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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...
What Is Observability and How to Implement It
There are many vendors of and approaches to implementing Observability. Before we go through them all, however we first need to ask, what is Observability really (what distinguishes it from monitoring), and who needs Observability? In other words, what kinds of...
Not Everything Should be a Microservice
One of the core developers of ISTIO (the Service Mesh designed to make deploying and operating microservices easier in production) has made a compelling case that ISTIO itself is an example of an application is is better off being implemented as a monolith vs. being a...