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Automate CI/CD pipelines with Dynatrace: Part 3, Testing stage

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 18, 2023

In the last blog post of this series, we delved into how Dynatrace, functioning as a deploy-stage orchestrator, solves the challenges confronted by Site Reliability Engineers (SREs) during the early of automating CI/CD processes. Pass annotation events to Dynatrace, leveraging the Ingest events API, at the beginning and end of each test.

Testing

Testing Best Practices Performance Testing Engineering

The 3 biggest mistakes you can make when moving to Kubernetes

Dynatrace

APRIL 2, 2024

for more than a few blogs, but that’s not why we’re here. As someone who has worked deep in the coding trenches with developers my whole life, I’ve hand-picked the top three mistakes you can make when moving to Kubernetes. Kubernetes was made for the Configuration as Code paradigm, and all those YAML files belong in a Git repo.

Virtualization

Virtualization Cloud Infrastructure Code

Kubernetes health at a glance: One experience to rule it all

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

As with all new tech, implementation and understanding don’t occur overnight. The new Dynatrace Kubernetes experience provides a 10,000-foot view of all Kubernetes clusters, across all environments and distributions (from GCP, Azure, and AWS to OpenShift or on-premise solutions. The adoption process takes time and consideration.

Engineering

Engineering Efficiency Azure Monitoring

Automate your work with unified observability and custom solutions

Dynatrace

APRIL 19, 2024

In this blog post, we explore real-life scenarios shared by our customers, partners, and internal users at Dynatrace, offering inspiration to kickstart your own journey with custom solutions powered by AppEngine. Of course, development teams need to understand how their code behaves in production and whether any issues need to be fixed.

AWS

AWS Analytics Cloud Monitoring

Automate CI/CD pipelines with Dynatrace: Part 2, Deploy stage

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

In the previous installment of this blog series , we explored how to set up Dynatrace as a build-stage orchestrator to effectively address the challenges faced by Site Reliability Engineers (SREs). Deploy stage In the deployment stage, the application code is typically deployed in an environment that mirrors the production environment.

Traffic

Traffic Best Practices Strategy Engineering

Security operations centers: How state governments can enhance cybersecurity posture

Dynatrace

APRIL 3, 2024

This includes not only infrastructure connections but also the relationships and dependencies between containers, microservices , and code at all network layers. As a result, monitoring and observability solutions must extract and apply the context needed to transform metrics into actionable insights.

Government

Government Social Media Metrics Infrastructure

Unmatched scalability and security of Dynatrace extensions now available for all supported technologies: 7 reasons to migrate your JMX and Python plugins

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

already address SNMP, WMI, SQL databases, and Prometheus technologies, serving the monitoring needs of hundreds of Dynatrace customers. JMX monitoring extensions are currently being migrated. Extensions can monitor virtually any type of technology in your environment. and focusing on a much-improved version 2.0 Extensions 2.0

Technology

Technology Technology Scalability Availability

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. Perform 2023 news At Perform 2023 in Las Vegas, the headliner theme is IT automation. We’ll post news here as it happens!

Efficiency

Efficiency Performance Analytics DevOps

Dynatrace enables automated remediation with the Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform

Dynatrace

AUGUST 18, 2022

Dynatrace news. But the Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform integration with the Dynatrace Software Intelligence Platform takes automated remediation to a whole new level. These evaluations that I hard-coded into a script were now embedded into the back-end of Ansible’s modular approach. Probe APPSERVER456 once per minute.

Games

Games Monitoring Infrastructure DevOps

Dynatrace Perform 2024 Guide: Deriving business value from AI data analysis

Dynatrace

JANUARY 23, 2024

Dynatrace Perform 2024 news At Dynatrace Perform 2024 in Las Vegas, the headliner theme is AI-enabled data. Check back here throughout the event for the latest news, insights, and announcements. Companies now recognize that technologies such as AI and cloud services have become mandatory to compete successfully. What is explainable AI?

