Topic: observability
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
Logz.io 360 released to help with better Kubernetes observability
Logz.io revealed its Open 360 Platform at AWS re:Invent 2022 to deliver to help observability teams focus on, and pay for, only the most critical data. Users will gain centralized, cross-stack Kubernetes observability to an expanded data collection agent. Open 360 includes Logz.io Kubernetes 360 to deliver unified observability for Kubernetes environments, Logz.io Telemetry Collector … continue reading
Fastly introduces new edge observability capabilities
The team at Fastly, the global edge cloud platform, today launched a new line of products for edge observability, enhancing the company’s delivery of edge and origin visibility, analytics, and more. According to Fastly, these new capabilities offer users the ability to create their own observability systems by surfacing real-time and historical data in a … continue reading
Dispelling the misconceptions around observability
Observability is a term that’s being used to describe just about anything to do with monitoring, but it’s not as simple as just monitoring the performance of an application or server. Observability can provide you with so much more information that traditional monitoring could. In order to dispel some of the common misconceptions about observability, … continue reading
TidalScale announces upgrade that greatly reduces server failure rates
The TidalScale 4.1 update will dramatically improve overall system reliability, availability, and serviceability to reduce server failure rates. “The cost of server downtime, whether planned or unplanned, has never been higher. Enterprise customers are experiencing server hardware failures at a rate never seen before, often resulting in significant financial losses for their business,” said Gary … continue reading
ITOps Open-Source Project of the Week: Waltz
Waltz is an open-source project that lets users visualize and define their organization’s technology landscape developed by Deutsche Bank. Deutsche Bank released the project in early 2018 to help users make smarter decisions on technology investment. “A core belief behind Waltz is that technology information should be accessible by everyone within your organisation. Furthermore employees … continue reading
