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

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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

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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. heapUsed); }); What to trace?

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AWS observability: AWS monitoring best practices for resiliency

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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. EC2 is ideally suited for large workloads with constant traffic.

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How digital experience monitoring helps deliver business observability

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Digital experience monitoring (DEM) allows an organization to optimize customer experiences by taking into account the context surrounding digital experience metrics. What is digital experience monitoring? Primary digital experience monitoring tools.

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Efficient SLO event integration powers successful AIOps

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From my experience, a month of monitoring is the optimal duration to gain statistically significant insights into “how my entity behaves with the configured SLO.” When the SLO status converges to an optimal value of 100%, and there’s substantial traffic (calls/min), BurnRate becomes more relevant for anomaly detection.

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How Dynatrace boosts production resilience with Site Reliability Guardian

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Ensure expected production behavior One Dynatrace team is responsible for the demo applications we use to demonstrate Dynatrace capabilities. We use monitored demo applications to deliver constant load and a defined set of business transactions. The functionality is implemented via an automated workflow.

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TTP-based threat hunting with Dynatrace Security Analytics and Falco Alerts solves alert noise

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Likewise, operation specialists can prioritize their efforts on monitoring the highest-risk tactics, and executives can better communicate the business risk. In the following sections, we demo the following: Introduce Unguard, our insecure cloud-native microservices demo application. It also generates  OpenTelemetry  traces.

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