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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. As teams begin collecting and working with observability data, they are also realizing its benefits to the business, not just IT. What is observability?

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How to Configure Custom Metrics in AWS Elastic Beanstalk Using Memory Metrics Example

DZone

Recently, I encountered a task where a business was using AWS Elastic Beanstalk but was struggling to understand the system state due to the lack of comprehensive metrics in CloudWatch. By default, CloudWatch only provides a few basic metrics such as CPU and Networks.

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The Next Frontier for Observability: Data Ownership With OpenTelemetry

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Observability is a mindset that lets you use data to answer questions about business processes.

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Dynatrace simplifies OpenTelemetry metric collection for context-aware AI analytics

Dynatrace

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.

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How a data lakehouse brings data insights to life

Dynatrace

For IT infrastructure managers and site reliability engineers, or SREs , logs provide a treasure trove of data. But on their own, logs present just another data silo as IT professionals attempt to troubleshoot and remediate problems. Data volume explosion in multicloud environments poses log issues.

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Effective Log Data Analysis With Amazon CloudWatch: Harnessing Machine Learning

DZone

In today's cloud computing world, all types of logging data are extremely valuable. Logs can include a wide variety of data, including system events, transaction data, user activities, web browser logs, errors, and performance metrics. This innovative service is transforming the way organizations handle their log data.

Analytics 278
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Upgrade to the Data explorer to level up your data visualizations and analysis

Dynatrace

As an industry leader, Dynatrace promotes primarily using software and AI to deal with this complexity at scale instead of just putting data on dashboards. Does that mean that reactive and exploratory data analysis, often done manually and with the help of dashboards, are dead? Why today’s data analytics solutions still fail us.

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