The move to modern multi-cloud environments has broken traditional approaches to infrastructure monitoring  

Dynatrace has announced the findings of an independent global survey of 1,300 CIOs and senior IT practitioners involved in infrastructure management. The research reveals the challenges organisations face as they overwhelmingly turn to multi-cloud architectures to achieve the agility and scalability needed to keep up with the pace of Digital Transformation. 

Multi-cloud strategies have led to a surge in complexity, with infrastructure teams drowning in data as they try to monitor and manage their constantly changing environments. As a result, teams are spending more time on manual, routine tasks, limiting their ability to accelerate innovation and highlighting the need for increased use of AI and automation.  

The research reveals:  

• Most organisations (99%) have a multi-cloud environment, with the average spanning five different platforms. These include Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, IBM Red Hat and others.  
• Organisations rely on seven different infrastructure monitoring solutions, on average, to manage multi-cloud environments and 57% say this makes it difficult to optimise infrastructure performance and resource consumption.  
• Only 81% of IT leaders say their use of Kubernetes has made their infrastructure more dynamic and challenging to manage.  

• More than half of IT leaders (56%) say traditional infrastructure monitoring solutions are no longer fit for purpose in a world of multiple clouds and Kubernetes.  

“Multi-cloud strategies have become critical to keeping up with the rapidly accelerating pace of Digital Transformation, but teams are struggling to manage the complexity that these environments bring,” said Bernd Greifeneder, Founder and Chief Technology Officer at Dynatrace. “Dependencies are growing at an exponential pace, driven by faster deployment frequency and cloud-native architectures that bring constant change. Open-source technologies complicate things by adding even more data for teams to deal with. Compounding the issue, each cloud service or platform has its own monitoring solution. To build a complete picture, teams are forced to manually extract insights from each solution and then piece these together with data from other dashboards. Organisations must find a way to help these teams reduce the time they spend on manual tasks and refocus on strategic work that delivers new, high-quality services for customers.”  

The report is based on a global survey of 1,300 CIOs and senior IT practitioners involved in infrastructure management in large enterprises with more than 1,000 employees, conducted by Coleman Parkes and commissioned by Dynatrace. The sample included 200 respondents in the US, 100 in Latin America, 600 in Europe, 250 in the Asia Pacific and 150 in the Middle East.