Topic: observability
The App-Aware NOC: The imperatives, and how to make it happen
Fire drills and ensuing all-hands-on-deck calls are nothing new for IT operations teams. I can remember working on a site reliability engineering (SRE) team for a large, global enterprise in the shipping industry back in the late 1990s. Early on in my tenure there, an issue occurred that affected the public facing site. Initially, we … continue reading
New Relic announces generative AI observability assistant
The observability platform New Relic today announced New Relic Grok, a generative AI assistant for observability. This tool is geared at minimizing the need to manually sort through data, making observability more accessible, and unlocking insights from any telemetry data source. With the help of OpenAI’s large language models and New Relic’s unified telemetry data … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Fluent Bit
Fluent Bit is a super fast, lightweight, and highly scalable logging and metrics processor and forwarder best suited for cloud and containerized environments. The project’s architecture is both strong and durable, as well as lightweight and easy to transport. It is designed to handle a large volume of data quickly and efficiently, while using minimal … continue reading
Honeycomb announces $50 million in Series D funding
Observability company Honeycomb today announced that it has raised $50 million in a Series D funding round led by headline with participation from other existing investors, Insight Partners, and Scale Venture Partners. This brings the total capital raised by Honeycomb to$150 million, including customer angel investments from Dominik Richter, CEO of HelloFresh, and Guillermo Rauch, … continue reading
Rookout adds fourth pillar of observability with Smart Snapshots
Observability was built on the foundation of three pillars: logs, metrics, and traces; Now, the company Rookout wants to add a fourth: snapshots. “We’ve been hearing for years about the three pillars of observability,” said Liran Haimovitch, CTO and co-founder of Rookout. “Snapshots are the next level for those moments when something goes very wrong … continue reading
Amazon VPC Lattice aims to improve how we manage distributed applications
Amazon announced the general availability of Amazon VPC Lattice, a fully managed networking solution that simplifies the connectivity, security, and monitoring between microservices in a distributed application. The solution enables users to define their application’s network topology in terms of logical groups of services and provides automated network configuration, security policy enforcement, and traffic routing. … continue reading
Splunk releases security and observability platform to help build secure digital enterprises
Cybersecurity and observability company Splunk today announced new innovations to its unified security and observability platform, including improvements to Splunk Mission Control and Splunk Observability Cloud, as well as the general availability of Splunk Edge Professor. These innovations are geared at assisting teams as they work to build safer and more resilient digital enterprises. With … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Grafana Phlare
Grafana Phlare is an open-source observability tool for continuous profiling at a massive scale. This helps users get a better understanding of resource usage in their applications down to the line number. The project was announced in 2022 at ObservabilityCON. The project natively integrates with Grafana, making it possible for users to correlate their profiling … continue reading
Report: Tool sprawl and data source overload challenges over half of organizations
Grafana Labs has announced the findings from the Grafana Labs Observability Survey 2023, revealing that 52% of companies are currently using six or more observability tools, leading tool sprawl and data source overload to become key challenges. With this, 11% of respondents stated that they are using sixteen or more different observability tools in their … continue reading
Lumos launches App Governance Platform to cut IT spending while maintaining security
The newly launched Lumos App Governance Platform automates access requests, enforces least privilege, speeds up user access reviews, and eliminates extra SaaS app spending. Lumos is dedicated to bridging the gap between IT, security, compliance, and finance by providing support for the most important functions for businesses in this economic climate, namely, cost management and … continue reading
PagerDuty announces Status Pages to reduce support team burden
PagerDuty Status Pages is now generally available. The new integrated feature improves customer service, reduces the burden on support teams, and helps to eliminate complexity. The feature provides visual, real-time insights into an organization’s operations and the status of incident resolution. “In 2023, customer retention will be one of the biggest factors determining whether a … continue reading
Kubernetes 1.26 released with storage improvements
Kubernetes 1.26 includes a total of 37 enhancements. The Kubernetes maintainers also announced that twelve features are being deprecated or removed. One major change is that this is the first release published in the new registry.k8s.io image registry. The container registry was changed in the previous release. The new version has many storage improvements including … continue reading
