Observability: Bird’s-Eye View of Your Enterprise - Jenna Shae-Harris

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Observability:
Bird’s-Eye View of Your Enterprise
Jenna-Shae Harris
Solutions Engineer, Tanzu Observability
DevOps Loop - June 22

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Exclusive
“Modern applications and
distributed systems, their
inherent complexity, and the rise
of new practices such as
DevOps has left many
organizations frustrated with
legacy monitoring tools and
techniques.”
“Observability tools reduce both
the number of service outages
and their impact and severity.”
Gartner, Hype Cycle for IT
Performance Analysis,2019
From Monitoring
Capture/Display
Visible External Signals
To Modern Observability…
Correlation Across
External & Detailed
Internal Metrics
Automated
Analytics & AI/ML
EASY - Looking for “Knowns” HARD - Finding Unknown “Unknowns”
Monitoring vs. Observability
As your journey matures, full-featured Observability becomes critical

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“84% of IT stakeholders state
that traditional monitoring tools
break when used in modern
cloud environments.”
The State of Observability 2021 Report

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Monitoring Modern Applications Poses New Challenges
From monoliths to microservices running anywhere
Web UI
API
Gateway
Web UI
Rest API
Rest API
Rest API
Rest API
Rest API
Rest API
Monolith Cloud-Enabled Microservices
Developer Developer

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ESX
VM
OS
K8s
Application
TO can/should be
First Pane of Glass
Physical Servers
Observability is about eliminating the unknowns
Today customers spend more time finding the problem than fixing it!

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