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What Is Terraform?
Terraform is an infrastructure as code (IaC) tool that lets developers use human readable code to provision, update and destroy infrastructure components.
Infrastructure as code

04 March 2025
Insights
How to Transition from Monitoring to Observability
Whether you’re actively migrating or just evaluating options, learn why and how organizations are transitioning from monitoring to observability.
Observability

25 February 2025
What is LLM Observability?
LLM observability is the practice of gathering data about an LLM-based system in production to understand, evaluate, and optimize it.
Observability

06 February 2025
Explainer
What Is ITSM (IT Service Management)?
IT service management (ITSM) is the practice of planning, implementing, managing and optimizing IT services to meet user needs and business goals.
IT service management

06 February 2025
Explainer
Types of Service Level Agreement (SLA) Metrics
SLAs describe the level of performance to be expected, how performance will be measured and repercussions if levels are not met.
Service-level agreement

15 January 2025
Insights
IT Cost Optimization Framework and Strategies
Six strategies for achieving IT cost optimization.
Cost optimization

13 November 2024
Explainer
What Is Observability?
Observability is the extent to which developers can understand the internal state or condition of a complex system based solely on knowledge of its external outputs.
Observability

15 August 2024
Explainer
What Is an API Gateway?
An API gateway is an API management tool that acts as an intermediary between an API client and backend services.
IT automation

17 July 2024
What are Application Performance Management (APM) Metrics?
A superior customer experience (CX) is built on accurate and timely application performance monitoring (APM) metrics.
IT automation

30 May 2024
Explainer
What Is an SLA (service level agreement)?
A service level agreement (SLA) is a contract between a service provider and a customer that outlines the terms and expectations of provided service.
IT service management

02 May 2024
IT Automation
Leverage educational content like blogs, articles, videos, podcasts, reports and more, crafted by IBM experts, on emerging IT automation technologies.
IT automation

10 April 2024
Explainer
What Is Problem Management?
Problem management is the process of identifying, managing and finding solutions for the root causes of incidents on an IT service.
Problem management

20 March 2024
Explainer
What Is Website Monitoring?
Website monitoring is the practice of tracking website and web service performance to ensure maximum availability and an optimal user experience.
Website monitoring

06 March 2024
Explainer
Generative AI for Developers
Generative AI is just one tool in the toolbelt that helps improve developer productivity with methodologies, frameworks and best practices.
IT automation

22 February 2024
Explainer
What Is Incident Management?
Incident management is a process used by ITOps and DevOps teams to address unplanned events that can affect service quality or service operations.
Incident management

21 November 2023
Insights
Your Black Friday observability checklist
A checklist to help you find and implement the best possible observability platform to keep all your applications running bright.
Observability

05 October 2023
Explainer
What is a Service Level Objective (SLO)?
A service level objective (SLO) is an agreed-upon performance target for a particular service over a period of time.
Service-level agreement

27 September 2023
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Debunking observability myths – Part 6: Observability is about one part of your stack
In this post, we're delving into another misconception about observability—that it's solely applicable to a specific part of your stack or application.
Observability

18 September 2023
Explainer
What is Single Pane of Glass?
Single pane of glass (SPOG) is a dashboard or platform that provides centralized, enterprise-wide visibility into various sources of data in an organization.
Observability

12 September 2023
Insights
Debunking observability myths – Part 5: You can create an observable system without observability-driven automation
In this post, we'll tackle another myth about observability—that you can create an observable system without observability driven by automation.
Observability

28 August 2023
Insights
A beginner's guide to automation and AIOps
How automation—when applied to IT and AIOps—helps you achieve better business results in three key areas.
AIOps

15 August 2023
Insights
Debunking observability myths – Part 4: Observability is always expensive
In this article, we will focus on the misconception that “observability is always expensive.”
Observability

09 August 2023
Insights
Debunking observability myths – Part 3: Why observability works in every environment, not just large-scale systems
In this article, we'll tackle the common myth that observability is only relevant and beneficial for large-scale systems or complex architectures.
Observability

02 August 2023
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Debunking observability myths – Part 2: Why observability is important for everyone, not just SREs
In this post, we're exploring another myth that limits the potential of observability—that it's exclusively built for site reliability engineers (SREs).
Observability

01 August 2023
Explainer
Incident management vs. Problem Management
Incident and problem management are two important processes for issue and error control, maintaining uptime, and delivering a great service to customers.
Incident management

25 July 2023
Insights
Debunking observability myths
In this blog post, we will shed light on a myth surrounding observability: "You can skip monitoring and rely on logs.”
Observability

06 July 2023
Explainer
What Is IT Automation?
IT automation is the creation and implementation of automated processes and software in place of time-consuming manual activities.
IT automation

26 June 2023
Explainer
The six strategic uses cases for AIOps
Six strategic use cases for AIOps and practical next steps to guide your AIOps journey.
AIOps

31 May 2023
Explainer
What is Distributed Tracing?
Distributed tracing is a technique that addresses the challenges of logging information in microservices-based applications.
Observability

25 May 2023
Insights
The five key benefits of AIOps and automation
How AIOps can help your IT staff move from a “break-fix” approach to one that’s more predictive and proactive.
AIOps
