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Observability

The latest News and Information on Observabilty for complex systems and related technologies.

How to Keep Observability Alive in Microservice Landscapes through OpenTelemetry

The concept of observability has become a cornerstone for ensuring system reliability and efficiency in modern software engineering and operations. Observability, beyond its traditional scope of logging, monitoring, and tracing, can be intricately defined through the lens of incident response efficiency—specifically by examining the time it takes for teams to grasp the full context and background of a technical incident.

What are the benefits of an observability solution from Splunk?

Organisations get a full-stack, end-to-end view of what is happening in a complex application environment. With Splunk Observability they can correlate logs, traces and metrics. They get a complete view of their application services, and can proactively see if something is going to happen and quickly detect the issue when a problem occurs.

Completing the Kubernetes Monitoring Puzzle

Kubernetes has changed the way many organizations approach the deployment of their applications. But despite its benefits, the additional layers of abstraction and reams of data can cause complexity around Kubernetes monitoring. We’ve seen so much of these challenges borne out in the results of the 2024 Observability Pulse survey. In the survey report, 36% of respondents say Kubernetes poses a challenge, and just 10% of organizations say they have full observability into their environments.

Enterprise Observability: The Key to Effective IT Management

Observability has emerged as a distinct approach within the broader scope of IT management, enabling organizations to gain valuable insights into their complex IT ecosystems. By collecting and analyzing data from various sources, observability provides a holistic understanding of system behavior and performance, streamlining troubleshooting and optimization efforts.

Fine-tune observability configurations for all your Azure integrations in one place

Microsoft Azure provides an array of managed services to support many aspects of cloud computing, including application development, workload migration, and data management. To help you monitor the health and performance of these services, Datadog offers integrations with more than 40 Azure services, including Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Cosmos DB, and Azure App Services. Each integration provides robust data visualizations, meaningful alerts, and one-click Datadog Agent deployment.

Why Splunk for observability?

How can Splunk bring ITOps- and engineering teams together so that they can deliver exceptional customer experiences? Splunk Observability can help enterprises and organisations solve problems within seconds. It's the only full-stack, analytics-powered and OpenTelemetry-native observability solution. Hear Robbie Baines, Observability Advisor at Splunk tell us more in this video.

Why is Splunk growing rapidly within the observability market?

As organisations are making the move from on-prem to cloud solutions built on microservices architecture, their monitoring has become more complex. To get a more holistic view of their application services a comprehensive observability solution is needed. Splunk Observability strengthens digital resilience by preventing unplanned downtime.

Advantages of an AI-Powered Observability Pipeline

The expenses associated with collecting, storing, indexing, and analyzing data have become a considerable challenge for organizations. This data is growing as fast as 35% a year, multiplying the problems. This surge in data comes with a corresponding rise in infrastructure costs. These costs often force organizations to make decisions about what data they can afford to analyze, which tools they must use, and how and where to store data for long-term retention.