In today’s rapidly evolving digital landscape, reactive IT management is no longer sustainable. Business leaders are increasingly recognizing that proactive observability has become necessary to maintain a competitive advantage and ensure operational excellence and customer satisfaction. Organizations that embrace advanced observability strategies can avoid future problems associated with reactive firefighting. The Strategic Shift: From Reactive to Predictive The paradigm shift in observability represents a fundamental change in how organizations monitor system health and ensure business continuity. Modern observability platforms such […]
Splunk Donates OpenTelemetry Injector Library to Open Source Instrumentation Framework
Splunk, an arm of Cisco, has donated an OpenTelemetry Injector library it developed for streamlining instrumentation of applications that have not been containerized, to the open source project that is being advanced under the auspices of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). Greg Leffler, director of developer evangelism for Splunk, said this latest contribution to […]
MyDecisive Open Sources Platform for Processing OpenTelemetry Data
By open-sourcing its Smart Telemetry Hub, MyDecisive pushes for an evolution of OpenTelemetry—adding local, memory-based filtering to shrink telemetry volume and help DevOps teams lower observability costs and improve MTTR.
Observe Adds Two AI Agents to Improve Observability
Observe Inc. introduces the AI SRE Agent and o11y.ai Agent to its observability platform—empowering DevOps teams to automate incident triage, generate OpenTelemetry code, and query application performance using natural language for faster, smarter debugging.
BMC Brings OpenTelemetry to Mainframes Running z/OS
BMC Software has added an ability to collect telemetry data from mainframes using open source OpenTelemetry software that can then be more easily shared with multiple observability tools and platforms such as Elastic, Splunk, Grafana, and Datadog. Company CTO Ram Chakravarti said the BMC AMI Ops platform now has an OpenTelemetry connector for mainframes running […]
OpenTelemetry and AI are Unlocking Logs as the Essential Signal for “Why”
Logs reveal the “why” behind failures. Learn how OpenTelemetry and AI transform raw log data into structured, actionable insights for modern observability.
The Agentic AI-Driven Future of Telemetry
Telemetry is evolving from passive data to AI-grade fuel. Learn how agentic telemetry fuses human and machine context to power self-healing, intelligent systems.
Before You Go Agentic: Top Guardrails to Safely Deploy AI Agents in Observability
Observability platforms are evolving from passive monitors to active participants. Agentic AI promises a self-healing infrastructure that detects anomalies and fixes issues before users notice, reducing resolution time from hours to minutes. The potential is transformative, turning observability from reactive alerting into proactive, intelligent operations. But with that promise comes risk. Autonomous agents can misdiagnose […]
Grafana Labs Extends AI Capabilities of Observability Platform
Grafana Labs this week made generally available an artificial intelligence (AI) agent, dubbed Grafana Assistant, for its namesake dashboard in addition to previewing Grafana Assistant Investigations, an AI incident management tool that analyzes the observability stack, generates findings and hypotheses, and surfaces actionable recommendations for mitigation and remediation. Announced at its ObservabilityCON 2025 conference, Grafana […]
OpenTelemetry Extensions to Enable Observability of AI Agents
OpenTelemetry is extending support for AI agents, enabling unified observability across apps and intelligent automation of IT tasks. Discover how Cisco and Splunk are driving this next phase of telemetry innovation.