Security News > 2023 > September > Security concerns and outages elevate observability from IT niche to business essential

The report also found that companies implementing observability benefit from increased operational efficiency, faster innovation, and better business outcomes overall.

Among the findings, the survey uncovered that observability leaders - those who follow best practices to leverage observability and report experiencing better business and IT outcomes as a result - are three times more likely to say their organization is doing extremely well with growing revenue, more than twice as likely to say the same about operational efficiency, and 2.5 times more likely to say they're excelling with the speed of innovation.

Observability has emerged as a solution to not only pre-emptively detect anomalies and potential issues before they escalate into full-blown outages but to proactively address those issues at the root cause and prevent future outages.

"Outages and security concerns are no longer just an IT problem, and observability is no longer just an IT solution," said Jeff Stewart, Field CTO and VP, global solutions engineering at SolarWinds.

"The better business, innovation, and technology outcomes experienced by observability leaders prove the benefits to every level, department, and employee. The findings of this year's report should serve as an urgent call to action for business leaders who believe they can't afford to invest in observability tool - when the truth is that we're rapidly entering a landscape in which companies simply can't afford to risk being without them," added Stewart.

Investing in top priorities: Data shows organizations using observability solutions to support the priorities most critical to their growth and success: improve their customer experience, enable faster innovation, reduce time spent solving, and detecting issues, and increase operational efficiency More automated and integrated: Observability leaders embracing automation and investing in tools that provide enhanced efficiency are 214% more likely to say they are doing extremely well with operational efficiency, 750% more likely to say they are doing extremely well with auto-remediation of complex alerts, and 300% better at automatically collecting background diagnostic data for IT support staff.

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