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.
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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...
Read MoreObservability 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...
Read MoreIBM Acquires Turbonomic
IBM has acquired Turbonomic. This combined with the previous acquisitions of Instana and Red Hat creates a powerful infrastructure software offering.
Read MoreNew 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...
Read MoreWhat 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...
Read MoreNot 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...
Read MoreInstana Invests in the Present of Code Diagnostics and the Future of Observability
Instana has announced the acquisition of BeeInstant (a real-time metrics analysis platform), StackImpact (a production polyglot application code profiler), and Signify a future solution to provide insight into complex system...
Read MoreRest in Peace ADDM, CMDB, ITIL and Event Management
ADDM, the CMDB, ITIL and Event Management have become legacy technologies at the hands of dynamic applications, Agile, DevOps, CI/CD and Kubernetes.
Read MoreObservability Is About the Data
Observability should mean that we have the data – the logs, metrics, traces, flows and dependencies to understand the behavior of the application system of interest. Unfortunately there is no one source of all of this data for each application which is where things get complicated.
Read MoreThe Gaps in Observability
Gaps in Observability exist with applications, networks and the public clouds. Therefore true full stack Observability is currently impossible.
Read MoreReinventing Application Performance Management Again
Wily Technology was launched in 1998 to instrument monoliths running on J2EE application servers. AppDynamics, Dynatrace, and New Relic were invented to monitor first generation distributed N-Tier and SOA applications. Now the application architecture is shifting to microservices – disrupting the APM industry again.
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