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

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 29, 2024

In this blog post, we’ll walk you through a hands-on demo that showcases how the Distributed Tracing app transforms raw OpenTelemetry data into actionable insights Set up the Demo To run this demo yourself, you’ll need the following: A Dynatrace tenant. If you don’t have one, you can use a trial account.

Metrics

Metrics Tuning Monitoring Availability

Demo: Monitoring the OpenTelemetry demo app Astronomy Shop with Dynatrace Dashboards

Dynatrace

MARCH 17, 2025

The OpenTelemetry community created its demo application, Astronomy Shop, to help developers test the value of OpenTelemetry and the backends they send their data to. Overview of the OpenTelemetry demo app dashboard Set up the demo To run this demo yourself, youll need the following: A Dynatrace tenant.

Monitoring

Monitoring Analytics Metrics Strategy

Running the Astronomy Shop OpenTelemetry demo application with Dynatrace

Dynatrace

MARCH 13, 2025

OpenTelemetry Astronomy Shop is a demo application created by the OpenTelemetry community to showcase the features and capabilities of the popular open-source OpenTelemetry observability standard. OTel Demo telescope image] The OpenTelemetry demo application is a cloud-native e-commerce application made up of multiple microservices.

Open Source

Open Source Metrics Architecture Infrastructure

Dynatrace KSPM: Transforming Kubernetes security and compliance

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Processes are time-intensive. Slow processes introduce risk. Continuous visibility and assessment provide platform engineering, DevSecOps, DevOps, and SRE teams with the ability to track, validate, and remediate potential compliance-relevant findings and create the necessary evidence for the auditing process. Reactivity.

Best Practices

Best Practices Benchmarking DevOps Efficiency

Running the OpenTelemetry demo application with Dynatrace

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 6, 2022

The demo has been in active development since the summer of 2022 with Dynatrace as one of its leading contributors. The demo application is a cloud-native e-commerce application made up of multiple microservices. OpenTelemetry demo application architecture diagram. By default, the demo comes with?Jaeger OpenTelemetry?community

Open Source

Open Source Metrics Tuning Technology

OpenTelemetry histograms reveal patterns, outliers, and trends

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 10, 2024

This self-monitoring aspect is crucial for maintaining the health and efficiency of the Collector itself, ensuring that it can handle the demands of large-scale data collection and processing without degradation. See this blog about exporting the data from the demo app to Dynatrace.

Metrics

Metrics Monitoring Efficiency Availability

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

Dynatrace

MAY 17, 2023

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 two bits are particularly important for context propagation , but more on that in just a second.

Metrics

Metrics Open Source Traffic Cache

Business Flow: Why IT operations teams should monitor business processes

Dynatrace

MARCH 12, 2024

The business process observability challenge Increasingly dynamic business conditions demand business agility; reacting to a supply chain disruption and optimizing order fulfillment are simple but illustrative examples. Most business processes are not monitored. First and foremost, it’s a data problem.

Processing

Processing Monitoring Analytics C++

Introducing Configurable Metaflow

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Scaling experiments with Metaboost bindingsbacked by MetaflowConfig Consider a Metaboost ML project named `demo` that creates and loads data to custom tables (ETL managed by Maestro), and then trains a simple model on this data (ML Pipeline managed by Metaflow). ' "scikit-learn": '1.4.0' cluster=sandbox, workflow.id=demo.branch_demox.EXP_01.training

Best Practices

Best Practices Cache Metrics Code

Build resilient IT systems and manage regulatory requirements with compliance and resilience capabilities from Dynatrace

Dynatrace

JANUARY 15, 2025

Smartscape topology visualizes the relationships between applications, services, processes, hosts, and data centers, highlighting problems and vulnerabilities. Workflows assembles a series of actions to build processes in graphical representations. Ready to try out compliance and resilience tools at scale?

Systems

Systems DevOps Analytics Monitoring

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

Dynatrace

MAY 17, 2023

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.

Metrics

Metrics Database Monitoring Network

Monitoring the OpenTelemetry Demo with Dynatrace Dashboards

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Dynatrace Dashboards provide a clear view of the health of the OpenTelemetry Demo application by utilizing data from the OpenTelemetry collector. Set up the Demo To run this demo yourself, you’ll need the following: A Dynatrace tenant. To install the OpenTelemetry Demo application dashboard, upload the JSON file.

Monitoring

Monitoring Metrics Availability Database

Using JSONB in PostgreSQL: How to Effectively Store & Index JSON Data in PostgreSQL

Scalegrid

JULY 17, 2020

JSON is faster to ingest vs. JSONB – however, if you do any further processing, JSONB will be faster. When the data is fetched, the reverse process “deTOASTting” needs to happen. PostgreSQL also provides a variety of Creation Functions and Processing Functions to work with the JSONB data. JSONB Indexes.

