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Observability engineering: Getting Prometheus metrics right for Kubernetes with Dynatrace and Kepler

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 18, 2023

For busy site reliability engineers, ensuring system reliability, scalability, and overall health is an imperative that’s getting harder to achieve in ever-expanding, cloud-native, container-based environments. Another source reported a 43% overall increase in Prometheus adoption for the last six months of 2021.

Metrics

Metrics Engineering Energy Tuning

Manage your monitoring as code with Dynatrace’s HashiCorp Terraform integration

Dynatrace

MARCH 16, 2021

HashiCorp’s Terraform is an open-source infrastructure as a code software tool that provides a consistent CLI workflow to manage hundreds of cloud services. What is monitoring as code? Within the Terraform CLI, users can instrument code to build and run Dynatrace monitoring for the services they’ll deploy from the same CLI.

Code

Code Monitoring Best Practices Infrastructure

PMM Dump GUI in Percona Monitoring and Management 2.41.0

Percona

JANUARY 3, 2024

A couple of weeks ago, we announced the first GA release of the PMM Dump : a new support tool that dumps Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) metrics and Query Analytics (QAN) data to transfer to the expert engineer for review and performance suggestions. That blog introduced a command-line interface.

Monitoring

Monitoring Open Source Database Servers

AWS observability: AWS monitoring best practices for resiliency

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

These resources generate vast amounts of data in various locations, including containers, which can be virtual and ephemeral, thus more difficult to monitor. These challenges make AWS observability a key practice for building and monitoring cloud-native applications. AWS monitoring best practices. Automate monitoring tasks.

Best Practices

Best Practices AWS Monitoring Serverless

How to maximize Kubernetes monitoring with AI-driven automation

Dynatrace

MAY 12, 2021

Kubernetes (K8s) is the platform of choice for many organizations, providing a portable, extensible, open-source solution designed to streamline containerized workload oversight. According to InfoQ , Kubernetes monitoring offers substantial benefits for container management, but it’s not a complete platform in and of itself.

Monitoring

Monitoring Infrastructure Open Source Metrics

Part 1: How Dynatrace and GitHub help you deliver better software faster

Dynatrace

AUGUST 16, 2021

These problems are the drivers behind Dynatrace’s solution offering called Cloud Automation and this two-part blog series shows how to tackle these problems using GitHub Actions. Topics in this blog series. Microsoft’s GitHub is the largest open-source software community in the world with millions of open-source projects.

Software

Software Software Open Source Azure

Dynatrace simplifies StatsD, Telegraf, and Prometheus observability with Davis AI

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Open-source metric sources automatically map to our Smartscape model for AI analytics. By automatically feeding these captured metrics into our Smartscape topology model and Davis AI, we eliminate the need for manual maintenance of hundreds of alerts thanks to our true and trusted auto-adaptive baseline engine.

Open Source

Open Source Metrics Analytics Tuning

A three-step implementation guide to answer-driven SLO-based release validation

Dynatrace

JULY 16, 2021

In this blog, I want to guide you through the steps of implementing release quality gates in your delivery automation or as we often call it “ Shift-Left SLOs with Quality Gates ”. The innovative technology powering these recent and future use cases comes from Keptn , our recognized CNCF open-source project.

DevOps

DevOps Open Source Cloud Azure

Our Kudos to All Percona Community Contributors

Percona

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Percona stands for open source and keeps open source open for everyone. Open source software is impossible without the efforts of the community. They not only contributed code but also reported issues, helped users on the forum, and wrote blog posts on the Community website.

Open Source

Open Source Traffic Virtualization Metrics

Evolving Distributed Tracing at Uber Engineering

Uber Engineering

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

Distributed tracing is quickly becoming a must-have component in the tools that organizations use to monitor their complex, microservice-based architectures.

Engineering

Engineering Open Source Architecture Monitoring

Dynatrace extends automatic and intelligent observability to cloud and Kubernetes logs for smarter automation at scale

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Organizations struggle to effectively use logs for monitoring business-critical data and troubleshooting. Legacy monitoring, observability-only, and do-it-yourself approaches leave it up to digital teams to make sense of this data. New log sources complement observability data, user sessions and topology, automatically, in context.

