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

Dynatrace

Anyone who’s concerned with developing, delivering, and operating software knows the importance of making software and the systems it runs on observable. OpenTelemetry demo application: Distributed host/URL availability checker For our demo, we picked a web-based application whose core service is a distributed host/URL availability check.

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

Dynatrace

OpenTelemetry , the open source observability tool, has become the go-to standard for instrumenting custom applications to help software developers and operations teams understand what their software is doing and where it’s running into snags. We also introduced our demo app and explained how to define the metrics and traces it uses.

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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. I didn't recognize the name, but was told that he was a DTrace expert and developer at Sun, and was on a world tour demonstrating Sun's new DTrace-based product. He was kind enough to give me a quick demo anyway. Sure, I have them all right.

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How Dynatrace boosts production resilience with Site Reliability Guardian

Dynatrace

To ensure high standards, it’s essential that your organization establish automated validations in an early phase of the software development process—ideally when code is written. Ensure expected production behavior One Dynatrace team is responsible for the demo applications we use to demonstrate Dynatrace capabilities.

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Efficient SLO event integration powers successful AIOps

Dynatrace

Consequently, by understanding the intricacies involved, this enables us to swiftly confirm or refute the functional/business case of the business teams involved, including project managers, top management, developers, and tech leads. Path 2 (easier): I’m familiar with my application and the development team.

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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. I didn't recognize the name, but was told that he was a DTrace expert and developer at Sun, and was on a world tour demonstrating Sun's new DTrace-based product. He was kind enough to give me a quick demo anyway. Sure, I have them all right.

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Optimising Largest Contentful Paint

CSS Wizardry

Plan in suitable buffer time for traffic issues, etc. For the purposes of this article, I built a series of reduced demos showing how each of the LCP types behave. The initial demos can be found at: ??. ?? In our demo, it is actually flagged as being the much smaller element. Set appropriate alarms. Block-level.