Dynatrace

JULY 29, 2022

What is log analytics? Log analytics is the process of viewing, interpreting, and querying log data so developers and IT teams can quickly detect and resolve application and system issues. In what follows, we explore log analytics benefits and challenges, as well as a modern observability approach to log analytics.

Analytics 211

Analytics Storage Retail Monitoring 211

Dynatrace

JULY 29, 2022

What is log analytics? Log analytics is the process of viewing, interpreting, and querying log data so developers and IT teams can quickly detect and resolve application and system issues. In what follows, we explore log analytics benefits and challenges, as well as a modern observability approach to log analytics.

Analytics 178

Analytics Storage Retail Monitoring 178

Dynatrace

JULY 29, 2021

The result is that IT teams must often contend with metrics, logs, and traces that aren’t relevant to organizational business objectives—their challenge is to translate such unstructured data into actionable business insights. Dynatrace extends its unique topology-based analytics and AIOps approach.

Analytics 246

Analytics Open Source Serverless Architecture 246

Dynatrace

AUGUST 9, 2023

In this blog post, we’ll use Dynatrace Security Analytics to go threat hunting, bringing together logs, traces, metrics, and, crucially, threat alerts. Procedures describe the specific technical details that an adversary used to carry out an attack, for example, what script they ran to exploit a weakness.

Analytics 192

Analytics AWS Strategy Infrastructure 192

Dynatrace

MAY 3, 2024

Real-time streaming needs real-time analytics As enterprises move their workloads to cloud service providers like Amazon Web Services, the complexity of observing their workloads increases. Log data—the most verbose form of observability data, complementing other standardized signals like metrics and traces—is especially critical.

Cloud 214

Cloud Lambda AWS Analytics 214

Dynatrace

APRIL 26, 2022

Fast, consistent application delivery creates a positive user experience that can ultimately drive customer loyalty and improve business metrics like conversion rate and user retention. What is digital experience monitoring? Primary digital experience monitoring tools.

Monitoring 200

Monitoring Social Media IoT Metrics 200

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Many of our customers—the world’s largest enterprises—have embraced the Dynatrace SaaS approach to monitoring, which provides critical business insights powered by AI and automation for globally-distributed, heterogeneous IT landscapes. New self-monitoring environment provides out-of-the-box insights and custom alerting.

Monitoring 191

Monitoring Metrics Analytics Processing 191

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. What is AWS observability?

Best Practices 208

Best Practices AWS Monitoring Serverless 208

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Recently we simplified observability for custom metrics and opened up Dynatrace OneAgent for integration of metrics from various sources like StatsD , Telegraf , and Prometheus. We’re therefore happy to introduce the new metric browser , available as an Early Adopter release with Dynatrace version 1.207.

Metrics 146

Metrics Analytics Availability Monitoring 146

Dynatrace

MAY 17, 2023

That is, relying on metrics, logs, and traces to understand what software is doing and where it’s running into snags. In addition to tracing, observability also defines two other key concepts, metrics and logs. When software runs in a monolithic stack on on-site servers, observability is manageable enough. What is OpenTelemetry?

Metrics 177

Metrics Open Source Traffic Cache 177

Dynatrace

JANUARY 12, 2021

In Part 1 we explored how you can use the Davis AI to analyze your StatsD metrics. In Part 2 we showed how you can run multidimensional analysis for external metrics that are ingested via the OneAgent Metric API. In Part 3 we discussed how the Davis AI can analyze your metrics from scripting languages like Bash or PowerShell.

Metrics 176

Metrics Open Source Monitoring Analytics 176

Scalegrid

JANUARY 11, 2024

Cloud security monitoring is key—identifying threats in real-time and mitigating risks before they escalate. The automatic nature also allows for quick response times in addressing any identified security concerns making it an ideal solution for effective cloud security monitoring.

Best Practices 130

Best Practices Cloud Monitoring Strategy 130

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

As an example, many retailers already leverage containerized workloads in-store to enhance customer experiences using video analytics or streamline inventory management using RFID tracking for improved security. Remote management and automated alerting are, therefore, crucial. Data is integrated seamlessly with Kubernetes topology.

