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Dynatrace simplifies OpenTelemetry metric collection for context-aware AI analytics

Dynatrace

JANUARY 17, 2023

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.

Analytics

Analytics Metrics Open Source Java

Best practices for Fluent Bit 3.0

Dynatrace

MAY 7, 2024

Fluent Bit is a telemetry agent designed to receive data (logs, traces, and metrics), process or modify it, and export it to a destination. Fluent Bit can serve as a proxy before you send data to Dynatrace or similar. Fluent Bit and Fluentd were created for the same purpose: collecting and processing logs, traces, and metrics.

Best Practices

Best Practices IoT Metrics Storage

Support of OpenTelemetry metrics with enhanced AI capabilities

Dynatrace

MAY 18, 2022

Dynatrace news. With the most important components becoming release candidates , Dynatrace now supports the full OpenTelemetry specification on all runtimes and automatically adds intelligence to metrics at enterprise scale. So these metrics are immensely valuable to SRE and DevOps teams.

Metrics

Metrics DevOps Tuning Virtualization

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

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 18, 2023

To get a more granular look into telemetry data, many analysts rely on custom metrics using Prometheus. Named after the Greek god who brought fire down from Mount Olympus, Prometheus metrics have been transforming observability since the project’s inception in 2012.

Metrics

Metrics Engineering Energy Tuning

OneAgent release notes version 1.231

Dynatrace

JANUARY 9, 2022

Dynatrace news. With this release, the oldest supported OneAgent versions are: Dynatrace ONE. Dynatrace ONE Premium. Dynatrace extension framework upgrade notice. Symptoms : No data is provided for affected metrics on dashboards, alerts, and custom device pages populated by the affected extension metrics.

Operating System

Operating System Google Java Virtualization

Build and operate multicloud FaaS with enhanced, intelligent end-to-end observability

Dynatrace

APRIL 25, 2023

In this blog post, we will discuss some of these challenges and how to overcome them. Observability is typically achieved by collecting three types of data from a system, metrics, logs and traces. Moreover, serverless platforms have different levels of support for observability tools and features.

Serverless

Serverless Lambda Azure AWS

Unmatched scalability and security of Dynatrace extensions now available for all supported technologies: 7 reasons to migrate your JMX and Python plugins

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

already address SNMP, WMI, SQL databases, and Prometheus technologies, serving the monitoring needs of hundreds of Dynatrace customers. We’ve added Python support to Extensions 2.0, enabling the framework to support any extensibility use case we know about and preparing it for future use cases we don’t know about. Extensions 2.0

Technology

Technology Technology Scalability Availability

Analyze AWS applications end to end with Dynatrace using AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Dynatrace news. AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry provides an easy way to obtain telemetry data for monitoring critical business applications that run on AWS. Here are the key advantages of using Dynatrace for AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry: . Ease of ingestion —with AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry .

AWS

AWS Lambda Serverless Metrics

Managing risk for financial services: The secret to visibility and control during times of volatility

Dynatrace

APRIL 8, 2024

With market volatility reaching new heights, how are risk managers steadying the ship? This blog explores how vertically integrated risk management solutions that use AI and automation enable unparalleled visibility, control, and efficiency for risk management in banking.

Analytics

Analytics Infrastructure Efficiency Technology

Dynatrace simplifies StatsD, Telegraf, and Prometheus observability with Davis AI

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Dynatrace news. Moreover, Dynatrace has introduced enterprise-grade security features and encryption to the mix. Open-source metric sources automatically map to our Smartscape model for AI analytics. We’ve just enhanced Dynatrace OneAgent with an open metric API. Davis AI analyzes your StatsD metrics.

Open Source

Open Source Metrics Analytics Tuning

Dynatrace adds OpenTelemetry trace ingest for open, automatic, and intelligent observability

Dynatrace

MAY 4, 2021

Dynatrace news. With the extremely successful OpenTelemetry project (to which Dynatrace actively contributes) having recently reached a key milestone with the OpenTelemetry Tracing Specification version 1.0, cloud service providers are now starting to add OpenTelemetry instrumentation as an out-of-the-box feature.

