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5 Guiding Principles of Digital Business Observability

Modern data-driven organizations are synergizing operations observability, business intelligence, and data science with digital business observability programs that break down data silos, increase productivity, and drive innovation. Digital business observability combines IT and business data with cutting-edge data science techniques, enabling deeper analysis and unlocking valuable insights that propel innovation across use cases from sales and marketing to product design and financial operations.

Seven innovative observability features to explore in the new year

See some of our recent observability feature and product releases that correlate application security and performance with your business critical KPIs. In our latest App Attention Index, consumers showed unprecedented levels of scrutiny when it comes to app experiences, with nearly two-thirds (62%) revealing their digital expectations are far higher now than they were just two years ago. In fact, 77% reported discontinued use or deletion of an app due to poor performance — within the past year.

Micrometer: The Gold Standard in Observability

In the dynamic realm of observability frameworks, one name stands out as the unspoken gold standard with the ability to guide developers through the intricacies of monitoring and data collection. Let’s look at the heart of open-source technologies and uncover the essence of a tool that has become the industry's beacon of excellence.

Getting Started with OpenTelemetry Visualization

OpenTelemetry is a Cloud Native Computing Foundation(CNCF) project aimed at standardizing the way we instrument applications for generating telemetry data(logs, metrics, and traces). However, OpenTelemetry does not provide storage and visualization for the collected telemetry data. For OpenTelemetry visualization, you need to use a backend that can ingest the collected data and provide a web UI to visualize it.

Up Your Observability Game With Attributes

Splunk Observability Cloud includes powerful features which automatically identify patterns within your data to surface trends. The resulting insights tell you why some customers aren’t getting an optimal experience from your application, and how you can improve it. Unlocking these features requires attributes to be included with your application traces. But how do you know which attributes are the most valuable for your application and business?

How to improve your observability strategy: Introducing the Observability Journey Maturity Model

While many segments of the IT market move quickly, the observability space seems to move at lightning speed. Fueled by open source innovation, observability toolsets and best practices constantly evolve. Sometimes, it can be tough to keep up — and even tougher to know where your own observability strategy stands. That’s the exact challenge we aim to address with our new Observability Journey Maturity Model.

5 Important Reasons Why You Need Application Observability

Application performance monitoring (APM) has been around for a long time. Odds are if you’re tasked with overseeing app performance, you’ve had to deal with this technology to get an understanding of your applications and any issues that can arise in the name of troubleshooting. But there’s a new approach you should consider: application observability.

Now Available: Honeycomb Launches Data Residency in Europe

At Honeycomb, we are very concerned about privacy and data sovereignty—it’s something we take very seriously, and in an effort to serve our customers better, we’re thrilled to announce that we now offer data residency in Europe. This new instance will allow Honeycomb customers to store their data in the US, in Europe, or both. Let’s talk about the details.

Elastic Observability monitors metrics for Microsoft Azure in just minutes

Developers and SREs choose Microsoft Azure to run their applications because it is a trustworthy world-class cloud platform. It has also proven itself over the years as an extremely powerful and reliable infrastructure for hosting business-critical applications. Elastic Observability offers over 25 out-of-the-box integrations for Microsoft Azure services with more on the way. A full list of Azure integrations can be found in our online documentation.

Navigating IT and Security Consolidation in 2024

Please join Cribl’s Ed Bailey and Jackie McGuire for a dynamic discussion around IT and Security vendor consolidation in 2024. The current economic landscape poses challenges for companies to sustain operations without being profitable or having a clear path to profitability. As a response, businesses are either merging with similar companies or becoming part of larger entities through acquisitions. Change is afoot, so join the conversation as we dive into the ongoing transformations, discussing the implications for security and observability. Get ready for an engaging discussion.