How full-stack observability can accelerate IT innovation | IT PRO
Companies that don’t implement full-stack observability could even be risking an existential threat. Organisations that don’t at least take the first steps towards implementation will be at a competitive disadvantage over the next year as other organisations race ahead. Potential consequences include the reduced productivity and time wasted seeking the root cause of an IT performance issue just discussed, which full-stack observability makes much easier to track.
However, reluctant organisations can fall behind in other important ways, too, including innovation and digital transformation. Full-stack observability enables an organisation to pinpoint areas for improvement more directly, showing the best places to prioritise for development with the most potential for delivering impact. Perhaps an improvement in storage could enable the next leap forward in application delivery, or maybe software-defined compute will deliver the required infrastructural basis.
Time to make a start
The message is getting through, and according to the Journey to Observability report 91% said their organisation had a full-stack observability strategy in place, with 37% already executing the strategy, while a further 39% had taken their first steps. With so many IT professionals recognising the benefit and beginning their journey, every company should be considering full-stack observability and how it can help them both monitor their disparate IT estate and grow for the future.
Implementing effective full-stack observability entails choosing the right solutions provider. As a key component of Cisco’s solution for full-stack observability, AppDynamics is helping technologists see, understand and optimise what happens inside and beyond their IT architecture – all through the lens of business impact – by providing them with the tools, insight and expertise they need to build on their existing monitoring capabilities and generate real-time visibility into their entire IT stack. Technologists realise that 2022 is going to be a pivotal year for implementation, as economies emerge towards a “new normal”. Of the technologies surveyed for the Journey to Observability report, 90% cited it as a priority.
However, 93% also recognised that there was more work to be done to deploy full-stack observability within their organisation. The work is worth doing. In fact, it’s likely to be essential for any company that is now utilising a broad range of services in its IT stack.
The main thing to consider is that business outcomes should be correlated with technology performance across the full IT stack, because the reality is that they are inextricably connected. Once you make this correlation, full-stack observability becomes a completely obvious technology to implement, and companies that don’t take the step will be missing out not just on considerable productivity improvements, but also on having an invaluable tool to guide their innovation over the coming decade as IT systems become even more ubiquitous and disparate.
Read Cisco AppDynamics’ report, The Journey to Observability, to learn more
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