With countless monitoring tools and data silos, it's increasingly difficult to monitor and optimize app performance and availability. At Perform 2024, experts discussed how consolidating tool sprawl can help, but unified observability is key.

Today's organizations are drowning in data. So, it's no surprise that data volumes have grown beyond humans' ability to manage. But the data deluge isn't the only problem facing enterprises, as many struggle with tool sprawl. Monitoring myriad tools and the accompanying data silos make it increasingly difficult for enterprises to optimize application performance and availability.

IT and security teams must dedicate their effort to managing and maintaining all these different tools, which diverts time and resources from critical innovation in the process. Despite this, organizations continue to adopt multiple tools and software services to address their monitoring needs. In fact, according to recent Dynatrace research, the average multicloud environment spans 12 different platforms and services.

Enter unified observability, which presents data in intuitive, user-friendly ways to enable data gathering, analysis, and collaboration, while reducing mean time to repair (MTTR) issues and boosting application performance and availability.

At the Dynatrace Perform 2024 conference in Las Vegas, Safia Habib, lead solutions engineer at Dynatrace, joined Chris Conklin, technology executive for enterprise monitoring at TD Bank, as he discussed his journey from traditional monitoring to observability, getting stakeholder buy-in, and other challenges facing businesses along the way.