Analytics, Infrastructure, Metrics and Open Source

Dynatrace simplifies OpenTelemetry metric collection for context-aware AI analytics

Dynatrace

JANUARY 17, 2023

The release candidate of OpenTelemetry metrics was announced earlier this year at Kubecon in Valencia, Spain. Since then, organizations have embraced OTLP as an all-in-one protocol for observability signals, including metrics, traces, and logs, which will also gain Dynatrace support in early 2023.

Analytics

Analytics Metrics Open Source Java

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. Dynatrace extends its unique topology-based analytics and AIOps approach.

Analytics

Analytics Open Source Serverless Architecture

TTP-based threat hunting with Dynatrace Security Analytics and Falco Alerts solves alert noise

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. Dynatrace Grail  is a data lakehouse that provides context-rich analytics capabilities for observability, security, and business data.

Analytics

Analytics AWS Strategy Infrastructure

Building Netflix’s Distributed Tracing Infrastructure

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Now let’s look at how we designed the tracing infrastructure that powers Edgar. This insight led us to build Edgar: a distributed tracing infrastructure and user experience. Our tactical approach was to use Netflix-specific libraries for collecting traces from Java-based streaming services until open source tracer libraries matured.

Infrastructure

Infrastructure Transportation Storage Open Source

OpenTelemetry logs in Grail unlock full observability

Dynatrace

JULY 11, 2023

Dynatrace has supported the OpenTelemetry project for years as a key contributor and contributed to its rise to a popular open source observability framework for cloud-native software. Many global enterprises have instrumented their code to emit traces, metrics, and logs in a standardized and vendor-neutral way using OpenTelemetry.

Open Source

Open Source Analytics Metrics Cloud

Who will watch the watchers? Extended infrastructure observability for WSO2 API Manager

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

Sure, cloud infrastructure requires comprehensive performance visibility, as Dynatrace provides , but the services that leverage cloud infrastructures also require close attention. Extend infrastructure observability to WSO2 API Manager. Looking at the key metrics of the deployment does not reveal anything out of the ordinary.

Infrastructure

Infrastructure Latency Metrics Analytics

The road to observability with OpenTelemetry demo part 1: Identifying metrics and traces

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. OpenTelemetry, the open source observability tool, has emerged as an industry-standard solution for instrumenting application telemetry data to make it observable. What is OpenTelemetry?

Metrics

Metrics Open Source Traffic Cache

Simplify observability for all your custom metrics (Part 4: Prometheus)

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

Metrics Open Source Monitoring Analytics

Fueling the next wave of IT operations: Modernization with generative AI

Dynatrace

MARCH 29, 2024

Teams require innovative approaches to manage vast amounts of data and complex infrastructure as well as the need for real-time decisions. Generative AI: A type of AI that uses an algorithm trained on large amounts of data collected from diverse sources to generate various types of content, including text, images, audio, and synthetic data.

Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence DevOps Strategy Open Source

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. We’ve just enhanced Dynatrace OneAgent with an open metric API. Davis AI analyzes your StatsD metrics. In addition, Dynatrace fully integrates these metrics into Smartscape. Dynatrace news.

Open Source

Open Source Metrics Analytics Tuning

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

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Every service and component exposes observability data (metrics, logs, and traces) that contains crucial information to drive digital businesses. Some companies are still using different tools for application performance monitoring, infrastructure monitoring, and log monitoring.

Cloud

Cloud Azure Analytics AWS

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

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

In what follows, we explore some key cloud observability trends in 2023, such as workflow automation and exploratory analytics. From data lakehouse to an analytics platform Traditionally, to gain true business insight, organizations had to make tradeoffs between accessing quality, real-time data and factors such as data storage costs.

Efficiency

Efficiency Performance Analytics DevOps

AWS observability: AWS monitoring best practices for resiliency

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Like general observability , AWS observability is the capacity to measure the current state of your AWS environment based on the data it generates, including its logs, metrics, and traces. EC2 is Amazon’s Infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) compute platform designed to handle any workload at scale. AWS: A service for everything.

Best Practices

Best Practices AWS Monitoring Serverless

RSA Guide 2023: Cloud application security remains core challenge for organizations

Dynatrace

APRIL 11, 2023

Open source software is likewise playing a larger role in cloud computing, which brings benefits and dilemmas: bad actors have ready access to open source software and can identify new vulnerabilities to exploit. This includes collecting metrics, logs, and traces from all applications and infrastructure components.

