The typical portfolio for an enterprise is about 1,000 (mostly monolithic) applications—at least according to Dave McCann, vice president at Amazon Web Services (AWS) with responsibility for AWS Migration, Marketplace, and Control Services. He informed the audience of this at last year’s FutureStack19 and clarified it includes a combination of custom-developed and off-the-shelf software. In ...

Whether you’re a seasoned New Relic user or are just starting to understand how the New Relic platform works, there’s always a new tip or trick you can use to improve the performance of your cloud-hosted applications. Here are five best practices that can help you boost end-user experiences, simplify performance management, and optimize your ...

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. ...

Managing logs is critical for every business in every industry. With proper management and practices in place, logs have the power to help software engineers optimize the performance of systems and operations, identify and resolve technical issues, better manage resources, and strengthen security. The New Relic State of Logs report provides context and insights into ...

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 ...

The rapid adoption of modern IT architectures creates a challenge for legacy methods of monitoring and performance analysis. There is increased interplay between DevOps, security, site reliability engineering (SRE) and infrastructure and operations (I&O) practices — and business leadership is now more involved and more aware. Digital business observability and customer experience are key drivers ...