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OpenTelemetry histograms reveal patterns, outliers, and trends

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Imagine you’re using a lot of OpenTelemetry and Prometheus metrics on a crucial platform. In this blog, we will focus on histograms and why to use them. A histogram is a specific type of metric that allows users to understand the distribution of data points over a period of time. What are histograms, and why use them?

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Transform data into insights with Dynatrace Dashboards and Notebooks

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In this blog post, we look at these enhancements, exploring methods for monitoring your Kubernetes environment and showcasing how modern dashboards can transform your data. Next, let’s use the Kubernetes app to investigate more metrics.

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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. What’s ahead in 2023.

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What is observability? Not just logs, metrics and traces

Dynatrace

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. If you’ve read about observability, you likely know that collecting the measurements of logs, metrics, and distributed traces are the three key pillars to achieving success.

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Demo: Transform OpenTelemetry data into actionable insights with the Dynatrace Distributed Tracing app

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In a recent blog post, we announced and demonstrated how the new Distributed Tracing app provides effortless trace insights. Conclusion In this blog post, we explored how the Distributed Tracing app can be harnessed to visualize data ingested from the OpenTelemetry collector to get an overview of application health.

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Power Dashboarding, Part I: Start your exploration journey with Dashboards

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In this blog series, we’ll guide you through creating powerful dashboards that transform complex data into actionable insights. In our next blog post, we’ll further enhance this dashboard with AI and increase its visual appeal and usability. To find the metric, go to the Explore section on the data tab.

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How to collect Prometheus metrics in Dynatrace

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Dynatrace has recently extended its Kubernetes operator by adding a new feature, the Prometheus OpenMetrics Ingest , which enables you to import Prometheus metrics in Dynatrace and build SLO and anomaly detection dashboards with Prometheus data. Here we’ll explore how to collect Prometheus metrics and what you can achieve with them.

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