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DevOps observability: A guide for DevOps and DevSecOps teams

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As organizations accelerate innovation to keep pace with digital transformation, DevOps observability is becoming a critical key to success for DevOps and DevSecOps teams. DevOps and DevSecOps practices help organizations release software faster and more frequently, paving the way for digital transformation.

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SLOs done right: how DevOps teams can build better service-level objectives

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So how do development and operations (DevOps) teams and site reliability engineers (SREs) distinguish among good, great, and suboptimal SLOs? The state of service-level objectives While SLOs play a critical role in helping DevOps and SRE teams align technical objectives with business goals, they’re not always easy to define.

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DevOps automation: From event-driven automation to answer-driven automation [with causal AI]

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In the world of DevOps and SRE, DevOps automation answers the undeniable need for efficiency and scalability. Though the industry champions observability as a vital component, it’s become clear that teams need more than data on dashboards to overcome persistent DevOps challenges.

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What are quality gates? How to use quality gates to deliver better software at speed and scale

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Automating quality gates is ideal, as it minimizes manually checking and validating key metrics throughout the SDLC. By actively monitoring metrics such as error rate, success rate, and CPU load, quality gates instill confidence in teams during software releases. Several tools can be used to collect metrics in load/performance testing.

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Implementing service-level objectives to improve software quality

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By implementing service-level objectives, teams can avoid collecting and checking a huge amount of metrics for each service. SLOs enable DevOps teams to predict problems before they occur and especially before they affect customer experience. Latency is the time that it takes a request to be served. SLOs minimize downtime.

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What is observability? Not just logs, metrics and traces

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As a result, IT operations, DevOps , and SRE teams are all looking for greater observability into these increasingly diverse and complex computing environments. In IT and cloud computing, observability is the ability to measure a system’s current state based on the data it generates, such as logs, metrics, and traces.

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Site reliability done right: 5 SRE best practices that deliver on business objectives

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As a result, site reliability has emerged as a critical success metric for many organizations. That’s why good communication between SREs and DevOps teams is important. The following three metrics are commonly used to measure success: Service-level agreements (SLAs). Service-level objectives (SLOs). availability.