey of 1,350 DevOps professionals, […]
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