Modern software environments and architectures like microservices have the potential to accelerate application development. But in many organizations, software engineering teams face a complex environment, which makes it difficult to diagnose and resolve performance issues and errors before they impact reliability and the customer experience.

Modern observability helps engineers and developers do their best work based on data, not opinions, so they can deliver the great software that powers great digital experiences for their customers, employees, and partners. Troubleshooting software systems has never been harder, particularly as changes are happening more often and systems are more distributed, complex, and short-lived. ...

Last year, the 2021 Observability Forecast report focused on how, driven by digital transformation, full-stack observability (o11y) has become missioncritical to the success of every modern business. The report provided compelling reasons why it’s time for organizations to shift to full-stack observability so that they can plan, build, deploy, and run great software that powers ...

Log management has evolved. Organizations have moved beyond sifting through raw dumps of application and infrastructure logs whenever something breaks. Logging now plays a crucial role in an organization’s operations, business intelligence, and marketing. Logs power observability. Well-structured logs are a superpower that enable organizations to understand quickly and easily how their whole system runs—and ...

Organizations are managing a more diverse array of infrastructure than ever, which increases security, risk, and compliance concerns and affects service-level metrics. Monitoring and observability help address these concerns. However, monitoring is fragmented and significant data is unmonitored. Even so, as cloud, cloud-native, and open-source adoption, usage, and spending continue to increase, so do observability ...