DevX-Accelerate Observability is a suite of services designed to empower teams with the tools and technologies needed to achieve comprehensive observability into their applications and infrastructure. Observability refers to the ability to understand the internal state and performance of a system based on collected data.
What do we do?
We offer a range of services to meet your unique observability needs:
- Logging with Elasticsearch: This service provides centralized log storage, exploration, and alerting capabilities to analyze application logs and identify potential issues.
- Metrics: This cloud-agnostic monitoring service leverages VictoriaMetrics to collect and analyze application and infrastructure metrics, enabling real-time monitoring and alerting.
- Synthetic Monitoring: Our “Mantis” service allows you to define user journeys and automatically run synthetic tests from various locations to monitor user experience and identify performance bottlenecks.
- Observability Ingest with OpenTelemetry and Vector: This platform offers flexible options for collecting and processing observability data from various sources, including logs, metrics, and distributed tracing. It supports industry-standard technologies like OpenTelemetry and Vector, ensuring compatibility with your existing infrastructure.
By utilizing these services, you can gain valuable insights into the health and performance of your applications, identify and troubleshoot issues proactively, and ensure a seamless user experience.
Who are we?
We are the DevX-Accelerate Observability team, a group of experts passionate about helping teams achieve optimal application health and performance. We understand the challenges associated with monitoring complex systems and strive to provide flexible, scalable, and efficient solutions.
Vision
Enable engineering and technology operations groups at Comcast to identify the internal state of their complex systems and infrastructure in a consistent and easy way.
Outcomes:
- Reduced MTTR ( mean time to recover) of Comcast’s services.
- Make Observability an enabler of software development.