Cloud

Cloud DevOps Open Source Retail

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

AWS Re:Invent 2021 guide: Multicloud modernization and digital transformation

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Serverless architecture enables organizations to deliver applications more efficiently without the overhead of on-premises infrastructure, which has revolutionized software development. Not just logs, metrics and traces. Dynatrace extends contextual analytics and AIOps for open observability. What is observability?

AWS

AWS Lambda Artificial Intelligence Serverless

What Is PostgreSQL Used For?

Percona

AUGUST 17, 2023

PostgreSQL is open source relational database management software. It’s used for data management (shocker), application development, and data analytics. In another survey, using multiple metrics for overall popularity, PostgreSQL ranks as the fourth most popular database management system ( DB-Engines, March 2023 ).

Open Source

Open Source Healthcare Social Media Database

The value of open platforms: How an open software intelligence platform accelerates innovation

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 16, 2022

AI-powered precise answers and timely insights with ad-hoc analytics. Teams can use it to instrument frameworks and components and export telemetry data, such as metrics, traces, and logs. How the open Dynatrace platform helps organizations innovate. Automation at scale.

Innovation

Innovation Software Software Cloud

How unified data and analytics offers a new approach to software intelligence

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 4, 2022

However, cloud infrastructure has become increasingly complex. Further, the delivery infrastructure that makes this happen has also become complex. The only way to address these challenges is through observability data — logs, metrics, and traces. The next frontier: Data and analytics-centric software intelligence.

Analytics

Analytics Software Software Storage

Evolution of Netflix Conductor:

The Netflix TechBlog

JULY 30, 2019

and beyond By Anoop Panicker and Kishore Banala Conductor is a workflow orchestration engine developed and open-sourced by Netflix. Instead, we use a wrapper that pulls in the latest version of Conductor and adds Netflix infrastructure components and libraries before deployment.

Lambda

Lambda Media Open Source Metrics

What is IT operations analytics? Extract more data insights from more sources

Dynatrace

MAY 1, 2023

With 99% of organizations using multicloud environments , effectively monitoring cloud operations with AI-driven analytics and automation is critical. IT operations analytics (ITOA) with artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities supports faster cloud deployment of digital products and services and trusted business insights.

Analytics

Analytics Artificial Intelligence Big Data Open Source

Data lakehouse innovations advance the three pillars of observability for more collaborative analytics

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

The short answer: The three pillars of observability—logs, metrics, and traces—converging on a data lakehouse. Grail combines the big-data storage of a data warehouse with the analytical flexibility of a data lake. With Grail, we have reinvented analytics for converged observability and security data,” Greifeneder says.

Analytics

Analytics Innovation Metrics Database

Lerner?—?using RL agents for test case scheduling

The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 21, 2019

We needed a way to run agents and tie the runs to the internal infrastructure for analytics, reporting, and visualizations. Lerner, as a web-service, relies on Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Netflix’s Open Source Software (OSS) tools. We use Spinnaker to deploy instances and host the API containers on Titus ?—?which

Testing

Testing AWS Lambda Network

Transform log data into actionable metrics and have Davis AI do the work for you

Dynatrace

MARCH 16, 2022

We added monitoring and analytics for log streams from Kubernetes and multicloud platforms like AWS, GCP, and Azure, as well as the most widely used open-source log data frameworks. Whatever your use case, when log data reflects changes in your infrastructure or business metrics, you need to extract the metrics and monitor them.

Metrics

Metrics Lambda Infrastructure Monitoring

Fostering a Web Performance Culture

Jos

JUNE 2, 2018

You will work hard on implementing features, collaborating with other teams (eg adding scripts for analytics, ads, retargeting, A/B test), setting up CI/CD, ensuring security, and making sure the project is usable and pleasant to the eye. One could argue this is a metric-driven decision. Well, not so fast. Only then it will be built.

Performance

Performance Speed Google Media

What is observability? Not just logs, metrics and traces

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 1, 2021

In IT and cloud computing, observability is the ability to measure a system’s current state based on the data it generates, such as logs, metrics, and traces. Organizations usually implement observability using a combination of instrumentation methods including open-source instrumentation tools, such as OpenTelemetry.

Metrics

Metrics Open Source Monitoring Infrastructure

How platform engineering and IDP observability can accelerate developer velocity

Dynatrace

MARCH 6, 2024

Platform engineering creates and manages a shared infrastructure and set of tools, such as internal developer platforms (IDPs) , to enable software developers to build, deploy, and operate applications more efficiently. As a result, teams can focus on writing code and building features rather than dealing with infrastructure nuances.

