Cisco has announced it updated the Cisco Observability Platform to provide customers with greater visibility and insights into their technology stack. According to Cisco, the latest update builds on the platform’s existing capabilities while adding new features that help teams minimize tool sprawl, increase collaboration, improve performance, and deliver secure experiences. The platform’s Digital Experience … continue reading
Kentik, a company specializing in network observability, has announced the introduction of Kentik AI, a new tool designed to simplify the process of troubleshooting complex networks for engineers, operators, architects, and developers. This launch aims to make it easier for professionals to identify and resolve network issues promptly and efficiently. Alongside Kentik AI, the company … continue reading
The observability company New Relic has announced it is expanding its portfolio with a new open-source offering called New Relic Pathpoint, which provides observability into business processes. It provides insights into all the stages of the customer journey: customer behaviors, transactions, search queries, product selection, processing times, and post-interaction activities. Having access to these metrics … continue reading
Logz.io, which produces the Open 360 observability platform, has announced the release of a new product called App 360. App 360 improves the Open 360 portfolio by providing functionality for Application Performance Monitoring (APM) use cases in the observability platform, at a lower cost that most APM solutions, Logz.io explained. “App 360 takes everything that’s … continue reading
Pixie is an open-source observability tool for Kubernetes applications. Pixie uses eBPF to automatically capture telemetry data without manual instrumentation. Users can swiftly access metrics, events, traces, and logs without code modification through dynamic eBPF probes and ingestors. The system enables easy integration without requiring changes to the existing codebase, allowing users to delve into … continue reading
The observability platform LogicMonitor is releasing a new generative AI solution, LM Co-Pilot, that can be utilized by IT operations teams. According to a recent survey conducted by the company, over a quarter of IT leaders responded that they had deferred troubleshooting an incident to a development team. LM Co-Pilot was designed to enable IT … continue reading
Honeycomb launched “Honeycomb for Kubernetes” to help engineers using Kubernetes identify and solve application issues by helping them understand the relationships between production code and the infrastructure layer. The move is prompted by the CNCF’s 2022 Annual Survey, which shows the growing adoption of Kubernetes but highlights a gap in correlating application and infrastructure data, … continue reading
Cisco has announced its intention to acquire Splunk for approximately $28 billion in cash, at a rate of $157 per share. After the acquisition, Splunk’s CEO, Gary Steele, will join Cisco’s executive leadership team under the leadership of Chuck Robbins, who is currently chair and CEO of Cisco. Upon acquisition, Splunk and Cisco will be … continue reading
The observability company Grafana is hoping to enable companies to unify different observability signals with the launch of Grafana Cloud Profiles. This new solution allows users to better take advantage of profiling, which offers insights into why a system is behaving as it is, at the code level. “It doesn’t merely append another pillar — … continue reading
ManageEngine, the enterprise IT management division of Zoho Corporation, has integrated OpenAI observability into its cloud-based observability platform, Site24x7. This new capability allows application owners to monitor the usage of various OpenAI models effortlessly, while also tracking real-time performance and cost metrics. According to ManageEngine, by providing a unified view, businesses can effectively leverage emerging … continue reading
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
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