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

Dynatrace

OpenTelemetry, the open source observability tool, has emerged as an industry-standard solution for instrumenting application telemetry data to make it observable. OpenTelemetry is a free and open source take on observability. Especially if you have custom applications that rely on APIs to integrate with other services.

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

Dynatrace

OpenTelemetry , the open source observability tool, has become the go-to standard for instrumenting custom applications to help software developers and operations teams understand what their software is doing and where it’s running into snags. We also introduced our demo app and explained how to define the metrics and traces it uses.

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An Unbelievable Demo

Brendan Gregg

This is the story of the most unbelievable demo I've been given in world of open source. While I was busy writing and publishing advanced performance tools using DTrace (my open source [DTraceToolkit] and other [DTrace tools]), I noticed something odd: I was producing more DTrace tools than were coming out of Sun itself.

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

Dynatrace

OpenTelemetry , the open source observability tool, has become the go-to standard for instrumenting custom applications to collect observability telemetry data. We also introduced our demo app and explained how to define the metrics and traces it uses. On the other hand, if we checked out the process page for our Node.js

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An Unbelievable Demo

Brendan Gregg

This is the story of the most unbelievable demo I've been given in world of open source. He was kind enough to give me a quick demo anyway. It worked for most TCP traffic types but not others, which I warned about in the script comments. You can't make this stuff up. To him, I was just some random guy.

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

Dynatrace

Falco is an open-source, cloud-native security tool that utilizes the Linux kernel technology  eBPF , to generate fine-grained networking, security, and observability events. In the following sections, we demo the following: Introduce Unguard, our insecure cloud-native microservices demo application.

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Simple streaming telemetry

The Netflix TechBlog

Introducing gnmi-gateway: a modular, distributed, and highly available service for modern network telemetry via OpenConfig and gNMI By: Colin McIntosh, Michael Costello Netflix runs its own content delivery network, Open Connect , which delivers all streaming traffic to our members. Where is Cacti for streaming telemetry?