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Below, see how your answers compare to tech pros around the world.
  • Question 1
    Which best describes your industry?
    • Technology
      3%
      Your Answer
    • Telecommunications
      7%
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    • Financial/Insurance
      7%
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    • Industrial
      6%
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    • Materials
      8%
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    • Manufacturing
      12%
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    • Retail
      8%
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    • Healthcare
      7%
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    • Pharmaceutical
      8%
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    • Energy/Utilities
      7%
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    • Services/Consulting
      8%
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    • Education
      7%
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    • Non-profit
      5%
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    • Government/Public Sector
      6%
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  • Question 2
    What is your organization’s involvement with observability?
    • Not involved/no plans
      0%
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    • Discussing
      62%
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    • Trialing
      3%
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    • Implementing
      34%
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    • Using
      1%
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  • Question 3
    Describe your level of budgeting for observability
    • Extremely under-budgeted
      0%
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    • Somewhat under-budgeted
      19%
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    • Neither under-budgeted nor over-budgeted
      70%
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    • Somewhat over-budgeted
      10%
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    • Extremely over-budgeted
      0%
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  • Question 4
    How supportive of observability is your organization’s management?
    • Extremely unsupportive
      1%
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    • Somewhat unsupportive
      6%
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    • Neither unsupportive nor supportive
      20%
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    • Somewhat supportive
      59%
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    • Extremely supportive
      14%
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  • Question 5
    How skilled is your staff at observability?
    • Extremely unskilled
      0%
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    • Somewhat unskilled
      8%
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    • Neither unskilled nor skilled
      15%
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    • Somewhat skilled
      72%
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    • Extremely skilled
      4%
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  • Question 6
    Which of the following observability functions are offered by one or more of the tools you own?
    • Network performance monitoring
      99%
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    • Security monitoring
      99%
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    • Log management
      98%
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    • Database monitoring
      99%
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    • Alerts
      98%
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    • Browser monitoring
      96%
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    • Infrastructure monitoring
      97%
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    • Error tracking
      98%
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    • Dashboards
      97%
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    • Application performance monitoring (APM)
      96%
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    • Mobile monitoring
      97%
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    • AIOps
      96%
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    • Synthetic monitoring
      97%
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    • Real user monitoring (RUM)
      97%
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  • Question 7
    How “integrated” are your observability tools? In other words, how much do they share data, combine results, and provide insights based on input from other tools?
    • Extremely nonintegrated
      0%
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    • Somewhat nonintegrated
      0%
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    • Neither nonintegrated nor integrated
      10%
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    • Somewhat integrated
      73%
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    • Extremely integrated
      17%
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  • Question 8
    Which of the following types of costs has your organization experienced due to outages or brownouts?
    • Lost productivity
      100%
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    • Revenue loss
      94%
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    • Fines related to missed service-level agreements (SLAs) or service-level objectives (SLOs)
      92%
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    • Compliance costs
      92%
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    • Legal costs
      92%
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    • Loss of customers
      92%
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    • Loss of reputation
      93%
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    • Lower stock price
      91%
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    • Cost of mitigation of outage or brownout
      98%
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  • Question 9
    Has anyone ever lost their job at your organization as a result of an outage or brownout?
    • Yes
      14%
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    • No
      65%
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    • Don’t know
      21%
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