Topic: monitoring
premium ITOps Observability Guide
You’ve likely heard the term observability being passed around for the past few years, and you might have assumed that it is just another marketing buzzword for monitoring. And you wouldn’t be alone in that thinking. Some experts would say that “Observability”, “AIOps” and “Application Performance Monitoring (APM)” are just terms used to distinguish between … continue reading
Cisco announces intent to acquire ThousandEyes
Cisco announced its intent to acquire ThousandEyes to enhance Cisco’s network performance and monitoring capabilities across the enterprise and into the cloud. ThousandEyes offers deep visibility and insights into the digital delivery of applications and services over the internet. Common tooling and sharing datasets for application and network health will help remove silos, giving IT … continue reading
Datadog announces Security Monitoring to inject security without disrupting workflows
Datadog has extended its monitoring and analytics platform to security engineers with its new Security Monitoring solution, which will help break down silos between teams. Key features in Security Monitoring include unified observability and security through over 400 integrations; real-time, out-of-the-box threat detection with turn-key threat Detection Rules; cost-effective data ingestion and analysis; customizable rule-editing; … continue reading
Circonus introduces Kubernetes monitoring solution in Spring 2020 release
Machine data intelligence platform provider Circonus is releasing a new Kubernetes monitoring solution to give IT teams health-based alert capabilities and ability to auto-scale. The monitoring solution is part of the company’s Spring 2020 release, which also features improvements to cloud monitoring, GCP marketplace availability, performance enhancements, and integration with Terraform. The Kubernetes monitoring solution … continue reading
Logz.io Infrastructure Monitoring now available
Cloud observability platform Logz.io has announced a new metrics monitoring solution based on the open-source analytics and monitoring solution Grafana. Logz.io Infrastructure Monitoring is designed to help teams manage the costs of data with infrastructure and custom metrics. “The release represents a huge next step in our mission to provide the best open source for … continue reading
Sysdig releases cloud-scale Prometheus monitoring
Sysdig announced cloud monitoring at scale with full Prometheus compatibility that addresses the issues that are holding teams back from the organization-wide adoption of Prometheus monitoring. The company also introduced support for creating dashboards, alerts, and metric analytics based on PromQL, the query language for Prometheus. Sysdig said that because monitoring Kubernetes and microservices can … continue reading
Is tracing for you? Probably not
Tracing is one of the hottest topics in observability and monitoring. There are myriad open-source projects, new startups, and entire conferences dedicated to it. But here’s the truth: While everyone building and maintaining software has heard of tracing, only a select few engineers are using it. In most cases, engineering effort and business resources would … continue reading
Dynatrace introduces next generation infrastructure monitoring
Dynatrace announced the next generation of its Infrastructure monitoring module, which includes enhanced AI, expanded out-of-the-box observability and the ability to create custom metrics from log events. “Dynatrace enables IT teams to keep up with growing complexity and removes the need for multiple tools and manual do-it-yourself approaches,” said Steve Tack, the SVP of Product … continue reading
ITOps news digest: Instana announces vSphere support, IIC opens community forum, and Itential’s Automation Studio
Automatic APM provider Instana has announced it is adding vSphere support to its microservices application and infrastructure monitoring solution. The support will now enable users to discover, map and monitor components running on the VMware’s vSphere suite. “The vSphere announcement continues Instana’s legacy of excellence in monitoring applications and their underlying infrastructure together. Whether organizations … continue reading
SolarWinds’ 2020 cloud confessions reveal lack of APM education
As application performance management (APM) becomes more mainstream, the need to educate companies on the tools and capabilities is crucial. SolarWinds has released Cloud Confessions 2020, which revealed while companies and development teams know the importance of APM, they aren’t moving past troubleshooting. “This isn’t surprising considering APM has typically been siloed across DevOps and … continue reading
LightStep addresses service health issues with new solution
Observability solution provider LightStep is releasing its Service Health for Deployments solution, designed to spot and fix service health issues that come during and after deployments. According to the company, deployments often result in regressions, which then take up time investigating the root cause. Service Health for Deployments performs root cause analysis to find out … continue reading
Logz.io predicts 2020 will be the year more teams invest in observability
Observability is expected to play a big role among DevOps teams in 2020. Logz.io predicts we will see more investment in space, distributed tracing adoption, and tool consolidations throughout the year. The company released its 2019 DevOps Pulse report to see how teams have been approaching observability and what their plans are for the next … continue reading