Performance

Performance DevOps Innovation Artificial Intelligence

InfoSec 2022 guide: How DevSecOps practices drive organizational resilience

Dynatrace

JUNE 13, 2022

Dynatrace news. But with this speed, agility, and innovation come new challenges. Open source code, for example, has generated new threat vectors for attackers to exploit. In recent years, the number of vulnerabilities has overtaken the ability to effectively monitor IT environments manually.

Open Source

Open Source DevOps Java Innovation

RSA 2022 guide: DevSecOps transformation with runtime vulnerability management

Dynatrace

MAY 23, 2022

Dynatrace news. Because of their flexibility, dynamic, ephemeral environments are more difficult to monitor in real time than traditional on-premises infrastructure. However, using traditional monitoring approaches with these technologies only compounds these vulnerability blind spots. At RSA 2022 , the theme is Transform.

Strategy

Strategy Innovation Cloud Serverless

Dynatrace adds monitoring support for Microsoft Azure Kubernetes Service deployments using Azure Linux container host

Dynatrace

MAY 24, 2023

Dynatrace is proud to provide deep monitoring support for Azure Linux as a container host operating system (OS) platform for Azure Kubernetes Services (AKS) to enable customers to operate efficiently and innovate faster. Why monitor Azure Linux container host for AKS? How Can Dynatrace Monitor Azure Linux container host for AKS?

Azure

Azure Monitoring Operating System Virtualization

Part 2: How Dynatrace and GitHub help you deliver better software faster

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Dynatrace news. Part one also provided an overview of Dynatrace’s Cloud Automation solution, Microsoft’s GitHub Actions , and open-source examples you can use and extend related to deployment and release monitoring. For orientation on the use cases in this blog series, refer to the picture below. Blog series use cases.

Software

Software Software Open Source DevOps

Automate CI/CD pipelines with Dynatrace: Part 4, Validation stage

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

In the previous blog post of this series , we discussed the crucial role of Dynatrace as an orchestrator that steps in to stop the testing phase in case of any errors. In this blog post of the series, we will explore the use of Site Reliability Guardian (SRG) in more detail.

DevOps

DevOps Metrics Engineering Analytics

Managing risk for financial services: The secret to visibility and control during times of volatility

Dynatrace

APRIL 8, 2024

With market volatility reaching new heights, how are risk managers steadying the ship? This blog explores how vertically integrated risk management solutions that use AI and automation enable unparalleled visibility, control, and efficiency for risk management in banking. Risk in banking is broad and interconnected.

Analytics

Analytics Infrastructure Efficiency Technology

Dynatrace leverages new AWS Lambda extensions for seamless end-to-end observability

Dynatrace

MAY 24, 2021

Dynatrace news. Dynatrace provides automatic and intelligent observability without touching any code through auto-instrumentation, thereby helping you to better understand potential issues that may impact your end users’ experience. But serverless functions don’t exist in a vacuum.

Lambda

Lambda AWS Serverless Java

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

Dynatrace

MARCH 16, 2021

Dynatrace news. 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? What are the benefits of monitoring as code? across their complete Dynatrace instance.”.

Code

Code Monitoring Best Practices Infrastructure

What is infrastructure as code? Discover the basics, benefits, and best practices

Dynatrace

JUNE 10, 2022

Dynatrace news. The IT world is rife with jargon — and “as code” is no exception. “As code” means simplifying complex and time-consuming tasks by automating some, or all, of their processes. What is infrastructure as code? Breaking down the benefits of infrastructure as code. Consistency.

Best Practices

Best Practices Infrastructure Code Speed

Build and operate multicloud FaaS with enhanced, intelligent end-to-end observability

Dynatrace

APRIL 25, 2023

In this blog post, we will discuss some of these challenges and how to overcome them. Connect Dynatrace to your cloud-vendor to gather relevant infrastructure monitoring data, which gives you essential health insights. As companies accelerate digital transformation, they implement modern cloud technologies like serverless functions.

Serverless

Serverless Lambda Azure AWS

Dynatrace deployment on Windows is now even more secure!