Engineering

Engineering Development DevOps Infrastructure

Weighing the top seven Kubernetes challenges and how to solve them

Dynatrace

JUNE 6, 2023

Kubernetes has become the leading container orchestration platform for organizations adopting open source solutions to manage, scale, and automate application deployment. Kubernetes is an open source container orchestration platform for managing, automating, and scaling containerized applications. What is Kubernetes?

Open Source

Open Source Storage Analytics Innovation

Embrace enterprise-wide observability and security with Foundation & Discovery

Dynatrace

JANUARY 31, 2024

Removing blind spots proactively prevents security incidents and ensures that performance metrics reflect the true state of the environment. Infrastructure monitoring mode offers the same capabilities except tracing and profiling. The new Discovery & Coverage app helps achieve these full monitoring coverage goals.

Analytics

Analytics Infrastructure Monitoring Cloud

Accelerate your cloud journey with Dynatrace observability for AWS S3 logs

Dynatrace

JUNE 27, 2023

Logs complement metrics and enable automation Cloud practitioners agree that observability, security, and automation go hand in hand. Logs complement out-of-the-box metrics and enable automated actions for responding to availability, security, and other service events.

AWS

AWS Cloud Lambda Analytics

Unlock the Power of DevSecOps with Newly Released Kubernetes Experience for Platform Engineering

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

The development of internal platform teams has taken off in the last three years, primarily in response to the challenges inherent in scaling modern, containerized IT infrastructures. The ability to effectively manage multi-cluster infrastructure is critical to consistent and scalable service delivery.

Engineering

Engineering DevOps Best Practices Infrastructure

The history of Grail: Why you need a data lakehouse

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 4, 2022

These technologies are poorly suited to address the needs of modern enterprises—getting real value from data beyond isolated metrics. Grail needs to support security data as well as business analytics data and use cases. This decoupling ensures the openness of data and storage formats, while also preserving data in context.

Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence Analytics Storage Architecture

Connect Fluentd logs with Dynatrace traces, metrics, and topology data to enhance Kubernetes observability

Dynatrace

APRIL 8, 2022

Fluentd is an open-source data collector that unifies log collection, processing, and consumption. Output plugins deliver logs to storage solutions, analytics tools, and observability platforms like Dynatrace. All metrics, traces, and real user data are also surfaced in the context of specific events. Dynatrace news.

Metrics

Metrics Analytics Software Architecture Open Source

Five-nines availability: Always-on infrastructure delivers system availability during the holidays’ peak loads

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

For organizations running their own on-premises infrastructure, these costs can be prohibitive. Cloud service providers, such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) , can offer infrastructure with five-nines availability by deploying in multiple availability zones and replicating data between regions. What is always-on infrastructure?

Infrastructure

Infrastructure Availability Systems Retail

Infrastructure Monitoring tools: 3 steps to evolve ITOps into AIOps

Dynatrace

JUNE 28, 2021

Infrastructure monitoring is the process of collecting critical data about your IT environment, including information about availability, performance and resource efficiency. Many organizations respond by adding a proliferation of infrastructure monitoring tools, which in many cases, just adds to the noise. Dynatrace news.

Infrastructure

Infrastructure Monitoring Artificial Intelligence Open Source

Python at Netflix

The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 29, 2019

We use and contribute to many open-source Python packages, some of which are mentioned below. Open Connect Open Connect is Netflix’s content delivery network (CDN). An easy, though imprecise, way of thinking about Netflix infrastructure is that everything that happens before you press Play on your remote control (e.g.,

Open Source

Open Source Network Infrastructure Big Data

Connect Fluentd logs with Dynatrace traces, metrics, and topology data to enhance Kubernetes observability

Dynatrace

APRIL 8, 2022

Fluentd is an open-source data collector that unifies log collection, processing, and consumption. Output plugins deliver logs to storage solutions, analytics tools, and observability platforms like Dynatrace. All metrics, traces, and real user data are also surfaced in the context of specific events. Dynatrace news.

Metrics

Metrics Analytics Software Architecture Open Source

Kubernetes vs Docker: What’s the difference?

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Think of containers as the packaging for microservices that separate the content from its environment – the underlying operating system and infrastructure. Docker Engine is built on top containerd , the leading open-source container runtime, a project of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (DNCF). What is Kubernetes?

Open Source

Open Source Traffic DevOps Cloud

Fostering a Web Performance Culture

Jos

JUNE 2, 2018

You will work hard on implementing features, collaborating with other teams (eg adding scripts for analytics, ads, retargeting, A/B test), setting up CI/CD, ensuring security, and making sure the project is usable and pleasant to the eye. One could argue this is a metric-driven decision. Well, not so fast. Only then it will be built.

