Observability platforms that unify metrics, logs and traces across applications and IT infrastructure are transforming how IT is managed. Most DevOps teams today are able to continuously monitor IT environments using tools that track a set of pre-defined metrics; observability platforms make it possible to aggregate data so that DevOps teams can launch queries that […]
Visualize Logs to Get More Value from Data
Why do you keep logs? Regardless of the type of logs we’re talking about, you keep them because you expect them to provide some value for the organization. Maybe the logs will help you improve profitability; perhaps they will help you recover from downtime or perhaps they are expected to alert you to a security […]
Visualization Shines a Light on IT Metrics
Modern IT departments operate in a pressure cooker. Their highly distributed infrastructures are spread across legacy data centers and hybrid and multiple public clouds. Now, the Internet of Things (IoT) and the edge are part of the mix. Massive amounts of data are flowing through these multifaceted environments, and it falls on IT to make […]
observIQ Lauches Open Source Log Agent Project
Blue Medora, after selling its core monitoring integration platform to VMware, today changed its name to observIQ and launched an open source agent project that will serve as the foundation of a log management tool to be delivered as a software-as-a-service (SaaS) application. Company CTO Mike Kelly said the observIQ agent, which is written in […]