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What is? OpenTelemetry??An open-source standard for logs, metrics, and traces

Dynatrace

Let’s take a closer look and clear up any confusion about what it is, the telemetry data it covers, and the benefits it can provide. Loosely defined, observability is the ability to understand what’s happening inside a system from the knowledge of the external data it produces, which are usually logs, metrics, and traces.

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What are quality gates? How to use quality gates to deliver better software at speed and scale

Dynatrace

Automating quality gates is ideal, as it minimizes manually checking and validating key metrics throughout the SDLC. By actively monitoring metrics such as error rate, success rate, and CPU load, quality gates instill confidence in teams during software releases. Fewer expensive fixes.

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Dynatrace OTel Collector distribution amplifies OpenTelemetry integration for scalable, production-ready observability

Dynatrace

OpenTelemetry standardizes how organizations instrument, generate, and collect telemetry data for analysis and provides community-based support. Because of its flexibility, this open source approach to instrumenting and collecting telemetry data is becoming increasingly important in large-size organizations.

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Observability platform vs. observability tools

Dynatrace

Observability gives developers and system operators real-time awareness of a highly distributed system’s current state based on the data it generates. With observability, teams can understand what part of a system is performing poorly and how to correct the problem. OpenTelemetry and modern observability tools.

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Common SLO pitfalls and how to avoid them

Dynatrace

This demand creates an increasing need for DevOps teams to maintain the performance and reliability of critical business applications. Developing dashboards and spreadsheets to track SLO performance can be extremely useful for organizing and visualizing your SLOs and SLIs. But there are SLO pitfalls.

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Service level objectives: 5 SLOs to get started

Dynatrace

In today’s fast-paced digital landscape, ensuring high-quality software is crucial for organizations to thrive. Service level objectives (SLOs) provide a powerful framework for measuring and maintaining software performance, reliability, and user satisfaction. The Apdex score of 0.85

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Extending Vector with eBPF to inspect host and container performance

The Netflix TechBlog

by Jason Koch , with Martin Spier , Brendan Gregg , Ed Hunter Improving the tools available to our engineers to help them diagnose, triage, and work through software performance challenges in the cloud is a key goal for the cloud performance engineering team at Netflix.