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

Dynatrace

In this OpenTelemetry demo series, we’ll take an in-depth look at how to use OpenTelemetry to add observability to a distributed web application that originally didn’t know anything about tracing, telemetry, or observability. However, as software workloads have become more distributed, relying on logs alone is proving inadequate.

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

Dynatrace

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. heapUsed); }); What to trace? Register now!

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Testing Your Monitoring Configurations

DZone

Monitoring is a small aspect of our operational needs; configuring, monitoring, and checking the configuration of tools such as Fluentd and Fluentbit can be a bit frustrating, particularly if we want to validate more advanced configuration that does more than simply lift log files and dump the content into a solution such as OpenSearch.

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Business Flow: Why IT operations teams should monitor business processes

Dynatrace

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. First and foremost, it’s a data problem.

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

Dynatrace

We also introduced our demo app and explained how to define the metrics and traces it uses. The second part, The road to observability with OpenTelemetry part 2: Setting up OpenTelemetry and instrumenting applications , covers the details of how to set up OpenTelemetry in our demo application and how to instrument the services.

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What is synthetic monitoring?

Dynatrace

Synthetic monitoring can help to confirm your applications are performing as intended and, in the event they’re not, help you quickly figure out what’s going on. Here’s a look at what synthetic monitoring is, how it’s different from real-user monitoring, and why it matters to your business.

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AWS observability: AWS monitoring best practices for resiliency

Dynatrace

These resources generate vast amounts of data in various locations, including containers, which can be virtual and ephemeral, thus more difficult to monitor. These challenges make AWS observability a key practice for building and monitoring cloud-native applications. AWS monitoring best practices. Automate monitoring tasks.