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Observability engineering: Getting Prometheus metrics right for Kubernetes with Dynatrace and Kepler

Dynatrace

For busy site reliability engineers, ensuring system reliability, scalability, and overall health is an imperative that’s getting harder to achieve in ever-expanding, cloud-native, container-based environments. To get a more granular look into telemetry data, many analysts rely on custom metrics using Prometheus. What is Prometheus?

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How observability, application security, and AI enhance DevOps and platform engineering maturity

Dynatrace

DevOps and platform engineering are essential disciplines that provide immense value in the realm of cloud-native technology and software delivery. Observability of applications and infrastructure serves as a critical foundation for DevOps and platform engineering, offering a comprehensive view into system performance and behavior.

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What is platform engineering?

Dynatrace

In response to this shift, platform engineering is growing in popularity. The practice of platform engineering has evolved alongside the increasing complexity of cloud environments. A platform encompasses a set of tools, services, and infrastructure that enables developers to build, test, and deploy software applications.

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Enhancing Kubernetes cluster management key to platform engineering success

Dynatrace

Five of the most common include cluster instability, resource and cost management, security, observability, and stress on engineering teams. Engineering teams are overwhelmed with stuff to do.” ” First, Akamas collects metrics, then recommends configuration improvements and applies these recommendations.

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Bringing Software Engineering Rigor to Data

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In software engineering, we've learned that building robust and stable applications has a direct correlation with overall organization performance. The data community is striving to incorporate the core concepts of engineering rigor found in software communities but still has further to go.

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Using QuestDB to Collect Infrastructure Metrics

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In my life as a cloud engineer, I deal with time series metrics all the time. Unfortunately, many of today’s popular metrics databases don’t support the SQL query language. Combined with QuestDB’s custom SQL extensions, its built-in SQL support makes writing complex queries a breeze.

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Dynatrace simplifies OpenTelemetry metric collection for context-aware AI analytics

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The release candidate of OpenTelemetry metrics was announced earlier this year at Kubecon in Valencia, Spain. Since then, organizations have embraced OTLP as an all-in-one protocol for observability signals, including metrics, traces, and logs, which will also gain Dynatrace support in early 2023.

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