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Observability

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

Why is Splunk growing rapidly within the observability market?

As organisations are making the move from on-prem to cloud solutions built on microservices architecture, their monitoring has become more complex. To get a more holistic view of their application services a comprehensive observability solution is needed. Splunk Observability strengthens digital resilience by preventing unplanned downtime.

Advantages of an AI-Powered Observability Pipeline

The expenses associated with collecting, storing, indexing, and analyzing data have become a considerable challenge for organizations. This data is growing as fast as 35% a year, multiplying the problems. This surge in data comes with a corresponding rise in infrastructure costs. These costs often force organizations to make decisions about what data they can afford to analyze, which tools they must use, and how and where to store data for long-term retention.

Observability tools and Internal Developer Portals

Observability tools help engineering teams understand the health and behavior of software. But the term “health” in the context of this type of tooling is fairly narrow in scope—pertaining to real-time performance, reliability, and availability. While these are three important metrics to monitor, they’re lagging indicators of bigger issues happening upstream.

New era of observability l Blackfire Continuous Profiler

A new era of observability: introducing Blackfire Continuous Profiler for PHP, Python, Node.js, and Go. Blackfire continuous profiler available to all Production plan customers. After extensive development and refinement, we are proud and excited to announce the immediate availability of our Continuous Profiler for all Production plan customers. This highly anticipated feature is now ready to elevate your application performance monitoring and troubleshooting experience.

Why MSPs Are Choosing Virtana for AIOps and Observability

If you are an MSP, AIOps can be a game changer for your business. By leveraging AI-driven automation, analytics, and insights across your managed IT services portfolio, you can drive operational excellence, improve service quality, and deliver greater value to your clients. But there are many AIOps and observability tools in the market. Here are 13 reasons why many MSPs select Virtana as their AIOps and observability partner of choice.

Swift: Transforming product instrumentation with Elastic Observability

As the leading global provider of secure financial transactions and payments, it's vital for SWIFT to stay relevant. With more than 45 million messages flowing through its systems every day and being at the heart of the financial industry, SWIFT is at the forefront of secure, frictionless financial services including sanctions screenings, compliance analytics, KYC (Know Your Customer) registry, and payment controls.

Maximize IT efficiency leveraging alert management with Elastic AI Assistant for Observability

Manage and correlate signals and alerts in Elastic Observability As organizations embrace increasingly complex and interconnected IT systems, the sheer volume of alerts generated by diverse monitoring tools has given rise to a critical challenge — how do we efficiently sift through the noise to identify and respond to the most crucial issues? Event management and correlation are two indispensable pillars in the realm of IT service management.

Use full context to unite observability and ops teams

IT teams are the invisible engines powering every modern organization. Yet they battle constantly to ensure the availability and reliability of applications and services across fragmented, hybrid-cloud infrastructures. In particular: Fragmented tools, siloed workflows, and inconsistent manual processes create an IT nightmare. Despite investing millions in observability and ITSM platforms, teams face alert fatigue, reactive incident response, and persistent outages.