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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 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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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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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.

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Create compelling insights into business and operational KPIs through metric calculations in the Data explorer

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Metrics matter. But without complex analytics to make sense of them in context, metrics are often too raw to be useful on their own. To achieve relevant insights, raw metrics typically need to be processed through filtering, aggregation, or arithmetic operations. Examples of metric calculations. Dynatrace news.

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