New Relic has revamped its application performance management (APM) platform as part of an effort to make observability more accessible and affordable. Bill Staples, chief product officer for New Relic, said New Relic One has been updated to provide a new user interface designed to make it easier to navigate and explore an observability platform […]
Traceable Secures Apps Using Distributed Tracing
Traceable this week announced it is making available under an early access program a namesake platform that combines distributed tracing and machine learning algorithms to better secure applications. Fresh of raising $20 million in funding, Traceable CEO Jyoti Bansal said the goal is to leverage distributed traces generated via open source Hypertrace agent software to […]
New Relic Adds Support for W3C Trace Context Spec
New Relic has begun adding support for the W3C Trace Context standard within the agent software it uses to collect metrics for its application performance management (APM) platform. W3C Trace Context is a specification that defines the format for propagating distributed tracing context between services. Distributed tracing makes it simpler for DevOps teams to track […]
CNCF Advances Jaeger Distributed Tracing Project
The open source Jaeger distributed tracing platform has officially graduated into the top tier of projects being stewarded by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). Designed to be employed within any DevOps environment, Jaeger is a tool for monitoring transactions across complex distributed computing environments. It consists of a backend for trace collection and analysis […]
Splunk Adds Omnition to DevOps Portfolio
Splunk followed up on its pending acquisition of SignalFx, a provider of an application performance management (APM), by also acquiring Omnition, a startup building a distributed tracing tool accessed as a software-as-a-service (SaaS) application. Rick Fitz, senior vice president and general manager for the IT Markets Group at Splunk, said Omnition consists of a small […]
LightStep Unfurls Dynamic Tracing Service
LightStep announced a stand-alone dynamic tracing tools capability that visualizes patterns in code based on 100 percent of the data available. Company CEO, Ben Sigelman, said LightStep Tracing differs from other approaches to tracing because it does not rely on a small sample of data that usually doesn’t wind up providing much actionable insight. Instead, […]
VMware Wavefront Adds AI, Distributed Tracing
VMware has updated its Wavefront monitoring service to include support for distributed tracing along with anomaly detection capabilities enabled by machine learning algorithms. Stela Udovicic, senior director for product marketing for Wavefront by VMware, said the addition of the distributed tracing support, now available as part of a public beta, means that a single monitoring […]
New Relic Tracing Software Pinpoints Source of IT Issues
At a FutureStack 2017 conference this week, New Relic previewed an implementation of distributed tracing software that has the potential to close the war rooms where IT operations assign blame for application failure. New Relic CEO Lew Cirne says a Distributed Tracing capability that New Relic previewed this week will enable developers or IT operations […]