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The DevOps pipeline is a crucial part of software development, but it can often get mired in bottlenecks. Most problems are caused by the development and operations teams having different responsibilities are due to inefficiencies in the pipeline design. However, thanks to continuous observability, DevOps now gets a new lease of life since it is possible to tweak the pipeline to suit the developer’s workflow.
Scrum metrics are an essential indicator of your team’s progress. In an agile team, they help you understand the pace and progress of every sprint, ascertain whether you’re on track for timely delivery or not, and more. Although scrum metrics are essential, they are only one facet of the delivery process — sure, they ensure you’re on track, but how do you ensure that there are no roadblocks during development? That’s precisely where observability helps.
Errors are part of building software. Even if you are one of the fabled 10X engineers, errors are still going to happen. When an error does occur, typically you are going to look at the stack trace to understand the why and who for triaging. But figuring out who to assign an issue to just based on the stack trace can be difficult. How many times do you see a stack trace in a Sentry issue, head to GitHub, and try to figure out who changed the line of code in question? Often would be our guess.
We are excited to announce the release of Graylog 5.0! Graylog 5.0 brings updates across our entire product line, including changes to infrastructure, Security, Operations, and our Open offerings. For more detailed information on what’s changed, visit our changelog pages for Graylog Open and Graylog Operations/Graylog Security.
The observability market is maturing. This evolution is clearly visible in the rise of OpenTelemetry, an open source framework for application performance monitoring and observability.
APM tools are Application Performance Monitoring tools that help to evaluate, analyze, and monitor the application's performance. APM is a part of Application Performance Management. However, when it comes to Performance Management at an enterprise level, it is a broader concept in Managing the whole application infrastructure.
Just like shopping on Black Friday, AWS re:Invent has become a post-Thanksgiving tradition for some of us at Datadog. We were excited to join tens of thousands of fellow AWS users and partners for this annual gathering that features new product announcements, technical sessions, networking, and fun. This year, we saw three themes emerge from the conference announcements and sessions.