Cloud

Cloud Azure Analytics AWS

Perform 2023 Guide: Organizations mine efficiencies with automation, causal AI

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

They now use modern observability to monitor expanding cloud environments in order to operate more efficiently, innovate faster and more securely, and to deliver consistently better business results. Further, automation has become a core strategy as organizations migrate to and operate in the cloud. What is a data lakehouse?

Efficiency

Efficiency Performance Analytics DevOps

Dynatrace Application Security boosts BizDevSecOps for Kubernetes

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

The latest enhancement enables our customers to automatically detect and assess open-source and third-party vulnerabilities in Node.js and Java workloads are automatically detected at runtime along the entire dependency tree of open-source and third-party libraries. Vulnerabilities in Node.js Is it used? Next steps.

Java

Java Open Source Engineering Database

Quality Engineering Discussions: 5 Questions with George Ukkuru

Testsigma

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

George Ukkuru is a seasoned technocrat and AVP of quality engineering, DevOps, and SRE @Marlabs Inc. He has also authored a number of books on quality engineering and test automation. Engineers should also integrate and execute API-based performance tests and SAST/DAST scans to the DevOps pipeline.

Engineering

Engineering Social Media DevOps Azure

Dynatrace extends contextual analytics and AIOps for open observability

Dynatrace

JULY 29, 2021

The complexity of such deployments has accelerated with the adoption of emerging, open-source technologies that generate telemetry data, which is exploding in terms of volume, speed, and cardinality. Extend your topology mapping to include open-source observability data. Next steps.

Analytics

Analytics Open Source Serverless Architecture

From monitoring to software intelligence for Flask applications

Dynatrace

JULY 23, 2019

In this blog post, I’ll cover how to implement distributed tracing in Flask applications with the OneAgent SDK. The OneAgent SDK enables you to extend Dynatrace, including our AI-based root cause analysis , Smartscape , and service flow , to monitor Python-based applications. Flaskr: A simple blog application. fetchone().

Monitoring

Monitoring Software Software Database

AWS EKS Monitoring as a Self-Service with Dynatrace

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Kubernetes (k8s) provides basic monitoring through the Kubernetes API and you can find instructions like Top 9 Open Source Tools for Monitoring Kubernetes as a “do it yourself guide”. End-user monitoring. Dynatrace news. For EKS – Amazon’s Kubernetes Service – you can get a preview of CloudWatch Container Insights.

AWS

AWS Monitoring Ecommerce Lambda

AI-driven analysis of Spring Micrometer metrics in context, with typology at scale

Dynatrace

APRIL 7, 2022

To remain flexible in observing all technologies used in their organization, some companies choose open-source solutions, which allow them to stay vendor-neutral. Here’s how Dynatrace can help you by automatically collecting, extending, and analyzing this telemetry data in context with Davis AI, the Dynatrace AI engine.

Metrics

Metrics Latency Java Cache

Three smart log ingestion strategies in Dynatrace (without OneAgent)

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 15, 2022

While many organizations have embraced cloud observability to better manage their cloud environments, they may still struggle with the volume of entities that observability platforms monitor. The key to getting answers from log monitoring at scale begins with relevant log ingestion at scale. What is Fluentd? Log ingestion strategy No.

Strategy

Strategy AWS Open Source Transportation

Up your quality and agility factor – using automation to build “performance-as-a-self-service”

Dynatrace

MARCH 3, 2020

For software engineering teams, this demand means not only delivering new features faster but ensuring quality, performance, and scalability too. One way to apply improvements is transforming the way application performance engineering and testing is done. Here is the definition of this model: ?. Try it today using Keptn .

Performance

Performance Education Innovation Software Architecture

Turbocharging Percona Monitoring and Management With Loki’s Log-shipping Functionality

Percona

APRIL 6, 2023

In this blog post, we’ll check how to integrate Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) with Loki to be able to get not only metrics and queries from our database servers but also text-based information like logs. This is a bit out of scope for this simple blog, but let me know if you want to hear more about it.

