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KubeCon 2024 | Interviews with Observability Experts | Observability Insights with Aunsh Chaudhari

Feb 20, 2025 By Splunk In Splunk
In this interview from KubeCon 2024, I sit down with Aunsh Chaudhari, a Product Manager at Splunk, to discuss the biggest trends shaping observability today. With a background in software development and hands-on experience with observability tools, Aunsh shares insights on OpenTelemetry adoption, cost optimization strategies, and the shift toward unified observability. We also touch on emerging topics like AI in observability and the challenges of scaling observability in modern environments.
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Apica

OpenTelemetry: The Future of Observability with Advanced Tracing and Metrics

Feb 20, 2025 By Oscar Parra In Apica
Hey there! Oscar here. After spending countless hours wrestling with various monitoring tools and proprietary solutions, I wanted to share my thoughts on what I believe is revolutionizing the observability landscape: OpenTelemetry (OTel). OpenTelemetry revolutionizes observability in distributed systems.
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honeycomb

Slicing Up-and Iterating on-SLOs

Feb 19, 2025 By Fred Hebert In Honeycomb
One of the main pieces of advice about Service Level Objectives (SLOs) is that they should focus on the user experience. Invariably, this leads to people further down the stack asking, “But how do I make my work fit the users?”—to which the answer is to redefine what we mean by “user.” In the end, a user is anyone who uses whatever it is you’re measuring.
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logicmonitor

Stronger together: (Agentic) AIOps and observability are the keys to IT resilience

Feb 18, 2025 By LogicMonitor In LogicMonitor
Every new layer of infrastructure piles onto an already fragile web of interconnected challenges, making it painfully clear: traditional monitoring can’t keep up. You’re drowning in alerts, buried in data, and yet somehow still flying blind when real issues arise. More notifications don’t mean more insight, and more data doesn’t guarantee better decisions.
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honeycomb

Wiring Up a Next.js Self-Hosted Application to Honeycomb

Feb 17, 2025 By Ken Rimple In Honeycomb
Are you attempting to connect Honeycomb to a standalone (not hosted with Vercel) Next.js application? Most of the Next.js OpenTelemetry samples in the wild show how to connect Next.js to Vercel’s observability solution when hosting on their platform. But what if you’re hosting your own standalone Next.js server on Node.js? This blog post will get you started ingesting your Next.js application’s telemetry into Honeycomb.
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honeycomb

Preempting Problems in a Sociotechnical System

Feb 13, 2025 By Nick Travaglini In Honeycomb
Here at Honeycomb, we emphasize that organizations are sociotechnical systems. At a high level, that means that “wet-brained” people and the stuff they do is irreducible to “dry-brained” computations. That cashes out as the inability to ultimately remove or replace people in organizations with computers, in spite of what artificial general intelligence (AGI) ideologues would have you believe.
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lightrun

The ROI of Developer-First Observability: Why It's a Game Changer

Feb 13, 2025 By Eran Kinsbruner In Lightrun
In today’s fast-paced software landscape, downtime is costly, debugging is time-consuming, and developers are constantly under pressure to resolve issues quickly. Observability tools have traditionally been built for operations and SRE teams, focusing on post-mortem analysis rather than proactive debugging. When developers gain real-time insights into live applications and fix issues without disrupting the software lifecycle it has been proven to be a game changer for a myriad of reasons.
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ScienceLogic

Understanding the Observability Data Lifecycle: From Data Ingestion to Automated Actions

Feb 11, 2025 By ScienceLogic In ScienceLogic
Modern IT estates are increasingly complex, generating vast amounts of data – some critical and actionable, but much of it mere noise. Extracting meaningful insights to ensure optimal system health and IT performance is beyond the scope of humans. This is where observability, enhanced by AI and automation, becomes essential.
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broadcom

Right Data, Right Now: Why Timely, Actionable Network Observability is Essential

Feb 11, 2025 By Alec Pinkham In Broadcom
For teams in many organizations, the work of IT and network management keeps getting more difficult. A recent EMA survey offers some findings that clearly illustrate this point. When respondents were asked which networking skills are the most difficult to find, several roles received a response of 30% or more, including network security, network monitoring and troubleshooting, and data center networking.
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cloudzero

Datadog Vs. New Relic: Comparing Observability Tools In 2025

Feb 10, 2025 By Cody Slingerland In CloudZero
Datadog and New Relic didn’t become some of the best observability platforms today by accident. Unlike traditional monitoring tools, both are built from the ground up to be cloud-native. This design is crucial for tracking system health across hybrid cloud infrastructure, modern applications, and microservices/containerized architectures. Both platforms also offer more flexible pricing models than the traditional subscription-based pricing you’ll see elsewhere.
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