Predictive analytics has become a key goal in observability. If teams can foresee potential system failures, performance bottlenecks, or resource constraints before they happen, they can act preemptively to mitigate issues. AI holds the promise of making this possible. In this post, we explore how AI can push observability toward predictive analytics, the industry’s current hurdles, and practical use cases for leveraging AI today.

You hear us at Percepio talking about Observability a lot. For customers using our award-winning Tracealyzer tool, this might sound a bit strange – isn’t Tracealyzer about diagnostics, debugging and profiling? Mostly, yes, but let me share why we are putting so much emphasis on our Continuous Observability solutions.

Engineering teams are always shipping something—new services, resources, models, clusters, etc. You probably have a set of standards you expect developers to abide by when doing that work, like adequate testing, code coverage, resolution of outstanding vulnerabilities, etc. But how are you actually tracking and enforcing those standards? Without an Internal Developer Portal, you might find that to be an incredibly manual effort.

In today’s complex IT environments, logs are the unsung heroes of infrastructure management. They hold a wealth of information that can mean the difference between reactive firefighting and proactive performance tuning. Log analysis is a process in modern IT and security environments that involves collecting, processing, and interpreting log information generated by computer systems. These systems include the various applications and devices on a business network.

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