Storage

Storage Database Efficiency Availability

VMware Security Advisory VMSA-2025-0004: Quickly find, remediate, and automate

Dynatrace

MARCH 19, 2025

This combination allows a malicious actor with local administrative privileges on a virtual machine to execute code as the virtual machine’s VMX process running on the host. It allows a malicious actor with privileges within the VMX process to trigger an arbitrary kernel write, which can lead to an escape from the sandbox.

Virtualization

Virtualization Database Systems Operating System

Troubleshooting Knative Prometheus GC Issues with Dynatrace

Dynatrace

JULY 11, 2019

Keptn is currently leveraging Knative and installs Knative as well as other depending components such as Prometheus during the default keptn installation process. As I highlight the keptn integration with Dynatrace during my demos, I have rolled out a Dynatrace OneAgent using the OneAgent Operator into my GKE cluster.

Open Source

Open Source Metrics Monitoring Cloud

Beyond “Prompt and Pray”

O'Reilly

JANUARY 21, 2025

Your companys AI assistant confidently tells a customer its processed their urgent withdrawal requestexcept it hasnt, because it misinterpreted the API documentation. Its quick to implement and demos well. Each interaction requires multiple API calls, token processing, and runtime decision-making.

Software Engineering

Software Engineering Efficiency Engineering Systems

Unlock the power of contextual log analytics

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 2, 2024

How logs are ingested Dynatrace offers OpenPipeline to ingest, process, and persist any data from any source at any scale. OpenPipeline ensures data security and privacy—data is collected and processed securely and compliantly, with high-performance filtering, masking, routing, and encryption—and contextualizes incoming data in real time.

Analytics

Analytics AWS DevOps Cloud

ConsoleMe: A Central Control Plane for AWS Permissions and Access

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 10, 2021

This is an amazing movement providing numerous opportunities for product innovation, but managing this growth has introduced a support burden of ensuring proper security authentication & authorization, cloud hygiene, and scalable processes. This process is manual, time-consuming, inconsistent, and often a game of trial and error.

AWS

AWS Cloud Games Infrastructure

Generate security events from Dynatrace Security Investigator via OpenPipeline

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

OpenPipeline allows you to create custom endpoints for data ingestion and process the events in the pipeline (for example, adding custom pipe-dependent fields to simplify data analysis in a later phase). Go to the Pre-processing tab and add a new processor with the type Add Fields. ld):domain '.' Ready to give this a shot yourself?

Transportation

Transportation AWS Engineering Processing

How Dynatrace boosts production resilience with Site Reliability Guardian

Dynatrace

MAY 17, 2023

To ensure high standards, it’s essential that your organization establish automated validations in an early phase of the software development process—ideally when code is written. Ensure expected production behavior One Dynatrace team is responsible for the demo applications we use to demonstrate Dynatrace capabilities.

DevOps

DevOps Traffic Latency Best Practices

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

Dynatrace

MARCH 27, 2024

Secondly, knowing who is responsible is essential but not sufficient, especially if you want to automate your triage process. Sample workflow to automate Kubernetes workload optimization Security Vulnerability Processing Figure 8. Contact us to schedule a demo. These examples can be extended to cover similar use cases as above.

Best Practices

Best Practices Azure Database Code

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

Dynatrace

JUNE 6, 2024

The VS Code extension Dynatrace Apps is here to streamline your development process and simplify app building. The previously described process of generating a function for your query additionally produces a function named getQueryLogsByLevel , which returns the query along with the specified parameters. Sound familiar?

Code

Code Development Best Practices Efficiency

Simplicity meets power: Introducing the all-new Dynatrace Logs app

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Even more importantly, how was the error handled, and did the process end successfully for the customer? Only Dynatrace Grail is schema-on-read and indexless, built with scaling in mind and built for exabyte scale, leveraging massively parallel processing. Learn how Dynatrace can address your specific needs with a custom live demo.

Azure

Azure DevOps Infrastructure Cloud

Enhanced root cause analysis using events

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Getting the information and processes in place to ensure alerts like this example can be organizationally difficult. However, Dynatrace can often miss crucial pieces of the puzzle because humans haven’t told it about whole processes occurring on the “human” side of the environment. Offline processes.

DevOps

DevOps C++ Serverless Processing

Business observability and customer experience: A competitive edge for financial services

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Adding such business relevance is a simple process: For each user journey, identify the steps— key user actions —and conversion goal. Below shows an example from our demo app with the VoC session ID highlighted: User session details with VoC Session ID property. Build user journey funnels to represent these journeys. Watch webinar now!

FinTech

FinTech Metrics Website Monitoring

AWS serverless services: Exploring your options

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Amazon compute solutions are designed to streamline resource provisioning and container management with two services: AWS Lambda : Lambda provides serverless compute infrastructure that lets you run code in response to predetermined events or conditions and automatically manage all compute resources required for these processes.

