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

Gain real user monitoring insights with Grafana Cloud Frontend Observability

At ObserabilityCON 2022, we announced a limited private preview program for Grafana Cloud Frontend Observability, our hosted service for real user monitoring. Today we are excited to introduce a public preview program that makes Frontend Observability accessible to all Grafana Cloud users, including those in our generous free-forever tier. Simply look for Frontend under Apps in the left-hand navigation of the Grafana Cloud UI and click through to set up the feature. (Not a Grafana Cloud user?

Remote Query Solves the Observability Data Problem

We are caught in a whirlwind of rapid data change. As more engineers, services and sophisticated practices are helping generate an astronomical amount of digital information, there’s a growing challenge of the data explosion. Coralogix offers a completely unique solution to the data problem. Using Coralogix Remote Query, the platform can drive cost savings without sacrificing insights or functionality.

Lightrun Bolsters Security Measures with Role-Based Access Control (RBAC)

Lightrun enhances its enterprise-grade platform with the addition of RBAC support to ensure that only authorized users have access to sensitive information and resources as they troubleshoot their live applications. By using Lightrun’s RBAC solution, organizations can create a centralized system for managing user permissions and access rights, making it easier to enforce security policies and prevent security breaches.

Our Favorite #chArt

Heatmaps are a beautiful thing. So are charts. Even better is that sometimes, they end up producing unintentional—or intentional, in the case of our happy o11ydays experiment—art. Here’s a collection of our favorite #chArt from our Pollinators Slack community. Today would be a great time to join if you’re into good conversation about OpenTelemetry, Honeycomb-y stuff, SLOs, and obviously, art.

From Monolithic to Microservices: Code Instrumentation Trends

Software architectures are greatly influenced by the size and scale of the software applications. With growing size, the code base becomes complex. With scale, the deployment becomes challenging. The result: debugging becomes an increasingly time-consuming process for developers.

Monitoring: The Rise of Data Observability

There’s an increasingly high cost to poor data quality today. Poor customer data costs companies six percent of their total sales, as per a UK Royal Mail study. And, as per IBM, bad data costs U.S. businesses $3.1 trillion per year. As companies transform into data-driven businesses, we witness a sharp interest in data observability.