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

What Is Application Performance Monitoring?

Feb 16, 2024 By Rox Williams In Honeycomb

Every business is a software business. And by software, we don’t mean code—we mean running software serving customers in production. Those customers may be internal to the company, they may pay you money, or they may represent attention that increases ad revenue—either way, making them happy is your business. And your fast, reliable software makes them happy. Application performance monitoring, also known as APM, represents the difference between code and running software.

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The Role of Observability in Telecoms

Feb 15, 2024 By David Benson In Logit.io

The rapid growth of 5G technology and expanse of the Telecoms industry has created the need for these organizations to implement effective data-driven decisions, to enable the future profitability of their companies. This raises the challenge of analyzing data from various sources across complex networks to derive insights and ultimately decision making.

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Top OpenTelemetry backends for storage and visualization

Feb 15, 2024 By Uptrace In Uptrace

Choosing an OpenTelemetry backend depends on several factors, such as your monitoring and observability requirements, current infrastructure, scalability needs, and budget constraints.

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Safer Client-Side Instrumentation with Honeycomb's Ingest-Only API Keys

Feb 14, 2024 By Jason Harley In Honeycomb

We're delighted to introduce our new Ingest API Keys, a significant step toward enabling all Honeycomb customers to manage their observability complexity simply, efficiently, and securely. Ingest Keys are currently available for Environment & Services customers, with Classic support and programmatic key management capabilities under development and coming soon!

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Why ngrok Prioritized a Datadog Integration for Streamlined Monitoring of HTTP Events

Feb 14, 2024 By Datadog In Datadog

ngrok delivers instant ingress to your applications in any cloud, private network, or devices with authentication, load balancing, and other critical controls using their global points of presence. Hear from Chad Tindel, Field CTO & VP WW Solution Architecture, on why Datadog was their most requested integration and how it provides an easy pathway to ship application and traffic logs into one unified observability platform.

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Custom Metrics and their importance in Observability

Feb 14, 2024 By Ian Thompson In Splunk

In my role here at Splunk, I get the opportunity to speak to a number of our customers about the challenges they are facing in building and running these complex platforms that power today’s environments. And what’s more, is that the challenges are more or less the same.

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Honeycomb CCP Games Case Study

Feb 13, 2024 By Honeycomb In Honeycomb

Imagine a universe in which a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) sets Guinness World Records for the size of its online space battles—and that game is built on 20-year-old code. Well, imagine no more. Welcome to the world of EVE Online, where hundreds of thousands of players interact across 7,800+ star systems and participate in more than one million daily market transactions. As you might guess, updating and maintaining this codebase without interrupting game play could pose quite a challenge.

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Data-centric AIOps: The Next Frontier With Observability Pipelines

Feb 12, 2024 By Shailesh Manjrekar In Fabrix

Data-centric AI is the new frontier in AI, where the models themselves now remain stationary while tools, techniques and engineering practices improve data quality. As Andrew Ng puts it, “Data-centric AI is the discipline of systematically engineering data to build an AI system.”

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Advancing Observability Maturity: Core Benefits

Feb 12, 2024 By Eran Kinsbruner In Lightrun

One of the major trends in software development in the last decade has been “shifting left” responsibilities that have traditionally been under operation’s domain to earlier in the software development life cycle (SDLC). It first came in the form of DevOps where a lot of the software engineering best practices were introduced to the deploy, operate, monitor phases. Such examples include continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) and Infrastructure as Code (IaC).

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Streamlining Cloud Operations by Unifying Security & Observability

Feb 9, 2024 By Mark Bakker In StackState

Many companies are using cloud technologies to become more agile, scalable, and cost-effective during their digital transformation. However, this change brings new challenges in maintaining the security and performance of applications and infrastructure in the cloud. Security and observability go hand-in-hand.

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