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Observability Is About Confidence

Observability is important to understand what’s happening in production. But carving out the time to add instrumentation to a codebase is daunting, and often treated as a separate task to writing features. This means that we end up instrumenting for observability long after a feature has shipped, usually when there’s a problem with it and we’ve lost all context. What if we instead treated observability similarly to how we treat tests?

Logit.io Unveils Exciting Enhancements: Integrating OpenSearch 2.10.0

We're thrilled to share an exciting update from Logit.io. As part of our ongoing commitment to providing cutting-edge observability solutions to our users, we've integrated OpenSearch 2.10.0 into our platform, bringing a host of advanced features to enhance your experience. Let's dive into what's new and how these changes can benefit your observability workflows.

Using Honeycomb for LLM Application Development

Ever since we launched Query Assistant last June, we’ve learned a lot about working with—and improving—Large Language Models (LLMs) in production with Honeycomb. Today, we’re sharing those techniques so that you can use them to achieve better outputs from your own LLM applications. The techniques in this blog are a new Honeycomb use case. You can use them today. For free. With Honeycomb.

Gartner IOCS replay: Achieving unified observability with data mesh

The single pane of glass is perhaps the most enduring and elusive goal of enterprise IT operations teams. When we polled our customers a couple of years ago, out of 184 respondents, 99% of them rated it as important to their business – with 64% indicating “extremely important”. The shared dream is to have: But unfortunately, the single pane of glass has become a bit of myth.

What's the Difference between AIOps and Observability?

In the ever-evolving world of IT, keeping an eye on application, service and system performance and addressing issues in real-time is crucial both to an organization’s customer experience, as well as its overall success. Two terms and approaches that have gained significant attention in recent years are AIOps and observability. While they both relate to improving IT monitoring and management, they serve distinct roles in enhancing operational efficiency.

Opinionated Observability with Ralph Meijer - Navigate Europe 23

Join Ralph Meijer from Netdata as he explores the concept of "Opinionated Observability" in our latest Navigate Europe 23 talk. Dive into the intricacies of transforming complex metrics into user-friendly visualizations and alerts. Ralph shares his professional journey and the challenges he faced in different roles, emphasizing the importance of understanding metric context and units. Discover how Netdata's innovative approach simplifies observability, offering pre-defined dashboards and alerts for efficient monitoring.

The role of observability in incident response

Observability has brought a new approach to IT infrastructure management, easing the workload on IT admins across the world and bringing more accuracy and efficiency. One of the clear beneficiaries of this evolution in IT infrastructure management is incident response. Incident response is the systematic process of identifying, analyzing, and mitigating security threats, breaches, or operational issues to minimize their impact on the continuity of business operations.

Micro Lesson: Monitoring and Troubleshooting with AWS Observability Solution

This video introduces Sumo Logic's AWS Observability solution, which is an all-in-one approach to give visibility into the important elements of the cloud infrastructure and assist in troubleshooting complex issues. This video further describes the features of the observability solution such as pre-built dashboards, prepackaged log searches, and the out-of-the-box alerts that help in monitoring and troubleshooting.