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 […]
Splunk Adds Data Management Tools to Observability Platform
At its .conf22 event, Splunk today announced it is making it easier to both onboard data and then manage it across hybrid IT environments via the Splunk Cloud Platform. In addition, Splunk Enterprise is being extended to add support for Microsoft Azure with SmartStore for Azure to store cold data alongside existing support for Amazon […]
Opportunities and Challenges of Observability
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 […]
Overcoming IT Complexity With Full-Stack Observability
Organizations embarking on digital transformation journeys tend to develop complex infrastructures. They update their legacy applications while adding multi-cloud, virtual and cloud-native capabilities. Eventually, IT pros find themselves managing diverse, complex and distributed networks including cloud, system, application and database infrastructures. To rein in the resulting complexity, organizations tend to amass monitoring and managing tools. […]
Log Management Challenges Grow With Observability Adoption
It appears that, in many IT environments, observability is becoming too much of a good thing. A global survey of more than 315 IT executives, cloud application architects, DevOps professionals and site reliability engineers (SRE) conducted by Dimensional Research on behalf of log data management platform provider Era Software, found 96% are witnessing an explosion […]
LogDNA Survey Surfaces Observability ROI Concerns
A Harris Poll of 200 senior engineering professionals suggests it may be a while before most DevOps teams are able to achieve true observability in their IT environments. The survey was conducted on behalf of LogDNA, a provider of an observability platform, and found nearly three-quarters of respondents (74%) are struggling to achieve their observability […]
LogicMonitor Introduces Unlimited Log Data Retention
LogicMonitor today announced it will provide an option that allows IT organizations to retain an unlimited amount of log data on its software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform. Tej Redkar, chief product officer at LogicMonitor, said one of the issues that is holding back advances in observability is the cost of storing log data. LogicMonitor has decided to […]
Era Software Adds SaaS Edition of Log Management Platform
Era Software has unfurled a software-as-a-service (SaaS) edition of its platform for collecting and managing log data that is based on a time-series database it built. At the same time, the company has revamped the user interface of the underlying EraSearch log management platform that IT teams can deploy themselves to make it simpler to […]
Grafana Labs Expands into Incident Management Realm
During its online ObservabilityCON 2021 conference, Grafana Labs this week previewed an incident management platform in addition to making available an on-premises edition of its distributed tracing tool. Tom Wilkie, vice president of product for Grafana Labs, said the Grafana OnCall incident management platform is a natural extension of the observability tools the company already […]
Observability Vs. Monitoring: What’s the Difference?
As more and more IT organizations pivot from strategies rooted in monitoring to ones that aim to achieve observability, one of the first questions that teams need to answer is, “What is the difference between the two?” That’s a somewhat loaded question because there are some differences of opinion out there regarding what, exactly, distinguishes […]