Observability: Why It’s a Red Hot Tech Term

Recently, IBM struck a deal to acquire Databand.ai, which develops software for data observability. The purchase amount was not announced. However, the acquisition does show the importance of observability, as IBM has acquired similar companies during the past couple years. “Observability goes beyond traditional monitoring and is especially relevant as infrastructure and application landscapes become […]

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Top Observability Tools & Platforms 2022

Observability tools and platforms exist at the center of a distributed application architecture. They help DevOps and site reliability engineering (SRE) teams actively debug their systems rather than passively waiting for a customer, employee, or partner to report an outage. In the long run, successful observability helps reduce downtime and aids with continuous integration and […]

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Report: Observability’s Growth to Evolve into Automation Solutions in 2022

GlobalData has revealed key findings from its latest report, Integrated Observability Systems Help Make Sense of Distributed IT Portfolios, which reveals that accelerated digital transformation is steering operations teams toward new observability stacks  to oversee an increasingly diverse distributed IT infrastructures.  The report credits this automation acceleration to companies overwhelmed with the move from monolithic […]

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AI and Observability Platforms to Alter DevOps Economics

DevOps as a methodology for accelerating the development and deployment of applications has been unevenly employed for more than a decade. While there are many organizations that almost exclusively employ best DevOps practices to automate IT processes as much as possible, there are many organizations where reliance on  these concepts is limited to a small […]

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