Editor’s Note: The following is an article written for and published in DZone’s 2025 Trend Report, Intelligent Observability: Building a Foundation for Reliability at Scale.
Platform consolidation is an important topic in 2025 as tool sprawl and platform fragmentation are costing engineering teams time, money, and focus. Some surveys of observability practitioners show that 80% of teams are working on reducing vendor count and consolidating their observability and monitoring tools.