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Observability and monitoring
203 stories in the last 90 days · 6 community threads
In short
Observability is the ability to understand what a system is doing from the data it emits, mainly metrics, logs and traces, so teams can find the cause of problems nobody predicted. This topic also covers monitoring and APM. Buyers increasingly care about data volume and cost, support for OpenTelemetry and how easily they could take their telemetry to another tool.
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Latest stories
The newest Observability and monitoring stories from the last 90 days. Each one opens with our summary and a link to the original source.
Observability
LogicMonitor Embeds Edwin AI Intelligence in ServiceNow with New Agent-to-Agent Capabilities
LogicMonitor and Work4Flow extend Edwin AI into ServiceNow with A2A, bringing alert context, metrics, root cause analysis, and diagnostic guidance into the incident workflow.
Cloud Infrastructure
Amazon GuardDuty adds optional threat detection rules for Runtime Monitoring
Amazon GuardDuty now supports optional detection rules for Runtime Monitoring. You can enable more than 50 Runtime Monitoring rules that help detect process, file, and network activity that might be routine in one environment but a sign of compromise in another, such as modifying sudoers files or disabling audit logging. The new rules provide detections for Amazon EC2 instances, Amazon EKS, and…
Containers & KubernetesHow-to
How to Use Python UDF Logging for Pipeline Observability
We are announcing a new logging feature that is now available in Python User-Defined Function (UDF) in BigQuery. Developers can now use Python’s standard logging library directly inside BigQuery UDFs to emit structured logs seamlessly into Cloud Logging, with zero external plugins or custom connectors required. While UDF logging enables a wide range of operational monitoring and debugging…
Databases
Postgres wait events, now in Query Insights
Query Insights for ClickHouse Managed Postgres now shows what active sessions are waiting on, with wait event breakdowns, blocked-session and lock-wait charts, and the same metrics in Prometheus.
Observability
Comparing Coralogix with open source observability backends
We put the same OpenTelemetry data into four backends, Coralogix, ClickHouse, OpenSearch and a Loki, Tempo and Prometheus stack, then set an agent twelve questions against each one, from counting spans to working out what is wrong in a system it has never seen. Then we forced the agents to continue investigating until they got […] The post Comparing Coralogix with open source observability…
Containers & Kubernetes
5-minute demo: DevSecOps with Red Hat OpenShift to speed up application delivery
If you're a platform engineer, you've likely lived this: your team has assembled a toolchain for CI/CD, monitoring, security scanning, GitOps, and networking. Each tool does its specific job well, but over time, you realize you’re spending more hours maintaining the integrations between those tools than helping developers ship code. That's the real cost of tool sprawl. Yes, it’s increased…
Observability
Everything We Talked About at O11yDay London 2026
A recap of every session at O11yDay London 2026, from Sam Newman's cobots and dark factories to Corey Quinn on AI cost observability, plus how Honeycomb debugs its own agents with Canvas, Agent Timeline, and AI Ecosystem.
Cloud Infrastructure
Amazon Braket now in scope for FedRAMP Class C
Amazon Braket is now in scope for FedRAMP Class C in AWS US Regions where Braket is available. The Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) is a US government-wide program that delivers a standard approach to the security assessment, authorization, and continuous monitoring of cloud products and services. With FedRAMP Class C authorization, government customers and the…
Earlier in the last 90 days
- Get observability in your pocket with the Grafana mobile appGrafana Labs · 16 Oct 2026
- Devin Oncall and Dynatrace: Bringing runtime intelligence to autonomous incident responseDynatrace · 16 Oct 2026
- When five agents are looking at the same IT incident, which one makes the decisions?BigPanda · 16 Oct 2026
- Amazon Redshift long-term system table retention with Amazon S3 Tables is now available in additional AWS RegionsAmazon Web Services · 16 Oct 2026
- Coverage-first or cost-first: two ways to automatically apply Adaptive Metrics' recommendationsGrafana Labs · 16 Oct 2026
- Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus Collector now available in Asia Pacific (New Zealand) RegionAmazon Web Services · 15 Oct 2026
- Monitor the performance of critical steps in user journeys with RUM operationsDatadog · 15 Oct 2026
- Why Observability Needs a Context GraphSnowflake · 15 Oct 2026
- Business Observability: A strategic imperative for financial servicesDynatrace · 15 Oct 2026
- Introducing Claude Platform Tracing in New Relic AI MonitoringNew Relic · 14 Oct 2026
- Root Cause Analysis Workflows Using InfluxDBInfluxData · 14 Oct 2026
- OpenTelemetry Collector distributions compared: Core, Contrib, OCB, and vendor builds. Which one should you use?Dynatrace · 14 Oct 2026
- How Orange Business Built Live Intelligence with LangChain and LangSmithLangChain · 14 Oct 2026
- Improving Deep Agents with harness engineeringLangChain · 14 Oct 2026
- CI/CD Pipeline Observability Tools: How to Choose the Right SetupJetBrains · 13 Oct 2026
- How Datadog defines service criticality at scaleDatadog · 13 Oct 2026
- Governing your lakehouse with Fivetran Managed Data Lake Service | Blog | FivetranFivetran · 13 Oct 2026
- Five Minutes to Your First MCP Server Tool: A Quickstart with agentgateway | Solo.ioSolo.io · 13 Oct 2026
- Solo Enterprise for agentgateway 2.3: AWS Bedrock AgentCore, Intelligent Failover, and Deeper MCP Control | Solo.ioSolo.io · 13 Oct 2026
- End-to-end Snowflake Observability is now generally available in DynatraceDynatrace · 13 Oct 2026