Cloud

Cloud Java Tuning Monitoring

Dynatrace key takeaways from o11yfest 2021

Dynatrace

MAY 26, 2021

Dynatrace news. From May 17 to May 18, 2021, the Open-Source Engineering team at Dynatrace attended the virtual observability conference, o11yfest. This blog dives into what we learned by listening to experts in the field and the key takeaways we gathered from the talks. Seek support from vendors on your o11y journey.

AWS

AWS Strategy Storage Metrics

What is? OpenTelemetry??An open-source standard for logs, metrics, and traces

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Dynatrace news. OpenCensus, OpenTracing, and OpenTelemetry. What is OpenTelemetry? Loosely defined, observability is the ability to understand what’s happening inside a system from the knowledge of the external data it produces, which are usually logs, metrics, and traces. Source: OpenTelemetry Documentation.

Open Source

Open Source Metrics Cloud Transportation

OneAgent release notes version 1.229

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Dynatrace news. With this release, the oldest supported OneAgent versions are: Dynatrace ONE. Dynatrace ONE Premium. Dynatrace extension framework upgrade notice. Starting with Dynatrace version 1.231, the Extension Framework (also referred to as the plugins framework) will start using Python 3.8.

Operating System

Operating System Java Metrics Google

Automatic and intelligent end-to-end observability for OpenTelemetry Java

Dynatrace

MAY 13, 2021

Dynatrace news. Oftentimes, this involves the integration of OpenTelemetry data that’s used during development into production workflows. Dynatrace and OpenTelemetry work better together. PurePath integrates OpenTelemetry Java data for enterprise-grade collection and contextual analytics. Nano HTTPD ?(instead

Java

Java Analytics Metrics Database

Leverage automated and intelligent observability for OpenTelemetry for Go with Dynatrace PurePath 4

Dynatrace

JANUARY 28, 2021

Dynatrace news. OpenTelemetry for Go provides developers with an observability framework for cloud-native software, allowing them to instrument, generate, collect, and export telemetry data for relevant services. Unlock extended end-to-end traceability for OpenTelemetry-instrumented Go applications.

Traffic

Traffic Open Source Servers Cloud

How OpenTelemetry can improve Observability and Monitoring

Dynatrace

JANUARY 6, 2021

Dynatrace news. In my last blog article, I answered the question “What is OpenTelemetry?” , with the goal of providing a high-level overview of the OpenTelemetry project and answer some of the most commonly asked questions. OpenTracing + OpenCensus = OpenTelemetry. Problems in the cloud-native world.

Monitoring

Monitoring Cloud Open Source Google

Key takeaways from o11yfest 2021 – SRE, Observability, and OpenTelemetry

Dynatrace

MAY 26, 2021

Dynatrace news. From May 17 to May 18, 2021, the Open-Source Engineering team at Dynatrace attended the virtual observability conference, o11yfest. This blog dives into what we learned by listening to experts in the field and the key takeaways we gathered from the talks. Seek support from vendors on your o11y journey.

AWS

AWS Strategy Storage Metrics

What is?OpenTelemetry??Everything you wanted to know

Dynatrace

JULY 31, 2020

Dynatrace news. Observability, OpenTracing, and OpenTelemetry. More specifically, we’re going to take a look at OpenTelemetry and clear up any confusion about what exactly it is and the benefits it can provide. What is OpenTelemetry. How does OpenTelemetry benefit me?

Open Source

Open Source Metrics Google Java

Simplify observability for all your custom metrics (Part 2: OneAgent metric API)

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Dynatrace news. In Part 1 we explored how you can use the Davis AI to analyze your StatsD metrics. . In part 2, we’ll show you how you can run multidimensional analysis from external metrics that are ingested via the OneAgent metric API. Metrics ingestion in large environments can be challenging.

Metrics

Metrics Open Source Tuning Traffic

Pioneering customer-centric pricing models: Decoding ingest-centric vs. answer-centric pricing

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 17, 2023

The data generated by applications to support operational teams has reached overwhelming proportions. The Dynatrace pricing model entails minimal charges for data ingestion and retention. Dynatrace has developed the purpose-built data lakehouse, Grail , eliminating the need for separate management of indexes and storage.

