Dashbird makes observability cool!
Published: 2021-05-04 14:43:18

We're officially cool! Dashbird is extremely proud to be named as a **Cool Vendor** by **[Gartner](https://www.gartner.com/)** in **Monitoring, Observability, and Cloud Operations** in their **28 April 2021** report on "[Cool Vendors in Monitoring, Observability and Cloud Operations](https://www.gartner.com/account/signin?method=initialize&TARGET=http%253A%252F%252Fwww.gartner.com%252Fdocument%252F4001056)". 

Why Gartner think we're cool?
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> "Dashbird provides a **novel approach to observability** for **serverless applications that run inside an AWS environment**. Monitoring a serverless environment can be particularly **complex** as it may involve thousands of separate microservices, and the tools that AWS provides are difficult to use at scale."

Dashbird brings all your **mission-critical AWS data onto one dashboard** and lets you know in **seconds** what's going on in your application and **alerts you immediately of errors and warnings**, and where exactly is the issue located, so you can jump in and fix it before anything starts affecting your customers. In fact, [Dashbird has helped Onfleet](https://dashbird.io/customers/onfleet/) directly to prevent their **customers from churning**!

[Dashbird's customers](https://dashbird.io/customers/) include application developers, Site reliability engineers (SREs), enterprise architects, and DevOps and IT operations teams, in large enterprises and startups across various verticals, responsible for the **performance of applications **hosted in a **serverless environment**. 

Customers value Dashbird's **easy-to-understand metrics dashboard** helping them save up to **80% on their MTTD/R and debugging**, quick and easy 2-minute setup that **doesn't require any code changes**, and the **actionable recommendations** for improving their infrastructure **in accordance with industry best practices**.

"**Monitoring and operating large-scale serverless applications** introduces new **challenges** for developers, architects, and SRE engineers that require special know-how and significant implementation. **Our approach **of **abstracting and automating monitoring** use cases and **not requiring instrumentation** has proven i**deal for serverless**" says Taavi Rehemägi, CEO at [Dashbird](https://dashbird.io/).

So what are the cool things Dashbird offers?
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![dashbird serverless dashboard
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### [End-to-end centralized observability](https://dashbird.io/serverless-observability/) built specifically for AWS and serverless systems

**Purpose-built for serverless**, Dashbird collects monitoring data from AWS. Dashbird monitors multiple cloud components in **AWS cloud**, such as Lambda functions, API Gateways, SQS queues, ECS containers, Kinesis, Step-Functions, and DynamoDB tables. **Every datapoint** that exists in your cloud environment (logs, metrics, and traces), centralized under one roof. Dashbird makes it easy to **visualize, search, query, and interrogate** all there is to know about your serverless application, from high level to a single transaction. Dashbird features a **full-fledged log analytics** functionality that is powered by ElasticSearch. 

![dashbird serverless observability
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### [Real-time automated prebuilt alarms](https://dashbird.io/failure-detection) and analytics for all your metrics

Dashbird **automatically detects errors, code exceptions, timeouts, cold starts, downstream service failures, and anomalies** from logs and metrics in real-time and **alerts you immediately** when you should react to an incident via Slack, e-mail, SNS, and/or webhooks. You can easily set prebuilt and custom filters for any metric condition across your infrastructure -- all in one place -- in the Dashbird dashboard. 

![dashbird aws alarms](https://mk0dashbirdioprthk8x.kinstacdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/dashbird-alarms-new-1024x698.png)

### [Well-Architected actionable insights](https://dashbird.io/serverless-well-architected-reports/) encourage continuous improvement and compliance with industry best practices

Dashbird features **over** **100 complex insight checks** continuously scanning your entire serverless environment against the **AWS Well-Architected best practices**. You can immediately see **how well your infrastructure is architected against each of the five pillars** (cost optimization, security, performance, operational excellence, and reliability) on the progress bars.

Dashbird will let you know **which incidents are affecting your system health** in each pillar and provides you with step-by-step guides for remediation. No need learn the lengthy AWS white papers and go through manual system audits anymore!

![dashbird aws well architected](https://mk0dashbirdioprthk8x.kinstacdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/dashbird-waf-new-1024x577.png)

### Easy set up

Dashbird requires **no code changes** to your functions while still giving you end-to-end visibility. **Setting up takes 2 minutes** and you run no risk of affecting your application.

About Dashbird:
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Built on three core pillars -- **centralized observability, real-time automated alarms, and Well-Architected insights** -- Dashbird is a monitoring, debugging and intelligence platform designed to give developers the confidence to **build, operate, improve, and scale** serverless applications on **AWS environment** securely, fast and with ease. No more digging around in CloudWatch logs line by line and setting up alarms for hours (or weeks), enabling you to be more productive and focus on the important stuff -- developing your product and providing a seamless customer experience!

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