Retail 255

Retail Analytics Storage Cloud 255

Dynatrace

AUGUST 10, 2023

Dynatrace business events provide precise, real-time business metrics that support fine-grained business decisions and auditable business reporting. We also looked at a pizza chain example, connecting each customer order to the fulfillment process milestones that followed, including the handoff to the delivery agent.

Database 223

Database Metrics Retail Analytics 223

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 9, 2020

HANA maintains all the business and analytics data that your business runs on. Don’t worry, when it comes to SAP monitoring, Dynatrace has you covered. Dynatrace ActiveGate extensions allow you to integrate Dynatrace monitoring with any remote technology that exposes an interface. Dynatrace news.

Infrastructure 196

Infrastructure Database Monitoring Metrics 196

Dynatrace

AUGUST 13, 2020

Throughout my career I’ve been asked several times by members of the ITOps teams, “Why end-user experience monitoring is critical”. So, I figured it’s about time I summarized the top reasons why you as an ITOps person need to look beyond your typical IT sources – logs, metrics and traces – which are these days known as Observability data.

Monitoring 226

Monitoring Airlines Analytics Strategy 226

Dynatrace

MARCH 27, 2024

Overseeing SaaS security and monitoring audit logs across multiple SaaS applications is complex, which often involves building and maintaining dedicated integrations for each application that can retrieve audit logs. For example, some SaaS applications include the user’s IP Address and Country on their audit logs.

AWS 242

AWS Analytics Government Monitoring 242

CSS Wizardry

JUNE 30, 2023

I never thought I’d write an article in defence of DOMContentLoaded , but here it is… For many, many years now, performance engineers have been making a concerted effort to move away from technical metrics such as Load , and toward more user-facing, UX metrics such as Speed Index or Largest Contentful Paint. Or are they…?

Metrics 326

Metrics Google Monitoring Analytics 326

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

For example, an unnoticed database strain could slow down the response time of a web frontend, resulting in poor user experience. To overcome these complex issues, teams must quickly find root causes among numerous alerts and metrics. Focusing on a particular data center reveals a detailed list of all the monitored hosts.

Infrastructure 178

Infrastructure Metrics Network Monitoring 178

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Metrics, logs , and traces make up three vital prongs of modern observability. Together with metrics, three sources of data help IT pros identify the presence and causes of performance problems, user experience issues, and potential security threats. Comparing log monitoring, log analytics, and log management.

Systems 183

Systems Cloud Analytics DevOps 183

Dynatrace

APRIL 18, 2024

It goes beyond traditional monitoring—metrics, logs, and traces—to encompass topology mapping, code-level details, and user experience metrics that provide real-time insights. For example, AI enables intelligent resource allocation for the optimal scaling of platform infrastructure without the need for any human intervention.

DevOps 187

DevOps Engineering Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure 187

Dynatrace

JUNE 5, 2023

Why monitor F5 BIG-IP load balancers? That’s why monitoring every BIG-IP instance is crucial to ensure smooth operation. Monitoring also enables you to: Track application usage patterns and user behavior, leading to optimized application delivery and an enhanced customer experience.

Traffic 190

Traffic Virtualization Metrics Monitoring 190

Percona

MARCH 17, 2023

2022 was an exciting year for Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM). PMM2 uses VictoriaMetrics (VM) as its metrics storage engine. Planning for resources of a PMM Server host instance can be tricky because the numbers can change depending on the DB instances being monitored by PMM. We have tested PMM version 2.33.0

Monitoring 101

Monitoring Scalability Cache Database 101

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. In what follows, we explore some key cloud observability trends in 2023, such as workflow automation and exploratory analytics.

Efficiency 272

Efficiency Performance Analytics DevOps 272

Dynatrace

JANUARY 31, 2024

For example, a Stanford University and UC Berkeley team noted in a research study that ChatGPT behavior deteriorates over time. Using the example of a chatbot, once the user submits a natural language prompt, RAG summarizes that prompt using semantic data. Consequently, AI model drift and hallucinations emerge as primary concerns.

