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Enhance data collection with Dynatrace OpenTelemetry Collector distribution

Dynatrace

MARCH 15, 2024

To answer the growing demand for OpenTelemetry, Dynatrace is proud to announce the release of the Dynatrace OpenTelemetry Collector distribution (Dynatrace OTel Collector). Understanding OpenTelemetry OpenTelemetry is an open, vendor-neutral standard for creating, collecting, and transferring telemetry data, like traces, metrics, and logs.

Open Source

Open Source Best Practices Infrastructure Tuning

Dynatrace simplifies OpenTelemetry metric collection for context-aware AI analytics

Dynatrace

JANUARY 17, 2023

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. Dimensions like these are added automatically to OpenTelemetry metrics and traces, empowering Davis insights and root-cause problem detection.

Analytics

Analytics Metrics Open Source Java

Kubernetes health at a glance: One experience to rule it all

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Its complex, distributed nature makes it difficult to use and understand. The new Dynatrace Kubernetes experience provides a 10,000-foot view of all Kubernetes clusters, across all environments and distributions (from GCP, Azure, and AWS to OpenShift or on-premise solutions.

Engineering

Engineering Efficiency Azure Monitoring

Enable full observability for Linux on IBM Z mainframe now with logs

Dynatrace

APRIL 17, 2024

The challenge for hybrid cloud deployments is maintaining critical observability, which must include the full set of monitoring signals: logs, metrics, and traces. That’s why a hybrid cloud scenario, where workloads are shared between public clouds and highly performant mainframe platforms like IBM Z, is a robust and effective strategy.

Operating System

Operating System Energy Infrastructure Architecture

Security operations centers: How state governments can enhance cybersecurity posture

Dynatrace

APRIL 3, 2024

What is a security operations center? Full-stack observability is the ability to determine the state of every endpoint in a distributed IT environment based on its telemetry data. Telemetry data — such as metrics, logs, and traces — gives IT teams crucial context to understand how all entities are connected.

Government

Government Social Media Metrics Infrastructure

How AI and observability help to safeguard government networks from new threats

Dynatrace

MARCH 27, 2024

Rules-based security in an era of rapid change A fundamental limitation is at the heart of most traditional security solutions: Many are rules-based, making them well-suited for defending against anticipated risks, but not new and unexpected ones. Simply put: Organizations don’t know what they don’t know.

Government

Government Network Artificial Intelligence Cloud

Enhance data collection with Dynatrace OTel Collector distribution

Dynatrace

MARCH 15, 2024

To answer the growing demand for OpenTelemetry, Dynatrace is proud to announce the release of the Dynatrace OTel Collector distribution. Understanding OpenTelemetry OpenTelemetry is an open, vendor-neutral standard for creating, collecting, and transferring telemetry data, like traces, metrics, and logs.

Open Source

Open Source Best Practices Infrastructure Tuning

Automatic connection of logs and traces accelerates AI-driven cloud analytics

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Dynatrace news. Logs are a crucial component in the mix that help BizDevOps teams understand the full story of what’s happening in a system. Manual and configuration-heavy approaches to putting telemetry data into context and connecting metrics, traces, and logs simply don’t scale.

Analytics

Analytics Cloud Java Serverless

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

Dynatrace

APRIL 25, 2023

For example, to handle traffic spikes and pay only for what they use. In this blog post, we will discuss some of these challenges and how to overcome them. What are serverless applications? Observability is typically achieved by collecting three types of data from a system, metrics, logs and traces.

Serverless

Serverless Lambda Azure AWS

Open Observability – Part 1: Distributed tracing and observability

Dynatrace

JUNE 25, 2021

Dynatrace news. I also serve as co-chair of the W3C Distributed Tracing working group , which works on standards like W3C Trace Context. I also serve as co-chair of the W3C Distributed Tracing working group , which works on standards like W3C Trace Context. What is distributed tracing?

Open Source

Open Source Monitoring Google Systems

What is distributed tracing and why does it matter?

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 23, 2020

Dynatrace news. Distributed tracing is a method of observing requests as they propagate through distributed cloud environments. Distributed tracing follows an interaction by tagging it with a unique identifier, which stays with it as it interacts with microservices, containers, and infrastructure.

Infrastructure

Infrastructure Cloud Monitoring Metrics

Kubernetes workload troubleshooting with metrics, logs, and traces

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Dynatrace news. There’s no lack of metrics, logs, traces, or events when monitoring your Kubernetes (K8s) workloads. But there is a lack of time for DevOps , SRE , and developers to analyze all this data to identify whether there’s a user impacting problem and if so – what the root cause is to fix it fast.

