Monitoring backend signals has been standard practice for years, and tech companies have been alerting their SRE and software engineers when API endpoints are failing. But when you’re alerted about a backend issue, it’s often your end users who are directly affected. Shouldn’t we observe and alert on this user experience issues early on? As frontend monitoring is a newer practice, companies often struggle to identify signals that can help them pinpoint user frustrations or performance problems.

In 2018 Datadog released Watchdog to proactively detect anomalies on your observability data. But what defines an anomaly? How do you avoid false positives? At Datadog Summit London 2024, Nils Bunge, product manager at Datadog, shared the story of the creation of the first Datadog AI feature (Watchdog Alert), what we learned from it and how we applied those lessons to all the added AI functionalities across the years.

OpsRamp solves complex IT problems using its advanced cloud-native observability technology. In this demonstration, you'll see how easy it really is to answer performance and availability questions using metrics, events, logs, and distributed tracing data.

Find out how AI can help IT reduce burnout and power better Everywhere Work in Ivanti’s latest report: ivanti.com/research. Without data, you are not going to have AI. But the key here is to have a data architecture that will enable AI, says Ivanti CIO Robert Grazioli. Citing Ivanti’s research report, Everywhere Work Report 2024, he covers why remote and hybrid work has increased the burden and responsibility on today’s IT teams, and why AI is seen by many as a solution to lessen IT stress and put the power back in the hands of the end user.

Andreas Reiss, Head of Product Management, discusses product priorities for DX Operational Intelligence from Broadcom.

MDM geofencing is a security mechanism that empowers IT administrators to ensure corporate-owned devices are restricted to configured geographic areas. You can create digital location-based fences, set up device compliance rules and trigger corresponding actions when the rule are violated.