Dynatrace

AUGUST 12, 2021

Dynatrace news. Dynatrace enables you to monitor even the most highly complex and heterogeneous IT environments, where in many cases, the human mind alone simply can’t make sense of all monitored entities and their relationships so as to understand the nature, impact, and root cause of detected problems and events.

Monitoring

Monitoring Code Systems Engineering

Efficient SLO event integration powers successful AIOps

Dynatrace

APRIL 5, 2024

This blog post is for both novice and seasoned audiences alike. The first part of this blog post briefly explores the integration of SLO events with AI. From my experience, a month of monitoring is the optimal duration to gain statistically significant insights into “how my entity behaves with the configured SLO.”

Efficiency

Efficiency Traffic Tuning Metrics

Dynatrace memory analysis helps Product Architects identify unknown unknowns

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Luckily, Dynatrace provides in-depth memory allocation monitoring, which allows fine-grained allocation analysis and can even point to the root cause of a problem. While memory allocation analysis can show wasteful or inefficient code, it can also reveal different problems, one of which we’ll examine in this blog post.

Java

Java Metrics Servers Code

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

Dynatrace

AUGUST 16, 2021

Dynatrace news. 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. awareness ? Automatic and configurable detection rules for component versions. SLO validation – ?Automatically

Software

Software Software Open Source Azure

Dynatrace expands strategic partnership with Atlassian to accelerate DevOps initiatives with observability and AIOps across the full software development lifecycle

Dynatrace

APRIL 29, 2021

Dynatrace news. In addition, Dynatrace’s Davis AI provides development teams with precise root-cause analysis with code-level detail. To learn more about how Dynatrace complements and enhances Atlassian, see Atlassian monitoring on the Dynatrace website.

DevOps

DevOps Software Software Development

What is release validation? And why it must be automated

Dynatrace

AUGUST 29, 2022

Dynatrace news. Release validation is a critical DevOps practice to help ensure that code released into production is successful. While developing an application, service, or piece of code, it is critical to test the releases during defined milestones. This can become a complicated step if the application or code is complex.

DevOps

DevOps Benchmarking Cloud Monitoring

What is OpenShift and why automation matters

Dynatrace

JANUARY 5, 2021

Dynatrace news. However, with dynamic containers running in microservices, with increasingly frequent code pushes, and levels of abstraction away from the cloud infrastructure, how do you know how your applications are performing at any given time? Containers can be challenging to monitor as they are always changing.

Cloud

Cloud Infrastructure Operating System Monitoring

Dynatrace Managed release notes version 1.230

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Dynatrace news. New features and enhancements. Custom events for alerting using the Build tab and advanced query mode now apply the same metric dimension limits that are applied to Code -tab-based configurations. Outage-handling settings of browser monitors and HTTP monitors can now be managed via the Settings API.

Metrics

Metrics Monitoring Traffic Servers

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

Dynatrace

APRIL 7, 2022

Dynatrace news. One of these solutions is Micrometer which provides 17+ pre-instrumented JVM-based frameworks for data collection and enables instrumentation code with a vendor-neutral API. Micrometer uses a registry to export metrics to monitoring systems. You can find all the details and sample code in our documentation.

Metrics

Metrics Latency Java Cache

Microsoft embeds Dynatrace natively in the Azure Portal

Dynatrace

JUNE 8, 2022

Dynatrace news. Easily send Azure logs and metrics to Dynatrace, adding to the Dynatrace platform’s extensive observability data, and extending advanced AIOps with code-level analysis to your complete Azure, hybrid, or multicloud environment. View and manage Azure virtual machines and App Service resources monitored by Dynatrace.

Azure

Azure Cloud Virtualization Innovation

Dynatrace ensures continuous software quality by combining synthetic monitoring and automatic release validation

Dynatrace

JUNE 28, 2022

Dynatrace news. Organizations can now accelerate innovation and reduce the risk of failed software releases by incorporating on-demand synthetic monitoring as a metrics provider for automatic, continuous release-validation processes. The ability to scale testing as part of the software development lifecycle (SDLC) has proven difficult.

