The Foundations of Enterprise Observability
Modern application performance monitoring (APM) and observability solutions
Most modern application performance monitoring (APM) and observability solutions promise deep insight into complex applications, but what they really deliver is just basic visibility under a different name.
For modern IT and DevOps teams, this is a problematic limitation. Application architectures and deployment techniques have grown tremendously more complex over the past decade due to the widespread adoption of microservices architectures, multi-cloud strategies, continuous application release pipelines and more. Yet the core functionality of many monitoring and observability tools hasn’t evolved to manage the ever-increasing complexity of modern applications,
This eBook explains enterprise observability is about much more than just talk or branding. It’s an integrated suite of technologies and practices that enable teams not just to know what is happening within their applications but also to take meaningful action, no matter what types of applications they deploy or which architectural patterns they adopt. Just as important, enterprise observability means being able to monitor and manage the entire application delivery pipeline and collaborate readily with all stakeholders.
The following pages walk through the meaning of enterprise observability, discuss what it takes to achieve it and explain how the IBM Observability by Instana delivers the full suite of monitoring and observability solutions that teams need to thrive in a fastmoving, microservices-oriented world.
