ServiceNow has released Lightstep UQL (Unified Query Language) that will help companies expand visibility into Kubernetes applications. Using shift-left observability directly in code helps DevOps teams ensure that Kubernetes applications are ‘born’ fully observable and proactively implement consistency, maintainability, and reproducibility best practices – versus having of SREs to build dashboards on the fly.
With IDC forecasting observability market growth to reach $9.08 billion by 2025, finding and getting the right data becomes more complex at scale, as existing multi-cloud observability solutions tend to generate fragmented experience that creates more work in the long run for DevOps and SRE teams.
With Lightstep UQL, teams can have an easier time migrating their observability from other scattered tools to the unified Lightstep platform through a single query language, making it possible to query and -correlate metrics, logs, and traces on demand across thousands of Kubernetes nodes, servers. , or serverless functions.
“Engineers can now use observability-as-code for more powerful and flexible insights into the health and performance of their cloud-native applications,” said Ben Sigelman, general manager and co-founder of Lightstep from on ServiceNow.
“This is especially important when thinking about modern architectures like Kubernetes, which are highly complex and dynamic. Lightstep UQL works to ensure that every Kubernetes application deployed is fully deployed and observed by default.” , Sigelman continued.
“Due to current limitations within monitoring tools, many enterprises are still monitoring applications at the application level rather than at the infrastructure/microservice level. By instrumenting Kubernetes clusters, distributed applications can be envisioned from the start instead of being an afterthought,” said Andy Thurai, vice president and principal analyst at Constellation Research.
He also said, “Offering observability-as-code can help developers adhere to fully observable standards from the design level, reducing friction between DevOps and SRE/Ops teams. “
ServiceNow acquired Lightstep, a monitoring and observability platform, in 2021 to extend the benefits of observability across the enterprise through digital workflows. Earlier this month, ServiceNow announced an agreement to acquire Era Software, an observability and log management innovator, which will complement and enhance existing features within Lightstep.
This release is another step to accelerate ServiceNow’s path to unified telemetry (logs, metrics, traces).