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

Dynatrace

Anyone who’s concerned with developing, delivering, and operating software knows the importance of making software and the systems it runs on observable. That is, relying on metrics, logs, and traces to understand what software is doing and where it’s running into snags.

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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. I was an independent performance consultant and Sun Microsystems had just released DTrace, a tool that could instrument all software. He was kind enough to give me a quick demo anyway. You can't make this stuff up. I printed socketsnoop.d.

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Connect your software with the right people: Ownership drives effective collaboration

Dynatrace

Searching for the right people can take time, especially in large and complex software environments. Despite increasing automation, software development and incident management are human-centered activities. Any software engineer can search for monitored entities that relate to specific deployments and their respective teams.

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The right person at the right time makes all the difference: Best practices for ownership information

Dynatrace

In any case, three building blocks are required to connect the right information to software artifacts. However, as software changes continuously due to new deployments and releases, so can responsibilities. Contact us to schedule a demo. Linking team ownership with the specific service or component they own.

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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. I was an independent performance consultant and Sun Microsystems had just released DTrace, a tool that could instrument all software. He was kind enough to give me a quick demo anyway. You can't make this stuff up. I printed socketsnoop.d.

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What is AIOps? A Software Intelligence Approach

Dynatrace

If you want to dig deeper, we have some further readings below, and if you prefer to see that in action, I want to invite you to watch our webinar including a live demo. eBook: AIOps Done Right: Automating the Next Generation of Enterprise Software. Webinar Series: AIOps with Dynatrace software intelligence. Further reading.

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