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

Sumo Logic extends its APM to browser

Over a year ago we decided to invest heavily in Application Observability, understanding the modern observability platform must unite logs, metrics, and traces in one analytics layer to better serve reliability use cases. We have also advocated a modern trend to acquire tracing data via open source industry standards like OpenTelemetry without vendor lock-in.

The basics of IoT, and why Prometheus works so well with it

Before we start, please take a moment to appreciate what day it is. IoT, or Internet of Things, has been a buzzword for longer than usual. Buzzwords usually have two common properties, and then their paths fork. I like thinking about buzzwords and about the useful aspects of what they mean. The most recent public example focuses on another buzzword currently in its hype phase: observability.

Using observability to scale AWS Lambda [Live session]

How to utilize observability to optimize your Lambdas for scale and maintain their performance over time - from development to production to scabability. How do you spot potentially slow-running Lambda functions and how do to power-tune them in development? Load testing and how you need a good observability tool for when you do load testing? How to do load testing? How to use observability and make crucial data available in production and at scale? Observability best practices and common mistakes.

Why Observability Is the Key Ingredient to Success

Digital transformation is accelerating at a staggering pace. Consider these statistics. In December 2019, Splunk partner Zoom had 10 million monthly active users. By the end of last year, that number was estimated to be closer to 300 million. It was part of an explosion of technological growth replicated across many industries and businesses in 2020. As Splunk CEO Doug Merritt said.

Observability & AIOps, the perfect combination for dynamic environments

IT teams live in dynamic environments and continuous integration/continuous delivery has been on high demand. In the dynamic environment, DevOps and underlying technologies such as containers and microservices, continue to grow more dynamic, and complex. Now, just like DevOps, observability has become a part of the software development life cycle.

Coffee Break Webinar Series: Intelligent Observability for DevOps

Amidst the nonstop pace of work to constantly evolve today’s digital business, we can forget to take a moment out to think about how it is that we’re doing that work. A new series of ‘coffee break’ webinars aim to provide that opportunity by pausing to look at the ways humans can best work with observability data. In particular, Coffee Break with Helen Beal looks at improving the work done by different types of software engineers that leverage artificial intelligence.

Observability vs. Monitoring: What's the Difference?

One of the more delicate debates in the DevOps world is what observability has to do with monitoring. Is observability just a trendy buzzword that means the same thing as monitoring? Is observability an improved version of monitoring? Are monitoring and observability different types of processes that solve different problems? The answer to those questions depends in part on your perspective.