When it comes to observability, your organization will have no shortage of options for tools and platforms. Between open source software and proprietary vendors, you should be able to find the right tools to fit your use case, budget and IT infrastructure. Observability should be cost-efficient, easy to implement and customers should be provided with the best support possible.

Our friends at Tracetest recently released an integration with Honeycomb that allows you to build end-to-end and integration tests, powered by your existing distributed traces. You only need to point Tracetest to your existing trace data source—in this case, Honeycomb. This guest post from Adnan Rahić walks you through how the integration works.

The TensorFlow framework, developed by Google, is one of the most important platforms for creating deep neural network research and for training machine learning algorithms. Generally, it runs on the server side using powerful GPUs, consuming power and a lot of memory.

IT monitoring tools are often complex to license and their licensing models are not always cost-effective. Today, I’ll cover some of the licensing models you may encounter as you evaluate IT monitoring tools. I will also highlight how eG Enterprise licensing makes it a cost-effective, affordable and flexible choice for our customers using our monitoring and observability platform.

From its humble beginnings, Kubernetes’ growth story continues to be a testament to the power of open-source collaboration, and its current 1.28 second release is certainly no exception. It’s not just a product of ingenious coding but also the sweat and night oil of a global community – from seasoned industry stalwarts to students just making their debut in the open-source world.

Observability is being built by engineers for engineers. In reality, o11y is for all.

After a solid week in Vegas and another solid week of recovery, I’m back in the office (AKA sitting on my couch eating Doritos with chopsticks so I don’t get my keyboard dirty) to bring you my official Black Hat 2023 recap. This year’s event was noticeably scaled back, with fewer people swag surfing the business hall and more technical security folks in search of solutions for actual business problems.