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

Breaking the Cloud Illusion: The Hard Truth about Successful Migrations

Join our Kentik experts and Andrew Green, Research Analyst at GigaOm for a panel discussion on common challenges organizations face as they move their workloads to the cloud. They will discuss some tales from the field and ways organizations can mitigate some of these challenges, such as cost overruns, connectivity interruptions, and security considerations.

The Future of Observability: Navigating Challenges and Harnessing Opportunities

Observability solutions can easily and rapidly get complex — in terms of maintenance, time and budgetary constraints. But observability doesn’t have to be hard or expensive with the right solutions in place. The future of your observability can be a bright one.

Splunk and the Four Golden Signals

Last October, Splunk Observability Evangelist Jeremy Hicks wrote a great piece here about the Four Golden Signals of monitoring. Jeremy’s blog comes from the perspective of monitoring distributed cloud services with Splunk Observability Cloud, but the concepts of Four Golden Signals apply just as readily to monitoring traditional on-premises services and IT infrastructure.

Dashboards & Reports for New-Age Observability with DX UIM from Broadcom

In this 10-minute how-to video, 2nd in a series, learn more about DX UIM for new-age infrastructure observability. Watch to learn about inventory view and grouping, creating metric view dashboards and reports, Performance Reports Designer, List View Designer, and a sneak peek at a unified view.

Sneak Peek: New-Age Infra Observability Viewer with DX UIM from Broadcom

In this 6-min. video, see how an upcoming feature, Observability Viewer, will provide a new, consolidated view across the infrastructure estate. The DX UIM Observability Viewer feature is intended to allow customers to more quickly understand their operational situation.

Using Traces for Testing - SigNoz Community Call with TraceTest and DevOps Educator Paulo

This week we welcomed the TraceTest team to talk about how TraceTest can use your OpenTelemetry Traces to do truly deep end-to-end tracing of your stack. We also had Globo engineer and DevOps wizard Paulo Henrique de Morais Santiago, who along with experimenting with SigNoz as a New Relic alternative for Observability, is also the author of one of the top DevOps courses on Udemy. Check out his course at.

Simplifying Data Lake Management with an Observability Pipeline

Data Lakes can be difficult and costly to manage. They require skilled engineers to manage the infrastructure, keep data flowing, eliminate redundancy, and secure the data. We accept the difficulties because our data lakes house valuable information like logs, metrics, traces, etc. To add insult to injury, the data lake can be a black hole, where your data goes in but never comes out. If you are thinking there has to be a better way, we agree!