Understanding the Observability market landscape

Businesses are generating massive amounts of data across cloud-native applications, distributed systems, and hybrid environments.

This means understanding how your systems behave in real-time, proactively identifying issues, and optimising performance is no longer optional; it’s a competitive advantage.

Why observability matters

Traditional monitoring tools focus on predefined metrics, but modern observability takes a broader approach. It enables organisations to:

• Reduce downtime: Rapidly detect, diagnose, and resolve performance issues before they impact users.
• Enhance security & compliance: Gain deeper visibility into system behaviours and potential vulnerabilities.
• Optimise costs & performance: Make data-driven decisions that improve efficiency and control cloud spending.
• Deliver better user experiences: Ensure that applications and services perform at peak levels across distributed environments.

What the market offers

Each observability solution has strengths, and the right choice depends on business priorities, scale, and cost considerations. Here at the Cloud Community our team of Cyber Security ‘Opinionistas’ compare some of the leaders alongside Elastic + AWS Observability solution. The list isn’t exhaustive and we’re always ready to hear what our readers think.

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What observability challenges are you facing? Have you explored AWS + Elastic, or do you rely on other platforms?

We’d love to hear your views on which platform has worked best for your observability needs!