
Tag: observability
Why Roblox Picked VictoriaMetrics for Observability Data Overhaul
With more than 200 million active monthly users, Roblox is one of the most popular gaming platforms on the Internet. But all that global traffic means an enhanced need for infrastructure and application observability. Th Read more…
Observability Drives Rapid Resolution of Unplanned Downtime, Splunk Report Shows
Splunk has just released its State of Observability 2023 report that found observability leaders are four times as likely to resolve instances of unplanned downtime in minutes, versus hours or days. Reducing outages i Read more…
Honeycomb Taps Observability Buzz to Raise $50M Series D
Honeycomb, a cloud application observability platform, announced it has raised $50 million in Series D funding for a total of nearly $150 million. “The future of observability has never been more exciting, and this Read more…
Observability Overload: Grafana Labs Survey Builds a Case for Centralized Solutions
Grafana Labs released new survey findings that reveal DevOps and SRE teams are facing an overload of observability tools and data sources, leading them to seek more centralized observability solutions. “Grafana Labs Read more…
Fauna Boosts Observability with Logs
Fauna this week unveiled the addition of logs to its globally distributed database service, which should give customers greater observability into how their queries are performing and help reduce cloud costs. Fauna’ Read more…
Open Source Times Series Database VictoriaMetrics Sees Significant Growth
Ukrainian startup VictoriaMetrics has announced a 252% growth in 2022. The company is known for its open source time series database and monitoring solution. The company’s downloads reached 100 million in 2022, incl Read more…
Fluentd Rides Wave of Roll-Your-Own Observability
Companies that want to collect gobs of observability data but process the data in multiple places while keeping it free from analytic tool vendor’s proprietary formats may be interested in Fluentd, an open source data Read more…
9,500 Canceled Flights and Other Fallout Caused by Bad Data
It is not uncommon for technical issues to cause disruptions in transportation systems. The logistics systems that power air traffic, shipping routes, trains, and other forms of mass transportation operate with razor-thi Read more…
Observability Primed for a Breakout 2023: Prediction
In 2023, companies will continue to invest in upgrading their IT systems via legacy modernization, cloud-native adoption, and the embrace big data, analytics, and AI. It doesn’t take a soothsayer to know this. What’s Read more…
Mezmo’s Observability Pipeline Promises to Stop Runaway Data Flow
The vast amount of machine generated data created by the digital activities of businesses can be overwhelming to those striving to derive its value. With ever larger and more complex applications, greater consumer demand Read more…
What’s Holding Up Progress in Machine Learning and AI? It’s the Data, Stupid
The lack of a solid data foundation and solid data workflows is preventing companies from making more progress with machine learning and AI, according to a new Forrester Consulting survey conducted on behalf of Capital O Read more…
TIBCO’s ModelOps Takes AI Models Out of the Lab and Onto on the Road
Data management firm TIBCO has unveiled its new TIBCO ModelOps platform designed to enable faster deployment of AI models at scale. The Palo Alto-based company cited a 2021 survey from NewVantage Partners that showed Read more…
Short-Staffed IT Teams Need Unified Observability to Turn Insights into Action
The world has changed around IT teams. The basic formula may be the same—ensure the performance, accessibility and security of their organizations’ systems, services and applications. But the environment surrounding Read more…
Why 2022 Can Be the Year Financial Services Providers Embrace Ethical AI
Nearly two years after a global pandemic sent most banking customers online, the majority of financial institutions appear to be embracing digital transformation. But many still have a long way to go. For example, a rece Read more…
Splunk Shows Off Automated Anomaly Detection and More at .Conf22
Splunk kicked off its .conf22 user conference today by unveiling a host of updates to its core platform, including a demonstration of an automated anomaly detection system based on machine learning of time-series data an Read more…
VCs Open Up the Checkbook for Observability Startups
Observability continues to be one of the biggest tech trends in big data. It certainly has the attention of venture capitalists, who have committed hundreds of millions of dollars to data observability startups in recent Read more…
Cribl Announces $150M Series D, Launches Cribl Search
Observability vendor Cribl has announced a $150 million Series D round, bringing the company’s total funding to $400 million. Additionally, Cribl introduced a new product, Cribl Search, which it calls “a bold new Read more…
Confluent Gives Streaming Data More Enterprise Chops
Confluent today unveiled an update to its streaming data platform that will introduce new enterprise features, including more fine-grained permissions for data access, data observability, and a guarantee of four-nines of Read more…
AWS Charts a Multi-Pronged Path to IT Observability
There are scale problems in IT, and then there are AWS-scale problems. The size and complexity of the world’s largest public cloud provider dwarfs pretty much everything else. So when it comes to collecting and analy Read more…