Serverless

Serverless AWS Lambda Storage

Automate CI/CD pipelines with Dynatrace: Part 4, Validation stage

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Validation stage overview The validation stage is a crucial step in the CI/CD (Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment) process. These prolonged processes not only strain resources but also introduce delays within the CI/CD pipeline, hampering the timely release of new features to end-users.

DevOps

DevOps Metrics Engineering Analytics

4 steps to modernize your IT service operations with Dynatrace

Dynatrace

JUNE 30, 2020

We came up with list of four key questions, then answered and demoed in our recent webinar. Stephan demoed how avodaq internally leverages Dynatrace Synthetic. In the demo, Stephan showed the waterfall view highlighting issues in connectivity, bad HTTP requests or even JavaScript errors.

Lambda

Lambda Monitoring Cloud DevOps

Shift right in software development: Adapting observability for a seamless development experience

Dynatrace

APRIL 16, 2024

The shift-left approach aims to ensure bugs and other issues are discovered and addressed early in the development process, leading to improved software quality and lower costs associated with late-stage troubleshooting. This has also somewhat shifted the burden of software quality, no longer confining it solely to the realm of QA teams.

Development

Development Software Software Tuning

Escaping POC Purgatory: Evaluation-Driven Development for AI Systems

O'Reilly

MARCH 25, 2025

Someone hacks together a quick demo with ChatGPT and LlamaIndex. The system is inconsistent, slow, hallucinatingand that amazing demo starts collecting digital dust. Check out the graph belowsee how excitement for traditional software builds steadily while GenAI starts with a flashy demo and then hits a wall of challenges?

Systems

Systems Development Tuning Monitoring

Dynatrace ensures continuous software quality by combining synthetic monitoring and automatic release validation

Dynatrace

JUNE 28, 2022

Organizations can now accelerate innovation and reduce the risk of failed software releases by incorporating on-demand synthetic monitoring as a metrics provider for automatic, continuous release-validation processes. Request your Dynatrace Synthetic Monitoring and Cloud Automation demo, or integrate them into your SDLC directly.

Monitoring

Monitoring Software Software DevOps

Blown Away

O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Anthropic provides a demo as a Docker container, so you can run it safely. I won’t offer an opinion for investors or founders, but his process resonated with me immediately. That’s all useful information. Sam argues that this is the end of structured customer relationship management (CRM) software.

Google

Google Virtualization Website Artificial Intelligence

Unlock log analytics: Seamless insights without writing queries

Dynatrace

MAY 28, 2024

Open a host, cluster, cloud service, or database view in one of these apps, and you immediately see logs alongside other relevant metrics, processes, SLOs, events, vulnerabilities, and data offered by the app. See for yourself Watch a demo of logs in context within various Dynatrace Apps in this Dynatrace University course.

Analytics

Analytics Infrastructure Database Cloud

Perform 2020: Transform the way you work – Product update

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

During his demo, Andreas Lehofer, Dynatrace Chief Product Officer, explained that with this announcement, Dynatrace has now broadened our coverage of AWS and Amazon services, and how logs-to-metrics conversion extends the benefits of our AI-powered monitoring and the value we deliver to customers.

Performance

Performance Mobile Analytics Innovation

DevOps engineer tools: Deploy, test, evaluate, repeat

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Automated tools not only ensure consistency throughout workflows and streamline repetitive processes,but also support implementation of fast, efficient CI/CD pipelines that scale without manual intervention. Repeat the evaluation process after deploying and testing each new update or fix. How cloud automation can help.

DevOps

DevOps Engineering Testing Open Source

Empowering partners to drive customer success through Dynatrace SaaS migration

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Our partner community plays a vital role in facilitating this transition by effectively communicating the benefits of SaaS and ensuring a seamless migration process. Restart processes after the migration to ensure it has been fully completed. While the process may seem daunting, the tooling that is now available makes it much easier.

Innovation

Innovation Hardware Storage Cloud

The anatomy of the Spring4Shell vulnerability and how to prevent its effects—and those of similar vulnerabilities

Dynatrace

APRIL 14, 2022

Figure 3: HTML file of our demo app showing the variable ${message} mapped from our DemoObject. Figure 4: Demo web application, rendered with the user input “Hello to all!”. How the Spring4Shell vulnerability exposes Spring Framework apps to RCE exploitation. class.module.classLoader.resources.context.parent.pipeline.first.suffix=.jsp.

Java

Java Servers Code Open Source

Dynatrace Application Security boosts BizDevSecOps for Kubernetes

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Organizations are shifting towards cloud-native stacks where existing application security approaches can’t keep up with the speed and variability of modern development processes. When Dynatrace automatically detects a vulnerable library, it also identifies all processes affected by this vulnerability to assess the risk.

