Latest news with #OpenTelemetry
Techday NZ
2 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.
Techday NZ
24-07-2025
- Business
- Techday NZ
Coralogix donates 19,000 lines of code to OpenTelemetry project
Coralogix has donated over 19,000 lines of production-tested code to the OpenTelemetry eBPF Instrumentation (OBI) project. This sizeable contribution is intended to enable full, automatically generated distributed traces for software systems, eliminating the requirement for developers to manually instrument their applications. The donated code allows for trace generation without any changes to application code through an eBPF-powered auto-instrumentation method, aiming to simplify observability for organisations deploying software at scale. Manual instrumentation has long been recognised as a barrier to widespread adoption of OpenTelemetry and distributed tracing. Typically, teams need to modify code, manage language-specific agents, and coordinate across various services, which can slow development, fragment data collection, and increase both cloud costs and engineering overhead. By providing automated tracing through OBI, Coralogix intends to reduce these obstacles, making it easier for organisations to embrace open and vendor-neutral observability solutions. The contributed code from Coralogix features automatic trace stitching and supports a zero-instrumentation deployment method, utilising Kubernetes DaemonSet or Helm. This enables teams to rapidly stream high-quality traces, logs, and metrics from both modern and legacy systems, with minimal performance overhead. Data is output in the OpenTelemetry Protocol (OTLP) format, making it compatible with any OpenTelemetry-compliant backend. Collaboration and deployment This donation was carried out in collaboration with Grafana Labs and the wider OpenTelemetry community, reinforcing an upstream-first approach intended to support broad adoption. This collaborative effort underlines the emphasis on vendor-neutrality and ease of use, supporting fast onboarding for organisations of various sizes and across diverse technological environments. "Instrumentation shouldn't be a developer tax," said Yoni Farin, CTO and Co-founder at Coralogix. "By contributing OBI to the OpenTelemetry community, and building it in the open with Grafana Labs, we're making high-fidelity distributed tracing something that any team can turn on with a simple deployment. One DaemonSet, one Helm command, and your entire stack can light up. That's what open observability should feel like." With OBI now available as an open community project, users can deploy the OBI DaemonSet or Helm chart, integrate with the OpenTelemetry Collector, and route observability data to Coralogix, Grafana Tempo, Jaeger, or any OpenTelemetry-compatible destination. The project encourages active involvement from the community, inviting contributions, bug reports, and general feedback. Broader impact The OpenTelemetry eBPF Instrumentation project has been developed to address a consistent challenge for organisations seeking to implement observability tooling across complex, polyglot environments. The absence of manual instrumentation reduces friction, permitting faster, more scalable monitoring practices. This enables businesses to better manage performance, reliability, and cost, without the burden of additional developer workload. Coralogix's approach, in association with other OpenTelemetry stakeholders, highlights a trend toward standardisation and openness in the observability sector. Events such as this code donation are positioned to help organisations transition legacy and hybrid applications to modern monitoring architectures, supporting operational insight and resilience in production environments. The donated codebase, containing over 19,000 lines, is intended to reinforce open observability at global scale, supporting both immediate and long-term monitoring needs. The OpenTelemetry community has prioritised lowering the barriers to entry for distributed tracing, and contributions from vendors such as Coralogix are integral to those efforts. Organisations and individuals using OpenTelemetry now have another vendor-neutral tool for integrating distributed tracing and observability into their workflows, without manual intervention or proprietary lock-in. The project remains open for further enhancements as community feedback and usage continue to grow.
