Gartner predicts that by 2024, 30% of enterprises will adopt observability techniques to improve their business service performance — up from less than 10% in 2020. Indeed, observability is becoming a competitive advantage, and companies with a system in place to determine the health and state of business-critical services without human intervention have a distinctive edge. At the same time, adoption of Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) is increasing at an exponential rate, as IaC in the management of IT infrastructure (i.e., networks, containers, virtual machines, load balancers and more) enables ..read more

As enterprise IT organizations migrate to multi-cloud and cloud native architectures, the need for end-to-end visibility across the technology stack has become critically important. Cloud-based applications, containers, multiple cloud environments and software-defined infrastructure have dramatically heightened the managerial complexity of the fast-moving, global environments required to deliver the best digital experience for retail and business customers. Full-stack observability — the ability to monitor the entire IT ecosystem with business context — is essential in this hybrid, multi-cloud ..read more

In today’s complex and sprawling IT environments, monitoring without true observability ends up being like a game of whack-a-mole. The second you knock down one issue, the next one seems to pop up. Enterprise business and IT teams must be able to spot issues quickly and easily. But it’s not just a matter of resolving major incidents — it’s also about preventing them in the first place. And this can only be accomplished with advanced observability solutions and strategies. In this blog post, we’ll explore why IT’s growing footprint makes observability essential and highlight the trends, tools a ..read more

The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated digital transformation by as much as four to seven years for companies in all sectors and regions, according to a recent McKinsey Global Survey. To keep pace with this rapid development life cycle, 90% of enterprises expect their cloud usage going forward to exceed prior plans. In an era when being first to market and continuous improvement are paramount, businesses need to have the infrastructure in place to facilitate agile, resilient and secure application development. An overwhelming majority of them now embrace a multi-cloud strategy, relying on several p ..read more