2018 saw modern enterprises adopting different approaches and tools to predict and eliminate IT outages using data collection and analytics — from modeling and performance data to log, event and application data. The advancements in machine learning and AI will help DevOps and IT Ops push boundaries in 2019, enabling them to collect streaming data in real time and get insights to optimize and improve IT performance. Here are some of the trends we are observing for 2019.

Loki and Grafana are a perfect match. The backend is kept lean and space-efficient, while the user interface allows ad-hoc field parsing and simple statistics. This post details some of the UX goals we had to deliver logs simpler and faster.

You may have heard on many occasions that this technology will change the world forever. And if you’re old enough, you’ll have seen that on some occasions, indeed, it has been like that, but on others, things have gone on as usual and that technology that was going to wipe everything out has ended up in the drawer of forgetfulness.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is already competing with humans for the jobs so many of us have built our careers on. Whether this is progress or the beginning of the end of civilization, it’s probably inevitable. But don’t panic: robots still can’t feel, which is good news for anyone aspiring to a long and fruitful career.

Xamarin is based on Mono, the open source implementation of Microsoft's .NET Standard. It allows us to create apps that easily run in multiple devices like phones and smart watches. It solves the difficulties many developers face when they’re developing cross-platform apps like different coding languages and UI paradigms. With Xamarin, you can use C# as a single language for iOS, Android, and Universal Windows apps.

This month, we are excited to deliver additional AppDynamics functionalities across observability, intelligence, and usability that will help enterprise companies gain end-to-end intelligence across customer experience and application performance.