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Table of contentsWhy dashboards were never going to be enoughThe specialization realityWhat comes after the dashboardThe future is tool chaining, not tool consolidationWhat this means for your tooling strategy
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Table of contents<br>Why dashboards were never going to be enoughThe specialization realityWhat comes after the dashboardThe future is tool chaining, not tool consolidationWhat this means for your tooling strategy
SubscribeSummary<br>The infrastructure industry spent two decades chasing a single pane of glass. The future looks different: domain-expert AI platforms that reason deeply within their own data, connected through tool chaining when problems cross boundaries.
For two decades, every infrastructure vendor has made the same promise: buy our platform, and you’ll get a single pane of glass across your entire environment. One dashboard. One view. Total visibility. I’ve even been guilty of saying those words during a Kentik demo to describe our approach.
It hasn’t worked. 85% of enterprise IT leaders report that true unified observability remains elusive despite years of investment in monitoring and management tools. The average enterprise now manages 75 or more security and monitoring tools simultaneously. Each one was supposed to simplify. Together, they’ve created a sprawl that makes it harder, not easier, to understand what’s actually happening.
The industry has been solving the wrong problem. The true bottleneck was never the number of screens an engineer had open. It was the gap between seeing data and understanding what it means.
Why dashboards were never going to be enough
The appeal of the single pane of glass is obvious....