Topic: observability
Sumo Logic updates allow developers to get faster application performance insights
The monitoring company Sumo Logic today announced new capabilities that will provide developers with the ability to get faster insights into the performance of their applications. These updates are being spread across a number of Sumo Logic’s offerings, including Real User Monitoring, Unified Entity Model, and Intelligent Alert Management. Real User Monitoring updates include insights … continue reading
CodeSee launches code visibility platform for enterprise
CodeSee launched an enterprise version its code visibility platform that enables users to visualize and automate code knowledge across the entire lifecycle. Developers can now map their code and services throughout the code lifecycle through the discovery and planning stage, development and code review all the way through production. “Today’s release reflects a vision we’ve … continue reading
The case for full-stack observability in a modern distributed application world
The application-first digital economy and future of work slowly taking shape over the past few years got a jolt of adrenaline in March of 2020. Before the pandemic, 50 percent of companies polled by the World Economic Forum expected that software, automation and AI would lead to some significant reskilling of their workforce as well … continue reading
The three main shifts in observability
With the increasing complexity of cloud-native applications, observability is the key to ensuring that your company can deliver high-quality products and services. In a recent SD Times Live! webinar, Chris Lentricchia, offering manager at Instana, explained that there have been three main shifts over the past few years in the way companies do observability. These … continue reading
APM: Cutting through the noise
It seems like the industry is leaving application performance management (APM) behind and moving towards a new observability world. But don’t be fooled. While vendors are rebranding themselves as observability tools, APM is still an important piece of the puzzle. “Observability is becoming a bigger focus today, but APM just by design will continue to … continue reading
SD Times news digest: Native fuzzing for Go, DVC Studio released, and LogStream 3.0 released
The developers behind the Go programming language announced that native fuzzing is ready for beta testing in its development branch, dev.fuzz. Fuzzing is a type of automated testing that continuously manipulates inputs into a program to find issues such as panics or bugs that existing unit tests might miss. RELATED CONTENT: Why developers love Go … continue reading
Observability: A process change, not a set of tools
If you do a Google search for the phrase “observability tools,” it’ll return about 3.3 million results. As observability is the hot thing right now, every vendor is trying to get aboard the observability train. But observability is not as simple as buying a tool; it’s more of a process change — a way of … continue reading
Catchpoint releases enhanced WebPageTest API
Digital experience monitoring solution provider Catchpoint today announced upgrades to the WebPageTest API that provide deeper performance metrics, immediate test results and integrations with CI/CD tools. The company also announced the API, which had been limited to a small numbers of users, is now widely available. WebPageTest is a performance measurement tool that can scale … continue reading
New Relic Explorer strengthens full-stack observability with new visualization and capabilities
New Relic is continuing to make its full-stack observability vision a reality with the release of New Relic Explorer. The new solution comes with new visualizations and capabilities that give engineers a complete view of their entire IT estate. The company announced its plans to reimagine full-stack observability last year by providing a unified platform … continue reading
SD Times news digest: Vercel raises $40 million to “build the next web,” AWS IoT Greengrass 20, and Lightrun’s new observability integrations
Vercel has announced a $40 million round of funding to “help everyone build the next web.” Vercel is a cloud platform for static sites and serverless functions that focuses on helping front-end development. The round of funding was led by GV and included Greenoaks Capital, Bedrock Capital, Geodesic Capital, Accel Partners and CRV. The company … continue reading
Rookout shifts observability left with server performance metrics for developers
Rookout wants developers to have a bigger role when it comes to application performance monitoring (APM). The company announced server performance metrics will now be available in its debugging workflow. According to the company, while CPU spikes, memory leaks and disks filling up were previously IT operations responsibility, as DevOps shift’s left, developers need to … continue reading
SD Times news digest: JetBrains WebStorm 2020.3, Instana Enterprise Observability for Microservices now available on AWS, Informatica’s new data lake management solution
This latest release of JetBrains’ JavaScript IDE is packed with many long-awaited enhancements, including support for Tailwind CSS, the ability to sync one’s IDE theme with their OS settings, and Git staging. WebStorm 2020.3 also includes a new welcome screen, the ability to sync the IDE theme with your OS settings, improvements for working with … continue reading