Monitoring

Monitoring Servers Metrics Database

Leverage automated and intelligent observability for OpenTelemetry for Go with Dynatrace PurePath 4

Dynatrace

JANUARY 28, 2021

Organizations that want a high-performance language with a great ecosystem for their applications often use Golang , an open-source programming language. Such additional telemetry data includes user-behavior analytics, code-level visibility, and metadata (including open-source data). Dynatrace news.

Traffic

Traffic Open Source Servers Cloud

What is application security? And why it needs a new approach

Dynatrace

MARCH 17, 2021

Application security is a software engineering term that refers to several different types of security practices designed to ensure applications do not contain vulnerabilities that could allow illicit access to sensitive data, unauthorized code modification, or resource hijacking. How open-source packages have changed the game.

Open Source

Open Source Cloud Games Java

Dynatrace for Developers: Fixing memory leaks in our cloud-native services on k8s

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Dynatrace enables our customers to monitor and optimize their cloud infrastructure and applications through the Dynatrace Software Intelligence Platform. That spans across the platform, our website, support platform, our business backends, as well as our open source projects such as Keptn. Dynatrace news.

Cloud

Cloud Development Open Source Monitoring

New Dynatrace Operator elevates cloud-native observability for Kubernetes

Dynatrace

MAY 5, 2021

OneAgent technology simplifies deployment across large enterprises and relieves engineers of the burden of instrumenting their applications by hand. Dynatrace Operator for OneAgent, API monitoring, routing, and more. No need to repeat API endpoints or tokens across OneAgents and API monitors. Dynatrace news.

Cloud

Cloud Traffic Monitoring Open Source

Advance DevSecOps practices with a vulnerability management strategy

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

In the Advancing DevOps and DevSecOps track, sessions aim to help security pros, developers, and engineers as they brace for new threats that are costly and time-consuming to address. The vulnerability is located in Log4j 2, an open-source Apache Java software used to run logging services in a host of front-end and backend applications.

Strategy

Strategy Games DevOps Open Source

Building Netflix’s Distributed Tracing Infrastructure

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

a Netflix member via Twitter This is an example of a question our on-call engineers need to answer to help resolve a member issue?—?which In our previous blog post we introduced Edgar, our troubleshooting tool for streaming sessions. We needed to increase engineering productivity via distributed request tracing.

Infrastructure

Infrastructure Transportation Storage Open Source

Dynatrace key takeaways from o11yfest 2021

Dynatrace

MAY 26, 2021

From May 17 to May 18, 2021, the Open-Source Engineering team at Dynatrace attended the virtual observability conference, o11yfest. This blog dives into what we learned by listening to experts in the field and the key takeaways we gathered from the talks. A recurring theme was Site Reliability Engineering.

AWS

AWS Strategy Storage Metrics

Percona Database Performance Blog 2018 Year in Review: Top Blog Posts

Percona

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Let’s look at some of the most popular Percona Database Performance Blog posts in 2018. With the Percona Database Performance Blog, Percona staff and leadership work hard to provide the open source community with insights, technical support, predictions and metrics around multiple open source database software technologies.

Database

Database Tuning Performance AWS

MySQL Key Performance Indicators (KPI) With PMM

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

A monitoring tool like Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) is a popular choice among open source options for effectively monitoring MySQL performance. In this blog, we will explore various MySQL KPIs that are basic and essential to track using monitoring tools like PMM.

Performance

Performance Monitoring Traffic Database

Beyond APM: Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for APM and Observability – A Partner Perspective

Dynatrace

JULY 7, 2022

Take Davis, our AI engine , for example – we embedded this into our Software Intelligence Platform before many were even using an AI engine to determine root-cause and auto-remediate. Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Application Performance Monitoring and Observability, Padraig Byrne, Gregg Siegfried, and Mrudula Bangera, 7 June 2022.

DevOps

DevOps Innovation Open Source Strategy

AI-driven analysis of Spring Micrometer metrics in context, with topology at scale

Dynatrace

APRIL 7, 2022

To remain flexible in observing all technologies used in their organization, some companies choose open-source solutions, which allow them to stay vendor-neutral. Here’s how Dynatrace can help you by automatically collecting, extending, and analyzing this telemetry data in context with Davis AI, the Dynatrace AI engine.

