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Grafana Labs Looks to Simplify Observability
Grafana Labs, at its online ObservabilityCON conference today, unveiled a distributed tracing platform dubbed Grafana Tempo that makes it possible to leverage existing object storage platforms and services to analyze traces. At the same time, Grafana Labs announced version 2.0 of Loki, which normalizes different structured, unstructured or JSON log formats in a way that […]
Cracking Production Performance Issues With Open Source Observability
I would like to share a recent case study on our organization, Logz.io, which battled a very serious performance issue, the solution for which turned out to be a small change in code but with a huge impact on all of our HTTP endpoints in our platform. Among other topics, I’ll cover: How we investigated […]
Splunk Adds Plumbr and Rigor to Observability Portfolio
Splunk this week at its online.conf20 conference revealed it has acquired Plumbr, a provider of an application performance management (APM) platform, and signed a definitive agreement to acquire Rigor, a provider of synthetic monitoring and application optimization tools. Both platforms are destined to be integrated with the Splunk Observability Suite, a suite of IT management […]
Splunk Dives Deeper Into Observability
Splunk, during its online .conf20 conference today, launched the Splunk Observability Suite, which combines tools for infrastructure monitoring, application performance monitoring, digital experience monitoring, log investigation and incident response in a single offering. Kia Behnia, vice president of ITOps for Splunk, said IT teams can correlate metrics, traces and log data in real-time to go […]
Observe Unveils Observability Platform Built on Snowflake DBaaS
After raising $35 million in seed funding, Observe Inc. has emerged from stealth with early access to a namesake observability service that leverages the database-as-a-service (DBaaS) platform created by Snowflake Inc. Company CEO Jeremy Burton said rather than build another data lake platform, it makes more sense to make an observability platform available using a […]
Sumo Logic Extends Observability Reach
Sumo Logic, at its online Illuminate conference today, announced the availability of a bevy of extensions to its observability and security information event management (SIEM) cloud services that span everything from hybrid cloud computing to cloud-native platforms such as Kubernetes. The company also announced the general availability of a free Software Development Optimization (SDO) service, […]
New Relic Makes Revamped APM Platform More Affordable
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 […]
Fastly Facilitates Observability at the Edge
Fastly this week announced it is adding the ability to collect tracing, customizable logging data and both real-time and historical metrics from a serverless computing framework designed to be deployed on edge computing platforms. Company CTO Tyler McMullen said the goal is to make it easier for IT to bring observability within the context of […]
Grafana Labs Update Aims to Simplify Observability
Grafana Labs today released an update to the open source Grafana project that adds a viewer that simplifies tracking the path of a single request through a distributed system. Version 7.0 also adds a plug-in for Amazon CloudWatch Logs along with support for Apache Arrow, a unified data and plugin framework that promises to make […]