Cache 201

Cache Azure Infrastructure Monitoring 201

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 27, 2022

By implementing service-level objectives, teams can avoid collecting and checking a huge amount of metrics for each service. In what follows, we explore some of these best practices and guidance for implementing service-level objectives in your monitored environment. Best practices for implementing service-level objectives.

Software 259

Software Software Benchmarking Latency 259

Dynatrace

JANUARY 18, 2023

Business events are a special class of events, new to Business Analytics; together with Grail, our data lakehouse, they provide the precision and advanced analytics capabilities required by your most important business use cases. Business events are prioritized over metric events and observability data to deliver lossless precision.

Analytics 224

Analytics Retail Storage Monitoring 224

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 11, 2023

To monitor these pipelines, OpenTelemetry can be used to trace every step of the build and send the traces to various backends. At Dynatrace, we measure the DORA metrics from Google. Now, let’s jump to a real-world example. The first DORA metric is rather easy; we simply look at the throughput of the main branch.

Open Source 185

Open Source Analytics Metrics Cloud 185

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

This is where unified observability and Dynatrace Automations can help by leveraging causal AI and analytics to drive intelligent automation across your multicloud ecosystem. For example, optimizing resource utilization for greater scale and lower cost and driving insights to increase adoption of cloud-native serverless services.

AWS 243

AWS Efficiency Azure Cloud 243

Dynatrace

AUGUST 10, 2023

Dynatrace business events provide precise, real-time business metrics that support fine-grained business decisions and auditable business reporting. We also looked at a pizza chain example, connecting each customer order to the fulfillment process milestones that followed, including the handoff to the delivery agent.

Database 130

Database Metrics Retail Analytics 130

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Open-source metric sources automatically map to our Smartscape model for AI analytics. We’ve just enhanced Dynatrace OneAgent with an open metric API. Here’s a quick overview of what you can achieve now that the Dynatrace Software Intelligence Platform has been extended to ingest third-party metrics. Dynatrace news.

Open Source 253

Open Source Metrics Analytics Tuning 253

Scalegrid

JANUARY 3, 2020

Monitoring your MySQL database performance in real-time helps you immediately identify problems and other factors that could be causing issues now or in the future. This is usually done through monitoring software and tools either built-in to the database management software or installed from third-party providers.

Monitoring 164

Monitoring Metrics Servers Database 164

Dynatrace

APRIL 25, 2023

For example, to handle traffic spikes and pay only for what they use. Observability is typically achieved by collecting three types of data from a system, metrics, logs and traces. Connect Dynatrace to your cloud-vendor to gather relevant infrastructure monitoring data, which gives you essential health insights.

Serverless 203

Serverless Lambda Azure AWS 203

Jos

MARCH 29, 2018

I was browsing Tim Kadlec’s website and I noticed he had added page load time metrics in the footer. If your browser supports the Paint Timing API you will see a couple of extra metrics: First Paint and First Contentful Paint. First Paint and First Contentful Paint Page load time is a metric that tells us part of the story.

Metrics 130

Metrics Google Analytics Code 130

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry provides an easy way to obtain telemetry data for monitoring critical business applications that run on AWS. Dynatrace is also the only monitoring solution on the market that provides full Real User Monitoring that gives you a 360-degree diagnostic view of your end users’ experience with your AWS applications.

AWS 220

AWS Lambda Serverless Metrics 220

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Application performance monitoring (APM) solutions have evolved in recent years, and organizations now have plenty of options to choose from when selecting the right tools for their needs. APM solutions track key software application performance metrics using monitoring software and telemetry data. Dynatrace news.

Artificial Intelligence 229

Artificial Intelligence Monitoring Infrastructure Cloud 229

Dynatrace

JULY 1, 2020

In my last blog , I’ve provided an example of this happening, whereby the traffic spiked and quadrupled the usual incoming traffic. These are all interesting metrics from marketing point of view, and also highly interesting to you as they allow you to engage with the teams that are driving the traffic against your IT-system.

Traffic 264

Traffic Analytics Metrics Servers 264