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

Dynatrace

In this OpenTelemetry demo series, we’ll take an in-depth look at how to use OpenTelemetry to add observability to a distributed web application that originally didn’t know anything about tracing, telemetry, or observability. However, as software workloads have become more distributed, relying on logs alone is proving inadequate.

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The road to observability with OpenTelemetry demo part 2: OpenTelemetry configuration and instrumenting applications

Dynatrace

In the first part of this three-part series, The road to observability with OpenTelemetry demo part 1: Identifying metrics and traces with OpenTelemetry , we talked about observability and how OpenTelemetry works to instrument applications across different languages and platforms. heapUsed); }); What to trace?

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Business Flow: Why IT operations teams should monitor business processes

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Most business processes are not monitored. Business processes can be quite complex, often including conditional branches and loops; many business process monitoring initiatives are abandoned or simplified after attempting to map the process flow. First and foremost, it’s a data problem.

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The road to observability demo part 3: Collect, instrument, and analyze telemetry data automatically with Dynatrace

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For that, we focused on OpenTelemetry as the underlying technology and showed how you can use the available SDKs and libraries to instrument applications across different languages and platforms. We also introduced our demo app and explained how to define the metrics and traces it uses.

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What is synthetic monitoring?

Dynatrace

Synthetic monitoring can help to confirm your applications are performing as intended and, in the event they’re not, help you quickly figure out what’s going on. Here’s a look at what synthetic monitoring is, how it’s different from real-user monitoring, and why it matters to your business.

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Observability vs. monitoring: What’s the difference?

Dynatrace

This trend is prompting advances in both observability and monitoring. But exactly what are the differences between observability vs. monitoring? Monitoring and observability provide a two-pronged approach. To get a better understanding of observability vs monitoring, we’ll explore the differences between the two.

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

Dynatrace

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. Dynatrace combines Synthetic Monitoring with automatic release validation for continuous quality assurance across the SDLC.