Observability

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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OpenTelemetry: 3 questions to ask before choosing an observability solution

Feb 16, 2024 By Mark Covello In Grafana

As OpenTelemetry rises in popularity, more organizations are implementing, or planning to implement, the open source project to monitor their applications — and, meanwhile, more vendors are offering OpenTelemetry support. In fact, a quick Google search for “OpenTelemetry support” shows results ranging from legacy APM vendors to newer, cloud native solutions like Grafana Cloud.

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Cisco Live EMEA '24 - Let's talk Full-Stack Observability!

Feb 15, 2024 By AppDynamics In AppDynamics

Listen in on this conversation with Ronak Desai - Cisco AppDynamics SVP and General Manager for Full-Stack Observability where he discusses recent innovations such as the advancements with Digital Experience Monitoring and why DEM is important, Cisco AI Assistant and how Cisco leverages AI, and the Cisco Observability Platform with its huge number of developer led modules. Chapters.

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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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Cisco and Spectro Cloud: Easy Kubernetes observability

Feb 13, 2024 By Craig Ginsberg In AppDynamics

Deploying Kubernetes in production environments at scale is a common enterprise challenge. Learn how Cisco and Spectro Cloud ease deployment and management of Kubernetes clusters in the cloud, bare metal and virtualized data center, and at the edge.

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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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