Honeycomb CEO: Defining observability for modern cloud systems
Christine Yen is CEO and co-founder of data store and query engine company Honeycomb. She has strong opinions on system observability in the age of cloud computing, distributed services and virtualisation. Keen to get us all thinking about shift left (i.e. bring into play early) techniques in appli... Read more
Cisco offers more observability for cloud-native and Kubernetes
The Cisco Observability Platform features new functionality. Enterprises now have access to new Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM) and extended Berkeley Packets Filters (eBPF).
The update introduces an updated DEM application on the Cisco Observability Platform. Within this application, real us... Read more
Dynatrace widens lens on data observability
Dynatrace is a unified observability and security platform company with AI-powered capabilities for data analytics and automation. The company says it has now pledged to match the cadence of modern business information channels. As a branded product and service, Dynatrace Data Observability is desi... Read more
Dynatrace launches AI Observability
Dynatrace platform extension provides observability for Large Language Models (LLMs) and generative AI-powered applications.
The Dynatrace platform supports companies with Application Performance Monitoring to ensure software performance. At the Perform conference, however, the company unveiled ... Read more
Cegeka acquires Key-Performance, which focuses on observability
Cegeka is expanding its activities again with an acquisition within Belgium, where the IT service provider also has its origins. Belgian Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM) specialist Key-Performance was recently taken over.
The takeover gives Cegeka a specialist in the field of services such as... Read more
Datadog integrates Google Vertex AI into its observability platform
Datadog is now integrating the capabilities of the Google Vertex AI platform into its own application monitoring and security platform. This gives customers more insight, monitoring and analysis capabilities for the performance of their own AI and ML models.
The integration of Google Vertex AI i... Read more
Cisco buys cybersecurity and observability company Splunk for $28 billion
Cisco is intending to acquire Splunk. To make this happen, Splunk will be delisted. Cisco offers $157 per share. Consequently, the total acquisition will cost Cisco about $28 billion.
The acquisition has already received unanimous support from the boards of directors of both parties, Cisco indi... Read more
OpenTelemetry promises an open standard for observability
OpenTelemetry is an observability framework that combines data on logs, traces and metrics. The framework is used as an open standard that makes it possible to immediately link the programming languages and infrastructures your company uses.
Keeping business applications constantly up-to-date ca... Read more
The cloud drives innovation, but leads to dangerous IT complexity
Research from Cisco AppDynamics shows that nearly half of large companies are developing their innovations with cloud-native technologies. The research team surveyed 1,140 IT professionals from companies with more than $500 million in annual revenue.
78 percent of respondents said they are stori... Read more
Splunk integrates security and observability with Splunk AI
Splunk has unveiled Splunk AI at .conf23 in Las Vegas, which Techzine is attending. In addition to launching a generative chatbot, the security and observability company has integrated more AI innovations into its own platform.
"Everyone is talking about AI right now," observes SVP Products &... Read more