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Techday NZ
3 days ago
- Business
- Techday NZ
AppSignal expands OpenTelemetry support for Go, Java & PHP
AppSignal has introduced expanded native support for OpenTelemetry, now allowing small and midsize businesses to monitor Go, Java, and PHP applications in addition to Ruby, Elixir, and With this update, AppSignal's application performance monitoring (APM) suite now provides automatic instrumentation, error tracking, and performance monitoring across six widely-used languages. The solution aims to offer engineering and development teams the flexibility to use the OpenTelemetry (OTel) standard, enabling complete monitoring and observability without the need for custom integration work or concern over vendor lock-in. Expanded language support AppSignal's new features include native support for the OpenTelemetry protocol (OTLP) covering traces, metrics, and logs. Customers can now benefit from automatic instrumentation and instant support for the Go (Gin, Echo), Java (Spring Boot), and PHP (Laravel, Symfony) frameworks. This is in addition to the existing support for Ruby, Elixir, and applications. Key aspects of the expansion include zero-configuration OTel collector integration, unified monitoring for all six languages, dashboards optimised to display runtime-specific metrics, and migration paths from proprietary AppSignal agents to OpenTelemetry instrumentation. Data portability and integration OpenTelemetry as an industry standard ensures that telemetry data collected through AppSignal can be used with any compatible platform. The smart sampling features now capture 100 percent of errors, trigger anomaly detection, and manage data volume to balance comprehensiveness and efficiency. The company's platform also transforms OTel data into actionable insights and provides pre-built visualisation dashboards and intelligent alerts. Wes Oudshoorn, Chief Product Officer at AppSignal commented, "Current OpenTelemetry tools typically overwhelm developers by dumping raw metrics, logs, and traces with little context. We took a different approach by adopting OTel rather than building proprietary language integrations. AppSignal translates OTel data into clear insights, showing developers exactly what is broken or slow without requiring them to piece it together themselves." "Now offering first-class support for PHP, Java, and Go through our OTel implementation, AppSignal also accepts any OTel data, enabling full-stack observability for virtually any setup. To simplify onboarding, we provide a hosted collector, so developers do not need to run their own. We are excited to welcome new programming communities to AppSignal and deliver the experience they expect from a modern observability platform." Simplicity and accessibility for SMBs AppSignal's updated APM suite is designed with pricing and onboarding simplicity in mind, targeting the requirements of SMB engineering teams. The implementation of a hosted OpenTelemetry collector means developers are not required to maintain their own, further reducing overhead and simplifying adoption. With native OTel integration, AppSignal customers can access full-stack observability for diverse software environments without needing to commit exclusively to one solution provider. This approach has been designed to support developers across a range of environments, languages, and frameworks. The company supports development teams in over 2,000 organisations across more than 60 countries. Its monitoring and logging solutions enable teams to automate monitoring workflows, address performance issues proactively, and improve the experience for end users.
TECHx
08-02-2025
- Business
- TECHx
Riverbed Launches Smart OTel for Faster, Actionable IT Insights - TECHx Media Riverbed Launches Smart OTel for Faster, Actionable IT Insights
Riverbed Launches Smart OTel for Faster, Actionable IT Insights Riverbed announced the general availability of Riverbed Smart OTel™ (OpenTelemetry), a transformative solution designed to deliver timely, actionable data to IT teams, enabling faster decision-making and improved insights. Integrated into the Riverbed Platform, Smart OTel enhances the capabilities of Riverbed Aternity and Network Observability solutions, as well as third-party applications. In today's IT landscape, teams are overwhelmed with fragmented data, vendor-specific dashboards, and an influx of alerts. Despite the abundance of visibility, critical insights often remain buried. IT teams using traditional OpenTelemetry (OTel) are forced to build custom dashboards to consolidate data sources. However, what IT really needs is a solution that surfaces relevant data instantly for quicker, more effective action. Unlike conventional OpenTelemetry solutions, Smart OTel utilizes platform-level data collection to enhance analytics, automation, and troubleshooting. When an event or alert is triggered, Riverbed's patented Data Store surfaces only the pertinent data required for the specific event or business use case, then exports it to any standard OTel collector. By incorporating Riverbed AI and AI-driven automations, Smart OTel adds precision filtering and decision-making capabilities before data export. Additionally, the solution enables IT teams to ingest, process, and export third-party data via OTel, providing unprecedented flexibility and control in IT operations. Richard Tworek, CTO at Riverbed, emphasized the need for smarter telemetry: 'Customers are tired of sifting through massive data streams of raw telemetry to identify issues. With Smart OTel, Riverbed delivers precisely the right data at the right time, leveraging AI, automation, and the OTel standard to empower IT teams to resolve business-critical issues fast.' Smart OTel is now available as a feature within Riverbed IQ and is part of the Riverbed Platform, which launched in May 2024 as an open, AI-powered platform designed to optimize digital experiences and streamline IT operations. The Riverbed Platform includes several innovative products introduced last year, such as NPM+ (visibility into cloud, remote work, and zero-trust architectures), Aternity Mobile (industry-first DEX for enterprise-owned mobile devices), Riverbed IQ 2.0, Riverbed Unified Agent, and Aternity Intelligent Service Desk. Enterprises are already experiencing significant benefits from Riverbed's AIOps for Observability solutions, including millions of dollars in software license savings, reduced IT ticket volume by over 30%, a 86% reduction in false alerts, and improved user experience for thousands of employees.
Channel Post MEA
08-02-2025
- Business
- Channel Post MEA
Riverbed Launches Smart OTel for Better Insights and Decision-Making
Riverbed announced the general availability of Riverbed Smart OTel (OpenTelemetry), a game-changing approach to OpenTelemetry, delivering the right data at the right time for better insights and decision-making. Available as part of the Riverbed Platform, Smart OTel supports Riverbed Aternity and Network Observability solutions, as well as third-party applications. Today, IT teams are drowning in vendor-specific dashboards, fragmented data, and endless alerts. Despite more observability and visibility, critical insights remain buried. To simplify troubleshooting, IT teams using OTel often build custom dashboards to unify data sources. However, rather than consuming and parsing every metric, what IT really needs is for business-critical issues to surface precise data instantly for faster action. Unlike traditional OpenTelemetry solutions, Smart OTel leverages platform-level data collection for smarter analytics, automation and troubleshooting. With Smart OTel, once an event or alert is triggered, the patented Riverbed Data Store surfaces only pertinent data required for that specific event or business use case, and exports that data to any standard OTel collector. Customers can also leverage Riverbed AI and AI automations to further process the data prior to exporting, adding even more precision filtering and decision capability. Additionally, Smart OTel, allows IT to ingest, process, and export any third-party data via OTel, unlocking new levels of flexibility and control in IT operations. 'Customers are tired of getting massive data streams of raw telemetry, where it's incumbent upon them to try to sort through the clutter and figure out what happened,' said Richard Tworek, CTO, Riverbed Technology. 'Riverbed has taken a different and game-changing approach to OpenTelemetry with our Smart OTel solution. Rather than collecting an overwhelming amount of raw data, Smart OTel works at the Platform level, leveraging the Riverbed Data Store, AI, and automation to give IT teams precisely the right data at the right time using the OTel open standard, delivered to the tool of their choice. This approach enables organizations to fix business-critical issues fast.' 0 0