Monitoring

Monitoring Software Software DevOps

Automatic connection of logs and traces accelerates AI-driven cloud analytics

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Dynatrace news. With PurePath ® distributed tracing and analysis technology at the code level, Dynatrace already provides the deepest possible insights into every transaction. By unifying log analytics with PurePath tracing, Dynatrace is now able to automatically connect monitored logs with PurePath distributed traces.

Analytics

Analytics Cloud Java Serverless

Flexible, scalable, self-service Kubernetes native observability now in General Availability

Dynatrace

MAY 17, 2022

Dynatrace news. The foundation of this flexibility is the Dynatrace Operator ¹ and its new Cloud Native Full Stack injection deployment strategy. A team looking for metrics, traces, and logs no longer needs to file a ticket to get their app monitored in their own environments.

Availability

Availability Scalability Cloud Metrics

Runtime vulnerability management is still a vexing challenge for organizations

Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2022

Dynatrace news. But with cloud-based architecture comes greater complexity and new vulnerability challenges. Even robust cybersecurity tools are unable to effectively monitor the dynamic multicloud environments that containers, microservices, and cloud-based resources generate.

Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence Java Strategy Cloud

Path to NoOps part 2: How infrastructure as code makes cloud automation attainable—and repeatable—at scale

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Infrastructure as code is a way to automate infrastructure provisioning and management. In my previous blog post, Path to NoOps part 1: How modern AIOps brings NoOps within reach, I explored the aspirations of NoOps and how modern AIOps makes it possible. Infrastructure-as-code. But how does it work in practice?

Infrastructure

Infrastructure Code Cloud DevOps

Leverage Dynatrace AIOps in GitHub CI pipelines to prevent critical incidents

Dynatrace

MARCH 2, 2022

Dynatrace news. A fully automated software release pipeline helps you release new functionally faster and frees up precious developer resources to focus on innovation. A series of such actions can be combined into a GitHub workflow that can be triggered whenever new code is committed or when a new release tag is pushed to a repository.

Open Source

Open Source DevOps Metrics Monitoring

Software intelligence as code enables tailored observability, AIOps, and application security at scale

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Dynatrace news. Key components of GitOps are declarative infrastructure as code, orchestration, and observability. Many observability solutions don’t support an “as code” approach. Because of these issues, developers often still lack control over the behavior of their monitoring platform.

Code

Code Software Software DevOps

What is OpenShift and why automation matters

Dynatrace

JANUARY 5, 2021

Dynatrace news. However, with dynamic containers running in microservices, with increasingly frequent code pushes, and levels of abstraction away from the cloud infrastructure, how do you know how your applications are performing at any given time? Containers can be challenging to monitor as they are always changing.

Cloud

Cloud Infrastructure Operating System Monitoring

What is GitOps?

Dynatrace

JULY 25, 2022

Dynatrace news. DevOps enables developers to rapidly and frequently release new features and services by using continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) , suites of collaboration tools, and version control practices, most often with the open source Git software at its core. What is GitOps? How does GitOps work?

DevOps

DevOps Infrastructure Speed Cloud

Kubernetes workload troubleshooting with metrics, logs, and traces

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Dynatrace news. There’s no lack of metrics, logs, traces, or events when monitoring your Kubernetes (K8s) workloads. At Dynatrace we’re lucky to have Dynatrace monitor our workloads running on K8s. At Dynatrace we’re lucky to have Dynatrace monitor our workloads running on K8s.

Metrics

Metrics DevOps Engineering Strategy

Seamless AI-powered observability for multicloud serverless applications

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Dynatrace news. Tracing becomes simple thanks to an easy and extensible approach that leverages existing Dynatrace technology, such as PurePath® distributed tracing for end-to-end, automatic, code-level visibility, and Davis, the Dynatrace AI engine, for root-cause-analysis. Easy and effortless FaaS insights with a single line of code.

