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TechStrong CTO and cofounder Mitch Ashley sat down with Lodewijk Bogaards, Brian Dawson and Cyrille Le Clerc, three industry experts to discuss the present and future of observability. Want to hear everything these experts have to say about the future of about the future of observability?

Microservices architecture allows technology companies to build application services around business capabilities. It enables rapid development and also boosts developer productivity. But it also introduces complexity. Troubleshooting and operating an internet-scale application based on microservices is hard. And that’s where distributed tracing comes into the picture. Traditional monolithic application architecture is easy to develop, deploy and monitor.

To supervise the behavior of distributed applications and track the origin of service failures and downtime, developers often use traditional monitoring technologies and tools. However, this approach can fall short in its ability to measure the overall health of modern cloud-native architectures, which can span multiple hosting environments and encompass hundreds of microservices.

SRE (site reliability engineering) is a discipline used by software engineering and IT teams to proactively build and maintain more reliable services. SRE is a functional way to apply software development solutions to IT operations problems. From IT monitoring to software delivery to incident response – site reliability engineers are focused on building and monitoring anything in production that improves service resiliency without harming development speed.

Heroku is a platform for deploying, running, and managing applications, which is written in a variety of programming languages, including Python, Java, C#, JavaScript, PHP, and others. Heroku's goal is to free you up to focus on your applications rather than infrastructure management. Logging is usually included in infrastructure management. Heroku provides a high-level log maintenance tool. In this Heroku logging article, we'll learn how to get the most out of Heroku logs.

We started the Feedback Week, because we wanted to hear what your thoughts around the Icinga Universe are. Whether it is about Icinga as a company, the products or the Community: in order to know what you feel and think about Icinga, we can develop the best possible monitoring tool for you. So here we are, recently finished off the second Feedback Week with a total of nearly 1300 votes all over Social Media and the Community!