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Observability vs. monitoring: What’s the difference?

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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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What is API monitoring?

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As a result, API monitoring has become a must for DevOps teams. So what is API monitoring? An application programming interface (API) is a set of definitions and protocols for building and integrating application software that enables your product to communicate with other products and services. What is API Monitoring?

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Manage your monitoring as code with Dynatrace’s HashiCorp Terraform integration

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Per HashiCorp, this codification allows infrastructure changes to be automated while keeping the definition human readable. With this integration, Dynatrace customers can now leverage Terraform to manage their monitoring infrastructure as code,” said Asad Ali, Senior Director of Sales Engineering at Dynatrace. Step 1: Write.

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Dynatrace boosts Synthetic Monitoring with auto-synchronized credentials from external vaults

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Our customers use Dynatrace Synthetic Monitoring for 24/7 monitoring of their websites, web applications, and API endpoints. In a typical setup, the team that maintains synthetic monitors and furnishes them with application credentials is different from the team managing and rotating company secrets in an external vault system.

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What Is Application Performance Monitoring?

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Some refer to it as Application Performance Monitoring and some as Application Performance Management. As the founder of a company that creates these types of tools, I definitely have some opinions on Application Performance Monitoring vs Application Performance Management. But what is the difference?

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New web performance insights with additional metrics and enhanced Visually complete for synthetic monitors

Dynatrace

Dynatrace Synthetic Monitoring allows you to proactively monitor the availability of your public as well as your internal web applications and API endpoints from locations around the globe or important internal locations such as branch offices. Synthetic monitors help you find issues before they affect your customers.

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Synthetic Monitoring With Telegraf

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This car would definitely require synthetic testing. There are two main modes for collecting data about your systems and software: the first is by collecting data from within the application itself, often called white-box monitoring, and the second is by querying the system from the outside and collecting data about the response.