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atatus

30+ Top Observability Tools to Monitor Websites and Applications [2026 Updated]

Feb 3, 2026 By Janani In Atatus
By incorporating observability tools into your stack, you can better understand how your complex infrastructure operates, reduce downtime, and empower developers to identify and fix problems quickly. However, it now takes considerably more work, time, and money to build the best observability tools for your infrastructure and applications. According to a Splunk survey, over half of the firms polled employ eight or more observability tools.
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sematext

OpenTelemetry Instrumentation Best Practices for Microservices Observability

Feb 3, 2026 By Sematext In Sematext
OpenTelemetry instrumentation is the foundation of modern microservices observability, but getting it right in production requires more than just enabling auto-instrumentation. This guide covers production-tested OpenTelemetry best practices that help engineering teams achieve reliable distributed tracing, control observability costs, and extract maximum value from their telemetry data.
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graylog

Observability vs Monitoring: Getting a Full Picture of the Environment

Feb 2, 2026 By Jeff Darrington In Graylog
Driving down the highway, you usually glance intermittently at your speedometer to ensure that you stay within the speed limit, or whatever window above the speed limit you’re willing to drive. While monitoring your speed mitigates the risk of a ticket, you still need to look out for various threats on the road, like cars going through stop signs. By observing your surroundings, you take in real-time information that can help prevent a crash.
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opsramp

Navigating the Signal Tsunami: Why Shared Observability Matters

Jan 29, 2026 By Shannon Kalvar In OpsRamp
Digital businesses today generate a flood of telemetry—metrics, logs, traces, and events—at a scale that grows exponentially with every new application, cloud service, and user interaction. In one recent IDC survey, every organization reported sharing observability data across teams, yet nearly half said poor collaboration still prevents them from identifying performance problems.
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How to Create an SNMP Poller in SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted

Jan 28, 2026 By solarwindsinc In SolarWinds
SolarWinds technical trainer Cheryl Nomanson presents a systematic approach to optimizing and building custom SNMP pollers. The tutorial walks through a step-by-step process starting with adding devices for SNMP monitoring using default pollers, then identifying missing metrics and checking if the required OIDs exist. If OIDs don't exist, she explains how to use alternative OIDs or data transformation tools.
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How Alerting Works in SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted

Jan 28, 2026 By solarwindsinc In SolarWinds
This training video from SolarWinds Academy provides a high-level overview of how the alerting process works within SolarWinds software. Technical trainer Cheryl Nomanson explains the step-by-step workflow, starting with the alerting engine continuously scanning the database for conditions that meet alert trigger thresholds. She covers how triggered elements are evaluated for suppressions (like time-of-day restrictions and scoping), and explains that only fully qualified conditions become actual alerts. The video details how alerts always display in the web console and may trigger additional actions like emails or scripts.
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mezmo

Take Back Control of Your Observability Spend

Jan 27, 2026 By Mezmo In Mezmo
As budgets reset for 2026, engineering leaders are making a resolution: no more vendor lock-in. Here’s how to keep that promise by building on the technical foundations of data reliability and simplified collection. It’s January 2026, and if you’re like most engineering leaders, you’re staring at your observability vendor contracts with a mix of frustration and resignation.
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