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By Mohana Ayeswariya J
Your on-call engineer gets paged. A critical service is down. Error rates are spiking. They open Sentry for errors. Flip to Grafana for metrics. Pivot to Kibana to search logs. Then jump to Lumigo, but that only covers the Lambda functions, not the Node.js backend throwing the actual errors. Three tabs become five. Five become eight. Half the incident is gone and your team is still piecing together what happened instead of fixing it. Sound familiar?
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By Pavithra Parthiban
In microservices and cloud-native environments, vulnerabilities buried in transitive dependencies or runtime behaviors can go undetected for weeks. During that time, your attack surface keeps expanding and production systems remain exposed. The longer remediation is delayed, the greater the risk of exploitation, compliance failures, and operational disruption.
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By Aiswarya S
Splunk isn't bad software. It's genuinely powerful. But in 2026, a lot of engineering teams are asking a fair question: are we getting $300K worth of value out of this? More often than not, the answer is no. We went through 15 alternatives - read the docs, tested where we could, and talked to engineers who made the switch. This is what we found.
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By Janani
By incorporating observability tools into your stack, you can better understand how your complex infrastructure operates, reduce downtime, and empower developers to identify and fix problems quickly. However, it now takes considerably more work, time, and money to build the best observability tools for your infrastructure and applications. According to a Splunk survey, over half of the firms polled employ eight or more observability tools.
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By Pavithra Parthiban
New Relic and Splunk are two prominent tools in the world of observability and monitoring, each serving distinct purposes. New Relic is used for Application Performance Monitoring (APM), offering a full-stack observability platform. It is important to note that New Relic is not a SIEM tool, its primary focus is performance monitoring. On the other hand, Splunk is used for log management, machine data analytics, and is widely utilized as a SIEM tool.
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By Mohana Ayeswariya J
Every application tells a story of user intent, system behavior, and business impact. To truly understand how your application performs, you need to go beyond logs and errors. You need metrics that provide actionable visibility across your stack. Application performance metrics are the foundation for delivering high-quality digital experiences, and they empower DevOps teams, developers, engineers, and site reliability engineers (SREs) to respond faster, scale smarter, and continuously improve.
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By Pavithra Parthiban
IT budgets are getting squeezed, yet teams are expected to deliver faster releases, higher reliability and tighter security. Observability has become one of the few levers that directly influences IT cost reduction because it gives teams the ability to understand exactly what’s consuming resources, wasting storage, dragging performance, and inflating operational workload. In this guide, you’ll learn seven evidence-backed strategies that leading engineering teams use to cut expenditure.
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By Vaishnavi
The distributed tracing landscape has evolved from “observability add-on” to core production infrastructure. In 2026, distributed tracing is no longer optional for engineering teams operating microservices, Kubernetes, or AI-driven workloads. It is now tightly coupled with incident response, cost optimization, and AI-assisted debugging.
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By Aiswarya S
If you're working in IT monitoring and observability, you simply cannot ignore the power of Datadog and New Relic. These two tools have plenty of features that can revolutionize your entire observability strategy and give you complete control over your infrastructure. These tools are built so as to capture the tiniest of details, be it on applications, infrastructure, databases, servers, or something completely on the cloud.
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By Pavithra Parthiban
Lumigo is a cloud-native observability platform designed primarily for serverless applications and microservices, providing distributed tracing, error detection, and performance monitoring. However, Lumigo may not meet every team's needs due to limitations in features, pricing, scalability, or support for other environments. Many organizations require Lumigo alternatives that provide broader infrastructure monitoring, more advanced analytics, or support for multi-cloud setups.
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