In a world of microservices and real-time interactions, MTTR is the ultimate metric for brand protection. Learn how observability and resilient architecture drive faster incident response.
The 10-Layer Monitoring Framework That Saved Our Clients From 3 a.m. Pages
A practical 10-layer monitoring framework for Kubernetes and VM environments that prioritizes what to watch—system, application, HTTP/RUM, databases, caches, queues, tracing, SSL, external deps, and log patterns—to prevent outages and reduce noisy alerts.
When Metrics Overwhelm: How SREs Help Engineers Reclaim Focus
Observability promised insight but delivered alert fatigue. Learn how SREs are redefining observability to empower developers and restore real engineering value.
A New Year’s Resolution for Observability in 2024
As organizations embrace digital transformation, the need for robust, scalable and cost-effective observability solutions becomes paramount.
The Best (and Worst) Reasons to Adopt OpenTelemetry
It was a rainy day in Seattle at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America in December 2018 when I first encountered the term ‘OpenTelemetry.’ At that time, I was an active member of a working group focused on developing W3C Trace Context, a standard now extensively employed for context propagation in distributed systems. It is likely […]
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 […]
Logz.io Embraces Jaeger for Distributed Tracing
Logz.io announced at its online ScaleUp! 2020 conference announced today it has added support for open source Jaeger distributed tracing software to its observability platform based on a curated instance of open source Elasticsearch, Logstash and Kibana (ELK) software. Logz.io CTO Jonah Kowall said support for Jaeger extends the reach of the open source platform […]
Instana Applies Continuous Profiling to Distributed Traces
Instana today announced it has added a continuous profiling capability to its application performance management (APM) that makes it easier for DevOps teams to leverage distributed traces to troubleshot issues. Chris Farrell, technical director and APM Strategist at Instana, said that while distributed traces make it easier to identify bottlenecks, continuous profiling makes it possible […]
CNCF Provides Jaeger Distributed Tracing Update
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) has made available a report detailing the progress being made around the open source Jaeger distributed tracing software. Among other things, the report notes there are now more than 300 organizations contributing to the project. Jaeger is designed to provide a framework for monitoring microservices-based applications in a way […]
Sumo Logic Expands Observability Platform Scope, Reach
Sumo Logic announced today it has extended the reach of its monitoring platform to provide deeper insights across application and infrastructure logs, metrics, traces and metadata in real-time. The latest additions to the company’s suite of software-as-a-service (SaaS) offerings include Sumo Logic AWS Observability Solution, which focuses exclusively on AWS services, and additions to the […]