The term Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) first appeared in Google in the early 2000s. In Google’s 2016 SRE Book, Benjamin Treynor Sloss wrote that, generally speaking, “an SRE team is responsible for the availability, latency, performance, efficiency, change management, monitoring, emergency response, and capacity planning of their service(s).” This means that the SRE teams at Google decide how a system should run in production as well as how to make it run that way.

A developer's viewpoint is distinct. It can be difficult to keep track of operations and detect the fault that is causing the software to malfunction when handling numerous sectors. What if you could detect the issue ahead of time and fix it as soon as possible? The tactics that we concentrate on and put into action are those that assist us in properly managing our tasks. Knowing about observability makes this possible. Let's take a closer look at it in this blog.

Oh goody, I’m so tickled to get this one. *rubs hands gleefully* Funny story, back in 2016–2017 we thought we were building Honeycomb primarily for DB use cases. The use cases are that killer. I’ve never seen another tool do the kinds of things you can do on the fly with Honeycomb and databases.

You’ve heard of observability, which has fast become one of the IT industry’s buzzwords du jour. But what about actionability, or the ability to translate observability into meaningful action? The latter term may not be a trending buzzword (not yet) – indeed, “actionability” perhaps sounds almost boring – but it’s just as essential as observability in managing complex, cloud-native environments.

Delivering value to customers quickly and efficiently is critical to the success of modern businesses. Understanding the process and timeframe during which an organization generates new ideas and then designs, develops and deploys them is vital to success. At the recent Illuminate User Conference, Drew Horn, Director of Business Development, held a discussion with Clara Ko, Director of Engineering at Sauce Labs, and Bryan Veselka, Director and Product Owner for Cloud and Automation at Vizient.

What comes first – observability or AIOps? Can you achieve observability without AIOps? Do you need AIOps if you already have an observability solution in place? These are all questions that any team considering AIOps will want to answer in order to determine the real-world value that AIOps tools stand to offer.

Happy New Year 2022! In 2021, Exoprise’s critical focus was on improving its product for monitoring digital experiences and mobilizing internal teams to improve customer adoption and SaaS/network experiences everywhere. As Covid continues to dominate the world, IT and business teams are increasingly looking for solutions like Exoprise Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM) to ensure end-users are productive with a seamless work-from-home experience.