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The latest News and Information on Observabilty for complex systems and related technologies.

Does OpenTelemetry in .NET Cause Performance Degradation?

Apr 13, 2023 By Martin Thwaites In Honeycomb

Contrary to Betteridge’s Law of Tabloid Headlines, the answer to the question, "does OpenTelemetry in.NET cause performance degradation?" is yes, but context is important. I get this question so often that I thought it was time to get some stats on it. I’ve heard comments like: I can only assume that these are based on previous versions, or things like OpenTracing / OpenCensus (the heritage frameworks that were the feeders for OpenTelemetry).

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Observability for business decision making: bridging the gap between IT and the business

Apr 13, 2023 By Grafana In Grafana

Hear from Corneile Britz, Observability and DevOps Specialist and Co-Founder of Boxfish how Observability can provide real-time data to support business decision-making and improve customer experience, enabling collaboration and trust between IT and business stakeholders.

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Why the visibility gap is holding your IT operations back

Apr 12, 2023 By LogicMonitor In LogicMonitor

Depending on your business, MTTR stands for mean time to repair or mean time to recovery – but it can also mean resolution, resolve, or restore. No matter how you define it, the basic measurement is the same: it’s the time it takes from when something goes down to when it is back and fully functional. This includes everything from finding the problem to fixing it. For ITOps teams, keeping MTTR to an absolute minimum is crucial.

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Log Management in the Age of Observability

Apr 12, 2023 By Melanie Achard In SolarWinds

The explosive growth of interconnected data across distributed systems has disrupted traditional development, DevOps, and ITOps practices and forced many organizations to rethink their cloud strategies. Higher-velocity feature development and more responsive support requests involve developers throughout the delivery cycle and require them to monitor and observe application behavior before releasing it to production.

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Feature Focus: March 2023

Apr 11, 2023 By Nick Rycar In Honeycomb

Spring has sprung, and the bees have been busy. Let’s have a look at what’s new in Honeycomb at the close of March.

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Expanding Our Vision: Unifying Client-Side Observability Data

Apr 10, 2023 By Todd H. Gardner In Request Metrics

In 2021, we started Request Metrics as a simple and developer-friendly service to measure and improve web performance. We built an incredible platform that distilled complex data down into simple reports and recommendations. Lots of teams around the world found valuable insights in Request Metrics that they couldn’t get anywhere else. But web performance data can be very unpredictable—the web slows down in all sorts of ways.

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Cribl Reference Architecture Series: Scaling Effectively for a High Volume of Agents

Apr 8, 2023 By Cribl In Cribl

Join Cribl’s Ed Bailey and Ahmed Kira in an insightful discussion about scaling your Cribl Stream architecture to accommodate a large number of agents. Managing high-volume agent data flows presents a unique set of challenges that must be addressed to ensure the reliable transmission of data from your endpoints to your analytics systems, meeting business resiliency requirements. Errors arising from agent scale and data volume can lead to difficult-to-diagnose and even more challenging-to-fix issues that tend to surface at the most inopportune times.

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Honeycomb + Odyssey

Apr 7, 2023 By Honeycomb In Honeycomb

Hear from Odyssey Interactive to learn how they implemented Honeycomb to accelerate development time and resolve issues quickly.

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OpenTelemetry 101: A Non-Technical Guide to Starting Your Open Observability Journey

Apr 6, 2023 By Tejo Prayaga In Fabrix

If you’re involved in IT Operations, you’ve probably heard of OpenTelemetry. It’s a hot topic in the observability industry, and for good reason. OpenTelemetry is a set of open-source tools and APIs that make it easy to collect telemetry data from your applications and infrastructure. This data can then be used to monitor your systems, troubleshoot problems, and improve performance.

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Gain agility through observability

Apr 6, 2023 By Heather Waters In ServiceNow

As companies navigate geopolitical challenges, macroeconomic headwinds, and the post-pandemic comedown, business leaders face intense pressure to drive software transformation, reduce costs, and compete faster in the cloud-transition era of “lift and shift.” Amid layoffs and a slowed pace of hiring, the demand for better tools, real-time insights, seamless experiences, and contextual analysis has skyrocketed.

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