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

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That is, relying on metrics, logs, and traces to understand what software is doing and where it’s running into snags. In addition to tracing, observability also defines two other key concepts, metrics and logs. When software runs in a monolithic stack on on-site servers, observability is manageable enough. What is OpenTelemetry?

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Running the OpenTelemetry demo application with Dynatrace

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The demo has been in active development since the summer of 2022 with Dynatrace as one of its leading contributors. The demo application is a cloud-native e-commerce application made up of multiple microservices. OpenTelemetry demo application architecture diagram. By default, the demo comes with?Jaeger OpenTelemetry?community

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

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Making applications observable—relying on metrics, logs, and traces to understand what software is doing and how it’s performing—has become increasingly important as workloads are shifting to multicloud environments. We also introduced our demo app and explained how to define the metrics and traces it uses.

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Observability engineering: Getting Prometheus metrics right for Kubernetes with Dynatrace and Kepler

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To get a more granular look into telemetry data, many analysts rely on custom metrics using Prometheus. Named after the Greek god who brought fire down from Mount Olympus, Prometheus metrics have been transforming observability since the project’s inception in 2012.

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Hybrid cloud infrastructure explained: Weighing the pros, cons, and complexities

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More than 90% of enterprises now rely on a hybrid cloud infrastructure to deliver innovative digital services and capture new markets. That’s because cloud platforms offer flexibility and extensibility for an organization’s existing infrastructure. Dynatrace news. With public clouds, multiple organizations share resources.

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Infrastructure Monitoring tools: 3 steps to evolve ITOps into AIOps

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Infrastructure monitoring is the process of collecting critical data about your IT environment, including information about availability, performance and resource efficiency. Many organizations respond by adding a proliferation of infrastructure monitoring tools, which in many cases, just adds to the noise. Dynatrace news.

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Kubernetes workload troubleshooting with metrics, logs, and traces

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There’s no lack of metrics, logs, traces, or events when monitoring your Kubernetes (K8s) workloads. Dynatrace Davis , our deterministic AI, recently notified our teams about a problem in one of our Keptn instances we just recently spun up to demo our automated performance analysis capabilities orchestrated by Keptn. Dynatrace news.

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