A surge in online channel demand and delivery continues unabated, even as the pandemic appears to slow. Interest in application performance monitoring and observability tools remains high, as does innovation in the market.
An increase in well-publicized and damaging security breaches has led some APM and observability vendors to add security capabilities, most often a type of runtime application self-protection.
The CNCF-curated OpenTelemetry distributed tracing standard is nearing completion and is becoming widely supported. The third element of the standard, logs, is due by the end of 2022, at which time the first version will be complete. Many vendors represented in this research are already shipping implementations of OpenTelemetry.