Security News > 2021 > December > Most companies struggling to achieve observability despite investing in tools

A new study showed that two-thirds of organizations are currently spending $100,000 or more annually on observability tools, with 38% spending $300,000 or more annually.

Despite these investments, 75% of companies are still struggling to achieve true observability, according to LogDNA. While many organizations have four or more tools in their arsenal, they're often dissatisfied; in fact, more than half are unable to implement the tools they want because of vendor lock-in.

The report findings were based on a survey by The Harris Poll of more than 200 senior engineering professionals who are responsible for observability and log data management at companies across the United States.

"It's clear that organizations need to drive more value from their observability data, but they are struggling to find tools that make it easy for multiple stakeholders to extract actionable insights," said Tucker Callaway, CEO, LogDNA. The report highlights the critical importance of log data to observability use cases, such as tracking performance of applications and capacity resources, informing product improvements, and identifying threats and anomalous activity.

Still, results show that sentiment toward observability is generally positive, with 85% of participants responding they believe true observability is possible.

Results also support increasing demand for observability data pipeline solutions that enable enterprises to ingest all of their data to a single platform, normalize it, and seamlessly route it to the appropriate teams, so they can take meaningful action quickly within their workflows.

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