According to VMware reports, organizational modernization would not be successful without observability.

Enterprise IT has become so complex in the thirty years of the 21st century that data management staff are finding that they need more help than their employees can provide. They have reliable tools that can monitor apps and infrastructure 24/7, record key metrics, and offer a variety of options for potential solutions when problems arise. I need it.

VMware’s second annual observability report, released last week, clearly points out these truths, among other important facts. One of the key points is that observability, which has been a background participant in enterprise IT for several years, is now mainstream.

According to another survey, 89% of respondents said that today’s applications are very complex, 97% have challenges in monitoring cloud application environments, and visibility and insight issues have increased since last year. I am reporting. Mayan Weiss, Senior Engineering Director of Tazu Observability at VMware, told VentureBeat. ..

“We see this change in the market because we can see how the application is currently built and running,” Weiss said. “IT was a big monolith on-premises in a very controlled environment. Someone in the organization took you to a room and pointed to a physical setup,” Hey, your application runs there. I was able to say. That was the observability at that time. It’s a little more complicated now. It wasn’t that long ago at that time. “

Weiss explained that the pace of digital transformation is accelerating as organizations aim to be cloud-first to meet the growing demand for changes in the way businesses do business. He said digital transformation could not be completed without observable tools in place.

Enterprises are evolving their cloud strategies into a multi-cloud environment with more containers, microservices, and cloud-native technologies. This creates an increasingly decentralized system, making it difficult to get a comprehensive picture of system performance, Weiss said. As a result, legacy monitoring tools are obsolete in modern applications.

“The reason is the change to multi-service cloud computing. Combined with the amount of data generated by these applications, we can no longer handle it,” Weiss said.

Monitoring only collects data from the system and warns the administrator that something is wrong. Observability goes beyond monitoring to interpret data, provide answers on why and how to fix problems, enable teams to identify root causes, minimize downtime, and improve operational efficiency. ..

“The previous solution was to put an agent on the server that could do everything and collect everything, but there’s no longer a place to put the agent,” Weiss told VentureBeat. “Services are very volatile. They are disappearing. They are here now, they are not here tomorrow. We are not talking about serverless either. So it’s a trend change. . “

Points from research

The other data points in the report are:

• 98% report that observability benefits organizations, and this year more respondents (95%) said observable tools help technical teams more effectively support business decisions. I agree that I can.
• Organizations using observability report significant benefits, with 87% rating technology as necessary (41%) or very valuable (46%).
• The large number of monitoring tools in most organizations’ toolsets causes problems, with nearly half (46%) using five or more different tools. Only 7% of all respondents say they are very happy with their current monitoring toolset. The monitoring toolset needs to be streamlined and simplified, but no consensus has yet emerged on the best way to achieve this.
• Almost half (48%) believe it is best to identify gaps in existing toolsets to get additional functionality, and 38% have existing or new tools aimed at reducing the overall toolset. I want to integrate.
• Evaluating new needs and starting from scratch was favored by only 14%, but since last year it has been the only option that has taken hold.

This year’s survey included 315 qualified professionals. All of them are companies with at least 100 employees and 10 developers, responsible for mission-critical cloud applications in DevOps, SRE, architect, application delivery, or tool roles. Please read the entire report.