- Leaders: 10%
- Evolving: 20%
- Emerging: 37%
- Beginners: 33%
LANDSCAPE
Observability has arrived
We surveyed 1,750 observability practitioners, managers and experts to examine the state of observability — from the success of today to the ambitions of tomorrow. The current landscape:
- 87% of orgs employ specialists who work exclusively on observability projects.
- 81% report that the number of observability tools they use has increased recently.
- 86% say it's important to have flexible observability solutions that cover hybrid architectures — but half identify this as an area of improvement.
GOALS
Resilience as North Star
Businesses are investing more in resilience, fearing that failure to do so will cost customers, revenue and innovation — but implementation is uneven.
- Nearly two-thirds of orgs report that every hour of downtime costs more than $150,000.
- 96% of orgs have a formal approach to resilience.
- But only 40% have instituted that approach organization-wide, and 16% are yet to implement it at all.
Just 40% of orgs have an organization-wide approach to resilience.
4x as many leaders resolve unplanned downtime in just minutes, not hours or days.
PAYOFFS
Being a leader matters
Leaders — those with mature observability practices — have far better outcomes, from higher ROI to faster fixes.
- 89% of leaders are completely confident in their ability to meet their application availability and performance requirements, versus just 43% of beginners.
- Leaders are 7.9x as likely to say that their ROI on observability tools far exceeded expectations.
- Leaders report one-third the number of outages per year, on average.
LESSONS
Lessons from the leaderboard
It’s hard to argue with the advantages of being a leader. So what are the secrets to their success?
- Leaders prioritize resilience, with 81% implementing a formal resilience strategy organization-wide.
- Leaders are 75% more likely to report that they’ve converged aspects of observability with other monitoring tools and teams.
- Leaders purchase with more skepticism — and 68% report seeing frequent o11y-washing (when a vendor rebrands their solutions as observability tools without adding any specific observability functionality).