Metrics

Metrics DevOps Engineering Strategy

Observability vs. monitoring: What’s the difference?

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Dynatrace news. Organizations are depending more and more on distributed architectures to provide application services. But exactly what are the differences between observability vs. monitoring? Monitoring supplies situational awareness, and observability helps pinpoint what’s happening and what to do about it.

Monitoring

Monitoring Metrics DevOps Scalability

Release readiness through AI-based white box resiliency testing with JMeter and Dynatrace

Dynatrace

JANUARY 5, 2022

Dynatrace news. This guest blog is authored by Raphael Pionke , DevOps Engineer at T-Systems MMS. I, Andreas Grabner, helped to bring the blog to life! Transparency : We rely on deep insights Dynatrace provides, including distributed tracing of single requests. Leveraging the W3C Trace context header.

Testing

Testing Open Source Metrics Infrastructure

What is observability? Not just logs, metrics and traces

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Dynatrace news. But what is observability? Why is it important, and what can it actually help organizations achieve? What is observability? In IT and cloud computing, observability is the ability to measure a system’s current state based on the data it generates, such as logs, metrics, and traces.

Metrics

Metrics Open Source Monitoring Infrastructure

Automatic intelligent observability into Envoy-proxied services of your Istio service mesh (GA)

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Dynatrace news. Instantly see what’s going on in your Istio Ingress/Egress Envoys. Unlike other solutions on the market that force you to manually deploy and configure monitoring, Dynatrace gives you out-of-the-box service-level insights with full end-to-end traces into your microservices.

Traffic

Traffic Monitoring Technology Technology

AWS observability: AWS monitoring best practices for resiliency

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Dynatrace news. With AWS, applications may be distributed horizontally across worker nodes, and microservices may run in Kubernetes clusters that interact with AWS managed services or in serverless functions. What is AWS observability? And why it matters. AWS: A service for everything. Amazon EC2. AWS Lambda. Amazon Fargate.

Best Practices

Best Practices AWS Monitoring Serverless

What’s the hype with hyperscale?

Dynatrace

AUGUST 2, 2021

Dynatrace news. As we adapted to the changing environment and customer expectations the last year brought, we have evolved into a “new normal” that is increasingly digital in the way we interact with businesses. But what does that look like? What is hyperscale? So, what does hyperscale mean for businesses?

Azure

Azure Cloud Google AWS

Observability platform vs. observability tools

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Dynatrace news. What is observability? Observability gives developers and system operators real-time awareness of a highly distributed system’s current state based on the data it generates. With observability, teams can understand what part of a system is performing poorly and how to correct the problem.

Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence Metrics Architecture DevOps

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

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Dynatrace news. To solve this problem, Dynatrace automatically analyzes AWS Distribution for OpenTelemetry data, adds topological context, and makes it easy to find the root cause of problems using Dynatrace Davis®, our AI causation engine. You can also send the trace data directly to our ingest endpoint.

AWS

AWS Lambda Serverless Metrics

Expanded Grail data lakehouse and new Dynatrace user experience unlock boundless analytics

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Now we’re adding Smartscape to DQL and two new data sources to Grail: Metrics on Grail and Traces on Grail. You no longer need to split, distribute, or pre-aggregate your data. For more complex cloud-native architectures, adding more services and applications leads to a massive increase in the volume of collected traces.

Analytics

Analytics Social Media Metrics Efficiency

Dynatrace named a launch partner of AWS Lambda Function URLs

Dynatrace

APRIL 6, 2022

Dynatrace news. What is AWS Lambda? What are AWS Lambda Function URLs. AWS Lambda Function URLs provide a new more streamlined access for developers to their functions. With today’s announcement of this new feature, AWS is making it easier to invoke functions over HTTPS as a built-in capability of the AWS Lambda service.

Lambda

Lambda AWS Serverless Infrastructure

Dynatrace adds support for AWS Transit Gateway with VPC Flow Logs

Dynatrace

JULY 25, 2022

Dynatrace news. This new service enhances the user visibility of network details with direct delivery of Flow Logs for Transit Gateway to your desired endpoint via Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) bucket or Amazon CloudWatch Logs. What is AWS Transit Gateway? What is VPC Flow Logs. Resource type. Why Dynatrace?

AWS

AWS Transportation Network Traffic

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

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Dynatrace news. What is log management? Metrics, logs , and traces make up three vital prongs of modern observability. Event logging and software tracing help application developers and operations teams understand what’s happening throughout their application flow and system.

Systems

Systems Cloud Analytics DevOps

Kubernetes vs Docker: What’s the difference?

