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Splunk Named a Leader in the 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Observability Platforms

We are proud to announce that Splunk has been named a Leader in the 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Observability Platforms for the third year in a row. In our opinion, our recognition in the Observability category comes on the heels of Splunk being recognized for a tenth consecutive time as a Leader in the 2024 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Security Information and Event Management (SIEM). Splunk was the only vendor named a Leader in both SIEM and Observability for the Gartner Magic Quadrant three times.

Climbing the Security Pyramid: From Awareness to Automation with AI and Observability

Modern threats don't wait. They move fast, hide deep, and often strike without warning. That's why old-school security isn't enough anymore. You need more than firewalls and login rules. You need layers. You need clarity. And most of all, you need speed. This is where the security pyramid comes in. It shows how smart security stacks-from the ground up. It starts with awareness and ends with advanced tools like automation and AI. In this article, we'll break it down step by step-and show how observability and automation help you climb it.

The Fast Path to More Useful Telemetry

Over and over, we’ve seen that teams who invest in adding rich, relevant context to their telemetry end up debugging faster and collaborating more effectively during incidents. Getting meaningful context added can feel like a big cross-team project, but some of the highest-leverage improvements don’t require app code changes or coordination across services.

Observability as Code: Why You Should You Use OaC

Key takeaways In the fast-moving world of CI/CD pipelines, microservice architectures, and container orchestration, software changes rapidly. What exists in a codebase today might be gone next week. At this scale and speed, it’s impossible for development teams to manually track every line of code and every new piece of functionality.

Uptrace v2.0: The Future of Observability is Here

The Uptrace team is thrilled to announce the release of v2.0—our biggest update yet! This release represents a complete reimagining of how observability data should be stored, queried, and managed. With multi-project support, revolutionary JSON-based storage, powerful data transformations, and a host of developer-friendly features, Uptrace v2.0 is designed to scale with your growing infrastructure needs.

Grafana Labs is a Leader in the 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Observability Platforms

For the second year in a row, Grafana Labs has been named a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Observability Platforms — and this year, we’re proud to be recognized as the furthest in Completeness of Vision. In this video, Grafana Labs CTO Tom Wilkie shares what this recognition means, why our scores for execution and vision both improved, and how it reflects years of building a truly open, composable observability stack.

Coralogix | Magic Quadrant 2025

Today marks an exciting moment for all of us at Coralogix. We’re proud to share that Gartner has named us a Visionary in the 2025 Magic Quadrant for Observability Platforms. This recognition, we believe, reflects what we’ve been building toward for years: an observability platform that delivers scale, cost-efficiency, AI-powered insights, and tangible customer success.

What Is Hybrid Observability? A Healthcare IT Explainer

Healthcare IT environments have become incredibly complex. Think about everything running simultaneously in your organization: physical medical devices, cloud platforms, clinical applications like Epic, and patient-facing applications. Each component needs to work together seamlessly, much like how ICU monitors track multiple vital signs at once. Many healthcare organizations still use monitoring solutions designed for simpler times, when systems were more isolated.

Grafana Labs named a Leader again in the 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Observability Platforms

We’re thrilled to share that Grafana Labs has been recognized as a Leader in the 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Observability Platforms—for the second year in a row. This year’s report placed Grafana Labs furthest in “Completeness of Vision,” which we believe reflects our deep commitment to building a truly open, composable observability stack that gives users flexibility, control, and the tools to own their observability strategy.

Elastic named a Leader in the 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Observability Platforms

Observability has an investigation problem, and dashboards and alerts aren’t enough for solving problems in today’s complex systems. AI-driven capabilities, powerful analytics, and the ability to scale are essential to drive real-time investigations while keeping costs low. We think this is why Elastic has been named a Leader in the 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Observability Platforms for the second time.