observability

Cisco Unfurls Observability Cloud for Kubernetes Environments
At its Cisco Live! event this week, Cisco added an AppDynamics Cloud observability service that is optimized for microservices-based applications constructed using containers. Gregg Ostrowski, executive CTO for Cisco AppDynamics, says AppDynamics ...

Datadog Extends Kubernetes Observability Reach
During the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2022 conference, Datadog added support for the Datadog Operator for Kubernetes, Amazon EKS Blueprints Add-On, Helm integration and OpenTelemetry Span Ingestion to its container monitoring service ...

New Relic Dives Deeper Into Kubernetes Observability
At the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2022 conference, New Relic revealed it has added a more streamlined approach to collecting metrics using the extended Berkeley Packet Filter (eBPF) in the Linux kernel ...

The Power of Asking Questions: Container Scaling and Observability
I always tell people, “Observability is not logs, metrics and traces! Observability is empowering your team to ask questions.” That’s very aspirational and sounds good, but it’s not at all clear. I ...

Container Security Challenges Impacting Pace of App Dev
A global survey finds 96% of respondents reporting their companies are experiencing cloud-native application challenges that are leading to slower deployment cycles, with more than two-thirds (67%) naming security as the top ...

How to Avoid Drowning In Cloud-Native Observability Data
Cloud-native monitoring is becoming more essential as companies seek to improve how their infrastructure operates. This data can be leveraged for root cause analysis, improving response times to incidents and retaining available ...

The State of Cloud-Native Observability Tools
Observability is becoming more and more critical for overseeing the health of large cloud-native software ecosystems. With better access to data like logs, metrics and traces, engineers can better maintain their systems ...

Auditing and Compliance in the Cloud-Native Era
Once upon a time, auditing and compliance were relatively straightforward—albeit tedious—tasks. Fast-forward to the cloud-native age in which we currently live and you’ll find the auditing and compliance landscape has changed dramatically ...

Chronosphere Adds Query Builder Tool Based on PromQL
Chronosphere, a provider of an observability platform for cloud-native applications based on microservices, this week added support for a Query Builder tool based on the Prometheus query language (PromQL). That capability comes ...

7 Open Source Cloud-Native Tools For Observability and Analysis
In 2021, ‘observability’ is close to gaining buzzword status. This is perhaps because, for years, monitoring wasn’t as standardized in software development. Tracing was given less forethought, and applications produced logs in ...