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

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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. api/v2/otlp/v1/traces'; $metricsURL = $baseURL. '/api/v2/otlp/v1/metrics';

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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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Business Flow: Why IT operations teams should monitor business processes

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Most business processes are not monitored. Business processes can be quite complex, often including conditional branches and loops; many business process monitoring initiatives are abandoned or simplified after attempting to map the process flow. Some use cases might benefit from isolated step metrics, but these are rare.

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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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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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Dynatrace ensures continuous software quality by combining synthetic monitoring and automatic release validation

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Organizations can now accelerate innovation and reduce the risk of failed software releases by incorporating on-demand synthetic monitoring as a metrics provider for automatic, continuous release-validation processes. This metric indicates how quickly software can be released to production. Dynatrace news.