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Dynatrace news. What is Docker? What is Kubernetes? If cloud-native technologies and containers are on your radar, you’ve likely encountered Docker and Kubernetes and might be wondering how they relate to each other. Docker is more than containers, though. Docker Hub is similar in functionality to GitHub.

Open Source

Open Source Traffic DevOps Cloud

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

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Dynatrace news. Let’s take a closer look and clear up any confusion about what it is, the telemetry data it covers, and the benefits it can provide. What is OpenTelemetry? To appreciate what OTel does, it helps to understand observability. What is telemetry data? OpenCensus, OpenTracing, and OpenTelemetry.

Open Source

Open Source Metrics Cloud Transportation

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

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Dynatrace news. Consequently, we’ve partnered with AWS to be part of future versions of the new AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry, which provides a new way to analyze domain specific data from your AWS deployments and AWS services in Dynatrace. What is AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry? What is OpenTelemetry?

AWS

AWS Metrics Analytics Government

What is a service mesh?

Dynatrace

MAY 21, 2021

Dynatrace news. If you are wondering what a service mesh is and whether you would benefit from having one, you likely have a mature Kubernetes environment running large cloud-native applications. Here’s what you need to know about service meshes and how to overcome their challenges. What is a service mesh?

Traffic

Traffic DevOps Infrastructure Network

Connect Fluentd logs with Dynatrace traces, metrics, and topology data to enhance Kubernetes observability

Dynatrace

APRIL 8, 2022

Dynatrace news. What is Fluentd? All metrics, traces, and real user data are also surfaced in the context of specific events. Also depicted is Dynatrace instrumentation of the pods that deliver metrics and trace data to the Dynatrace environment. Bring the full value of Dynatrace to Fluentd.

Metrics

Metrics Analytics Software Architecture Open Source

Managing hybrid cloud infrastructure with an observability platform

Dynatrace

MARCH 22, 2022

Dynatrace news. “When we are talking about hybrid cloud, typically companies combine public cloud, private cloud, and on-premises infrastructure such as IBM Z platform to create a flexible, distributed computing environment,” explains Alexander Huetter, a Dynatrace product manager. . build microservices-based architecture.

Infrastructure

Infrastructure Cloud Java Azure

TTP-based threat hunting with Dynatrace Security Analytics and Falco Alerts solves alert noise

Dynatrace

AUGUST 9, 2023

In this blog post, we’ll use Dynatrace Security Analytics to go threat hunting, bringing together logs, traces, metrics, and, crucially, threat alerts. Procedures describe the specific technical details that an adversary used to carry out an attack, for example, what script they ran to exploit a weakness.

Analytics

Analytics AWS Strategy Infrastructure

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. Neither specification defined a standard way of propagating trace-context.

Monitoring

Monitoring Cloud Open Source Google

What is Google Cloud Functions?

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Dynatrace news. What is Google Cloud Functions? If increased activity incurs more requests, GCF creates a new instance for each new request. When a container cold starts — spins up for the first time to complete a new request — there is a slight delay in normal response time. How Google Cloud Functions works.

Google

Google Cloud Serverless Azure

Modern approaches to observability and monitoring for multicloud environments

Dynatrace

JANUARY 12, 2021

Dynatrace news. These increasingly complex public, private, and distributed multi-cloud environments require a modern approach to observability that incorporates continuous automation and AI-assistance to gain actionable insights quickly. Observability is the new standard of visibility and monitoring for cloud-native architectures.

Monitoring

Monitoring Artificial Intelligence DevOps Serverless

What is distributed tracing and why does it matter?

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 23, 2020

Dynatrace news. Distributed tracing is a method of observing requests as they propagate through distributed cloud environments. Distributed tracing follows an interaction by tagging it with a unique identifier, which stays with it as it interacts with microservices, containers, and infrastructure.

Infrastructure

Infrastructure Cloud Monitoring Metrics

Flexible, scalable, self-service Kubernetes native observability now in General Availability

Dynatrace

MAY 17, 2022

Dynatrace news. From a cost perspective, internal customers waste valuable time sending tickets to operations teams asking for metrics, logs, and traces to be enabled. The foundation of this flexibility is the Dynatrace Operator ¹ and its new Cloud Native Full Stack injection deployment strategy.

Availability

Availability Scalability Cloud Metrics

Microsoft Azure observability enables full stack performance

Dynatrace

JUNE 8, 2022

Dynatrace news. Azure provides a wide variety of cloud services with globally distributed applications. Observability means how well you can understand what is happening in a system by collecting metrics, logs, and traces. Let’s dive into what Azure observability means and why it matters.

