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Observability Platform Engineering
The future of enterprise Observability is platform-native: automated, standardized, and scalable insights across the entire organization
Why Platform Engineering is central to Observability
For the modern enterprise, observability is no longer a add on; it is a fundamental platform capability. As platform engineering is new new operating model for IT, the responsibility for "how we see our systems" has shifted.
“The first rule of scaling platforms is to make everything observable. From build pipelines to runtime behavior, you can’t optimize what you can’t see.”
Boyan Dimitrov
CTO at Sixt
Trends in Observability Platform Engineering to look at in 2026
Trends in Observability Platform Engineering to look at in 2026:
Shift in ownership: Platform leaders are now the primary decision-makers, taking the lead on operational stacks traditionally owned by fragmented SRE teams.
Built-in: Instrumentation (metrics, logs, traces) is embedded directly into the platform layer, making it automatic and standardized.
Convergence: APM, monitoring, and logging are blending into unified, self-service platform capabilities.
COMING Q1 2026
Market guide for Observability Platform Engineering
Weave Intelligence is releasing the first comprehensive market guide designed specifically for the platform engineer’s perspective.
What this guide provides for your enterprise:
Evaluation criteria: A rigorous framework to assess tools based on platform-native integration.
Data-dacked trends: Analysis of the shift toward unified telemetry
Representative vendors: A curated look at the landscape
Implementation best practices: Move from "choosing a tool" to "building a capability"
State of Platform Engineering Report: Volume 4
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Reference architecture for an AI/ML Internal Developer Platform on GCP
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Reference architecture of an Internal Developer Platform on Azure
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Reference architecture of an Internal Developer Platform on GCP
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Cloud Development Environments (CDEs) for Platform Engineers
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Kubernetes cluster lifecycle management for platform engineers
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State of AI in Platform Engineering 2025
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Observability for platform engineers
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Reference architecture of an Internal Developer Platform on AWS
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