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In the last two decades, the software industry has shifted away from on-premises applications to software-as-a-service (SaaS). SaaS now accounts for 70% of the business software market according to BetterCloud, and is worth more than $170bn annually, according to Gartner.
To help our customers reduce their overall observability costs, we’re excited to announce the Data Optimization Hub as part of our Open 360™ platform. The new hub inventories all of your incoming telemetry data, while providing simple filters to remove any data you don’t need. Gone are the days of paying for observability data you never use.
With Icinga DB Web you can filter the list views in a very elegant and lovely manner. If you haven’t tried this search bar yet, it’s time to begin now. Unlike in the monitoring module, where you have to tediously filter the views based on clicking through all the possible selections available to you, in Icinga DB Web it’s a very simple thing where you can do it instantly.
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As we settle into the time of year when we reflect on what we're thankful for, we tend to focus on important basics such as health, family and friends. But on a professional level, IT operations (ITOps) practitioners are thankful to avoid disastrous outages that can cause confusion, frustration, lost revenue and damaged reputations. The very last thing ITOps, network operations center (NOC) or site reliability engineering (SRE) teams want while eating their turkey and enjoying time with family is to get paged about an outage. These can be extremely costly - $12,913 per minute, in fact, and up to $1.5 million per hour for larger organizations.
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.
