Dynatrace surveyed 919 IT leaders - here’s why almost every SRE team’s observability still isn’t enough for AI

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Alex Hibbert of Storio has a line that Josh Clay, Dynatrace's Regional VP of Solutions Engineering, says he has "stolen a thousand times" since hearing it at a Dynatrace Innovate event: AI is an amplifying factor – if your foundation isn't great, the problems are only going to get worse. Having heard Hibbert make the same point at Dynatrace Perform, I can see why Clay keeps borrowing it. It sounds simple enough, but it's very appropriate given Dynatrace's latest State of SRE and Platform Engineering report and, according to Clay, shows up every customer conversation he is having right now.

The survey data bears this out. 97% of the Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) teams surveyed report using some form of observability tooling, which might suggest a mature discipline - but in reality it's complicated.

Near-universal adoption, uneven integration

In a 1:1 interview, Clay explained that his attention was caught by...

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