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

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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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Mastering Prometheus: Unlocking Actionable Insights and Enhanced Monitoring in Kubernetes Environments

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In the dynamic world of cloud-native technologies, monitoring and observability have become indispensable. However, managing its health and performance efficiently necessitates a robust monitoring solution. Kubernetes, the de-facto orchestration platform, offers scalability and agility.

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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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How to Configure Istio, Prometheus and Grafana for Monitoring

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One of the primary responsibilities of Site reliability engineers (SREs) in large organizations is to monitor the golden metrics of their applications, such as CPU utilization, memory utilization, latency, and throughput.

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Extract metrics from business events to increase the value of business analytics

Dynatrace

But are observability platforms—born from the collision between the demands of cloud computing and the limitations of APM and infrastructure monitoring—the best solution for managing business analytics? Observability fault lines The monitoring of complex and dynamic IT systems includes real-time analysis of baselines, trends, and anomalies.

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The state of site reliability engineering: SRE challenges and best practices in 2023

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Site reliability engineering (SRE) has become increasingly important to organizations looking to keep up with the rapid pace of digital transformation. Effective site reliability engineering requires enterprise-wide transformation Without a unified understanding of SRE practices, organizational silos can quickly form between departments.