Open-source enterprise software firm SUSE S.A. today announced new observability capabilities for its Rancher Prime solution for Kubernetes environments that enhance full-stack visibility and troubleshooting.

The company’s current release, SUSE Rancher Prime 3.1, is an enterprise-grade platform for managing and deploying Kubernetes clusters across any environment, whether on-premises, in the cloud or at the edge. The service provides centralized control, governance and security for Kubernetes. The idea is to make it easier for organizations to deploy, manage and scale containerized applications consistently.

The new enhancements to SUSE Rancher Prime 3.1 include the introduction of new observability capabilities that provide full-stack visibility and enable proactive issue resolution. The new features enhance the platform’s ability to optimize performance, reduce downtime and ensure reliability across complex, distributed cloud-native environments, according to SUSE.

Rancher Prime now offers real-time, context-rich insight and increases efficiency by streamlining troubleshooting processes. The service delivers smoother and more reliable user experiences by maintaining peak performance from edge to cloud. 

Notably, the new functionality incorporated into Rancher Prime is the result of SUSE’s acquisition of observability vendor StackState BV in June. StackState’s core product is a software tool that administrators can use to troubleshoot Kubernetes, which is now part of the Rancher Prime offering. The result, says SUSE, is increased efficiencies and more reliable experiences when they integrate efforts such as observability into their application engineering processes.

Benefits of Rancher Prime Observability include out-of-the-box application performance monitoring with eBPF-based visibility, advanced dependency mapping and automated data correlation that unifies metrics, events, logs and traces for simplified root cause analysis.

The service also provides centralized dashboards for real-time and historical insights, reducing context switching and enhancing operational efficiency. Additionally, the platform includes issue detection and guided remediation with customizable, expert-led strategies for faster problem resolution.

“As the threats of service interruptions continue, the risk of widespread outages is higher than ever and our customers need a unified view of their entire mission-critical infrastructure and applications,” said Peter Smails, senior vice president and general manager of enterprise container management at SUSE. “Rancher Prime Observability will enable customers to ensure reliability, accelerate troubleshooting and maximize performance while keeping their systems running smoothly.”

Rancher Prime Observability is generally available starting today.

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