Survey: IT Teams Struggling With Visibility Despite Monitoring And Observability Investments
Techstrong.IT, Wednesday, March 11th, 2026
A survey of 750 IT practitioners and leaders published today finds that while nearly two thirds (74%) have adopted monitoring and observability tools, a full 77% said lack of visibility into both in-premises and cloud computing environments remains an issue, with 37% describing it as a major issue for their IT teams.
Conducted by the market research firm UserEvidence on behalf of SolarWinds, the survey also finds three quarters of respondents (75%) reporting a lack of coordination or cooperation between different teams is an observability challenge.
Overall, the survey identifies cloud infrastructure (67%), networking (58%), security and compliance (56%) and database performance (51%) as the top areas that increased observability would improve.
At this point, most IT teams are using a mix of tools to both monitor pre-defined metrics and analyze specific IT incidents. Initially adopted by DevOps teams, observability tools and platforms are now being used more widely to analyze everything from application performance to cybersecurity incidents.