- Introducing DigitalOcean Insights: Built-in Observability for Your Agents, Applications, and InfrastructureDigitalOcean · 13 Oct 2026
- Introducing DigitalOcean Signals and Simulations: see how your agents and models really behave in production, then test the fix before it shipsDigitalOcean · 13 Oct 2026
- Salesforce Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire LoopsSalesforce · 12 Oct 2026
- Gateway Controls can Deliver the Visibility IT Needs to Manage Agentic AI without RisksNutanix · 12 Oct 2026
- Amazon ElastiCache for Valkey introduces ElastiCache InsightsAmazon Web Services · 12 Oct 2026
- Building the Modern AI Infrastructure Stack with Cortex AI GatewaySnowflake · 9 Oct 2026
- Sentry JavaScript SDK v11 adds tracing for all JS platformsSentry · 9 Oct 2026
- Contain, observe, adapt: Three trends shaping agentic software developmentDynatrace · 9 Oct 2026
- Take Grafana Labs' 5th annual Observability SurveyGrafana Labs · 9 Oct 2026
- Forrester study models 466% ROI from unified observability with DynatraceDynatrace · 9 Oct 2026
- Manage your OpenTelemetry Collectors with Fleet Management in Grafana CloudGrafana Labs · 9 Oct 2026
- Manage synthetic checks at scale: Introducing folders in Grafana Cloud Synthetic MonitoringGrafana Labs · 8 Oct 2026
- OpenTelemetry Collector Configuration for LLM ObservabilityHoneycomb · 8 Oct 2026
- AWS Batch now publishes job metrics to Amazon CloudWatchAmazon Web Services · 7 Oct 2026
- Introducing AI Observability for OpenTelemetryNew Relic · 6 Oct 2026
- Observability Was Built for Humans. AI Changes Everything.New Relic · 6 Oct 2026
- Introducing Advanced APM: Connecting Telemetry to Business OutcomesNew Relic · 6 Oct 2026
- The Velocity Dilemma in Modern Software DeliveryNew Relic · 6 Oct 2026
- Bridging the Context Gap: Pathpoint for Real-Time Business ObservabilityNew Relic · 6 Oct 2026
- How to Propagate OpenTelemetry Trace Headers Over AWS Kinesis: Part 3LogicMonitor · 6 Oct 2026
- ReviewBench: An open benchmark for AI code reviewGitHub · 6 Oct 2026
- Executable UDFs are now generally available on ClickHouse CloudClickHouse · 6 Oct 2026
- AI Agent Observability: The 8 Best Tools for Production AgentsNew Relic · 5 Oct 2026
- How to Write Logs Directly to InfluxDB: A Complete GuideInfluxData · 5 Oct 2026
- AWS Private CA now provides detailed certificate issuance logsAmazon Web Services · 5 Oct 2026
- Process and route critical security logs to Exabeam with Observability PipelinesDatadog · 5 Oct 2026
- Machine Learning Pipeline Architecture: Components and Control PointsLaunchDarkly · 4 Oct 2026
- 8 major updates to Cloudflare ObservabilityCloudflare · 2 Oct 2026
- Amazon ElastiCache for Valkey now supports OpenTelemetry metrics and detailed monitoringAmazon Web Services · 2 Oct 2026
- GuardDuty Runtime Monitoring is now included in the AWS Security Hub Threat Analytics planAmazon Web Services · 2 Oct 2026
- From reactive to resilient: Findings from the Total Economic Impact of Elastic Observability 2026Elastic · 2 Oct 2026
- Key metrics for monitoring DatabricksDatadog · 2 Oct 2026
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What practitioners are discussing
Stories say what companies announced. These threads are where people who work with Observability and monitoring compare notes.
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How are you controlling observability costs without losing visibility?
Sampling, tiered retention, OpenTelemetry pipelines, switching vendors? What cut the bill the most?
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Have AI coding assistants changed how you review code?
More PRs, bigger PRs, new review checklists? Share what changed in your process and quality metrics.
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How are you approaching AI governance and model risk management?
Inventories, risk tiers, approval workflows, monitoring. What framework did you adopt and what does day-to-day governance look like?
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What is your approach to managing thousands of edge devices?
Fleet management, updates, security patching and observability at the edge: what tools and practices have held up?
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How are you measuring platform engineering success?
DORA metrics, developer surveys, time-to-first-deploy, cost per service? What convinced leadership the platform team is worth it?
Companies in these stories
The active companies with the most Observability and monitoring stories in the last 90 days. It counts news coverage, not quality, market share or fit for your needs.
Related categories
Where Observability and monitoring sits among the categories Techarda covers. Each hub shows who is active, and each guide sets out how to evaluate vendors.
Terms to know
Plain definitions of terms that come up in Observability and monitoring stories, from the Techarda glossary.
Frequently asked questions
What is the difference between monitoring and observability?
Monitoring checks known conditions, such as whether a server is up or a threshold is crossed. Observability means being able to ask new questions of your data when something unexpected happens. In practice, tools do both.
Why do observability bills grow so quickly?
Costs usually follow data volume, and volume grows with every new service, container and log line. Sampling traces, dropping unused metrics, setting retention by data type and filtering data before it is stored all help.
Should we instrument with OpenTelemetry?
For most teams, yes. It is an open standard for collecting metrics, logs and traces, so you can send data to more than one backend and change vendors without re-instrumenting your code.
What are SLOs?
Service level objectives are reliability targets set from the user’s point of view, such as the share of requests that succeed quickly. They help teams decide when to slow releases and work on stability.
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