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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. DTraceToolkit v0.96

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

Dynatrace

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.

Metrics 176
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What is log management? How to tame distributed cloud system complexities

Dynatrace

Log management is an organization’s rules and policies for managing and enabling the creation, transmission, analysis, storage, and other tasks related to IT systems’ and applications’ log data. Distributed cloud systems are complex, dynamic, and difficult to manage without the proper tools. What is log management? Watch webinar now!

Systems 189
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Dynatrace ensures continuous software quality by combining synthetic monitoring and automatic release validation

Dynatrace

Organizations can now accelerate innovation and reduce the risk of failed software releases by incorporating on-demand synthetic monitoring as a metrics provider for automatic, continuous release-validation processes. The ability to scale testing as part of the software development lifecycle (SDLC) has proven difficult. Dynatrace news.

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Transparent and confident software delivery with Dynatrace Release Analysis

Dynatrace

This is the question that drives many of us who work along the software-product lifecycle. Answering this question requires careful management of release risk and analysis of lots of data related to each release version of your software. Release information from issue tracking systems. “To release or not to release?”

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