ServiceNow today announced it has acquired Lightstep as part of an effort to add an observability platform to its IT operations portfolio. Terms of the deal, expected to close this quarter, were not disclosed. The Change Intelligence observability platform from Lightstep is based on a time-series database that is capable of processing a trillion events […]
OpenTelemetry Project Gains Log Agent Software from observIQ
Stanza, an open source log agent developed by observIQ, a provider of an observability platform, has become part of the OpenTelemetry Project for collecting telemetry data. Mike Kelly, CTO and co-founder, observIQ, said Stanza will make it possible to collect log data alongside other telemetry data using a common application programming interface (API) and software […]
Dynatrace Adds to Observability Capabilities
Dynatrace today announced it has extended its observability capabilities via the launch of its PurePath 4 platform that adds support for the open source OpenTelemetry framework and W3C Trace Context specification for distributed tracing. In addition, the company is adding support for service meshes and serverless computing frameworks running on Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft […]
GitLab Open Sources Monitoring Tools
GitLab has decided to make its monitoring and observability tools available as part of its core open source platform to help reduce the total cost of DevOps. Previously, the tools were available as part of the commercial tools in GitLab’s DevOps platform. Kenny Johnston, director of product/Ops products for GitLab, said that as responsibility for […]