Ask any cloud software team using Kubernetes (and most do); this powerful container orchestration technology is transformative, yet often truly challenging.There’s no question that Kubernetes has become the de-facto infrastructure for nearly any organization these days seeking to achieve business agility, developer autonomy and an internal structure that supports both the scale … [Read more...] about Unified Observability: Announcing Kubernetes 360
Observability
Observability is a Data Analytics Problem
Observability is a hot topic in the IT world these days. It is oftentimes discussed through the lens of the “three pillars of observability”: Logs, Metrics and Traces. Indeed these telemetry signal types help us understand what happened, where it happened and why it happened in our system.Observability ≠ logs + metrics + tracesHowever logs, metrics and traces are, by … [Read more...] about Observability is a Data Analytics Problem
Key Observability Scaling Requirements for Your Next Game Launch: Part III
So far in our series on scaling observability for game launches, we’ve discussed ways to 1) quickly analyze large volumes of telemetry data and, 2) ensure high-quality telemetry data for more effective analysis at lower costs.The best practices in these blogs outline best practices for scaling observability during game launch day – which is necessary to ensure high performance … [Read more...] about Key Observability Scaling Requirements for Your Next Game Launch: Part III
Key Observability Scaling Requirements for Your Next Game Launch: Part I
After months–or potentially, years–of hard work by teams across a gaming enterprise, when the day arrives for a game launch, the last thing your enterprise needs is slowdowns, glitches, outages or poor performance. It’s the death knell for any game, because for your avid gaming customers, there’s always something else (read: a game that isn’t yours) to check out.Collecting and … [Read more...] about Key Observability Scaling Requirements for Your Next Game Launch: Part I
How IT leaders build more proactive organizations using observability
In the lingua franca of modern IT architecture, latency is the perfect metaphor for an unresponsive business. If an organization’s latency is problematic, operations teams are always a step behind — reacting to events rather than anticipating them. But it doesn’t have to stay that way. For instance, Wells Fargo, a multinational financial services company headquartered in San … [Read more...] about How IT leaders build more proactive organizations using observability
Elastic Observability helps monitor your Azure workloads on the new Arm-based VMs
Microsoft Azure’s recently launched new Azure Virtual Machines (VMs) feature the Ampere Altra Arm-based processor. These new VMs are engineered to efficiently run horizontally scalable workloads such as web servers, application servers, and open source databases. They deliver excellent price-performance and represent an important addition to Microsoft Azure's portfolio of … [Read more...] about Elastic Observability helps monitor your Azure workloads on the new Arm-based VMs
How Observability Can Get Expensive
How much does monitoring and observability actually cost us?We all collect logs, metrics, traces, and possibly other telemetry data. Yet, this can get expensive pretty quickly, especially in today’s microservices-based systems. This leads into what is called “the cardinality problem.”On the latest episode of OpenObservability talks, I was thrilled to host Ben Sigelman, … [Read more...] about How Observability Can Get Expensive
What Does Observability Mean for Developers?
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.My podcast guest Liran Haimovitch is the … [Read more...] about What Does Observability Mean for Developers?
Observability can be the secret to enabling the board room
For a long time, the best many organizations could do was to look at trailing business and operational data to understand enterprise performance or make proactive business decisions. But today, with the right technology, data streams in real-time — IT leaders can instantly elevate risks and opportunities to their boards.This is where observability kicks in with answers. … [Read more...] about Observability can be the secret to enabling the board room
Continuous Profiling: A New Observability Signal
We’ve all grown used to logs, metrics and traces serving as the “three pillars of observability.” And indeed they are very important telemetry signals. But are they indeed the sum of the observability game? Not at all. In fact, one of the key trends in observability is moving beyond the ‘three pillars:These three pillars continue to be critically important. But it’s important … [Read more...] about Continuous Profiling: A New Observability Signal