Australian organizations Battling Tool Sprawl on Quest for Full-Stack Observability

Australian and New Zealand organisations are often struggling to manage five or more observability tools, though for some, the effort and investment is worth AU $1 million a year to the bottom line. Continue reading Australian organizations Battling Tool Sprawl on Quest for Full-Stack Observability

Cisco to Acquire Splunk for $28 Billion, Accelerating AI-Enabled Security and Observability

On Thursday Cisco agreed to buy Splunk in a $28 billion deal intended to address AI-enabled security and observability issues. Continue reading Cisco to Acquire Splunk for $28 Billion, Accelerating AI-Enabled Security and Observability

ServiceNow leaps into applications performance monitoring with Lightstep acquisition

This morning ServiceNow announced that it was acquiring Lightstep, an applications performance monitoring startup that has raised over $70 million, according to Crunchbase data. The companies did not share the acquisition price. ServiceNow wants to take advantage of Lightstep’s capabilities to enhance its IT operations offerings. With Lightstep, the company should be able to provide […] Continue reading ServiceNow leaps into applications performance monitoring with Lightstep acquisition

Palo Alto Networks Tightens Integration with Asset Discovery Tool

Palo Alto Networks this week announced that its agentless Cortex Xpanse tool for discovering cloud assets is now integrated with Prisma Cloud, a platform it provides for managing security across both legacy and emerging cloud-native IT environments. C… Continue reading Palo Alto Networks Tightens Integration with Asset Discovery Tool

Active/Active Multi-Region Systems on Steroids With Serverless

As the world migrates to the concept of DevOps the primary goal becomes clear. How can we increase velocity while maintaining our system’s stability? With the motive of going faster, we also risk increased chances of failure. The risk is even high… Continue reading Active/Active Multi-Region Systems on Steroids With Serverless

If APM Vendors Think They Need RASP, Shouldn’t You?

The start of February 2021 brought with it a number of announcements from APM (Application Performance Monitoring) vendors, all relating to RASP (Runtime Application Self-Protection).  Three vendors in the APM (referred to by some as the Observability … Continue reading If APM Vendors Think They Need RASP, Shouldn’t You?

Which Third-Party Pods Do You Need in Your K8s Cluster?

A production-grade Kubernetes cluster has many requirements. For example, applications and services should be able to communicate across nodes and be served to external users. Traffic from these users should be properly routed to underlying micros… Continue reading Which Third-Party Pods Do You Need in Your K8s Cluster?

New Relic acquires Kubernetes observability platform Pixie Labs

Two months ago, Kubernetes observability platform Pixie Labs launched into general availability and announced a $9.15 million Series A funding round led by Benchmark, with participation from GV. Today, the company is announcing its acquisition by New Relic, the publicly traded monitoring and observability platform. The Pixie Labs brand and product will remain in place […] Continue reading New Relic acquires Kubernetes observability platform Pixie Labs