Report: AI Agents Increase Observability Costs
Cisco has released its Splunk State of Observability 2026 report, revealing that companies face growing costs and operational challenges as they deploy AI agents without sufficient monitoring capabilities. The report found that 57% of organizations spend more on telemetry, the data used to monitor IT systems, than on the infrastructure being monitored. Additionally, 55% of […]
Claude Platform Now Sends Agent Traces Straight to Your Observability Stack
Anthropic is making it easier to see what Claude-based agents do in production. The company has added OpenTelemetry trace export to the Claude Platform. Developers can now send traces from the Messages API, Claude Managed Agents, and the Claude SDKs to the observability tools they already use. The feature launched in public beta on October […]
Observability 2.0: Why DevOps Teams Are Moving From Monitoring to Intelligent System Understanding
For a long time, monitoring just meant staring at dashboards and waiting for something to flash red. Engineers tracked things like CPU usage, memory, response times, error rates, and uptime. If a number crossed a certain line, you’d get an alert. Then, someone dived in to figure out what was wrong. That basic approach isn’t […]
Dynatrace Acquires Arize as AI Agents Deepen the Observability Challenge
Dynatrace announced Thursday it has agreed to acquire AI observability company Arize in a $915 million cash and stock transaction. Rick McConnell, CEO of Dynatrace, said the company expects demand for AI observability will keep growing as more AI systems move into production. He said acquiring Arize would speed up Dynatrace’s roadmap, expand its developer […]
AIOps Isn’t Optional Anymore: What Modern DevOps Teams Must Adapt To
AIOps is becoming essential for DevOps teams, enabling faster incident response, less alert noise and improved reliability at scale.
Survey Surfaces Rising Tide of Investments in Observability
A survey of 628 enterprise IT leaders conducted by the Futurum Group finds well over a third (36%) plan on spending more than $1 million on observability in 2026, with 7% planning to spend in excess of $5 million. Mitch Ashley, vice president and practice lead for software lifecycle engineering at the Futurum Group, said […]
Apica Extends Scope and Reach of Platform for Managing Telemetry Data
Apica today updated its Ascent platform to add support for synthetic data that is increasingly being used by artificial intelligence (AI) agents to observe application environments. Version 2.16 of the platform adds support for a set of real user monitoring (RUM) and service level objective (SLO) dashboards, an ability to correlate changes made to any […]
Modular & Shift-Left Observability for Modern DevOps Pipelines
Shift-left observability makes monitoring a modular, built-in part of DevOps—improving reliability, cost efficiency, and visibility across modern cloud-native systems.
Observability: The Real Killer App
My friends, I’ve been around long enough in the world of DevOps, cybersecurity and cloud-native to see the “next big thing” fade into “just another dashboard.” But today I’m here to tell you: observability isn’t just another tool—it might very well be the killer app of our era. The Rise of Observability Remember when “monitoring” […]
Chronosphere Adds AI Remediation Guidance to Observability Platform
Chronosphere this week previewed artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities that are embedded into its observability platform that, in addition to helping identify the root cause of an issue, also provides remediation suggestions. Additionally, the company made available a Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server through which AI coding tools and agents will be able to query observability […]
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 […]
AppSignal Adds OpenTelemetry Support to Monitoring Platform
AppSignal has extended its application performance monitoring platform to provide native support for OpenTelemetry, an open source framework for instrumenting applications that is being advanced under the auspices of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). Wes Oudshoorn, chief product officer for AppSignal, said the implementation of OpenTelemetry is designed to enable DevOps teams with a […]
Centreon Extends Monitoring Reach into Observability Realm
Centreon this week generally made available an open source agent for monitoring IT and operational technology (OT) environments that incorporates the open source OpenTelemetry agent for instrumenting applications that is being advanced under the auspices of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). Raphaël Chauvel, chief product officer at Centreon, said now that the Centreon Monitoring […]
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.
Mastering the Art of Troubleshooting Large-Scale Distributed Systems
As distributed systems continue to evolve and grow in complexity, the ability to troubleshoot effectively will remain a critical skill for engineers and system administrators.
Real-Time Monitoring of Third-Party APIs: Benefits and Implementation
Exploring the benefits of real-time API monitoring for third-party integrations and provides a guide on implementing it effectively.
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.
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.
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.
Raspberry Pi 5: Faster, Better, Stronger — Spendier
In an extra #TheLongView: Everyone’s favorite single-board ARM computer, the Raspberry Pi, has a new generation coming soon.
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.