In a world where software systems rule the digital landscape, there’s a lurking terror that goes bump in the code. It’s called “observability,” and you may not be prepared to pay its price.Observability is essential for maintaining the performance and reliability of digital creations. Like a boat in shark-infested waters, it’s a lifeline of modern software. But beware, for the … [Read more...] about 4 Strategies to Slash Observability Costs
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Your Guide to Prometheus Observability
Imagine you’re piloting a spaceship through the cosmos, embarking on a thrilling journey to explore the far reaches of the universe. As the captain of this ship, you need a dashboard that displays critical information about your vessel, such as fuel levels, navigation data, and life support systems. This dashboard is your lifeline, providing you with real-time insights about … [Read more...] about Your Guide to Prometheus Observability
An Overview of Essential Observability Metrics
Metrics are closely associated with cloud infrastructure monitoring or application performance monitoring – we monitor metrics like infrastructure CPU and request latency to understand how our services are responding to changes in the system, which is a good way to surface new production issues.As many teams transition to observability, collecting metric data isn’t enough. … [Read more...] about An Overview of Essential Observability Metrics
A Guide: Full Stack Observability Examples and Technologies
As modern software systems become increasingly distributed, interconnected, and complex, ensuring production reliability and performance is becoming harder and more stressful. Seemingly nondescript changes to our infrastructure or application can have massive impacts on system uptime, health, and performance, all while the cost of production incidents continues to grow.While we … [Read more...] about A Guide: Full Stack Observability Examples and Technologies
Tracing Your Steps Toward Full Kubernetes Observability
Kubernetes is one of the most important and influential technologies for building and operating software today because it’s so incredibly capable. It’s flexible, available, resilient, scalable, feature-rich and backed by a global community of innovators — that’s a pretty impressive list of intangibles to apply to any particular capability.At the same time, the complexity and … [Read more...] about Tracing Your Steps Toward Full Kubernetes Observability
Our 7 Favorite Observability Podcasts
This coming Saturday, Sept. 30, is International Podcast Day. It’s a medium that as little as 15 years ago had a very small footprint in the information landscape. Now, it’s hard to imagine our lives without them.Whether you want to get informed on a current event, discover stories of the past that may have been missed, or laugh along with your favorite hosts, podcasts fill our … [Read more...] about Our 7 Favorite Observability Podcasts
Native OpenTelemetry support in Elastic Observability
OpenTelemetry is more than just becoming the open ingestion standard for observability. As one of the major Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) projects, with as many commits as Kubernetes, it is gaining support from major ISVs and cloud providers delivering support for the framework. Many global companies from finance, insurance, tech, and other industries are starting to … [Read more...] about Native OpenTelemetry support in Elastic Observability
The 12 Cats of Observability
On the surface, business-critical IT infrastructure and cats may not seem like they have a lot in common. But they’re way more alike than you might think.Our feline friends contain multitudes, as any cat parent will tell you. They’re complex and can sometimes drive you up a wall. But once they warm up to you—and you warm up to them—the joys and benefits of having them in your … [Read more...] about The 12 Cats of Observability
Hot Topic: Increasing Cost-Efficient Observability with Cold Tier
Even as the global economy shows signs of a rebound, today’s observability customers are more focused than ever on driving utmost value from their investments.This isn’t simply because economics have forced organizations to closely review overhead and drive out unnecessary costs; the reality is that observability has become one of the leading budget items for every cloud … [Read more...] about Hot Topic: Increasing Cost-Efficient Observability with Cold Tier
Logz.io Shines Again! Named on Constellation Observability Shortlist
Logz.io continues to be recognized as a standout observability platform, this time being named by the Constellation Shortlist for Observability. Logz.io—provider of the Open 360™ platform for essential observability—was among 14 vendors selected after a review of more than 50 solutions based on client inquiries, partner conversations, customer references, vendor selection … [Read more...] about Logz.io Shines Again! Named on Constellation Observability Shortlist