In incident management, observability is the ability of an organization or team to infer a system's internal state from its external outputs.

Today at o11ycon+hnycon—right now, actually, if you’re reading this blog when it was posted—we’re announcing several new Honeycomb features during the keynote. Our industry and community have come a long way since we burst onto the scene, and I’m delighted to give you another version of Honeycomb that continues to demonstrate what’s possible with observability. And it includes metrics.

Customers need scale and flexibility from their cloud and this extends into supporting services such as monitoring and logging. Google Cloud’s Monitoring and Logging observability services are built on the same platforms used by all of Google that handle over 16 million metrics queries per second, 2.5 exabytes of logs per month, and over 14 quadrillion metric points on disk, as of 2020.

Here at LogicMonitor, we’re on a mission to build the most comprehensive, extensible, and intelligent monitoring and observability platform in the world to help businesses run seamlessly. We’ve spent more than a decade building a best-in-class monitoring platform. Over the past two years, however, we have further evolved our platform to deliver invaluable end-to-end observability across applications, networks, and infrastructure for companies of all sizes and in a variety of industries.

Ten times faster at a fraction of the cost. If you want a headline as to why you should consider adopting Elastic for security and observability, that is it. We often work with our customers to help them establish the business value of Elastic within their organizations. We commissioned Forrester to conduct a Total Economic Impact (TEI) study of our security and observability solutions so our customers have an unbiased view that they can share with their internal stakeholders.

This is the seventh chapter in a series of blog posts exploring the role that intelligent observability plays in the day-to-day life of smart teams. In this chapter, our DevOps Engineer, Sarah, experiments with low code and Moogsoft in her team’s DevOps toolchain to rush a new feature out the door to keep up with a competitor.

Salesforce was the first of many SaaS-based companies to succeed and see massive growth. Since they first started out in 1999, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) tools have taken the IT sector and, well the world, by storm. For one, they mitigate bloatware by moving applications from the client’s computer to the cloud. Plus, the sheer ease of use brought by cloud-based, plug-and-play software solutions has transformed all sorts of sectors.

Observability is a buzzword right now. Rightly so, as many companies are greatly concerned about what’s happening with their systems. Every company has become a software company and if they aren’t, they are being disrupted by one. IT leaders have more weight on their shoulders than ever before and it’s because digitization is rapidly changing the way people consume nearly everything.

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