Monitoring investments today are increasingly aligned with automation, a key objective of DevOps to reduce manual work and enhance scalability in application development and operations. Despite the benefits, many organizations find themselves overwhelmed with a multitude of automation tools due to siloed teams and specific domain needs, as highlighted by a 2018 EMA survey indicating that 56% of enterprises face this challenge. Robotic Process Automation (RPA) and Application Release Orchestration (ARO) are notable areas of interest, with RPA focusing on automating user interface interactions with legacy systems, potentially adding technical debt, and ARO streamlining application deployment and management of CI/CD pipelines. While traditional tools like Jenkins and open-source alternatives like Spinnaker are popular in CI/CD processes, newer solutions such as Apollo, Keptn, and Harness offer more integrated or event-driven automation approaches. Harness exemplifies a commercial option with native integrations for continuous verification of changes, contrasting with the more customizable but complex open-source alternatives. The evolving landscape continues to see initiatives like Dynatrace's Keptn working towards standardized automation, although sophisticated AI and ML integration remains limited with the exception of a few platforms.