Survey Surfaces Rising Tide Of Investments In Observability
devops.com, Tuesday, April 7th, 2026
A survey of 628 enterprise IT leaders conducted by the Futurum Group finds well over a third (36%) plan on spending more than $1 million on observability in 2026, with 7% planning to spend in excess of $5 million.
Mitch Ashley, vice president and practice lead for software lifecycle engineering at the Futurum Group, said that the increased level of spending suggests more enterprise IT organizations are committing to observability in the age of artificial intelligence (AI).
Specifically, there is now a pressing need to extend the collection of telemetry data to capture the intent of AI agents that are being deployed across the enterprise, he added.