Monitoring is often not the first thing on the mind of the modern developer. Yet, it’s necessary at many points of the software development lifecycle, including: before deprecating an API, before launching a new feature, after launching the feature, and more. In fact, monitoring needs can vary much more than the classic Ops monitoring.There is one type of telemetry data that is … [Read more...] about Application Snapshots: A Valuable Observability Signal for Developers
Observability
Key-Thoughts on Cross-Organizational Observability Strategy
Logz.io ran two surveys earlier this year to better understand current trends, challenges, and strategies for implementing more effective and efficient observability – including the DevOps Pulse Survey and a survey we ran with Forrester Research. Together, we received responses from 1300+ DevOps and IT Ops practitioners on observability challenges, opportunities, and ownership … [Read more...] about Key-Thoughts on Cross-Organizational Observability Strategy
Survey Review: Key Challenges of Scaling Observability with Cloud Workloads
When you migrated critical infrastructure to the cloud, what were your goals and expectations?Odds are, you hoped leaving on-premises infrastructure would produce significant organizational benefits. You probably figured you’d streamline operations and reduce management overhead. You felt you’d have an easier time meeting business goals. Perhaps most important of all, you … [Read more...] about Survey Review: Key Challenges of Scaling Observability with Cloud Workloads
Where’s Open Source Observability Headed in 2022?
For the last five years, Logz.io has tracked and measured the pulse of DevOps, as well as adoption of key trends and technology, through our DevOps Pulse survey and report. One of the obvious focus areas for us, as a company whose products are based on industry-leading open source, is the increased rise of incredibly useful open-source observability solutions, in general. This … [Read more...] about Where’s Open Source Observability Headed in 2022?
Enterprise Observability: The Prometheus Challenge
Metrics storage engines must be specially engineered to accommodate the quirks of metrics time-series data. Prometheus is probably the most popular metrics storage engine today, powering numerous services including our own Logz.io Infrastructure Monitoring. But Prometheus was not enough for Slack given their web-scale operation. They set out to design a new storage engine that … [Read more...] about Enterprise Observability: The Prometheus Challenge
Who Owns Observability In Enterprises?
It’s common sense. When a logstorm hits, you don’t want to be left scrambling to find the one engineer from each team in your organization that actually understands the logging system – then spending even more time mapping the logging format of each team with the formats of every other team, all before you can […] Source link … [Read more...] about Who Owns Observability In Enterprises?
SaaS with PLG and bottom-up models needs observability
SaaS (software as a service) is the common model for many businesses today. Even longstanding behemoths such as Cisco and Microsoft have been strategically shifting their software products to SaaS and recurring revenue models (just think Office365 shift from licensed Office).These SaaS businesses need agility to move fast and remain competitive. This means agility in the IT … [Read more...] about SaaS with PLG and bottom-up models needs observability
How to use Elastic Observability with AWS
In 2022, it’s hard to find places in the business and technology ecosystem where performance is not measured, where lots of data is not collected and where insights are not analyzed to improve operational and business performance and trace accountability.In a world where every click and interaction matters, business leaders know it’s not enough to have retrospective reports of … [Read more...] about How to use Elastic Observability with AWS
Elastic and Microsoft Azure: Unified observability for Spring Boot applications
Analyzing Spring Boot application performanceAfter instrumenting and shipping logs from your Spring Boot application, you can use Elastic Observability to monitor, analyze, and search your data to keep your applications performing.You can also use the out-of-the-box Azure Spring Cloud dashboards within Elastic Observability to gain instant insights from your Azure Spring Cloud … [Read more...] about Elastic and Microsoft Azure: Unified observability for Spring Boot applications
Investigate Log4Shell exploits with Elastic Security and Observability
OverviewFollowing the discovery of Log4Shell, a vulnerability in Log4J2, Elastic released a blog post describing how users of our platform can leverage Elastic Security to help defend their networks. We also released an advisory detailing how Elastic products and users are impacted.In this blog, we expand on these initial posts and highlight how the combination of security and … [Read more...] about Investigate Log4Shell exploits with Elastic Security and Observability