Curious to hear how organizations are leveraging observability tools in relation to their ITSM platforms. Where is the source of truth for SLAs/SLOs? How is application dependency mapping handled? Is there integration between the two technologies? We are using Dynatrace (observability) and ServiceNow (ITSM), for reference.

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Sr Software Principal engineer (Gen AI and ML Security) in Hardware5 months ago

Servicenow + Dynatrace is a decent combination. Although, it would be better to maintain the product/app dependencies in a separate system, infra dependency in Servicenow, observability in dynatrace/splunk/grafana

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