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What is observability? Not just logs, metrics and traces

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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. If you’ve read about observability, you likely know that collecting the measurements of logs, metrics, and distributed traces are the three key pillars to achieving success.

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Digital first, and always: Five critical metrics for measuring customer experience at federal agencies

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The five key metrics to improve customer satisfaction To help turn this around, Dynatrace makes available its unified observability platform, which captures all CX interactions and transactions in an automated, intelligent manner – including user session replays. When combined, key metrics will generate an accurate CX index score.

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What is? OpenTelemetry??An open-source standard for logs, metrics, and traces

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Loosely defined, observability is the ability to understand what’s happening inside a system from the knowledge of the external data it produces, which are usually logs, metrics, and traces. Logs, metrics, and traces make up the bulk of all telemetry data. Read eBook now! What happened to OpenTracing and OpenCensus?

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Observability vs. monitoring: What’s the difference?

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Monitoring focuses on watching specific metrics. Observability is the ability to understand a system’s internal state by analyzing the data it generates, such as logs, metrics, and traces. For example, we can actively watch a single metric for changes that indicate a problem — this is monitoring.

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What is cloud monitoring? How to improve your full-stack visibility

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These next-generation cloud monitoring tools present reports — including metrics, performance, and incident detection — visually via dashboards. This type of monitoring tracks metrics and insights on server CPU, memory, and network health, as well as hosts, containers, and serverless functions. Cloud monitoring types and how they work.

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What is full stack observability?

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A full-stack observability solution uses telemetry data such as logs, metrics, and traces to give IT teams insight into application, infrastructure, and UX performance. Check out the on-demand Power Demo, Dynatrace and Business Observability: Tying IT Metrics to Business Outcomes. See observability in action! Watch webinar now!

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What is an open ecosystem? How an ecosystem strategy delivers open source benefits

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In turn, this drives the need for increased integration of heterogeneous telemetry data such as metrics, logs, and traces, and intelligent awareness of context across disparate data types. These logs and metrics are distinct from the logs, metrics, and traces of individual components.