New Relic Unveils Industry’s Largest Survey on Observability
Second annual Observability Forecast — the only study of its kind to open-source its raw data — surveys 1,614 practitioners and IT decision-makers and reveals observability drives increased revenue retention and innovation
The largest study of its kind, the second annual Observability Forecast from
According to the research, organizations today monitor their technology stacks with a patchwork of tools. At the same time, respondents indicated they longed for simplicity, integration, seamlessness, and more efficient ways to complete high-value projects. Moreover, as organizations race to embrace technologies like blockchain, edge computing, and 5G to deliver optimal customer experiences, observability supports more manageable deployment to help drive innovation, uptime, and reliability. The 2022 Observability Forecast found:
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27% had achieved full-stack observability by the report’s definition – the ability to see everything in the tech stack that could affect the customer experience. Just5% had a mature observability practice by the report’s definition. -
A third (
33% ) of respondents said they still primarily detect outages manually or from complaints, and most (82% ) used four or more tools to monitor the health of their systems. -
More than half (
52% ) of respondents said they experience high-business-impact outages once per week or more, and29% said they take more than an hour to resolve those outages. -
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7% said their telemetry data is entirely unified (in one place), and only13% said the visualization or dashboarding of that data is entirely unified. -
Almost half (
47% ) said they prefer a single, consolidated observability platform. - Respondents predicted their organizations will most need observability for artificial intelligence (AI), the Internet of Things (IoT), and business applications in the next three years.
“Today, many organizations make do with a patchwork of tools that require extensive manual effort to provide fragmented views of their technology stacks,” said
Achieving Full-Stack Observability
Among the report’s key takeaways, the data supports a strong correlation between achieving or prioritizing full-stack observability and experiencing fewer outages, improved outage detection rates, and improved resolution. For example,
The research implies that the ideal state of observability is one where engineering teams monitor the entire tech stack in all stages of the software development life cycle, employ mature observability practice characteristics, and have unified telemetry data and a unified dashboard or visualization of that data — ideally in a single, consolidated platform. Nearly half of all respondents (
Survey respondents said some of the main challenges preventing them from achieving full-stack observability are a lack of understanding of the benefits, too many monitoring tools,
Benefits of Observability
According to the Observability Forecast, developers and engineers seek solutions that will make their lives better and easier. When
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More than a third (
36% ) believe observability increases their productivity and enables them to find and resolve issues faster. -
About three in 10 said observability enables cross-team collaboration (
32% ) and improves their skillset or hireability (31% ). -
More than a quarter (
28% ) felt that it increases their ability to innovate.
Ambitious Deployment Plans
When asked about the top trends driving observability needs at their organizations, respondents said risk mitigation, cloud-native application architectures, customer experience, and adoption of open-source technologies were among the highest drivers. Challenges aside, respondents see observability’s bottom-line benefits and expect to deploy additional observability capabilities — including AIOps, alerts, and serverless monitoring — in the next three years (the report focuses on 17 capabilities in all).1
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3% indicated that their organizations have all 17 observability capabilities deployed. -
By 2025, nearly all respondents expected to deploy capabilities like network monitoring, security monitoring, and log management, as well as less common capabilities like Kubernetes monitoring, with the majority indicating they would have 88–
97% of the 17 observability capabilities deployed. This finding suggests that most organizations will have robust observability practices in place by 2025.
“Observability by its very nature must look at the full stack of data available. Looking at a single layer provides only a silo view. To deliver the digital experience necessary to remain competitive, enterprises must go beyond infrastructure and make their digital business observable,” Gartner®, Innovation Insight for Observability, By
Market Opportunities
As they pursue aggressive observability capability deployment plans,
Looking ahead, respondents foresee their organizations needing observability for a variety of trending technologies, including AI, 5G, and Web3. C-suite executives anticipate needing observability most for AI (
The
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