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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. As for logs, the OpenTelemetry group is currently still working on stable implementations.

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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. Register now!

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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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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. It worked for most TCP traffic types but not others, which I warned about in the script comments. You can't make this stuff up. It was 2005, and I felt like I was in the eye of a hurricane.

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Troubleshooting Knative Prometheus GC Issues with Dynatrace

Dynatrace

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. based sample service in a staging and production namespace, a Jenkins instance and execute some moderate load to “simulate constant production traffic”.

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How Dynatrace boosts production resilience with Site Reliability Guardian

Dynatrace

Ensure expected production behavior One Dynatrace team is responsible for the demo applications we use to demonstrate Dynatrace capabilities. We use monitored demo applications to deliver constant load and a defined set of business transactions. The functionality is implemented via an automated workflow.

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Dynatrace adds support for VPC Flow Logs to Kinesis Data Firehose

Dynatrace

VPC Flow Logs is an Amazon service that enables IT pros to capture information about the IP traffic that traverses network interfaces in a virtual private cloud, or VPC. By default, each record captures a network internet protocol (IP), a destination, and the source of the traffic flow that occurs within your environment.

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