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

Dynatrace

Anyone who’s concerned with developing, delivering, and operating software knows the importance of making software and the systems it runs on observable. That is, relying on metrics, logs, and traces to understand what software is doing and where it’s running into snags.

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

Dynatrace

OpenTelemetry , the open source observability tool, has become the go-to standard for instrumenting custom applications to help software developers and operations teams understand what their software is doing and where it’s running into snags. We also introduced our demo app and explained how to define the metrics and traces it uses.

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

Dynatrace

In all seriousness, the shift-left mantra has shaken things up quite a bit in the tech industry, bringing a paradigm shift in how we approach software development. This has also somewhat shifted the burden of software quality, no longer confining it solely to the realm of QA teams. Why the sudden change in tune? Well, it’s simple.

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

Dynatrace

Making applications observable—relying on metrics, logs, and traces to understand what software is doing and how it’s performing—has become increasingly important as workloads are shifting to multicloud environments. We also introduced our demo app and explained how to define the metrics and traces it uses. Register now!

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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. I was an independent performance consultant and Sun Microsystems had just released DTrace, a tool that could instrument all software. He was kind enough to give me a quick demo anyway. You can't make this stuff up. I printed socketsnoop.d.

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

Dynatrace

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. The ability to scale testing as part of the software development lifecycle (SDLC) has proven difficult. Dynatrace news.

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What is AIOps? A Software Intelligence Approach

Dynatrace

If you want to dig deeper, we have some further readings below, and if you prefer to see that in action, I want to invite you to watch our webinar including a live demo. eBook: AIOps Done Right: Automating the Next Generation of Enterprise Software. Webinar Series: AIOps with Dynatrace software intelligence. Further reading.

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