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

Application Performance Monitoring vs Application Performance Observability

You’ve likely heard the term Observability lately. There’s a fundamental change taking place in the Monitoring space, and Observability is behind it. Observability itself is a broad topic, so in this post we’ll talk about what it means to move from Application Performance Monitoring to Application Performance Observability.

What Does Observability Mean For You?

The late 1990s were a crazy time in the technology industry. Apple converted a blueberry into a computer, Google still had a “new search engine” smell, and while Y2K loomed over our heads Napster was showing everyone how bad Metallica’s music sounded. Meanwhile, in a garage in Tulsa, Oklahoma, brothers Donald and David Yonce launched a network monitoring software company and named it SolarWinds.

Log Observer Connect: Leverage the power of Splunk Enterprise data in Splunk Observability Cloud

With Splunk Log Observer Connect it’s easier than ever to correlate all of your metric, trace and log data to deliver better customer experiences! Available now for existing Splunk Enterprise and Splunk Observability Customers. Log Observer Connect lets observability users explore the data they’re already sending to their existing Splunk instances with Splunk Log Observer’s intuitive no-code interface integrated in Splunk Observability, for faster troubleshooting, root-cause analysis and better cross-team collaboration.

OnCallogy Sessions

Being on call is challenging. It’s signing up to be operating complex services in a totally interruptible manner, at all hours of the day or night, with limited context. It’s therefore critical to have proper on-call on-boarding procedures, offer continuous training sessions, and continuously improve documentation. We also need to make sure people feel safe by providing ways to reduce their stress, and make room for questions to surface all sorts of uncertainties around our operations.

New Honeycomb Whitepaper on Frontend Observability

Big news: I can finally stop pointing anyone who asks about Honeycomb’s story for frontend observability to Emily’s blog post from 2017 on “Instrumenting Page Loads with Honeycomb.” (It was a great post, don’t get me wrong, but I don’t think any of us knew it would bear such weight for so long.) I am ecstatic to announce that we have released a new whitepaper called “Getting Started With Honeycomb Client-Side Instrumentation for Browser Applications,” wri

The Fellowship of the Stream: Unlock Radical Levels of Choice & Control with Observability Data

Cribl Stream is a vendor-agnostic observability pipeline that gives you the flexibility to collect, reduce, enrich, normalize, and route data from any source to any destination within your existing data infrastructure. You’ll finally achieve full control of your data, empowering you to choose how to treat your data to best support your business goals..

Top 5 Takeaways From GDC 2022

The Game Developers Conference (GDC) is a yearly event that brings together leading brands in the gaming industry to talk about trends in development and showcase new features and releases. One of the cool things about the conference is that it’s an excellent opportunity for gaming enthusiasts, aspiring game developers, and industry vendors to connect, network, learn and celebrate the achievements of the industry.