DevOps is an organizational philosophy that enables continuous delivery and continuous deployment with a focus on continuous testing, automation and collaboration among dev teams, business, and operations teams. Consequently, continuous monitoring is also a key phase of the DevOps lifecycle, which is where application performance monitoring tools come into the picture. APM tools enable developers to monitor user experience in real-time with an eye on the health and stability of their applications.

Grafana is an open-source platform for data visualization, monitoring, and analysis. It's designed around providing context-rich visualizations, mainly though graphs but also supports other ways to present data through pluggable panel architecture. Every dashboard is versatile and custom-buildable for specific projects of software development or business requirement. Grafana’s beautiful dashboards are one of the reasons Grafana is so popular with users.

As we head into 2020, it's clear that DevOps has finally crossed the divide and gone mainstream. With DevOps firmly ingrained as a standard practice, we now look at how it will evolve. DevOps is driving more overall alignment between development and operations teams than has ever existed in the past. For developers, that means building and delivering impeccable apps to market quickly.

Site reliability engineers have one of, if not the, toughest roles in any organization. While dealing with incidents is one part of the job, the other is to build reliable systems. Google’s SRE book sums this approach nicely. One of the most important challenges for an SRE when it comes to balancing work between firefighting and toil reduction is the issue of alert noise.