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catchpoint

APM vs Observability: Observing beyond APM

Sep 11, 2025 By Leon Adato In Catchpoint
In my previous post I made a bold, sweeping statement that APM is not - in the most specific sense - a subset of observability. Still standing by it I stand by that because words matter and - like many "monitoring engineers" (IT folks who make monitoring and observability their specialty) - I, too, bear scars from the flame-wars on Twitter back in the 2020's where we fought internecine battles over the proper definition of (and number of pillars in) “observability”.
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VictoriaMetrics

Full-Stack Observability with VictoriaMetrics in the OTel Demo

Sep 10, 2025 By Diana Todea In VictoriaMetrics
The OpenTelemetry Astronomy Shop is a widely used demonstration environment designed to illustrate the concepts and practical implementation of observability in distributed systems. Built as a microservice-based e-commerce application, the demo provides developers with a near real-world environment where they can explore how telemetry data—metrics, logs, and traces—can be collected, processed, and visualized.
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honeycomb

Introducing Anomaly Detection: Your Early Warning System for Service Health

Sep 10, 2025 By Matt Ransford In Honeycomb
Modern engineering teams face a persistent challenge: knowing when something goes wrong before their customers do. With microservices architectures sprawling across dozens or hundreds of services, creating comprehensive alerting becomes an overwhelming task. You're left playing whack-a-mole with manual alert configurations, often missing critical issues or drowning in false positives.
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datadog

Visually identify observability gaps with Cloudcraft in Datadog

Sep 10, 2025 By Jace Harker In Datadog
Modern cloud environments are highly complex and dynamic, with critical services relying on large numbers of ephemeral resources. Ensuring observability coverage across this landscape is essential for troubleshooting, maintaining reliability, optimizing performance, and enforcing security standards. But as environments grow more elaborate and their ownership more dispersed, tracking observability coverage becomes increasingly challenging.
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metricfire

Visualize Logs Alongside Metrics: Complete Observability Elasticsearch Performance

Sep 10, 2025 By Benjamin Pitts In MetricFire
Elasticsearch is a distributed search and analytics engine that powers everything from log management platforms to e-commerce search bars. It excels at indexing and retrieving large volumes of data quickly, but like any complex system it can slow down under heavy load or inefficient queries.
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Introducing Honeycomb Intelligence Anomaly Detection

Sep 10, 2025 By Honeycomb In Honeycomb
Modern teams face a persistent challenge: knowing when something goes wrong before their customers do. With architectures sprawling across dozens or hundreds of services, creating comprehensive alerting becomes an overwhelming task. You're left playing whack-a-mole with manual alert configurations, often missing critical issues or drowning in false positives. Today, we're excited to announce our solution to this challenge: Anomaly Detection (currently in alpha), Honeycomb's proactive approach to understanding and acting on service health.
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broadcom

Observability and Monitoring Governance (Part 1 of 4)

Sep 9, 2025 By Steve Danseglio In Broadcom
In contrast to the many flavors of governance used for IT, such as data governance, audit and compliance, and governance and security, IT monitoring governance lacks a definition in many organizations. This is true even as teams have decades of experience monitoring the health, performance, and availability of applications, infrastructures, networks, and user experience. Good monitoring governance “just sort of happens—naturally, organically.” Not exactly!
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Introducing Honeycomb Intelligence MCP Server - Now GA!

Sep 9, 2025 By Honeycomb In Honeycomb
In the months since we launched our public beta, we’ve been hard at work making Honeycomb MCP more useful and capable for agents and human operators alike. Our goal with this project has been, from the start, to allow AI to engage in the same kind of investigatory loops that we guide users towards. Many of the new features are designed expressly with this in mind, the most exciting of which is BubbleUp, now available in.
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