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Observability

Deep visibility into distributed apps for automated problem identification and resolution

Metrics, logs, and distributed traces are often referred to as the three pillars of observability, all of which provide vital sources of data or telemetry for the system and for individual requests being handled by the system.

13 January 2026

Article

Why cloud-native Java developers love Liberty

Explore the open source cloud-native runtime, Open Liberty, and the features and tools it offers that make cloud-native developers' lives easier - from getting started through to coding, testing, deployment and monitoring in production.

Why cloud-native Java developers love Liberty

10 September 2025

Tutorial

Continuously optimize your infrastructure using the IBM Turbonomic Provider for HashiCorp Terraform

In this tutorial, learn how to set up continuous optimization from IBM Turbonomic in your HashiCorp Terraform environments.

Continuously optimize your infrastructure using the IBM Turbonomic Provider for HashiCorp Terraform

08 August 2025

Tutorial

Local LLM observability with Instana

Learn how to monitor LLM applications with local-hosted observation with IBM Instana. You'll learn how to install and configure the Instana agent on your local machine, set up the Otel Data Collector for LLM to funnel trace and metric data into Instana, instrument your LLM application using the Traceloop SDK, and then view traces, logs, and metrics in the Instana UI.

Local LLM observability with Instana

08 August 2025

Tutorial

Cloud-native LLM observability with IBM Instana

Learn how to monitor LLM applications with cloud-hosted observation with IBM Instana. You'll learn how to deploy the OpenTelemetry Data Collector (ODCL) remotely on IBM Code Engine or a virtual machine, instrument a generative AI application, and then collect LLM-specific metrics in Instana.

Cloud-native LLM observability with IBM Instana

27 February 2025

Article

Understanding causal AI-based Root Cause Identification (RCI) in IBM Instana

In this article, we highlight the practical value of Instana’s causal AI-based RCI methods by citing real-life examples and putting Instana’s RCI within the broader context of available monitoring and observability tools.

Understanding causal AI-based Root Cause Identification (RCI) in IBM Instana

15 August 2024

Article

Improving and automating your ops

Cloud Pak for AIOps makes the job of an SRE (and application developer) easier and allows them to focus more on proactively avoiding incidents and providing automation.

Improving and automating your ops

19 July 2024

Article

Observability-driven development

Observability vs. monitoring is not an either-or proposition. Observability has certainly evolved from monitoring, but has taken a big step forward. Based on the telemetry data, monitoring tells you what’s wrong whereas observability tells you why something is wrong. In this article, I explore observability from an application developer perspective, focusing on what challenges developers might be facing. I also show how we can simplify and streamline the work, with an enterprise-grade full-stack observability platform, like Instana, which is a key product in IBM’s AIOps platform.

Observability-driven development

12 July 2024

Open Project

Fluentd

A fast Log Processor and Forwarder for Linux, Windows, Embedded Linux, MacOS and BSD family operating systems.

Fluentd

11 July 2024

Open Project

Fluentd

Collects events from various data sources and writes them to files, RDBMS, NoSQL, IaaS, SaaS, Hadoop and so on

Fluentd

27 June 2024

Open Project

Istio

Working with both Kubernetes and traditional workloads, Istio brings standard, universal traffic management, telemetry, and security to complex deployments.

Istio

21 June 2024

Article

Observability, insights, and automation

Because developers are increasingly responsible for more of the application lifecycle thanks to modern DevOps best practices, teams must instrument their systems to be highly observable. The combination of Instana, Turbonomic, and IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps provides an end-to-end set of observability capabilities, making it possible to automate large parts of the incident-management process, reducing costs, and improving uptime and availability for your deployments.

Observability, insights, and automation

14 June 2024

Article

Real-time monitoring of microservices and cloud-native applications

This article explains the capabilities of IBM Instana to automatically collect observability metrics, traces, and events from microservices deployed public clouds, as well as on-premises, to provide full visibility into the performance of individual components and applications as a whole.

Real-time monitoring of microservices and cloud-native applications
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