Observability refers to the use of cumulative information collected from its components to understand the current state of a system or application. Observability typically focuses on monitoring the entire system or application rather than managing elements individually. A fully observable environment will gain insight into network stack and keep your network infrastructure in top working order at all times.
what is observability
Observability is a concept that explains the extent to which a network or environment can be sensed with the help of data collected from external sources provided by the environment itself.
What is the difference between surveillance and observability
Monitoring deals with the "known unknowns" whereas observability deals with the "unknown unknowns", observability is monitoring your environment to avoid the above mentioned anomalies and predict changes.
How Observability Works
Observability uses telemetry data to determine the behavior of the environment. Then use telemetry collected through metrics, logs, and traces (often referred to as the three pillars of observability) to achieve a fully observable environment.
How observability can help the business of IT
Modern infrastructure thrives in distributed environments, and it is critical to observe such environments, rather than make assumptions about problems that have occurred in the past. Observability typically focuses on monitoring the entire system or application, and finding what is about to happen in the environment. errors, providing full-stack visibility into the IT infrastructure.
- Higher Business IT Resilience : Browse SLAs with faster MTTR with the help of Root Cause Analysis and Network Path Analysis. Application observability enhances IT operations by automating tasks, enforcing workflows, and enabling faster application deployments.
- Enhanced overall experience : Observability solutions provide full-stack visibility into application performance, which helps detect anomalies before they impact end users and helps track performance to ensure improved customer and employee experiences.
- Scale IT with growing business needs : Leverage AIOps and automation to predict and scale resources for non-stop operations. Be ready for any surprise networking demands.
Enables practical observability across network and application infrastructure
Observability gives you superior control over complex networks and distributed systems that are inherently unpredictable or dynamic, a fully observable network will facilitate and simplify the process. This includes service deployments, configuration changes, workload distribution, cloud dependencies, customer experience, service performance, and resource consumption.
- Achieving application-level observability
- Easily manage IT infrastructure and operations
- Security and Risk Management
- Improve processes like DevOps and SRE
Achieving application-level observability
- Discover applications running on various servers and network devices in the network infrastructure, and design business service dependency graphs and associate application dependencies and relationships between them.
- Diagnose and troubleshoot application-related components and quickly locate problematic devices in your environment with OpManager Plus' application observability software.
- Monitor end-user experience in real-time and fix UI or UX issues before they impact end users.
Easily manage IT infrastructure and operations
- Manage your entire IT infrastructure with a unified observability tool through proactive fault management, instant alert notification, and cross-platform integration.
- From visualizing traffic patterns in the network and integrating with third-party SaaS applications, to performing back-end code inspections of web applications, you will be able to manage everything with a single network observability tool.
Security and Risk Management
- Advanced network forensics with the Advanced Security Analysis module, which leverages flow-based techniques to analyze and detect zero-day network intrusions using state-of-the-art Continuous Stream Mining Engine™ technology.
- Adhere to compliance policies, manage firewall devices, and protect against network threats and security breaches.
Improve processes like DevOps and SRE
- Helps DevOps and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) teams correlate performance changes with code commits and builds.
- Measure and optimize the performance and availability of Java, .NET, and Ruby on Rails applications, and verify whether frequent code changes are impacting the performance of business-critical applications.
Unified Observability Solution
Achieve full-stack observability across networks, applications and infrastructure with OpManager Plus .
Improve user experience
- Closely monitor key parameters such as availability, latency, execution correctness, and quality to determine application performance management
- Meet customer expectations with our web user experience monitoring tool, which utilizes the Apdex score metric to determine customer satisfaction details on your website.
- Real-time user monitoring provides greater insight into individual user sessions on your website and identifies trends across geographic locations.
Application Performance Monitoring
- Provide DevOps teams with unparalleled visibility into application performance and visualize complex distributed applications from the browser to the database.
- Track, monitor, analyze, and aggregate operational levels and overall performance of containerized applications such as Docker, Kubernetes, and OpenSight.
- Perform deep code-level diagnostics and correlate performance changes with code commits.
Network Analysis and Monitoring
- Accurately and transparently monitor every IT component and take network monitoring to a new level with the help of AI and ML concepts.
- Check business-critical network components and application servers.
- Use capacity planning reports to make informed decisions about bandwidth growth Run complete forensic and security analysis on network components using continuous stream mining engine technology and detect a wide range of external and internal security threats.
infrastructure management
- Easily manage IT infrastructures of any size and perform efficient physical and virtual infrastructure monitoring.
- Establish real-time change monitoring and track mismanaged bandwidth consumption across devices.
- Control administrative tasks by automating network configuration changes by centrally applying configuration changes to devices in batches.
Security and Forensics Analysis
- Track network anomalies beyond network firewalls and identify related anomalies and zero-day intrusions.
- Manage firewall policies and analyze firewall rule usage and effectiveness.
- Accelerate failure cause identification, analyze logs, and pinpoint the exact log entry indicating the cause of a security incident in minutes, drill down to root cause, and correlate network anomalies with the help of root cause analysis.
Hybrid Cloud Monitoring
- Monitor and troubleshoot business applications no matter where they are hosted in public or private clouds, or on-premises.
- Gain instant insight into services from public cloud providers such as AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Oracle Cloud, and OpenStack, as well as cloud and virtualization technologies.
- Track the performance of cloud application platforms in parallel and detect service outages, application lag, and server downtime.