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

Enhancing cloud native application observability on AWS with business transaction insights

With business transaction insights in AppDynamics Cloud, you can turn cloud native chaos into business context. Here’s how. In any organization, technology plays a vital role in nearly every aspect of the business — from marketing to operations to human resources. But increasingly, its role in revenue generation is taking center stage. Profitability and growth are now in the hands of CTOs and CIOs.

Log Management in the Age of Observability

The explosive growth of interconnected data across distributed systems has disrupted traditional development, DevOps, and ITOps practices and forced many organizations to rethink their cloud strategies. Higher-velocity feature development and more responsive support requests involve developers throughout the delivery cycle and require them to monitor and observe application behavior before releasing it to production.

Expanding Our Vision: Unifying Client-Side Observability Data

In 2021, we started Request Metrics as a simple and developer-friendly service to measure and improve web performance. We built an incredible platform that distilled complex data down into simple reports and recommendations. Lots of teams around the world found valuable insights in Request Metrics that they couldn’t get anywhere else. But web performance data can be very unpredictable—the web slows down in all sorts of ways.

Cribl Reference Architecture Series: Scaling Effectively for a High Volume of Agents

Join Cribl’s Ed Bailey and Ahmed Kira in an insightful discussion about scaling your Cribl Stream architecture to accommodate a large number of agents. Managing high-volume agent data flows presents a unique set of challenges that must be addressed to ensure the reliable transmission of data from your endpoints to your analytics systems, meeting business resiliency requirements. Errors arising from agent scale and data volume can lead to difficult-to-diagnose and even more challenging-to-fix issues that tend to surface at the most inopportune times.
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OpenTelemetry 101: A Non-Technical Guide to Starting Your Open Observability Journey

If you’re involved in IT Operations, you’ve probably heard of OpenTelemetry. It’s a hot topic in the observability industry, and for good reason. OpenTelemetry is a set of open-source tools and APIs that make it easy to collect telemetry data from your applications and infrastructure. This data can then be used to monitor your systems, troubleshoot problems, and improve performance.

Gain agility through observability

As companies navigate geopolitical challenges, macroeconomic headwinds, and the post-pandemic comedown, business leaders face intense pressure to drive software transformation, reduce costs, and compete faster in the cloud-transition era of “lift and shift.” Amid layoffs and a slowed pace of hiring, the demand for better tools, real-time insights, seamless experiences, and contextual analysis has skyrocketed.

Troubleshoot faster and modernize your apps with AWS Monitoring and Observability

As a company born in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud, we understand that operating at cloud scale requires balancing security, compliance, and operational safety with your commitment to innovation, speed, and agility. From cost optimization at scale to operational resiliency to application modernization, we know you’re facing various challenges and need reliable solutions.

The Future of Observability is Bright as Honeycomb Announces $50M in Series D Funding

TL;DR—This is a fundraising post! Yes, even in this economy. Here at Honeycomb, we've always focused more on the problems we help our customers solve rather than playing the meta game of posturing in startup-land—so these fundraising blog posts are usually the least fun to write (and read, probably). But this one is a little different.