Retail

Retail Storage Best Practices Architecture

Implementing AWS well-architected pillars with automated workflows

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

This is where unified observability and Dynatrace Automations can help by leveraging causal AI and analytics to drive intelligent automation across your multicloud ecosystem. The Dynatrace platform approach to managing your cloud initiatives provides insights and answers to not just see what could go wrong but what could go right.

AWS

AWS Efficiency Azure Cloud

OneAgent release notes version 1.211

Dynatrace

MARCH 8, 2021

Dynatrace news. With this release, the oldest supported OneAgent versions are: Dynatrace ONE. Dynatrace ONE Premium. Dynatrace RUM support for Microsoft Edge Legacy. Microsoft support for Edge Legacy ends on March 9, 2021. Added support for OpenTelemetry 0.16.0,

Operating System

Operating System Java Metrics Google

Amplify PowerUP: From APM to Observability

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Dynatrace news. Amplify PowerUP, our half-yearly global event to update our partner community, covered a lot of ground including key Partner Program announcements, Q2 earnings and partner contribution, market growth and momentum, Dynatrace platform capabilities, and the partner services offering the platform powers.

DevOps

DevOps Innovation Cloud Programming

What is?OpenTelemetry??Everything you wanted to know

Dynatrace

JULY 31, 2020

Dynatrace news. Observability, O penTracing , and OpenTelemetry. More specifically, we’re going to take a look at OpenTelemetry and clear up any confusion about what exactly it is and the benefits it can provide. . What is OpenTelemetry ? . How d oes OpenTelemetry b enefit m e? .

Open Source

Open Source Metrics Google Java

AWS Re:Invent 2021 guide: Multicloud modernization and digital transformation

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Dynatrace news. When Amazon launched AWS Lambda in 2014, it ushered in a new era of serverless computing. Dynatrace is making the value of AI real. A resource guide to Dynatrace and AWS for AWS re:Invent. If you’re in person in Vegas, come visit Dynatrace at booth 100 to see the magic in action.

AWS

AWS Lambda Artificial Intelligence Serverless

World’s first and only fully automatic observability for Golang services now extended to statically linked Go applications

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Dynatrace news. The Dynatrace Software Intelligence Platform has long provided the industry’s first auto-instrumenting monitoring solution for Go. To take this further, we’re proud to announce that Dynatrace now also supports statically linked Go applications. Automatically monitor all important Go metrics.

Transportation

Transportation Monitoring Metrics Code

OneAgent release notes version 1.207

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Dynatrace news. With this release, the oldest supported OneAgent versions are: Dynatrace ONE. Dynatrace ONE Premium. Added support for Node.js Added support for Node.js Added support for OpenTelemetry 0.13.0. Added support for OpenTelemetry 0.13.0. Linux: Ubuntu 19.10.

Operating System

Operating System Java Mobile Cache

Kubernetes: Challenges for observability platforms

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Dynatrace news. While speeding up development processes and reducing complexity does make the lives of Kubernetes operators easier, the inherent abstraction and automation can lead to new types of errors that are difficult to find, troubleshoot, and prevent. Metrics are a numeric representation of intervals over time.

Virtualization

Virtualization Infrastructure Monitoring Cloud

AWS EKS Monitoring as a Self-Service with Dynatrace

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Dynatrace news. Robert allowed me to take a couple of screenshots from their Dynatrace environment and with that, in this blog I try to explain how Dynatrace gives them MaaSS for Developers, Operators, DevOps as well as Business. PostgreSQL & Elastic for data storage. REDIS for caching. 1 Validate Deployment.

AWS

AWS Monitoring Ecommerce Lambda

OpenTelemetry enables automated operations management at scale

Dynatrace

JULY 18, 2022

Dynatrace news. The OpenTelemetry project was created to address the growing need for artificial intelligence-enabled IT operations — or AIOps — as organizations broaden their technology horizons beyond on-premises infrastructure and into multiple clouds. There are two ways to use OpenTelemetry: manually or using automation.

Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence Open Source Analytics Monitoring

Dynatrace named global winner for best observability platform by Research in Action in their 2022 Vendor Selection Matrix™

Dynatrace

AUGUST 29, 2022

Dynatrace news. Research in Action (RIA), a leading independent research and consulting company based in Germany, recently named Dynatrace the global winner for best observability platform in its 2022 Vendor Selection Matrix™. Observability requires complete access to metrics, traces, and logs.

Strategy

Strategy Open Source Metrics Cloud

Dynatrace partners with AWS to provide enterprise-grade, intelligent observability for custom OpenTelemetry metrics

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Dynatrace news. OpenTelemetry metrics are useful for augmenting the fully automatic observability that can be achieved with Dynatrace OneAgent. OpenTelemetry metrics add domain specific data such as business KPIs and license relevant consumption details. What is AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry?

AWS

AWS Metrics Analytics Government

Announcing enterprise-grade observability at scale for your OpenTelemetry custom metrics

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Dynatrace news. To ensure observability, the open source CNCF project OpenTelemetry aims at providing a standardized, vendor-neutral way of pre-instrumenting libraries and platforms and annotating UserLAnd code. New OpenTelemetry metrics exporters provide the broadest language support on the market.

Metrics

Metrics Open Source Tuning Analytics

Open Observability – Part 1: Distributed tracing and observability

Dynatrace

JUNE 25, 2021

Dynatrace news. I lead a dedicated Dynatrace engineering team which has contributed to the OpenTelemetry project since its inception. My team holds a seat on the OpenTelemetry governance- and technical committee and maintains the project’s JavaScript agent. Why is everyone talking about OpenTelemetry?

Open Source

Open Source Monitoring Google Systems

Announcing enterprise-grade observability at scale for OpenTelemetry custom metrics (Part 2)

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

Dynatrace news. Welcome back to the second part of our blog series on how easy it is to get enterprise-grade observability at scale in Dynatrace for your OpenTelemetry custom metrics. Getting specific metrics from libraries that are pre-instrumented with OpenTelemetry (for example, database drivers).

Metrics

Metrics Open Source Lambda Serverless

The history of Grail: Why you need a data lakehouse

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Some time ago, at a restaurant near Boston, three Dynatrace colleagues dined and discussed the growing data challenge for enterprises. These technologies are poorly suited to address the needs of modern enterprises—getting real value from data beyond isolated metrics. So, there was a need to do something revolutionary. Retain data.

Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence Analytics Storage Architecture

Kubernetes vs Docker: What’s the difference?

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Dynatrace news. An orchestration platform needs to expose data about its internal states and activities in the form of logs, events, metrics, or transaction traces. Initially developed by Google, it’s now available in many distributions and widely supported by all public cloud vendors. Supports auto-scaling.

Open Source

Open Source Traffic DevOps Cloud

How to start with SLOs to align Business, DevOps, and SREs

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Dynatrace news. In a recent workshop I did with a global player in the financial market we used their new mobile banking app as a reference. The business said it wanted to increase the adoption of the new app vs the existing app. How to measure those end-user and service focused SLOs with Dynatrace. App Rating.

DevOps

DevOps Social Media Mobile Metrics

How to get the answers you deserve using the three pillars of observability

Dynatrace

AUGUST 28, 2019

Dynatrace news. Observability is divided into three major verticals—metrics, logs, and distributed traces—the so-called three pillars of observability. Here’s how Dynatrace uses the three pillars of observability in context for automatic problem detection and root-cause analysis. 1) Metrics.

Metrics

Metrics Monitoring Azure Code

Dynatrace named global winner for best observability platform by Research in Action in their 2022 Vendor Selection Matrix™

Dynatrace

AUGUST 29, 2022

Dynatrace news. Research in Action (RIA), a leading independent research and consulting company based in Germany, recently named Dynatrace the global winner for best observability platform in its 2022 Vendor Selection Matrix™. Observability requires complete access to metrics, traces, and logs.