Serverless

Serverless Azure Lambda AWS

The right person at the right time makes all the difference: Best practices for ownership information

Dynatrace

MARCH 27, 2024

However, as software changes continuously due to new deployments and releases, so can responsibilities. This can quickly become overwhelming and hard to manage in today’s complex microservice environments. As always, work must be done before you can reap the rewards. Providing easy access to team ownership information.

Best Practices

Best Practices Azure Database Code

Automating DevOps practices fuels speed and quality

Dynatrace

JANUARY 13, 2022

Dynatrace news. Still, while DevOps practices enable developer agility and speed as well as better code quality, they can also introduce complexity and data silos. More seamless handoffs between tasks in the toolchain can improve DevOps efficiency, software development innovation, and better code quality.

DevOps

DevOps Speed Artificial Intelligence Innovation

New Prometheus-based extensions enable intelligent observability for more than 200 additional technologies

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Dynatrace news. Without any coding, these extensions make it easy to ingest data from these technologies and provide tailor-made analysis views and zero-config alerting. Our monitoring coverage already includes ? By monitoring specific RabbitMQ nodes, you can easily identify and mitigate performance issues.

Technology

Technology Technology Metrics Infrastructure

Automate CI/CD pipelines with Dynatrace: Part 3, Testing stage

The 3 biggest mistakes you can make when moving to Kubernetes

Trending Sources

Kubernetes health at a glance: One experience to rule it all

Automate your work with unified observability and custom solutions

Automate CI/CD pipelines with Dynatrace: Part 2, Deploy stage

Security operations centers: How state governments can enhance cybersecurity posture

Unmatched scalability and security of Dynatrace extensions now available for all supported technologies: 7 reasons to migrate your JMX and Python plugins

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

Dynatrace enables automated remediation with the Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform

Dynatrace Perform 2024 Guide: Deriving business value from AI data analysis

InfoSec 2022 guide: How DevSecOps practices drive organizational resilience

RSA 2022 guide: DevSecOps transformation with runtime vulnerability management

Dynatrace adds monitoring support for Microsoft Azure Kubernetes Service deployments using Azure Linux container host

Part 2: How Dynatrace and GitHub help you deliver better software faster

Automate CI/CD pipelines with Dynatrace: Part 4, Validation stage

Managing risk for financial services: The secret to visibility and control during times of volatility

Dynatrace leverages new AWS Lambda extensions for seamless end-to-end observability

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

What is infrastructure as code? Discover the basics, benefits, and best practices

Build and operate multicloud FaaS with enhanced, intelligent end-to-end observability

Dynatrace deployment on Windows is now even more secure!

Efficient SLO event integration powers successful AIOps

Dynatrace memory analysis helps Product Architects identify unknown unknowns

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

Dynatrace expands strategic partnership with Atlassian to accelerate DevOps initiatives with observability and AIOps across the full software development lifecycle

What is release validation? And why it must be automated

What is OpenShift and why automation matters

Dynatrace Managed release notes version 1.230

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

Microsoft embeds Dynatrace natively in the Azure Portal

Dynatrace ensures continuous software quality by combining synthetic monitoring and automatic release validation

Automatic connection of logs and traces accelerates AI-driven cloud analytics

Flexible, scalable, self-service Kubernetes native observability now in General Availability

Runtime vulnerability management is still a vexing challenge for organizations

Path to NoOps part 2: How infrastructure as code makes cloud automation attainable—and repeatable—at scale

Leverage Dynatrace AIOps in GitHub CI pipelines to prevent critical incidents

Software intelligence as code enables tailored observability, AIOps, and application security at scale

What is OpenShift and why automation matters

What is GitOps?

Kubernetes workload troubleshooting with metrics, logs, and traces

Seamless AI-powered observability for multicloud serverless applications

The right person at the right time makes all the difference: Best practices for ownership information

Automating DevOps practices fuels speed and quality

New Prometheus-based extensions enable intelligent observability for more than 200 additional technologies

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