Nancy Gohring is a senior research analyst for the Applied Infrastructure & DevOps and Cloud Native Channels at 451 Research, a part of S&P Global Market Intelligence. Nancy follows the monitoring and incident response markets including APM, infrastructure monitoring, log analytics, distributed tracing and event analytics. Her coverage encompasses recent trends around observability and AIOps, both of which are influenced by enterprise adoption of cloud-native technologies.
Prior to joining 451 Research, Nancy was Editor in Chief of the enterprise IT publications at Fierce Markets where she launched the DevOps publication and oversaw seven publications aimed at senior enterprise IT executives. As a freelance technology journalist her articles appeared in The New Stack, Wired, MIT Technology Review, The Economist (Babbage blog) and The New York Times.
Nancy has a BA from Northwestern University.
At its recent .conf virtual event, the vendor announced some new capabilities, including real user monitoring and a SaaS-delivered, monitoring-focused logging tool as part of an integrated suite of offerings targeted primarily at DevOps teams.
There is a renewed interest in open source monitoring tools. We've found some differences in adoption patterns, but most organizations " regardless of size, age or sector " have a mix of open source, commercial and custom monitoring tools.
Instana is among the newer breed of monitoring vendors targeting cloud-native environments. With the deal, IBM obtains not only a monitoring tool that offers visibility into applications employing technologies like containers, Kubernetes and serverless, but also a data collection source for its Watson AIOps product.
The monitoring vendor has added distributed tracing, inviting customers to use its service to monitor, diagnose and troubleshoot performance problems. With this addition, Sumo Logic now provides APM for cloud-native applications, besides its existing log analytics, infrastructure monitoring, and products serving the security use case.
While most organizations don't use that many tools, they say they'd like to buy from fewer vendors " 83% of respondents to our Voice of the Enterprise, Storage: Transformation 2020 survey say they want to buy as many monitoring and incident response tools as possible from a single vendor.
More than half of respondents to our survey already use or plan to use AI/ML-enabled monitoring or incident response tools, so adoption appears to be strong, particularly for the more capable tools that have emerged. Our research suggests that organizations operating complex cloud-native environments have more to gain from AI/ML-enabled features.
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