Strategy

Strategy Open Source Metrics Cloud

Unlock end-to-end observability insights with Dynatrace PurePath 4 seamless integration of OpenTracing for Java

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Dynatrace news. Dynatrace is fully committed to the OpenTelemetry community and to the seamless integration of OpenTelemetry data , including ingestion of custom metrics , into the Dynatrace open analytics platform. Announcing seamless integration of OpenTracing data into Dynatrace PurePath 4.

Java

Java Traffic Strategy Architecture

Using OpenTelemetry and AI-powered observability to eliminate open source data silos

Dynatrace

APRIL 22, 2022

Dynatrace news. Although many companies adopt solutions such as OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, and Grafana as part of their observability strategy, they often confront a common data analysis problem: data silos. According to Dynatrace research , 49% of CIOs report that their business and IT teams work in silos.

Open Source

Open Source Metrics Cloud Tuning

How to solve the challenges of multicloud AWS, Azure and GCP observability

Dynatrace

APRIL 1, 2021

Dynatrace news. Behind the scenes working to meet this demand are DevOps teams, spinning up multicloud IT environments to accelerate digital transformation so their organizations can sustain growth at this new pace. Dynatrace captures all the relevant data and analyzes it with AI.

Azure

Azure AWS DevOps Cloud

Dynatrace simplifies OpenTelemetry metric collection for context-aware AI analytics

Best practices for Fluent Bit 3.0

Trending Sources

Support of OpenTelemetry metrics with enhanced AI capabilities

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

OneAgent release notes version 1.231

Build and operate multicloud FaaS with enhanced, intelligent end-to-end observability

Unmatched scalability and security of Dynatrace extensions now available for all supported technologies: 7 reasons to migrate your JMX and Python plugins

Analyze AWS applications end to end with Dynatrace using AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry

Managing risk for financial services: The secret to visibility and control during times of volatility

Dynatrace simplifies StatsD, Telegraf, and Prometheus observability with Davis AI

Dynatrace adds OpenTelemetry trace ingest for open, automatic, and intelligent observability

Dynatrace key takeaways from o11yfest 2021

What is? OpenTelemetry??An open-source standard for logs, metrics, and traces

OneAgent release notes version 1.229

Automatic and intelligent end-to-end observability for OpenTelemetry Java

Leverage automated and intelligent observability for OpenTelemetry for Go with Dynatrace PurePath 4

How OpenTelemetry can improve Observability and Monitoring

Key takeaways from o11yfest 2021 – SRE, Observability, and OpenTelemetry

What is?OpenTelemetry??Everything you wanted to know

Simplify observability for all your custom metrics (Part 2: OneAgent metric API)

Pioneering customer-centric pricing models: Decoding ingest-centric vs. answer-centric pricing

Implementing AWS well-architected pillars with automated workflows

OneAgent release notes version 1.211

Amplify PowerUP: From APM to Observability

What is?OpenTelemetry??Everything you wanted to know

AWS Re:Invent 2021 guide: Multicloud modernization and digital transformation

World’s first and only fully automatic observability for Golang services now extended to statically linked Go applications

OneAgent release notes version 1.207

Kubernetes: Challenges for observability platforms

AWS EKS Monitoring as a Self-Service with Dynatrace

OpenTelemetry enables automated operations management at scale

Dynatrace named global winner for best observability platform by Research in Action in their 2022 Vendor Selection Matrix™

Dynatrace partners with AWS to provide enterprise-grade, intelligent observability for custom OpenTelemetry metrics

Announcing enterprise-grade observability at scale for your OpenTelemetry custom metrics

Open Observability – Part 1: Distributed tracing and observability

Announcing enterprise-grade observability at scale for OpenTelemetry custom metrics (Part 2)

The history of Grail: Why you need a data lakehouse

Kubernetes vs Docker: What’s the difference?

How to start with SLOs to align Business, DevOps, and SREs

How to get the answers you deserve using the three pillars of observability

Dynatrace named global winner for best observability platform by Research in Action in their 2022 Vendor Selection Matrix™

Unlock end-to-end observability insights with Dynatrace PurePath 4 seamless integration of OpenTracing for Java

Using OpenTelemetry and AI-powered observability to eliminate open source data silos

How to solve the challenges of multicloud AWS, Azure and GCP observability

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