Observability providers Observe and New Relic this week separately introduced Kubernetes-specific capabilities in their platforms that will enable faster problem resolution across complex container environments.
For its part, Observe unveiled additional capabilities to its .
According to Gartner’s 2024 Critical Capabilities for Container Management report “by 2027, more than 75% of all AI deployments with use container technology as the underlying compute environment, up from less than 50% today.” With environments growing more complex and sophisticated, IT teams will need more specific expertise to quickly solve issues around critical applications, industry watchers say.
“The complexity of Cloud Native infrastructures remains a key challenge for SREs and on-call engineers,” said James Governor, analyst and co-founder at RedMonk, said in a “New Relic simplifies observability workloads for Kubernetes environments so that developer and platform teams can more easily monitor their stacks—all with intelligent insights driven by our AI-strengthened Intelligent Observability platform.”
Monitoring the performance of applications deployed on Kubernetes components introduces unique challenges, New Relic says, requiring developer and platform teams to install application performance monitoring (APM) and Kubernetes integrations separately to achieve observability, which can be a time-consuming and cumbersome process. New Relic now automatically instruments APM with Kubernetes and also provides AI insights into the environment.
Among the new features specific to Kubernetes in the New Relic observability platform are:
- One-step instrumentation: Automates APM instrumentation alongside Kubernetes deployments, which automatically upgrades APM agents so teams can accurately manage the performance of their Kubernetes clusters with the applications—without the need for code changes.
- AI-strengthened out-of-the-box insights: Correlates application and Kubernetes data on a unified interface thanks to pre-configured Kubernetes UI and alerts. The troubleshooting capabilities allows teams to quickly identify and resolve performance issues.
- Native support for OpenTelemetry (OTel) and Prometheus: Unifies OTel-instrumented Kubernetes clusters and Prometheus-instrumented hosts alongside all telemetry data to eliminate fragmentation and blind spots.
- Democratize observability with New Relic AI: Enables users of any role or skill level can easily access insights and take action through natural language prompts, making observability accessible to all.
New Relic one-step observability for Kubernetes is available to all customers.
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