Looking back at 2025: Innovations that shaped DevOps and observability

19-Dec-2025 11:27 AM UTC by Sangavi Dass

The year 2025 has been exciting for Site24x7, packed with innovations designed to make monitoring smarter, faster, and more intuitive. From enhanced APM insights and deeper database observability to a more powerful log management experience and AI-driven plugin enhancements, we’ve focused on giving teams the tools they need to troubleshoot faster, gain clearer insights, and manage complex environments with ease. Let’s rewind and see our 2025 highlights.

APM Insight: Effortless app monitoring for the modern stack

This year saw a big leap forward for APM Insight . We focused on making the app performance insights sharper, deployments simpler, and business-critical tracking safer. Here’s what made APM Insight stand out in 2025:

OpenTelemetry support: Collect metrics, logs, and traces from OpenTelemetry-instrumented, language-agnostic apps and view them together in one place. By correlating telemetry across services and dependencies, you get a clear, end-to-end picture of how your apps perform and behave.
Switch between web and background transactions: Easily move between web requests and background processes with a single click. Track user satisfaction, throughput, errors, and HTTP issues in one place, so you always know what’s impacting performance without needing to dig around.

APM Business Transactions: Automatically identify important business workflows within your app. Visualize how they perform with smart, curated suggestions. This helps you focus on what truly matters for better business outcomes.
Monitor PHP apps on Azure Web Apps: Gain code-level visibility into PHP apps hosted on Azure Web Apps , including transactions, response times, errors, and external dependencies. This helps you quickly identify PHP-level performance bottlenecks, optimize request handling, and improve overall app reliability.
Simplify IIS app monitoring: Automatically discover IIS apps across your environment. You can enable monitoring in bulk with just a click, saving time while ensuring no app goes unmonitored.
Bulk installation of Java agent: Deploy the Java agent across multiple servers using Ansible, which supports popular platforms like Tomcat, JBoss, WebLogic, and WildFly. This makes large-scale roll-outs faster, consistent, and hassle-free.
Path Analysis: Get deeper clarity for PHP apps by tracing execution paths and quickly pinpointing bottlenecks.

Database monitoring: A year of automation, analytics, and performance gains

For database monitoring , 2025 has been all about effortless onboarding, actionable SQL insights, seamless Oracle monitoring, and keeping the Always On deployments healthy.

Effortless setup with configuration rules : Automate database onboarding by applying monitoring templates instantly and consistently across all DB instances.
Real-time intelligence for Microsoft SQL databases : Gain instant visibility into SQL performance and health with continuous monitoring of resource usage, waits, and activity trends.
Seamless remote monitoring for Oracle databases : Monitor Oracle workloads securely and remotely without intrusive configurations or operational disruptions.
High availability insights with Always On AG monitoring : Track replica synchronization, failover readiness, and availability health to ensure resilient Microsoft SQL Always On deployments.

Log management: Smarter and faster for better insights

We have rolled out multiple enhancements and features in log management to make log usage more intuitive and efficient.

Log tags: Experience enhanced visibility, quicker troubleshooting, streamlined log management, and improved compliance oversight with log tagging .

Log4j appender: Simplify deployment by sending Java app logs directly to Site24x7 via an API. Log4j appender eliminates the need for local file storage and reduces overhead.
Forwarding logs from GCP storage bucket: Enhance log collection by automating log detection and ingestion from cloud storage buckets using Google Cloud Functions.
Field explorer and auto-value suggestion: To minimize lengthy typing queries, we present Field Explorer —a visual, field-based interface that highlights top values for each field, providing instant insights. Coupled with auto-value suggestions that offer context-aware recommendations, it streamlines manual entry and accelerates guided log analysis.
New data detection alert: Stay informed with alerts that notify you when expected data ceases to appear within your selected timeframe. Gain clearer visibility into anomalies and take timely action when critical log patterns change.

Additionally, we’ve enhanced key areas of our log platform to deliver greater flexibility and control critical log entries instantly, so you never miss a log, even when traffic spikes!

Plugin integrations: Advancing observability with AI-enabled extensibility

This year brought powerful enhancements to the plugin integrations ecosystem, with AI taking center stage.

AI-generated custom plugins with Zia

A major milestone this year was the launch of Zia AI–powered plugin generation. Zia automatically creates ready-to-use monitoring scripts and configuration files for any app or service, reducing setup time and removing manual coding. You can now build and deploy custom monitors more quickly and intelligently than ever before.

Expanded visibility across key platforms with new plugins

Apache Spark: Track Apache Spark cluster performance, resource usage, and processing bottlenecks with real-time metrics.
Windows security monitoring: Gain real-time insights into critical security events on Windows systems to detect threats early and safeguard your infrastructure.
Pacemaker clusters: Monitor Pacemaker node health, resource status, and quorum metrics to ensure high availability and stable cluster operations.
Apache HBase: Obtain deeper visibility into Apache HBase storage activity, JVM performance, and IPC operations for smoother big-data workflows.
Keycloak: Maintain reliable authentication systems by tracking Keycloak uptime, memory usage, and version information.

Together, these updates strengthened the plugin ecosystem by delivering faster deployment, broader coverage, and safer monitoring, empowering teams to manage diverse environments more efficiently. Because your monitoring should feel confident, not complicated.

What to expect in 2026

Next year is all about going deeper into monitoring, with less effort. From smarter APM insights and enhanced database observability to AI-powered log exploration and advanced plugin integrations, we’re shaping Site24x7 into a monitoring platform that turns observability into clear, actionable insights. Here’s what you can expect for your monitoring journey in 2026:

APM request attributes will deliver sharper visibility into app performance by capturing the metrics that matter for every request, while transaction grouping simplifies analysis by organizing similar requests together. APM Insight Business Flow will help you track user journeys and business events end to end, showing how performance and dependencies affect outcomes.
Database monitoring is expanding with Oracle RAC monitoring, advanced Query Monitoring, and enhanced cluster-wide visibility, enabling faster diagnosis of slow queries and performance issues than ever before.
Plugin integrations coverage is also expanding, with new support for JBoss, Jetty server, Oracle E-Business Suite, and multiple SAP workloads, alongside automatic app discovery, client-side plugin installation, and smarter plugin templates for faster and seamless deployment.
Log management is becoming more intuitive, actionable, and easier to explore. AI-powered anomaly detection surfaces unusual spikes and patterns early. Also, NLP-powered search helps users to query logs in natural language. Updates include log remapper, external log archiving for backups, and log ingestion licensing for cost-effective, high-volume indexing. Live Tail enables real-time streaming for rapid troubleshooting, and correlation queries connect events across services for faster root-cause analysis.

For a closer look at all the upcoming features, visit the Site24x7 What’s New page. Thanks for being part of our journey in 2025. We can’t wait to show you what’s next.

Here’s to smarter monitoring, simpler troubleshooting, and a fantastic 2026 ahead!

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