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

Cisco and Splunk Bring Full-Stack Observability to the Entire Enterprise

We’re excited to announce that soon after the acquisition, Splunk and Cisco started teaming up to deliver engineers and ITOps teams with an improved leading observability experience. With the forces of Splunk and Cisco joined together, observability practitioners will be able to enjoy a new level of troubleshooting and monitoring across their entire stack, regardless of their deployment model.

What is hybrid observability? Transform ITOps with AI insights

In today’s rapidly evolving technological landscape, IT teams grapple with the complexities of managing hybrid environments, where on-premises infrastructure coexists with cloud-based services. A report by 451 Research highlights the prevalence of this challenge, revealing that over 60% of organizations operate in hybrid environments. Yet, many struggle to manage the intricacies of this architecture effectively.

New Splunk Innovations Help Build a Leading Observability Practice for the Whole Enterprise

So much goodness is coming your way! Find out all about the latest and greatest from Splunk Observability that helps you keep your entire stack up and running, no matter where it’s deployed or who’s troubleshooting.

Ask the Experts: Observability: What Can the Frontend Steal From the Backend?

What is the biggest value of #observability as practiced on the #backend that you are excited to see taken up as more #frontend #developers start practicing observability on their own? Featuring: Winston Hearn, Frontend Observability Expert and Hazel Weakly, Web Developer and #SRE.

Ask the Experts: Distributed Tracing, OpenTelemetry, and Connecting Your Frontend to Your Backend

While baggage isn’t required for distributed tracing, it is required for carrying metadata between services. How will the observability community address that and make it easier over time? Featuring: Winston Hearn, Frontend Observability Expert and Hazel Weakly, Web Developer and SRE.

Why should you care about DNS Observability?

If you look at typical Application interaction with service point it tends to happen in two stages – first we connect to the Service and when we are interfacing through that established connection. In this description though one thing stays invisible – you can’t simply connect to the Service through the hostname – that host name needs to be resolved into an IP address, and if this name resolution process does not work or does not perform, the application suffers.

The Importance of Observability for Healthcare Providers

The systems and data that healthcare providers utilize and process are fundamental to its successful operation. Therefore these organizations must invest in appropriate and powerful observability solutions that enable them to effectively monitor their systems and valuable data. These tools and solutions allow healthcare providers to securely manage, deliver, and ensure uptime for their entire IT infrastructure.

Your Guide to Observability Engineering in 2024

It may sound complicated and daunting, but so much of observability is about discovering the unknown unknowns in your critical systems. The capabilities of observability engineering can help you make those discoveries. Most organizations have some form of monitoring, alerting and troubleshooting, which can be adequate to a point but fall short when trying to determine the root cause of unexpected outages.

From "rebooting" to reliable and secure applications: Optimizing the customer experience

Not so long ago in my career, I remember when it was relatively acceptable for infrastructure or development teams to solve a problem by rebooting a server or just “turning things off and on again.” It didn’t matter what caused the problem or how long the reboot would fix things, provided they were fixed for now. Security teams were always held to a different standard.