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

How to improve your observability strategy: Introducing the Observability Journey Maturity Model

While many segments of the IT market move quickly, the observability space seems to move at lightning speed. Fueled by open source innovation, observability toolsets and best practices constantly evolve. Sometimes, it can be tough to keep up — and even tougher to know where your own observability strategy stands. That’s the exact challenge we aim to address with our new Observability Journey Maturity Model.

5 Important Reasons Why You Need Application Observability

Application performance monitoring (APM) has been around for a long time. Odds are if you’re tasked with overseeing app performance, you’ve had to deal with this technology to get an understanding of your applications and any issues that can arise in the name of troubleshooting. But there’s a new approach you should consider: application observability.

Now Available: Honeycomb Launches Data Residency in Europe

At Honeycomb, we are very concerned about privacy and data sovereignty—it’s something we take very seriously, and in an effort to serve our customers better, we’re thrilled to announce that we now offer data residency in Europe. This new instance will allow Honeycomb customers to store their data in the US, in Europe, or both. Let’s talk about the details.

Elastic Observability monitors metrics for Microsoft Azure in just minutes

Developers and SREs choose Microsoft Azure to run their applications because it is a trustworthy world-class cloud platform. It has also proven itself over the years as an extremely powerful and reliable infrastructure for hosting business-critical applications. Elastic Observability offers over 25 out-of-the-box integrations for Microsoft Azure services with more on the way. A full list of Azure integrations can be found in our online documentation.

Navigating IT and Security Consolidation in 2024

Please join Cribl’s Ed Bailey and Jackie McGuire for a dynamic discussion around IT and Security vendor consolidation in 2024. The current economic landscape poses challenges for companies to sustain operations without being profitable or having a clear path to profitability. As a response, businesses are either merging with similar companies or becoming part of larger entities through acquisitions. Change is afoot, so join the conversation as we dive into the ongoing transformations, discussing the implications for security and observability. Get ready for an engaging discussion.

Inside TeleTracking's journey to build a better observability platform with Grafana Cloud

Oren Lion, Director of Software Engineering, Productivity Engineering, and Tim Schruben, Vice President, Logistics Engineering, both work for TeleTracking, an integrated healthcare operations platform provider that is Expanding the Capacity to Care™ by helping health systems optimize access to care, streamline care delivery, and connect transitions of care.

Observability with OpenTelemetry and Checkly

Observability isn't just a buzzword; it's a vital compass guiding us through the maze of system health and performance. As we’ve adopted microservice architectures, the ability to know ‘what is currently happening in our system’ has diminished as our operational resilience has increased. We find services scattered among a maze of interconnections and interdependencies. And even the logs that used to guide are now scattered throughout this maze.

Getting started with Application Observability for Java

Links: Description: Get started with instrumenting Java applications with Grafana Cloud to observe them, detect anomalies, and find root causes. In this video, Grafana Developer Advocate Leandro Melendez outlines how to quickly get started with Application Observability for Java based on these three easy steps: Download the Grafana instrumentation agent Instrument an application and send telemetry data to the Grafana Cloud OTLP Endpoint Observe the service in Application Observability.