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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.

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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. What is OneAgent?

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An Unbelievable Demo

Brendan Gregg

This is the story of the most unbelievable demo I've been given in world of open source. So back then in Australia you could find amazing engineers doing whatever roles were available. He was kind enough to give me a quick demo anyway. You can't make this stuff up. It was 2005, and I felt like I was in the eye of a hurricane.

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Efficient SLO event integration powers successful AIOps

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When the SLO status converges to an optimal value of 100%, and there’s substantial traffic (calls/min), BurnRate becomes more relevant for anomaly detection. Let’s assume we created a service-availability SLO, monitoring the request failure count against the overall request counts. Contact us for a free demo.

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An Unbelievable Demo

Brendan Gregg

This is the story of the most unbelievable demo I've been given in world of open source. So back then in Australia you could find amazing engineers doing whatever roles were available. He was kind enough to give me a quick demo anyway. You can't make this stuff up. It was 2005, and I felt like I was in the eye of a hurricane.

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Advanced security analytics to resolve incidents quickly and streamline threat hunting

Dynatrace

Security Investigator demo St. Clair determined what log data was available to her. She saw substantial traffic in a specific port, which was not necessarily malicious, but it was abnormal enough to warrant additional investigation. The data is] documented, shareable, collaborative, and available for further investigation,” St.

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