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 […]
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 […]
Sumo Logic Extends Observability Scope and Reach
During the online Illuminate user conference, Sumo Logic revealed how it is integrating capabilities it gained with the June 2021 acquisition of Sensu, a provider of open source monitoring tools, with its continuous intelligence platform in addition to adding support for data collected via open source OpenTelemetry software. Sensu Go, a set of tools for […]
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 […]