Enterprises are drowning in complexity, managing an average of 1,000+ apps  with less than 30 percent of them integrated. According to a 2024 IDC article¹, 1 billion new logical applications are expected by 2028. This complexity can create silos, outages, and financial waste – which makes keeping critical systems continually running a near impossible task.

Without a central strategy in place, this complexity usually means the organization’s resilience (the ability to withstand or quickly fix disruptions and/or recover) and the applications it depends on, is also suffering.

Organizations want to build applications that are as resilient as possible. Automation can play a crucial role in helping them become more resilient by improving efficiency, addressing risks, and enabling quick responses to changes or disruptions.

But how exactly do enterprises measure resiliency?

This is why we’re putting our stake in the ground on the correlation between an organization being highly resilient and achieving business success. We can help enterprises adopt a “resiliency-first” strategy for their organization - across their applications and infrastructure.

A revolutionary way to assess and build resilience with IBM Concert 

Today, we are announcing IBM Concert Resilience Posture, delivering a first-of-its-kind solution for IT resilience: a repeatable, scalable understanding of an organization’s resilience posture across all applications in one single view.

IBM Concert collects and correlates data across a variety of tools to give a real-time, AI-powered assessment of an organization’s resilience across applications and services used by site reliability engineers (SREs) and DevOps teams in their daily work.  

This unified visibility helps teams quickly understand how resilient they are, where there are gaps, and unveils insights and recommendations to improve resiliency.

Resilience is no longer a luxury—it’s a necessity.

Teams spend countless hours manually identifying vulnerabilities, chasing down incidents, and attempting to optimize performance with potentially outdated processes.

We understand how hard it is to maintain good resilience in this climate and how hard it is to measure. We built our tool to make it drastically easier for teams of all levels to get real-time visibility into where they stand.

IBM Concert Resilience Posture focuses on seven key areas of an organization’s application ecosystem – availability, recoverability, maintainability, scalability, usability, observability and security – to help enterprises stretch and move as their business grows.

Observability provides crucial new data streams to becoming resilient

Observability is one of the focus areas of IBM Concert Resilience Posture and is one of the biggest concerns for IT leaders.

CIOs and SREs alike want to see a full view of the IT ecosystem and how vulnerabilities, change requests, cloud spend and logging impact resilience.

The proactive detection and remediation that observability tools like IBM Instana provide are one piece of the important resilience puzzle I talked about earlier that needs to be addressed. It’s a key data stream that IBM Concert can ingest to shore up the gaps that can be caused by a siloed ecosystem.

With Kubernetes usage rising and corresponding costs rising with it, we understand the importance of how observing Kubernetes costs with greater accuracy can lead to better observability, and therefore better resilience.

Last year, we acquired Kubecost to help enterprises with this exact problem - understand their spending all the way down to the Kubernetes layer.

Today, we're announcing IBM Instana cost monitoring, powered by IBM Kubecost, generally available May 5, 2025. With this integrated solution, you can track total Kubernetes cluster costs with trend visualizations to understand how costs fluctuate over time and identify patterns for better forecasting and budgeting.

Now enterprises can know how much they spend with every Kubernetes deployment to help prepare for unexpected outages and address overspending with their hybrid cloud and AI initiatives.

With new applications and infrastructure being deployed, gaps across applications, workloads and infrastructure can form without a holistic observability solution. In our world, this means managing cloud migrations, CI/CD, microservices expansion and IT landscapes will only increase in complexity.

The new way of understanding and actioning resilience

With IBM Concert Resilience Posture and our new IBM Instana and Kubecost integration, we are empowering enterprises to gain a more informed view of their resilience posture.

Organizations that invest in AI-powered observability and resilience solutions don’t just survive outages, they can create competitive advantages.

The IT landscape has evolved. AI-powered observability and resilience solutions are the breakthrough CIOs and SREs need to stay ahead. 
 

¹ IDC Market Note: 1 Billion New Logical Applications: More Background. April 2024. Doc# US51953724