As systems become more distributed and AI-driven, traditional uptime metrics are no longer enough. The 2026 SRE Report shows how reliability is shifting toward user experience, speed, and business impact, and how AI is reshaping monitoring, incident response, and the role of SRE and DevOps leaders.
Grafana Labs Looks to Make Composing Observability Platforms Simpler
Grafana Labs, today at its ObservabilityCon event, unfurled a raft of additional offerings, including public previews of Explore Traces and Explore Profiles tools that make it simple to drill down into data without having to master a specific query language. In addition, the company revealed it has acquired TailCtrl to drive the development of Adaptive […]
DevOps Tools for the Monitoring Ecosystem
DevOps is a cultural and process transformation—the goal of it is to achieve a higher rate of change and quality of software. There are categories of tools to help facilitate this transformation through automation and increased measurement and visibility. You can’t have or observe progress without measurement, and throughout your transformation you need to maintain […]
Why Integrated Infrastructure Is the Key to IT Success
At first glance, your IT infrastructure might seem like your house’s basement. It supports everything, but you don’t pay much attention to it or spend much time or energy trying to make it beautiful. Instead, you treat it as a generic component and lavish your attention on other parts of your IT landscape (or your […]
Challenges of Big Infrastructure Monitoring
The growing complexity of today’s IT reality is indisputable: Software is becoming more complex, and the infrastructure it runs on is equally so. This complexity comes, in part, from adding layers upon layers to the infrastructure we manage—from bare metal servers to VMs to containers to function-based computing—and from how quickly we cycle in new […]
Metrics, Logs and Traces: The Golden Triangle of Observability in Monitoring
It isn’t surprising that the job of monitoring infrastructure and application environments has grown more complex as the underlying technologies evolve. Nor is it surprising that the need to get monitoring right has expanded as our business reliance on IT grows ever deeper, so it is important to have a good grasp of the core […]
Choosing the Right Monitoring Tools for a Full-Stack Solution
According to the marketsandmarkets report on APM tools, the monitoring tools market is expected to grow to $4.98 billion by 2019, at a CAGR of 12.86 percent and the DevOps market would attain market size of $8,763.8 million by 2023, growing at a CAGR of 18 percent during 2017 -2023 (source: markets business insider), with more focus […]
What to Consider in a Full-Stack Monitoring Solution
In the DevOps space, there are various tools available for monitoring. When building a full-stack monitoring solution, however, selecting the right monitoring tools and designing monitoring based on IT operations’ needs is a critical decision. Design Considerations for Implementing a Full-Stack Monitoring Solution The following are some of the key design considerations while implementing full-stack […]
SolarWinds Aims to Democratize Monitoring
In a move that has the potential to significantly expand the number of organizations embracing DevOps, SolarWinds announced it has expanded its IT management cloud service to include an integrated application and infrastructure monitoring offering dubbed AppOptics. Pricing for AppOptics starts at $7.50 per host per month. In addition, SolarWinds has updated Papertrail log management […]
CA Technologies Acquires Runscope for API Monitoring
There’s a pressing need for a variety of monitoring tools more than ever. But given the proliferation of application programming interfaces (APIs) inside the enterprise, demand for API monitoring tools in particular is rapidly expanding. To address that requirement, CA Technologies has acquired Runscope, a provider of an API monitoring service delivered as a software-as-a-service […]