Java

Java Open Source Engineering Database

AWS observability: AWS monitoring best practices for resiliency

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

These frameworks can include break-points/debuggers and logging instrumentation, or processes, such as manually reading log files. To learn more about how Dynatrace manages AWS observability, join us for an on-demand demo, AWS Observability with Serverless. Watch demo now!

Best Practices

Best Practices AWS Monitoring Serverless

Build systems more reliably with Dynatrace: Chaos Engineering

Dynatrace

AUGUST 21, 2024

This approach enhances key DORA metrics and enables early detection of failures in the release process, allowing SREs more time for innovation. In the screenshot below, a chaos engineering scenario introduced latency and resource stress on the “easytrade” demo application. Why reliability?

Engineering

Engineering Systems Latency Metrics

End-to-end request monitoring for popular Python frameworks with OneAgent SDK

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

These things can make the instrumentation process difficult with a custom SDK. Sometimes, however, the codebase is just not a very good fit. Maybe there are external HTTP Calls in several different places, or dozens of different views with their own database calls. Introducing Autodynatrace. Add wrapper.djangoto the Django INSTALLED_APPS.

Monitoring

Monitoring Cache Open Source Database

Kubernetes workload troubleshooting with metrics, logs, and traces

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Dynatrace Davis , our deterministic AI, recently notified our teams about a problem in one of our Keptn instances we just recently spun up to demo our automated performance analysis capabilities orchestrated by Keptn. Like this unhandled exception leading to a crash of the process.

Metrics

Metrics DevOps Engineering Strategy

Uplevel production resiliency with automated problem remediation

Dynatrace

JULY 20, 2022

Process restarts (for example, JVM memory leaks) —Trigger a service restart or related actions for applications with underlying bug fixes that have been deprioritized or delayed. Reach out to us today for a demo. Then you can orchestrate the software development lifecycle and remediate issues automatically.

DevOps

DevOps Cloud Innovation Tuning

Best of breed observability with Spring Micrometer and Dynatrace

Dynatrace

AUGUST 17, 2023

We also use Micrometer to analyze ingest queue processing speed, which helps us make decisions about adding resources. We’ll demonstrate this with a demo Spring application, which uses the Spring Web and Dynatrace Micrometer registry, as shown below.

Metrics

Metrics Analytics Speed Java

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

Demo: Monitoring the OpenTelemetry demo app Astronomy Shop with Dynatrace Dashboards

Trending Sources

Running the Astronomy Shop OpenTelemetry demo application with Dynatrace

Dynatrace KSPM: Transforming Kubernetes security and compliance

Running the OpenTelemetry demo application with Dynatrace

OpenTelemetry histograms reveal patterns, outliers, and trends

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

Business Flow: Why IT operations teams should monitor business processes

Introducing Configurable Metaflow

Build resilient IT systems and manage regulatory requirements with compliance and resilience capabilities from Dynatrace

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

Monitoring the OpenTelemetry Demo with Dynatrace Dashboards

Using JSONB in PostgreSQL: How to Effectively Store & Index JSON Data in PostgreSQL

VMware Security Advisory VMSA-2025-0004: Quickly find, remediate, and automate

Troubleshooting Knative Prometheus GC Issues with Dynatrace

Beyond “Prompt and Pray”

Unlock the power of contextual log analytics

ConsoleMe: A Central Control Plane for AWS Permissions and Access

Generate security events from Dynatrace Security Investigator via OpenPipeline

How Dynatrace boosts production resilience with Site Reliability Guardian

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

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

Simplicity meets power: Introducing the all-new Dynatrace Logs app

Enhanced root cause analysis using events

Business observability and customer experience: A competitive edge for financial services

AWS serverless services: Exploring your options

Automate CI/CD pipelines with Dynatrace: Part 4, Validation stage

4 steps to modernize your IT service operations with Dynatrace

Shift right in software development: Adapting observability for a seamless development experience

Escaping POC Purgatory: Evaluation-Driven Development for AI Systems

Dynatrace ensures continuous software quality by combining synthetic monitoring and automatic release validation

Blown Away

Unlock log analytics: Seamless insights without writing queries

Perform 2020: Transform the way you work – Product update

DevOps engineer tools: Deploy, test, evaluate, repeat

Empowering partners to drive customer success through Dynatrace SaaS migration

The anatomy of the Spring4Shell vulnerability and how to prevent its effects—and those of similar vulnerabilities

Dynatrace Application Security boosts BizDevSecOps for Kubernetes

AWS observability: AWS monitoring best practices for resiliency

Build systems more reliably with Dynatrace: Chaos Engineering

End-to-end request monitoring for popular Python frameworks with OneAgent SDK

Kubernetes workload troubleshooting with metrics, logs, and traces

Uplevel production resiliency with automated problem remediation

Best of breed observability with Spring Micrometer and Dynatrace

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