Metrics

Metrics Latency Java Cache

AI-driven analysis of Spring Micrometer metrics in context, with topology at scale

Dynatrace

APRIL 7, 2022

To remain flexible in observing all technologies used in their organization, some companies choose open-source solutions, which allow them to stay vendor-neutral. Here’s how Dynatrace can help you by automatically collecting, extending, and analyzing this telemetry data in context with Davis AI, the Dynatrace AI engine.

Metrics

Metrics Latency Java Cache

Kubernetes made simple? Kelsey Hightower and Andreas Grabner discuss the future of cloud-native technologies

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Principal engineer at Google and co-founder of KubeCon, Hightower advocates simplicity and automation. I’ll make some assumptions, read multiple blog posts, and I need to run it myself a couple of times. Kelsey Hightower and Andreas Grabner discuss the future of cloud-native technologies appeared first on Dynatrace blog.

Technology

Technology Technology Cloud Infrastructure

Protect your organization against zero-day vulnerabilities

Dynatrace

AUGUST 3, 2022

Application logs are a good data source for this method. Techniques such as statistics-based monitoring and behavior-based monitoring are also possible. Statistics-based monitoring is when organizations take statistics from exploits that vendors have detected and feed them into a system to learn and identify these attacks.

Java

Java Traffic Benchmarking Strategy

MariaDB vs MySQL: Key Differences and Use Cases

Percona

JUNE 4, 2023

This blog post was originally published in November 2017 and was updated in June 2023. In this blog, we’ll provide a comparison between MariaDB vs. MySQL (including Percona Server for MySQL ). It continues to be developed and maintained by the open source community and remains free to use under the GNU General Public License.

Open Source

Open Source Servers Storage Scalability

How To Calculate a Good MySQL Redo Log Size in MySQL 8

Percona

MARCH 6, 2023

We will walk through how to figure that out in this blog. The first one has the formula I’ll mention in this blog, and the second has more details regarding Redo Logs. Validate the formula output and compare it with the information you can get from Percona Management and Monitoring (PMM). InnoDB Log File Usage Hourly.

Tuning

Tuning Open Source Database Engineering

Cloud Automation workshop roadshow: Kick-off

Dynatrace

JULY 30, 2021

Today, it’s great to think back to those times when reading through my old blog posts such as the “ Mid-Tour Backstage Report ” – thanks to every individual who attended! All it takes is putting two tags ( keptn_managed and keptn_service ) on the monitored Dynatrace service we want to enable a quality gate for.

Cloud

Cloud DevOps Azure Virtualization

A guide to event-driven SRE-inspired DevOps

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

“This is a mouthful of buzzwords” is how I started my recent presentations at the Online Kubernetes Meetup as well as the DevOps Fusion 2020 Online Conference when explaining the three big challenges we are trying to solve with Keptn – our CNCF Open Source project: Automate build validation through SLI/SLO-based Quality Gates.

DevOps

DevOps Metrics Innovation Azure

How to collect Prometheus metrics in Dynatrace

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

The dashboard was built during my recent Performance Clinic on k8s monitoring at Scale with Prometheus and Dynatrace. Prometheus is an open-source software toolkit used for event monitoring and alerting. The post How to collect Prometheus metrics in Dynatrace appeared first on Dynatrace blog. What is Prometheus?

Metrics

Metrics Infrastructure Open Source Database

Key takeaways from o11yfest 2021 – SRE, Observability, and OpenTelemetry

Dynatrace

MAY 26, 2021

From May 17 to May 18, 2021, the Open-Source Engineering team at Dynatrace attended the virtual observability conference, o11yfest. This blog dives into what we learned by listening to experts in the field and the key takeaways we gathered from the talks. A recurring theme was Site Reliability Engineering.

