Over the last two years, organizations have been using fewer tools for observability of their data and systems, according to a new report from New Relic.
The number of observability tools used per organization has dropped 27% in the last two years, going from an average of six in 2023 to 4.4 in 2025, the survey said.
The survey of 1,700 IT and engineering teams around the world was conducted by New Relic with help from Enterprise Technology Research. More than 20 countries were represented; 21% of respondents work for companies with at least $1 billion in annual revenue.
- Nearly three in four survey respondents said they lack full-stack observability — meaning, they don’t have one dashboard or view providing visibility across infrastructure, applications and services, security monitoring, digital experience monitoring, and log management.
- Tool sprawl has been a major reason why so many companies don’t have full-stack. Over the next two years, more than half of survey participants (52%) said they plan to consolidate their observability tools into a unified platform.One-third of organizations said full-stack observability will be a focus of their observability efforts over the next two years.
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