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What Is Observability?

In today's complex, multi-cloud environments, IT and engineering teams are under increasing pressure to respond to errors affecting their entire system. Therefore, IT operations, DevOps, and SRE teams are all striving to gain complete observability across these increasingly complex and diverse computing environments. But what exactly does observability mean?

observIQ Announces Enterprise Edition of Open Source Observability Pipeline BindPlane OP

Continuing its commitment to open source observability, observIQ announces the enterprise edition of BindPlane OP. BindPlane OP provides the ability to control observability costs and simplify the management of telemetry agents at scale while avoiding vendor lock-in.

Hey! Let's talk AIOps!

As the rapid digital transformation has put a lot of pressure on IT organizations to be more proactive and agile, DevOps principles and practices have been an invaluable resource. However, to remain at the top of the game, organizations need an even stronger solution. So, what’s the answer? AIOPs (artificial intelligence for IT operations), of course!

OpenTelemetry, Auto-Instrumentation and Splunk Observability Cloud: A Jump Start

Have you been meaning to learn about OpenTelemetry and the integration of all available application and service telemetry? If you like to learn things by doing; get ready to dive in and have some fun with OpenTelemetry and Splunk Observability Cloud. Quickly learn more about OpenTelemetry auto-instrumentation and collectors at your own pace with these walkthroughs and guides.

New GKE dashboards and metrics provide deeper visibility into your environment

Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) is a managed Kubernetes service that enables users to deploy and orchestrate containerized applications on Google’s infrastructure. Datadog’s GKE integration, when paired with our Kubernetes integration, has always provided deep visibility into the health and performance of your clusters at the node, pod, container, and application levels.

How to correlate performance testing and distributed tracing to proactively improve reliability

At ObservabilityCON, we announced our first step towards launching a native integration between Grafana k6 load testing and Grafana Tempo tracing (k6 x Tempo) in Grafana Cloud. We created k6 x Tempo to help dev, testing, and operation teams analyze their performance test results more effectively and proactively improve the reliability of their business-critical applications.

Top Highlights from Experience Everywhere: New York!

This year’s Experience Everywhere is in the books – and just as we expected, the New York crowd helped us end this unforgettable four-city tour on a high note. We knew we had to bring something special for our big return to a live conference, and our incredible attendees and a star-studded lineup of speakers helped us do just that.

Sematext Updates Review Ep. 1 | Features and Product Updates Overview

Sematext has undergone some amazing updates this year. In this episode of Sematext Update Review (SUR), we will look at these features in detail and how they can help you monitor your full stack. Sematext is an all-in-one monitoring solution for your IT stack. Monitor Logs, Infrastructure, synthetic runs, or real user experiences all in one place.