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Observability and AI
AI is impacting every type of software, every vendor of software and every project that builds software for customers. Most of this software needs Observability (the ability to know if it is working correctly and take the proper actions to fix it if it is not working...
Observability/APM is being Reinvented Again
The Observability and APM markets have existed for a long time and have undergone periodic reinventions driven by changes in the technology stack and how customers build, deploy and run applications in production. Such a reinvention is happening again. The History of...
Ranking the Observability Offerings
Observability requires comprehensive collection of code profiles, metrics, logs, traces and dependencies. APM vendors have a lot of work to do.
Dynatrace Grail Anchors a Product Line Refresh
At its Perform 2023 conference Dynatrace made seven new product announcements, anchored by the inclusion of logs, metrics, traces, topology, changes and security data into Grail. The Product Line Refresh Enabled by Dynatrace Grail Below is the list of the product...
Open Telemetry (OTEL) – Destined to Disappoint
Open Telemetry (OTEL) is a CNCF project designed to create an APM vendor neutral method of collection of application metrics, traces and logs. This is an ambitious undertaking, which is uncertain to bear fruit. The Current State of Open Telemetry (OTEL) Open...
AIOPs is Dead
AIOPs as the category that is the future state of the infrastructure monitoring, APM, and log analysis business is dead. AIOPs is dead for the following reasons. AIOPs has no Champion that Matters AIOPs as a term and an idea was invented by Gartner. The analyst who...
Observability is NOT an Option in the Cloud
The nature of the cloud and the nature of the applications that enterprises are choosing to run in the cloud require that Observability solutions be used to make sure that these applications are delivering the appropriate levels of reliability and performance to their...
IBM Acquires Turbonomic
IBM has acquired Turbonomic. This combined with the previous acquisitions of Instana and Red Hat creates a powerful infrastructure software offering.
New Relic One Digs the Diverse Data Disruption
As the IT environment, and especially as applications evolve, the way in which they need to be monitored must evolve was well. Sometimes these changes in how things need to be monitored are not evolutions, but are in fact revolutions that usher in wholesale...