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

Focused Labs & Honeycomb: Better Together

We're excited to unveil a new collaboration with Focused Labs, a leap forward in our shared commitment to advancing modern observability practices and enhancing the robustness of legacy systems. This partnership is not just about scaling our service offerings but also about integrating Focused Labs' deep engineering expertise with our observability platform to deliver unparalleled customer experiences.

5 key takeaways from the Grafana Labs' 2024 Observability Survey

Regardless of the industry they operate in or the number of people they employ, businesses with mature observability practices can respond to incidents faster — and save time and money in the process, according to the second annual Grafana Labs Observability Survey. Organizations are making observability a critical part of their software development lifecycles as they grapple with the complexity of modern applications.

SolarWinds Observability helps you troubleshoot faster with New Log Patterns feature

SolarWinds® Observability now brings more intelligence to issue identification to help you troubleshoot smarter and faster. When an entity alert is triggered, Log Patterns automates an AIOps / ML-based analysis of events surrounding the triggering event. Using Log Patterns, you can skip the hours spent manually scrolling through event messages looking for unusual or significant patterns.

Introduction to AWS Observability in Grafana Cloud | Grafana

Grafana Cloud's streamlined approach to collecting and configuring your AWS data makes it easier to manage your cloud environment and improve performance. ☁️ Grafana Cloud is the easiest way to get started with Grafana dashboards, metrics, logs, and traces. Our forever-free tier includes access to 10k metrics, 50GB logs, 50GB traces and more. We also have plans for every use case.

Observe, Automate and Optimize | SolarWinds Day Virtual Event

You can’t manage what you can’t monitor and observe. IT ecosystem complexity is a part of operating in a hybrid multi-cloud, containerized microservices, digital transformation world, and the complexity is not magically going away. This virtual event shows how SolarWinds is solving what others can’t – abstracting the complexity, increasing visibility, and automating remediation across on-premises, hybrid, and cloud-native estates.

The Leading Observability Tools

Now, many teams are incorporating microservices architecture, with this trend only continuing. This allows them to employ their applications across distributed environments. Whilst this is advantageous as it makes it much simpler to build, scale, and deliver it can also become much more challenging to monitor and troubleshoot the components that make up the environment.

Modernizing financial services: A deep dive into Elastic Cloud on AWS for Observability, Security, and more

In the dynamic landscape of financial services, data is not just currency; it's the key to innovation and operational excellence. Data is constantly streamlining from devices, logins, transfers, transactions, and much more, and it’s bound to increase with an ongoing reliance on digital channels. This creates a massive opportunity and responsibility for financial institutions, as their customers (and regulators) demand more from banking providers.

OpenTelemetry Best Practices #1: Naming

Naming things, and specifically consistently naming things, is still one of the most useful pieces of work you can do in telemetry. It’s often overlooked as something that will just happen naturally and won’t cause too much of an issue—but it doesn’t happen naturally, it does cause issues, and you end up having to fix the data in pipelines or your backend tool.

Emerging trends in observability: GAI, AIOps, tools consolidation, and OpenTelemetry

See the results of our 2024 survey of over 500 observability decision-makers to find out where the industry is headed As technology evolution continues at its rapid pace, so does observability. Observability is becoming critical to driving positive business outcomes, and we wanted to understand how users are evaluating trends and their impact over the coming years.