Technologists in Singapore demand application observability to manage their hybrid IT environments: Report

Cisco AppDynamics today revealed new global research around the importance of application observability as numerous organisations continue to embrace hybrid IT environments. The research includes findings from 1,140 IT professionals across 13 global markets, including Singapore.

The report, titled, “The Age of Application Observability,” found that 100% of technologists in Singapore point to a critical need to move from a monitoring approach to observability solutions for managing multi-cloud and hybrid environments, and 94% believe the increased volume of data is making manual monitoring impossible.

Today, IT teams across all industries struggle with expanded attack surfaces, soaring complexity, and overwhelming volumes of data. Application observability provides a single source of truth, enabling IT teams to integrate application availability and performance data with security throughout the application lifecycle, and making it easier for technologists to rapidly detect and remediate issues.

According to the research, more than half (54%) of organisations in Singapore are already exploring solutions, and 86% state that observability is now a strategic priority for their organisation. The combination of cloud native adoption alongside on-premises technology means there’s a greater need for flexibility than ever before.

Other key Singapore-specific takeaways include:

• 96% of technologists claim that observability with business context will enable them to be more strategic and spend more time on innovation.
• 96% of technologists state that adoption of cloud native technologies is leading to increased complexity within their IT department, with microservices and containers spawning a massive volume of metrics, events, logs and traces (MELT) data.
• 78% report that leaders within their organization do not fully understand that modern applications need modern approaches and tools to manage availability, performance and security.
• On average, technologists report that 44% of their new innovation initiatives are being delivered with cloud native technologies, and they expect this figure to climb to 68% over the next five years. That means that the majority of new digital transformation programs will be built on cloud native technologies by 2028.