Techday NZ
15-07-2025
- Business
- Techday NZ
Elastic named Leader in 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for observability
Elastic has been recognised as a Leader in the 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Observability Platforms for the second consecutive year. Gartner recognition The company earned this placement for its Elastic Observability offering after an evaluation of its Completeness of Vision and Ability to Execute. The recognition acknowledges Elastic's work in developing AI-driven capabilities, support for open standards, and the scalability and cost-efficiency of its observability platform. Santosh Krishnan, General Manager, Observability & Security at Elastic, commented on the company's approach to observability, saying: "Visibility alone isn't enough; customers need rapid context-rich insights to troubleshoot complex systems. We feel Elastic's recognition as a Leader in this year's Gartner Magic Quadrant reflects how our open, scalable architecture with AI-driven capabilities is transforming observability from a reactive tool into a solution for real-time investigations while keeping costs low." Key features highlighted The company stated that its differentiation lies in several areas, including native integration with OpenTelemetry, a built-in AI Assistant, and zero-configuration AIOps for anomaly detection. Elastic's AI Assistant leverages Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) technology to connect with enterprise knowledge, supporting incident resolution through natural language queries. This allows operational teams to reduce time-to-insight across logs, metrics, and traces. Elastic's zero-config AIOps deploys machine learning capabilities out-of-the-box to automatically detect anomalies, forecast trends, and reveal patterns within large datasets. The piped query language, ES|QL, aims to simplify the complexity of large-scale IT investigations by enabling advanced queries across observability data. Krishnan stated that Elastic's placement in the Magic Quadrant demonstrates the effectiveness of continued investments in open standards and deployment flexibility, alongside scalable performance and cost optimisations. He described the solution's impact on organisations moving from reactive troubleshooting to real-time investigation of incidents and anomalies. Enterprise adoption Elastic's approach to observability has also been adopted by enterprises seeking to consolidate monitoring tools and improve operational efficiency. Eva Ulicevic, Director, Technology, Architecture, Strategy, and Analytics at Telefónica Germany, shared the impact the platform has had within the organisation: "By using Elastic and consolidating multiple tools, we reduced our root cause analysis time by 80%. We also reduced incidents that could severely impact our business." The platform is built on Elastic's Search AI Platform, supporting the monitoring and optimisation of applications, infrastructure, and end-user experience. Elastic's Search AI Lake is designed for petabyte-scale data retention, supporting efficient storage and search for structured and unstructured data. Industry context The Gartner Magic Quadrant evaluates vendors in the observability sector based on criteria such as vision, innovation, ability to execute, and breadth of capabilities. Elastic's leadership listing for the second year underscores continued investment in tools that address the challenges of managing, searching, and analysing large volumes of operational data. Elastic's commitment to open-source standards is emphasised by its native support for OpenTelemetry, enabling organisations to standardise instrumentation and data collection processes without requiring proprietary connectors. The observability platform is positioned to support organisations as they address the growing complexity of cloud-based architectures and meet increased demand for real-time performance monitoring, anomaly detection, and automated root cause analysis.
Yahoo
11-07-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Chronosphere Named a Leader for Second Consecutive Year in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Observability Platforms
Chronosphere recognized based on Completeness of Vision and Ability to Execute NEW YORK, July 11, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Chronosphere, the observability platform built for control, today announced it has been named a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Observability Platforms1. Chronosphere was recognized as a Leader based on Completeness of Vision and Ability to Execute. This marks the second consecutive year Chronosphere has been positioned as a Leader in the Magic Quadrant. "We believe that being recognized as a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for the second year in a row reinforces the impact we're making on modern engineering teams," said Martin Mao, CEO and Co-Founder of Chronosphere. "As data volumes grow and architectures become more complex, our platform gives organizations the control they need to deliver reliable services, operate efficiently, and scale with confidence—all based on open standards." Chronosphere's product portfolio includes its flagship Observability Platform and its fully integrated Telemetry Pipeline, giving users greater flexibility and vendor neutrality through open standards like OpenTelemetry. With Chronosphere, engineering teams can: Reduce data noise by streamlining data relevant to each role and service. Focus on the data that matters, reducing data volume and associated costs by an average of 84%. Quickly fix issues through guided troubleshooting and correlation across metrics, logs, and traces. Customers report 50% reduced