AWS

AWS Strategy Storage Metrics

Scale DevOps and SRE with open source Keptn

Dynatrace

APRIL 18, 2022

When it comes to site reliability engineering (SRE) initiatives adopting DevOps practices, developers and operations teams frequently find themselves at odds with one another. Keptn is an open source control plane that enables cloud-native continuous delivery and automated operations. Dynatrace news.

Open Source

Open Source DevOps Cloud Metrics

Making it Easier to Manage a Production PostgreSQL Database

Scalegrid

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

There are many things I love about it – PL/ PG SQL, smart defaults, replication (that actually works out of the box), and an active and vibrant open source community. In this blog post, we will detail some of these operational challenges with PostgreSQL. Feature-wise, it is up there with the best, if not the best.

Database

Database Open Source Storage Servers

Performance Testing with Open Source Tools – Myths and Reality

Alex Podelko

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Some time ago Federico Toledo published Performance Testing with Open Source Tools- Busting The Myths. Otherwise we wouldn’t see so many commercial tools built on the top of open source including BlazeMeter (it is ironic that the article is posted on the BlazeMeter site), Flood, and OctoPerf.

Open Source

Open Source Performance Testing Testing Performance

Observability engineering: Getting Prometheus metrics right for Kubernetes with Dynatrace and Kepler

Manage your monitoring as code with Dynatrace’s HashiCorp Terraform integration

Trending Sources

PMM Dump GUI in Percona Monitoring and Management 2.41.0

AWS observability: AWS monitoring best practices for resiliency

How to maximize Kubernetes monitoring with AI-driven automation

Part 1: How Dynatrace and GitHub help you deliver better software faster

Dynatrace simplifies StatsD, Telegraf, and Prometheus observability with Davis AI

A three-step implementation guide to answer-driven SLO-based release validation

Our Kudos to All Percona Community Contributors

Evolving Distributed Tracing at Uber Engineering

Dynatrace extends automatic and intelligent observability to cloud and Kubernetes logs for smarter automation at scale

Perform 2023 Guide: Organizations mine efficiencies with automation, causal AI

Dynatrace Application Security boosts BizDevSecOps for Kubernetes

Quality Engineering Discussions: 5 Questions with George Ukkuru

Dynatrace extends contextual analytics and AIOps for open observability

From monitoring to software intelligence for Flask applications

AWS EKS Monitoring as a Self-Service with Dynatrace

AI-driven analysis of Spring Micrometer metrics in context, with typology at scale

Three smart log ingestion strategies in Dynatrace (without OneAgent)

Up your quality and agility factor – using automation to build “performance-as-a-self-service”

Turbocharging Percona Monitoring and Management With Loki’s Log-shipping Functionality

Leverage automated and intelligent observability for OpenTelemetry for Go with Dynatrace PurePath 4

What is application security? And why it needs a new approach

Dynatrace for Developers: Fixing memory leaks in our cloud-native services on k8s

New Dynatrace Operator elevates cloud-native observability for Kubernetes

Advance DevSecOps practices with a vulnerability management strategy

Building Netflix’s Distributed Tracing Infrastructure

Dynatrace key takeaways from o11yfest 2021

Percona Database Performance Blog 2018 Year in Review: Top Blog Posts

MySQL Key Performance Indicators (KPI) With PMM

Beyond APM: Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for APM and Observability – A Partner Perspective

AI-driven analysis of Spring Micrometer metrics in context, with topology at scale

AI-driven analysis of Spring Micrometer metrics in context, with topology at scale

Kubernetes made simple? Kelsey Hightower and Andreas Grabner discuss the future of cloud-native technologies

Protect your organization against zero-day vulnerabilities

MariaDB vs MySQL: Key Differences and Use Cases

How To Calculate a Good MySQL Redo Log Size in MySQL 8

Cloud Automation workshop roadshow: Kick-off

A guide to event-driven SRE-inspired DevOps

How to collect Prometheus metrics in Dynatrace

Key takeaways from o11yfest 2021 – SRE, Observability, and OpenTelemetry

Scale DevOps and SRE with open source Keptn

Making it Easier to Manage a Production PostgreSQL Database

Performance Testing with Open Source Tools – Myths and Reality

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