Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

Finances, strategy, and market expansion are all common CEO concerns. However, CEOs also need to focus on automatic advanced observability across highly dynamic environments. Network observability has become a boardroom discussion point because downtime directly impacts business performance. Observability helps reduce costs and enhance service quality. But what is network observability? Is observability truly necessary if you have a monitoring solution in place?

With the upcoming release of Calico v3.30 on the horizon, we are excited to introduce Calico Whisker, a simple yet powerful User Interface (UI) designed to enhance network observability and policy debugging. If you’ve ever struggled to make sense of network flow logs or troubleshoot policies in a complex Kubernetes cluster, Whisker is your friend!

Prometheus is an open-source toolkit for systems monitoring and alerting, designed to collect and store metrics as time-series data. It was initially created at SoundCloud, and has since become essential in the cloud-native ecosystem, benefiting from a powerful query language, dependable alerting functionality, and a pull-based architecture. Prometheus effectively monitors rapidly changing container environments, microservices, and cloud infrastructure. Its main benefits include.

Modern IT demands modern observability that flows with its dynamism and all-encompassing approach. Modern observability must overcome the constraints suffered by traditional monitoring due to its custom-built agent-based architectures. Monitoring tools converge poll-based methods with log analysis and application performance monitoring (APM), a process that can be slow and lacking in granularity that today's complex environments demand.

The power of AIOps and Observability relies on the ability to ingest, normalize, and correlate the large volumes and huge variety of data available to IT operations teams. With its support for both Broadcom and third-party data, DX Operational Observability (DX O2) gives these teams unmatched observability and insights. With so much data coming to DX O2, monitoring operators need to be notified when important events may occur: Without notifications, important alerts may be overlooked.

At Honeycomb, we’re actively growing our design system, Lattice, to ensure accessibility, optimize performance, and establish consistent design patterns across our product. One metric we use to measure Lattice is the adoption of components across the product. Adoption is about understanding how, where, and why they’re being used.