time troubleshooting and 75% fewer incidents with Chronosphere. "Traditional observability solutions require you to keep and pay for all telemetry data, regardless of whether it's useful or not; however, Chronosphere turns this model on its head," continues Mao. "Chronosphere was built to weed out invaluable data, so what's kept in the system, paid for, and used for troubleshooting is the valuable data needed to understand your environment and to remediate immediately. In addition to this recognition in the Gartner Magic Quadrant, Chronosphere was named a Strong Performer in the 2024 Gartner® Peer Insights™ "Voice of the Customer" report for Observability Platforms.2 The Voice of the Customer report, based on aggregated reviews from users and decision-makers, recognized Chronosphere as a Strong Performer, tying for the highest overall rating among all recognized vendors with a 4.7 out of 5 score, based on 70 total reviews as of December 27, 2024. Below are two anonymized reviews of Chronosphere from the company's profile on Gartner Peer Insights™: "Chronosphere: A Comprehensive Solution for Tracking Metrics. Chronosphere provides a wholesome platform for logging and observability. We have used this product to generate dashboards to track various metrics for our services such as latency and QPS. The platform overall is extremely customizable and easy to use. Highly recommend it!" - Software Developer at a $1B+ software company "Chronosphere should be the go-to for Kubernetes monitoring. Chronosphere is a seamless integration with Kubernetes. For Kubernetes heavy products, it's hard to imagine a better fit." - DevOps Engineer at a $10B+ software company To read the full 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Observability Platforms report, download here. Gartner Peer Insights content consists of the opinions of individual end users based on their own experiences, and should not be construed as statements of fact, nor do they represent the views of Gartner or its affiliates. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in this content nor makes any warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this content, about its accuracy or completeness, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in our research publications, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors with the highest ratings or other designation. Gartner research publications consist of the opinions of Gartner's research organization and should not be construed as statements of fact. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. GARTNER is a registered trademark and service mark of Gartner and Magic Quadrant is a registered trademark of Gartner, Inc. and/or its affiliates in the U.S. and internationally and are used herein with permission. All rights reserved About ChronosphereChronosphere is the observability platform built for control in the modern, containerized world. Chronosphere empowers customers to focus on the data and insights that matter by reducing data complexity, optimizing costs, and remediating issues faster. Its Observability Platform reduces data volumes and associated costs by 84% on average while saving developers thousands of hours. Chronosphere's Fluent Bit-based Telemetry Pipeline product optimizes and simplifies observability and security log data. The product transforms logs at the source and routes them to any destination without lock-in. Recognized as a leader by major analyst firms, Chronosphere is trusted by the world's most innovative brands, including Robinhood, DoorDash, and Zillow. Follow and learn more at Follow at LinkedIn and X. 1 Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Observability Platforms, Gregg Siegfried, Padraig Byrne, Andre Bridges, Martin Caren and Matt Crossley, July 7, 2025. 2 Gartner, Voice of the Voice of the Customer for Observability Platforms by Peer Contributors, 24 December 2024. View original content to download multimedia: SOURCE Chronosphere Error in retrieving data Sign in to access your portfolio Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data
Business Wire
10-07-2025
- Business
- Business Wire
Grafana Labs Named a Leader in 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Observability Platforms
NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Grafana Labs, the open observability cloud, today announced it has been positioned as a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Observability Platforms. It was evaluated for its fully managed observability offering, Grafana Cloud, based on specific criteria that analyzed the company's overall Completeness of Vision and Ability to Execute. This year's report placed Grafana Labs furthest in 'Completeness of Vision,' a position we believe reflects our deep commitment to building a truly open, composable observability stack that gives users flexibility, control, and the tools to own their observability strategy. And it's not just vision. The company is amongst the four highest scoring vendors across all Use Cases in the 2025 Gartner® Critical Capabilities for Observability Platforms, which provides a deeper evaluation across key Use Cases. We're proud to be amongst the three highest scoring vendors for the following Use Cases: Cost Optimization (4.18/5), Platform Operations (4.15/5), Software Engineering (4.15/5), IT Operations (4.15/5), Site Reliability Engineering (4.14/5), and Business Insights (4.10/5). 'We are honored to be named a Leader by Gartner,' said Tom Wilkie, CTO of Grafana Labs. 