As I mentioned in my previous article, comparing Monitoring with Observability, it is challenging to transform the old monitoring environment into Observability (O11y) solutions because the differences are enormous. The only way is to introduce new solutions if the old ones cannot provide what we need. In that time, you…

Observability vs monitoring has been a common topic in DevOps recently. There has been a lot of debate, and I have learned a lot from them when I started my observability journey. Most literature on observability is associated with a particular product or shares a textbook definition. In this blog…

“AIOps combines big data and machine learning to automate IT operations processes, including event correlation, anomaly detection and causality determination.” — Gartner definition of AIOps Domain Centric x Domain Agnostic tools We can deliver AIOps in two different ways, as Domain Centric and as Domain Agnostic. Domain Centric: Single solution that provides AI capabilities for operations…

Companies often decide to buy Observability products to satisfy their requirements but do not put the required attention on how to design the product implementation. These Observability tools comprise advanced technologies and multiple internal components we should wisely plan. The design of an observability/monitoring solution is a complex journey, not…

Introduction This piece will cover some new practices and exciting trends that will change and augment IT infrastructure. A common question in the developer community is, why should I use observability? And yes, the most frequent reply is to monitor your system’s infrastructure; that way, your team can see the visibility…

The IBM CIO Hybrid Cloud Platform team has been working on a major cloud transformation project. We’re building a hybrid cloud platform for our entire internal infrastructure using Red Hat technology, aiming to have a modern platform promoting agility, innovation, and efficiency and reducing operational costs. Implementing a hybrid cloud…

Costs are an essential piece of all company strategies and can define the success of a project or also for an entire company. High performance is important, but at what cost? The most critical objective of deploying Observability solutions is to improve the applications’ reliability, performance, and availability, but how…

In another article I created, I explained the importance of Otel (OpenTelemetry) in the Observability world: observability-concepts-you-should-know-part-2. But it is vital to show in a real example how to instrument an application sending the tracing to an APM backend. …

I created the first article, " Observability Concepts you should know " to introduce everybody to some critical concepts for learning Observability (or o11y, for short). …