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VictoriaMetrics

What Is Observability? It's More Than Metrics, Logs, and Traces

Oct 16, 2026 By MS Michelle Sebek In VictoriaMetrics
Modern systems, due to their distributed nature, rarely fail in simple ways. A request might pass through an API gateway, several microservices, a database, a message queue, and a third-party service before a response ever reaches a user. When something slows down or breaks, knowing that something is wrong is only the beginning. You need to figure out.
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grafana

Get observability in your pocket with the Grafana mobile app

Oct 15, 2026 By Ksenia Yadav In Grafana
When you’re on the go, your phone is often the only observability tool you have. And what you can do with it in the first few minutes matters. With the incredible innovation that has gone into mobile CPUs, GPUs and displays, a phone is a powerful device where you can immediately see what’s happening and start acting on it. And the Grafana mobile app now allows you to both see and act.
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logz.io

Best AI Observability Tools of 2026: Monitoring the AI You Build and the AI That Runs Your Ops

Oct 15, 2026 By Kevin Klein In logz.io
TL;DR “AI observability” now describes two different jobs. One is watching the LLM apps and AI agents your team ships: prompts, tool calls, token spend, and output quality. The other is putting AI agents to work on your production telemetry so incidents are already being investigated by the time an engineer logs in. Most engineering orgs in 2026 need both, and very few tools cover the two well.
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speedscale

Observability Never Really Shifted Left

Oct 14, 2026 By Alan Mon In Speedscale
We made software development faster. Now we need to make validation faster, too. For the last decade we have shifted development left. Testing, security, performance, and CI/CD all moved closer to the developer. Observability mostly did not. It still starts after deployment (we covered the incident side of this in Your Observability Stack Found the Fire), which means the people writing the code rarely have meaningful production behavior to observe while they build.
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honeycomb

Honeycomb Adds Another AWS Competency: Resilience Technology

Oct 14, 2026 By Jack Grisanti In Honeycomb
We're excited to share that Honeycomb has achieved yet another Amazon Web Services (AWS) Competency—the Resilience Technology Competency—which recognizes our ability to help customers detect, investigate, and recover from failures in production systems running on AWS. While receiving the competency designation is a fantastic recognition of the capabilities of the Honeycomb platform (we also received one in Financial Services earlier this year), it's ultimately not the point.
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sumologic

The Root Cause Agent: Bring an agentic approach to observability

Oct 13, 2026 By Michelle Beastall In Sumo Logic
For years, engineering teams have faced the same challenge during incidents: the systems generating alerts are becoming more complex, but the investigation that follows is still largely manual. Monitors are good at telling us that something is wrong. The harder question is why. When an alert fires, an engineer still has to work out where to look, which signals matter, what hypothesis to test, and how the evidence across logs and metrics fits together.
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The Business Side of Observability: Ramazan Karadavut on Customer Value and SolarWinds

Oct 13, 2026 By solarwindsinc In SolarWinds
In this episode of SolarWinds World Tour Conversations, we sit down with Ramazan Karadavut, Founder & Senior Architect at Consolit, to discuss his 20-year journey with SolarWinds and the power of end-to-end IT management. We explore real-world enterprise use cases, including monitoring large-scale banking networks across 10,000+ branches, and thousands of ATMs. We will also explore why moving beyond basic alerting into inventory management, change management, and investment reporting is essential for complex environments.
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coroot

Putting Amazon ECS on the map

Oct 13, 2026 By Nikolay Sivko In Coroot
Say "ECS" and most people picture serverless containers: no nodes to manage, and nothing underneath you are allowed to touch. For an eBPF-based agent that is a dead end. There is no host to run on, no privileged containers, no kernel to attach to. But ECS is not always serverless. With the EC2 launch type you bring the nodes and ECS brings the scheduler: task definitions, services, rolling deployments, daemons, placement.
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Aiven

Observability is a data problem

Oct 10, 2026 By Tony Piazza | In Aiven
TL;DR Metrics, logs, and traces each have a different shape, so each needs a different backend. Aiven for Metrics handles metrics and alerting, Aiven for OpenSearch handles keyword search across logs, and Aiven for ClickHouse handles analysis of high-volume, high-cardinality events. All three are upstream open source engines on the same Aiven platform, so you can start with one and add the others as your needs change.
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