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SolarWinds Observability SaaS: Visibility across cloud-native, on-prem, and hybrid IT stacks.

Ready to transform your IT operations? SolarWinds Observability unifies your entire tech stack—network, infrastructure, apps, databases, and user experience—into one seamless platform. Gain business-level insights, analytics, and automation to optimize performance and ensure availability. Monitor everything: from cloud infrastructure to network devices, all on a single dashboard. With health scores, dynamic dependency maps, and detailed log analysis, pinpointing issues has never been easier.

The future is now, introducing Dynamic Observability from AI innovations built on logs

A year ago, I shared my thoughts at re:Invent, explaining why I joined Sumo Logic as CEO and laid out the importance of logs as a key differentiator. A year later, the atomic level of logs is even more paramount. It’s not just because Sumo Logic is years ahead in technology when it comes to ingesting and analyzing structured and unstructured logs.

From ELK Stack to easy - Elastic Observability on Elastic Cloud Serverless

Announcing the general availability of Elastic Observability on Elastic Cloud Serverless — a fully managed observability solution As organizations scale, an observability solution that can handle the complexity of distributed cloud environments and provide real-time insights often feels like an insurmountable challenge often due to data- and cost-related compromises.

Duolingo: Speaking the Language of Observability with Honeycomb

In the world of digital language learning, Duolingo stands out as a beacon of innovation and user engagement. With millions of users worldwide, their platform is designed not only to teach languages, but also to create a fun and engaging learning experience. Running on the robust AWS cloud infrastructure, Duolingo manages vast amounts of data and user interactions daily. As the company experienced rapid growth, Duolingo remained steadfast in their commitment to delivering a high-quality user experience.
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What Do DevOps Professionals Really Mean When They Talk About Kubernetes (K8s)?

In the world of DevOps, Kubernetes (K8s) is more than just a tool for managing containers-it's the backbone of modern infrastructure. When DevOps teams mention Kubernetes, they're referencing its vast capabilities, which extend far beyond basic container orchestration. They're talking about its ability to manage scaling, automation, networking, and security across complex, distributed systems. In this article, we'll explore what DevOps pros really mean when they discuss Kubernetes, highlighting the core features that make it a cornerstone of the DevOps ecosystem.

Observability to Generative AI: Journey in Evolving IT Operations

For those of us managing the ever-evolving IT infrastructure, the days of simple cause-and-effect relationships are long gone. A performance dip in one application might affect microservices, destabilizing the systems. Alerts – flood in, logs – pile up, and even the most sophisticated monitoring dashboards often leave asking: Where do we even begin?

Ingesting JSON Logs From Containers With the OpenTelemetry Collector

It’s very popular to push logs, in a formatted way, to the console output of an application (sometimes referred to as stdout). Although using a push-based approach like OTLP over gRPC/HTTP is preferred and has more benefits, there are many legacy systems that still use this approach. These systems typically use a JSON output for their logs. So, how do we get these JSON logs into a backend analysis system like Honeycomb that primarily accepts OTLP data?

Black Friday Without the Developer Nightmares: A Survival Guide

Black Friday, the traditional kickoff to the holiday shopping season, is set to make waves in 2024 with projected sales reaching an impressive $10.8 billion—a 9.9% increase from last year according to Statistics.blackfriday analysts. According to the same team, Cyber Monday sales in 2024 are expected to reach $13.2 billion—a 6.1% increase from 2023. Both events in sum are expected to generate $24 billion in sales.

OneFootball Scores an Observability Goal with Honeycomb

For football fans worldwide, staying connected to their favorite teams, players, and matches is a passion—and OneFootball delivers exactly that. The platform is a one-stop shop for football fans to follow their teams, get up-to-date information, and immerse themselves in global football culture. With over 100 million users spanning multiple continents, OneFootball is an essential companion for fans to track live scores, player stats, breaking news, and more.