Report: Full-Stack Observability Cuts Downtime Costs
The numbers are sobering, at best. A new global survey from New Relic pegs the median cost of a high-impact IT outage at $2 million per hour (that’s roughly $33,333 a minute) with a median annual hit of $76 million. That’s not just a bad week; it’s a major operational risk. And it’s landing just […]
Honeycomb Adds Ability to Orchestrate Multiple AI Agents to Observability Platform
Honeycomb has added a Canvas framework for managing and orchestrating multiple artificial intelligence (AI) agents as they observe and query massive amounts of telemetry data. Morgante Pell, technical lead manager for engineering at Honeycomb, said Canvas is the latest extension to a series of Honeycomb Intelligence initiatives that, for example, provide access to an AI […]
New Relic Adds Support for Model Context Protocol to Observability Platform
New Relic this week added support for the Model Context Protocol (MCP) to its observability platform to surface insights into artificial intelligence (AI) agents and applications. Originally developed by Anthropic, MCP is rapidly becoming a de facto application programming interface (API) for enabling interoperability between AI agents and other sources of data. New Relic has […]
How AI-Based Insights Can Transform Observability
How AI-powered insights can help transform observability and enable organizations to better comprehend and manage their applications.
Observe Adds Generative AI Agents to Observability Platform
Observe, Inc. today launched a Project Voyager update that adds generative artificial intelligence (AI) agents to its namesake observability platform.
Logz’s AI Chatbot Makes Your Observability Tools Smart(er)
Everyone is adding AI to their applications. Sometimes that’s overkill. But Logz.io’s IQ Assistant, which purports to make the most of your software stack’s records, actually makes sense.
How to Migrate an Observability Platform to Open Source
Migrating to an open source stack gives you control over telemetry data and reduces observability costs. Here’s how to do it with open source.
Will Generative AI Succeed Where AIOps Failed?
Generative AI can go so many places that AIOps could never, and provides a general-purpose approach that can be applied in many different ways.
A New Year’s Resolution for Observability in 2024
As organizations embrace digital transformation, the need for robust, scalable and cost-effective observability solutions becomes paramount.
KubeCon 2023: Elevating Observability
Alan Shimel talks with Alex Burkhardt about Observe, Inc. and the company’s mission to elevate observability.
Observability: The Central Watchtower Your All-Seeing IT Needs
Database specialists and IT teams need a clear view of database performance telemetry if they want to maintain the health, stability and scalability of their services.
How to Alleviate Your Observability Challenges
Observability is becoming a keystone of contemporary DevOps practices. Even departments that weren’t traditionally a part of DevOps are seeing the benefits of being brought under the auspices of observability teams. In 2023, however, organizations are finding that the road to adoption is bumpier than expected. Here are seven of the biggest challenges DevOps teams […]
Microsoft kills Python 3.7 ¦ … and VBScript ¦ Exascaling ARM on Jupiter
In this week’s #TheLongView: VS Code drops support for Python 3.7, Windows drops VBScript, and Europe plans the fastest ARM supercomputer.
FCC: Net Neutrality is a ‘Thing’ Again ¦ Meta Shutters Big UK Site
In this week’s #TheLongView: Network neutrality is back on the FCC’s agenda, and unused London office gets Zucked.
Why Data Silos Are Killing Your Developer Productivity
Data silos are draining developers’ productivity. Here’s how to break away from these silos with better observability.
There’s No Value in Observability Bloat. Let’s Focus on the Essentials
Most companies only need the essential ingredients to satisfy their observability strategy, which means costs will be much more modest.
Oracle Bill is 5x Client’s Budget ¦ Toyota Out of Space
In this week’s The Long View: Birmingham looks like the Detroit of the UK—is it Oracle’s fault? Plus: Was Toyota’s factory failure caused by running out of disk space?
The Tragedy of the Data Commons: Balancing Innovation With Risk
Clean drinking water and fisheries are classic examples of the “tragedy of the commons,” the problem in economics and ecology where an individual is incentivized to consume as much of a shared resource as possible at the expense of the larger society. With fisheries, for example, a logical fisherman would like to make as many […]
Microsoft’s 9th Outage in 2023 ¦ RISE of RISC-V ¦ Meta Ends WFH
In this week’s #TheLongView: Redmond SaaS keeps failing, RISC-V is RISEing, and Meta is enforcing hybrid work.
Linux Tweak Brings Big Speedup ¦ DCs in SPAAACE (Redux) ¦ Atlassian Fires 500
In this week’s #TheLongView: Intel optimizes Linux multithreaded networking, data centers in space (again), and more DevOps layoffs.
Vercel Adds Observability Tools to Web Application Framework
Vercel today announced it has added a suite of observability tools to its platform for building web applications using Next.js, an instance of the open source React framework based on a JavaScript library. Vercel CTO Malte Ubl said the Vercel Monitoring tools make it simpler for developers to troubleshoot applications without relying on a DevOps […]
Dev of core-js Will Flip Table ¦ Another 451 PyPI Maldeps
In this week’s #TheLongView: Denis Pushkarev is fed up with core-js freeloaders, and hundreds more malicious packages found at PyPI.
OpenAI Hires 1,000 Low Wage Coders to Retrain Copilot ¦ Netflix Blocks Password Sharing
In this week’s #TheLongView: ChatGPT darling OpenAI wants people to write code in English, and the unintended consequences of blocking shared accounts.