Emerging observability trends

Observability has been touted as an effective tool for next-generation monitoring. It is being sold as an enhancement from the traditional siloed and vendor-based monitoring to a more coherent and consolidated monitoring solution. With the advent of microservice and cloud-based application architecture, there has been a shift in the IT infrastructure landscape, because of which observability has evolved into a new architecture framework that has influenced the way applications and services are designed and implemented. This evolution will continue in the coming years. The following sections cover a few trends in observability that you need to be aware of and consider while defining observability strategies and tool selection.

Standardizing observability for open source projects

The open source projects and communities that have pioneered observability in its early stages have been actively working for a standardized observability landscape. As we...