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The latest News and Information on Observabilty for complex systems and related technologies.

Cloud OnAir: CE TV: Application Observability with LightStep

Observability remains a key challenge as customers embrace DevOps. Join Daniel "Spoons" Spoonhower, the CTO and Founder of Lightstep, a Google Cloud customer, and Yuri Grinshteyn, a Google Cloud Customer Engineer to learn about how Lightstep was built on Google Cloud to enable you to monitor what matters most and diagnose anomalies within seconds across web, mobile, monoliths and microservices.

Logz.io Releases Alice The First Observability Bot to accelerate Chat-Ops and Data Insight On-the-Go

Boston and Tel Aviv — August 22, 2018 — Logz.io, the leader in AI-powered log analysis, releases Alice, a new Slack-based ChatOps solution that empowers DevOps teams to easily accelerate collaboration and data exploration in a manner that is flexible and accessible on-the-go. The tool enables DevOps teams to implement a ChatOps approach to logging and monitoring directly within Slack and remain connected regardless of their location.

Why Observability Matters - Christine Spang

The macro landscape in software has changed in the last decade—metrics, monitoring, unstructured logs, and alerting aren't enough to tell what our software is doing anymore. This opening keynote will focus on how we've achieved observability on the Nylas platform, using many concrete examples—and will show what observability means to us and where we're still lacking.

The fastest, most direct route to instrumented code: a Honeycomb Beeline

If you’re feeling too busy or overwhelmed to instrument your code, we are here for you. We’ve talked many times about the value of instrumentation, and how it’s necessary to instrument your code properly to have access to the kind of data you need to get real observability. Instrumenting your code can mean a lot of things, but in particular it means you have to augment it in many different places, which is time-consuming.

So What is Observability Anyway

It’s amazing. It’s brand new. Everyone needs it. It is “the next best thing”. Only half of these statements are true, it is not new and it is not the next best thing. It is branding an existing paradigm that many companies use and rely on—but—it is amazing and everyone should want it. If you’re new to the concept, what does observability really mean and how can it help transform your operations?

Get Observability for Your Mobile Apps with Honeycomb

If you think about it, mobile apps are among the production services most in need of real observability: nearly countless hardware platforms and operating systems in combination with your app’s code result in a dizzying matrix of possible sources for any given issue, which means you need the power of true high-cardinality search to solve your problems.