Performance

Performance Speed Google Media

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

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

More recently, teams have begun to apply DevOps best practices to infrastructure automation, giving developers a more active role with GitOps as an operational framework. Key components of GitOps are declarative infrastructure as code, orchestration, and observability. Dynatrace enables software intelligence as code.

Code

Code Software Software DevOps

OpenTelemetry enables automated operations management at scale

Dynatrace

JULY 18, 2022

The OpenTelemetry project was created to address the growing need for artificial intelligence-enabled IT operations — or AIOps — as organizations broaden their technology horizons beyond on-premises infrastructure and into multiple clouds. OpenTelemetry was purposely conceived to complement — and not compete with — existing analytical tools.

Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence Open Source Analytics Monitoring

Dynatrace observability is now available for Red Hat OpenShift on the IBM® Power® architecture

Dynatrace

JULY 11, 2023

Dynatrace introduced the Dynatrace Operator, built on the open source project Operator Framework, in late 2018. Full stack observability: Gain comprehensive observability across the entire stack, including Kubernetes clusters, applications, and underlying infrastructure.

Architecture

Architecture Availability Infrastructure Metrics

IT carbon footprint: Dynatrace Carbon Impact and Optimization app helps organizations measure cloud computing carbon footprint

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

How Dynatrace tracks and mitigates its own IT carbon footprint Like many tech companies, Dynatrace is experiencing increased demand for its SaaS-based Dynatrace platform , which we host on cloud infrastructure. As we onboard more customers, the platform requires more infrastructure, leading to increased carbon emissions.

Energy

Energy Cloud Airlines Strategy

OpenTelemetry observability and Dynatrace deliver actionable answers at scale

Dynatrace

AUGUST 21, 2023

OpenTelemetry is an open source framework that provides agents, APIs, and SDKs that automatically instrument, generate, and gather telemetry data. How OpenTelemetry works Observability data is the stock-in-trade of OpenTelemetry: Logs, metrics, and traces. What is OpenTelemetry? It’s also being built into Kubernetes.”

Open Source

Open Source Analytics Lambda Metrics

Dynatrace simplifies OpenTelemetry metric collection for context-aware AI analytics

Dynatrace extends contextual analytics and AIOps for open observability

Trending Sources

TTP-based threat hunting with Dynatrace Security Analytics and Falco Alerts solves alert noise

Building Netflix’s Distributed Tracing Infrastructure

OpenTelemetry logs in Grail unlock full observability

Who will watch the watchers? Extended infrastructure observability for WSO2 API Manager

The road to observability with OpenTelemetry demo part 1: Identifying metrics and traces

Simplify observability for all your custom metrics (Part 4: Prometheus)

Fueling the next wave of IT operations: Modernization with generative AI

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

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

AWS observability: AWS monitoring best practices for resiliency

RSA Guide 2023: Cloud application security remains core challenge for organizations

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

AWS Re:Invent 2021 guide: Multicloud modernization and digital transformation

What Is PostgreSQL Used For?

The value of open platforms: How an open software intelligence platform accelerates innovation

How unified data and analytics offers a new approach to software intelligence

Evolution of Netflix Conductor:

What is IT operations analytics? Extract more data insights from more sources

Data lakehouse innovations advance the three pillars of observability for more collaborative analytics

Lerner?—?using RL agents for test case scheduling

Transform log data into actionable metrics and have Davis AI do the work for you

Fostering a Web Performance Culture

What is observability? Not just logs, metrics and traces

How platform engineering and IDP observability can accelerate developer velocity

Weighing the top seven Kubernetes challenges and how to solve them

Embrace enterprise-wide observability and security with Foundation & Discovery

Accelerate your cloud journey with Dynatrace observability for AWS S3 logs

Unlock the Power of DevSecOps with Newly Released Kubernetes Experience for Platform Engineering

The history of Grail: Why you need a data lakehouse

Connect Fluentd logs with Dynatrace traces, metrics, and topology data to enhance Kubernetes observability

Five-nines availability: Always-on infrastructure delivers system availability during the holidays’ peak loads

Infrastructure Monitoring tools: 3 steps to evolve ITOps into AIOps

Python at Netflix

Connect Fluentd logs with Dynatrace traces, metrics, and topology data to enhance Kubernetes observability

Kubernetes vs Docker: What’s the difference?

Fostering a Web Performance Culture

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

OpenTelemetry enables automated operations management at scale

Dynatrace observability is now available for Red Hat OpenShift on the IBM® Power® architecture

IT carbon footprint: Dynatrace Carbon Impact and Optimization app helps organizations measure cloud computing carbon footprint

OpenTelemetry observability and Dynatrace deliver actionable answers at scale

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