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

Full Stack Observability Guide - Examples and Technologies

As modern software systems become increasingly distributed, interconnected, and complex, ensuring production reliability and performance is becoming harder and more stressful. Seemingly nondescript changes to our infrastructure or application can have massive impacts on system uptime, health, and performance, all while the cost of production incidents continues to grow.

Future-Proof Your Observability Strategy With CrowdStrike and Cribl

Traditional logging tools are struggling to keep up with the explosive pace of data growth. Data collection isn’t the most straightforward process — so deploying and configuring all the tools necessary to manage this growth is more difficult than ever, and navigating evolving logging and monitoring requirements only adds another layer of complexity to the situation.

The Single Pane of Glass in Modern Observability

Recently I caught up with Jamie Allen on Episode 67 of the Slight Reliability podcast to discuss the idea of a single pane of glass (SPOG). Jamie had written an article titled The Single Pain of Glass which coincidentally was what I titled Slight Reliability Episode 10. I thought given our shared use of puns and this topic that it was worth a conversation! So, what is a single pane of glass? Is it an idea with practical application? How does it fit into the world of modern observability?

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meshIQ - Seeking Partners to Deliver Observability Across Integration MESH

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Virtana Named in Prestigious Industry Research by Gartner

Virtana’s AI-powered platform is at the forefront of IT infrastructure management, offering a comprehensive suite of tools and services that empower IT leaders to make informed decisions on how to forecast demand and streamline operations. The rapid evolution of technology has ushered in an era of complexity and dynamism that IT leaders must navigate effectively.

Tracing Your Steps Toward Full Kubernetes Observability

Kubernetes is one of the most important and influential technologies for building and operating software today because it’s so incredibly capable. It’s flexible, available, resilient, scalable, feature-rich and backed by a global community of innovators — that’s a pretty impressive list of intangibles to apply to any particular capability.

Observability-OSS vs Paid vs Managed OSS with Hosted Graphite

Observability is a critical aspect of modern software development and infrastructure management. It involves the ability to gain insights into the internal workings of your systems, applications, and services through monitoring and collecting relevant data. With the increasing complexity of technology stacks and the need for real-time visibility, observability has become a fundamental requirement for businesses across various industries.

When and How to Use Aggregators

There's lots of great reasons to run OTel agents as aggregator / gateway collectors. In this video we discuss 4 of the most common! About ObservIQ: observIQ brings clarity and control to our customer's existing observability chaos. How? Through an observability pipeline: a fast, powerful and intuitive orchestration engine built for the modern observability team. Our product is designed to help teams significantly reduce cost, simplify collection, and standardize their observability data.

Why Does Observability Need OTel?

To successfully observe modern digital platforms, a new data collection approach was needed. And OpenTelemetry (OTel) was the answer - an industry-agreed open standard - not a single vendor's approach - on how observability (O11y) data should be collected from a platform. This separates out data collection from the vendors’ platform of data processing and visualisation, making the data collecting approach vendor agnostic.