Azure

Azure Performance Infrastructure Cloud

Weighing a microservices approach means covering all architecture bases

Dynatrace

JULY 7, 2022

Dynatrace news. What is the monolithic architecture approach? What is the monolithic architecture approach? As the demand for services grows and containerized applications deploy across multicloud environments, organizations need a more flexible, cohesive approach for designing and developing a distributed systems architecture.

Architecture

Architecture Serverless Azure Programming

A look behind the scenes of AWS Lambda and our new Lambda monitoring extension

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Dynatrace news. Much of what’s covered in this blog post is taken from that talk. What the Lambda team introduced in 2018, for example, the new Firecracker VM, has since been fully rolled out. Distributing functions regardless of the underlying account mitigates this. Lambda worker nodes.

Lambda

Lambda AWS Monitoring Serverless

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. Based on what it finds, OneAgent automatically activates instrumentation specifically for your stack. 2) Distributed traces. 1) Metrics.

Metrics

Metrics Monitoring Azure Code

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

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Dynatrace news. However, such heterogeneity of interconnected software services can lead to visibility gaps in end-to-end traces, which create blind spots and make it difficult for organizations to keep their software services running and their customers happy. Observability for heterogeneous cloud-native technologies is key.

Java

Java Traffic Strategy Architecture

Dynatrace earns top position in ISG Provider Lens™ Cloud-Native Observability Solutions Quadrant

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Dynatrace news. All the vendors ISG analysts evaluated provide dedicated solutions that apply distributed tracing for observability of cloud – native applications. Dynatrace has always provided distributed tracing with code-level insights across the full software stack.

Cloud

Cloud Serverless Innovation Architecture

What is full stack observability?

Dynatrace

APRIL 6, 2022

Dynatrace news. What is full-stack observability? Full-stack observability is the ability to determine the state of every endpoint in a distributed IT environment based on its telemetry data. Endpoints include on-premises servers, Kubernetes infrastructure, cloud-hosted infrastructure and services, and open-source technologies.

DevOps

DevOps Innovation Infrastructure Analytics

60 seconds to self-upgrading observability on Google Kubernetes Engine

Dynatrace

MARCH 23, 2020

Dynatrace news. Our procurement decisions were based on trace data that was pulled from a handful of fragmented monitoring solutions. Without this instant and self managed feedback loop, your team wouldn’t be able to measure its own success—at least not reliably when, for example, a new security patch is deployed.

Google

Google Engineering Metrics Hardware

Enhance data collection with Dynatrace OpenTelemetry Collector distribution

Dynatrace simplifies OpenTelemetry metric collection for context-aware AI analytics

Trending Sources

Kubernetes health at a glance: One experience to rule it all

Enable full observability for Linux on IBM Z mainframe now with logs

Security operations centers: How state governments can enhance cybersecurity posture

How AI and observability help to safeguard government networks from new threats

Enhance data collection with Dynatrace OTel Collector distribution

Automatic connection of logs and traces accelerates AI-driven cloud analytics

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

Open Observability – Part 1: Distributed tracing and observability

What is distributed tracing and why does it matter?

Kubernetes workload troubleshooting with metrics, logs, and traces

Observability vs. monitoring: What’s the difference?

Release readiness through AI-based white box resiliency testing with JMeter and Dynatrace

What is observability? Not just logs, metrics and traces

Automatic intelligent observability into Envoy-proxied services of your Istio service mesh (GA)

AWS observability: AWS monitoring best practices for resiliency

What’s the hype with hyperscale?

Observability platform vs. observability tools

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

Expanded Grail data lakehouse and new Dynatrace user experience unlock boundless analytics

Dynatrace named a launch partner of AWS Lambda Function URLs

Dynatrace adds support for AWS Transit Gateway with VPC Flow Logs

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

Kubernetes vs Docker: What’s the difference?

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

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

What is a service mesh?

Connect Fluentd logs with Dynatrace traces, metrics, and topology data to enhance Kubernetes observability

Managing hybrid cloud infrastructure with an observability platform

TTP-based threat hunting with Dynatrace Security Analytics and Falco Alerts solves alert noise

How OpenTelemetry can improve Observability and Monitoring

What is Google Cloud Functions?

Modern approaches to observability and monitoring for multicloud environments

What is distributed tracing and why does it matter?

Flexible, scalable, self-service Kubernetes native observability now in General Availability

Microsoft Azure observability enables full stack performance

Weighing a microservices approach means covering all architecture bases

A look behind the scenes of AWS Lambda and our new Lambda monitoring extension

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

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

Dynatrace earns top position in ISG Provider Lens™ Cloud-Native Observability Solutions Quadrant

What is full stack observability?

60 seconds to self-upgrading observability on Google Kubernetes Engine

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