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The road to observability with OpenTelemetry demo part 1: Identifying metrics and traces

Dynatrace

In this OpenTelemetry demo series, we’ll take an in-depth look at how to use OpenTelemetry to add observability to a distributed web application that originally didn’t know anything about tracing, telemetry, or observability. These observations and insights are all far beyond what classic logging typically provides.

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The road to observability with OpenTelemetry demo part 2: OpenTelemetry configuration and instrumenting applications

Dynatrace

In the first part of this three-part series, The road to observability with OpenTelemetry demo part 1: Identifying metrics and traces with OpenTelemetry , we talked about observability and how OpenTelemetry works to instrument applications across different languages and platforms. php declare(strict_types=1); require __DIR__.

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Turbocharge Dynatrace App development with the new Visual Studio Code extension `Dynatrace Apps`

Dynatrace

The VS Code extension Dynatrace Apps is here to streamline your development process and simplify app building. Now you can easily query live data directly within VS Code using the Dynatrace Query Language (DQL). Re)Using queries within your app Once you are happy with your query’s result, you can easily use it in your app code.

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An Unbelievable Demo

Brendan Gregg

This is the story of the most unbelievable demo I've been given in world of open source. He was kind enough to give me a quick demo anyway. But I _did_ understand these tools, since I had coded similar functionality for my own DTraceToolkit. You can't make this stuff up. This gave performance analysts like myself X-ray vision.

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The road to observability demo part 3: Collect, instrument, and analyze telemetry data automatically with Dynatrace

Dynatrace

We also introduced our demo app and explained how to define the metrics and traces it uses. The second part, The road to observability with OpenTelemetry part 2: Setting up OpenTelemetry and instrumenting applications , covers the details of how to set up OpenTelemetry in our demo application and how to instrument the services.

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Code-level observability for Flutter apps drives great user experience

Dynatrace

When you set up user actions in your code, OneAgent automatically links associated web requests to those user actions. Additionally, it exposes API calls to the Flutter code and forwards these API calls to OneAgent for iOS/Android. Test Flutter monitoring with our demo app.

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The right person at the right time makes all the difference: Best practices for ownership information

Dynatrace

Dynatrace ownership functionality supports configuration-as-code via its proprietary Monaco (Monitoring as code) CLI or Terraform. An example can be seen in our platform engineering demo (If you want to try out the platform engineering demo, please look at this repository , where you can run the demo within GitHub codespaces.