Introduction Modern software delivery relies on continuous, automated deployments using GitOps workflows. Argo CD is a widely adopted tool for this purpose, providing declarative, Git-based application delivery to Kubernetes. Faster deployments also increase the risk of undetected...
Author: Chris Farrell Turn Observability into Action: IBM Instana and Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform for AIOps At Red Hat Summit 2026, I had the opportunity to speak on an AIOps panel in the Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform product spotlight where we covered the full...
The Real Problem Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS (ROSA) removes the burden of managing Kubernetes infrastructure, but enterprises remain fully responsible for their application workloads running on top of it. In practice, this means pod failures, memory leaks, resource constraints, and...
AI: an SRE's best friend In the past 6 months Instana has been supercharged by AI, leveraging the latest granite models from Watsonx to solve really tough challenges that have taxed SREs for too long. Probably the most used metric for IT incident is MTTR - which describes the mean time to...
Although in the DORA regulation there is a big focus on cyber resiliency of course general resiliency is also an important aspect. In our view IT Automation will play an ever bigger role in keeping systems resilient. More and more also Artificial Intelligence can play a role in optimising this...
The recent ability to generate dynamic content via large language models received a massive adoption from end users by catering to scenarios such as text summarization, email creation and generic Q/As. But what about the observability and IT operations domain? Could this technology...
What is Observability? Oftentimes, companies can face too much data and overwhelming noise and how they solve it can be challenging. Some large customers can generate 10,000 events a month across their IT organization. Does this sound familiar? Does your team suffer from “alert...
Next week is the 6th annual IBM TechCon 2024 virtual event is coming up this March 19-21st, with live sessions spread across six topic areas. This includes a dedicated track for Observability & AIOps, where I’ll be talking about Generative AI, how its being adopted in the industry, and...
Some of you may have noticed a new Automation icon in the IBM® Instana® Observability main menu. We are pleased to announce that our Action Framework is now in open beta: Previous posts have discussed how we are taking Instana beyond pure observability and helping you take action...
Co-authors : @Shibu N , S Sankara Subramanian , @SHILPA MOHANDAS Any system defect that a hacker can use to compromise an application is known as an application vulnerability. Attacks on applications pose a serious risk to companies of all kinds. These attacks may lead...