In our previous post about containers and microservices, we covered the challenges of monitoring these new technologies as well as how you can use software-defined IT operations tools to overcome them. The recently released Forrester Research report, Monitoring Containerized Microservices?

Several months ago, the team here at Zenoss made some key predictions about infrastructure and service monitoring for 2019. Among them was this observation: A strategy relying on multiple disparate solutions to track the performance of the various aspects of an application’s performance no longer has legs, much as groups of infrastructure point tools are not effective at providing complete visibility across data center infrastructure.

We are excited to be recognized as a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Intelligent Application and Service Monitoring, Q2 2019. It covers vendors from infrastructure and cloud monitoring, application performance monitoring (APM) and AIOps. Rather than publishing a separate Wave for each of these vendor categories, we believe that this report creates a combined market category based on how solutions solve customer problems rather than on how technology vendors create market spaces.

Does it seem like every day we’re doing the same quick fixes? Deleting temporary files to free up space in a file system, bouncing a server, restarting a queue. Over and over. Whether automating these simple tasks or not, you’re responding to incidents that have already affected someone instead of making changes to prevent them from ever happening again.

Large organizations that wish to scale at an aggressive pace need IT departments that can be both nimble and agile. With DevOps and site reliability engineering (SRE) methodologies, IT teams can improve the agility, availability and performance of applications and services in their infrastructure. For those who are new to both concepts, here is a primer on how DevOps and SRE can work together to evolve IT operations.