'At Grafana Labs, open is our strategy – open source, open standards, open data, and open minds. We believe software-led businesses win by moving fast, and as digital complexity grows, our vision for observability helps builders get value from their telemetry and turn signals into action – not just in their systems, but across the entire business.' An Open Observability Cloud Built for Today's Engineering Teams Grafana Cloud is a fully managed, open and composable observability platform that allows organizations to bring together diverse data sources and own their own observability strategies – it's become the fastest path to observability for teams of all sizes. Whether startups or enterprises, teams rely on Grafana Cloud to: Get started quickly with out-of-the-box monitoring solutions for Kubernetes, infrastructure, applications, and more. Centralize telemetry from diverse systems with native support for Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, and more, which is more crucial than ever – Grafana Labs' 2025 Observability Survey found 71% of organizations say they're using Prometheus and OpenTelemetry in some capacity. Optimize costs with the suite of Adaptive Telemetry tools that intelligently filter metrics and logs to only store what matters, saving customers an average of 20%-50% on their metrics and 20%-40% on logs. Enhance productivity with Drilldown Apps, which allow teams to explore their data without needing to use queries, as well as Asserts, which help contextualize and resolve issues faster by continuously mapping, correlating, and surfacing insights across your entire stack. Streamline workflows with Grafana Assistant, a context-aware, agentic LLM integration that can understand your environment, perform multi-step investigations, create and edit dashboards, navigate Grafana, and provide intelligent, actionable support directly within the Grafana interface. Grafana Cloud's open and flexible design means teams can start where they are and scale as they grow without vendor lock-in – ideas move faster, solutions are shared, and progress compounds. With Grafana Cloud's paid and free tier s, it's faster and easier for everyone, from Fortune 100 companies to homelab practitioners, to get started with observability. It's why Grafana's open observability cloud is trusted by practitioners and decision-makers alike who want to see and understand anything from anywhere. Community and Customer Momentum Customers span various industries and sectors, including companies like Citigroup, Salesforce, Dell Technologies, ASOS, and Microsoft, who rely on Grafana to monitor and understand complex systems at a global scale. While we are honored to be named a Leader by Gartner, the most important feedback comes from the people using Grafana every day. We're proud that as of July 1, 2025 on Gartner Peer Insights™, Grafana Labs holds an Overall Rating of 4.5 out of 5, based on 268 verified customer reviews, with 91% of reviewers saying they would recommend our products. Here's what they're saying: "The LGTM stack is the best in terms of ease of use and functionality – and Grafana Cloud is the best way to scale it.' – Engineer at a software company 'Using Grafana Cloud after using our previous observability tool is a breath of fresh air. It's everything I want in an observability provider.' – 'It helped us to converge all our different monitoring solutions. The "Adaptive" features are a huge cost saver.' – Manager of IT services at a bank 'The product meets our needs and more, quickly lets us integrate across the business, and the SaaS was very cost effective over running it ourselves at the needed scale.' – Manager of IT Services at multibillion-dollar media company Resources Gartner Disclosure(s) Gartner, Critical Capabilities for Observability Platforms, By Matt Crossley, Gregg Siegfried, Padraig Byrne, Andre Bridges, Martin Caren, 8 July 2025 GARTNER is a registered trademark and service mark, and MAGIC QUADRANT and PEER INSIGHTS are trademarks and service marks, of Gartner, Inc. and/or its affiliates in the U.S. and internationally and are used herein with permission. All rights reserved. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in its research publications, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors with the highest ratings or other designation. Gartner research publications consist of the opinions of Gartner's research organization and should not be construed as statements of fact. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. Gartner Peer Insights content consists of the opinions of individual end users based on their own experiences, and should not be construed as statements of fact, nor do they represent the views of Gartner or its affiliates. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in this content nor makes any warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this content, about its accuracy or completeness, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. About Grafana Labs Grafana Labs is the open observability cloud helping organizations understand their systems at scale and turn data into action. With more than 25 million users and over 5,000 customers, including Bloomberg, Citigroup, Dell Technologies, Salesforce, and TomTom, Grafana Labs offers a composable observability stack built around Grafana, the world's most popular open source technology for dashboards and visualization; scalable metrics (Grafana Mimir), logs (Grafana Loki), and traces (Grafana Tempo); and a rich ecosystem of data source plugins. Grafana Cloud, the company's fully managed observability offering, includes turnkey solutions for Kubernetes and infrastructure monitoring, application observability, incident response, load testing, and more. Grafana Labs is backed by leading investors Lightspeed Venture Partners, Lead Edge Capital, GIC, Sequoia Capital, Coatue, J.P. Morgan, and CapitalG. Follow Grafana Labs on LinkedIn and Twitter or visit
