Dynatrace

JUNE 27, 2022

As businesses compete for customer loyalty, it’s critical to understand the difference between real-user monitoring and synthetic user monitoring. These development and testing practices ensure the performance of critical applications and resources to deliver loyalty-building user experiences. What is real user monitoring?

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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. The post Demo: Monitoring the OpenTelemetry demo app Astronomy Shop with Dynatrace Dashboards appeared first on Dynatrace news.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Dynatrace has recently extended its Kubernetes operator by adding a new feature, the Prometheus OpenMetrics Ingest , which enables you to import Prometheus metrics in Dynatrace and build SLO and anomaly detection dashboards with Prometheus data. Here we’ll explore how to collect Prometheus metrics and what you can achieve with them.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Take your monitoring, data exploration, and storytelling to the next level with outstanding data visualization All your applications and underlying infrastructure produce vast volumes of data that you need to monitor or analyze for insights. Based on the color, you immediately see if any SLOs are off track.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 4, 2021

As a result, API monitoring has become a must for DevOps teams. So what is API monitoring? What is API Monitoring? API monitoring is the process of collecting and analyzing data about the performance of an API in order to identify problems that impact users. The need for API monitoring. Ways to monitor APIs.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 13, 2022

Real user monitoring can help you catch these issues before they impact the bottom line. What is real user monitoring? Real user monitoring (RUM) is a performance monitoring process that collects detailed data about a user’s interaction with an application. Real user monitoring collects data on a variety of metrics.

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Dynatrace

JULY 11, 2024

Cloud-native technologies are driving the need for organizations to adopt a more sophisticated IT monitoring approach to satisfy the competitive demands of modern business. Often, these metrics are unable to even identify trends from past to present, never mind helping teams to predict future trends. Agility and innovation.

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

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Dynatrace

MARCH 5, 2025

Real-time monitoring : The periodic reports from cloud service providers lack real-time monitoring and actionable insights, limiting IT teams’ ability to make immediate adjustments to reduce carbon footprints. We implemented a wasted energy metric in the app to enhance practitioner actionability.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Automated AI-powered analytics are necessary to match the scale of monitoring these enterprises require. Our journey began in 2019 with the introduction of the Dynatrace Citrix monitoring extension. Listen, learn, improve, and repeat The latest update to the Citrix monitoring extension is now available.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 15, 2020

OpenTelemetry metrics are useful for augmenting the fully automatic observability that can be achieved with Dynatrace OneAgent. OpenTelemetry metrics add domain specific data such as business KPIs and license relevant consumption details. It has undergone security analysis and testing in accordance with AWS requirements.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 12, 2024

I realized that our platforms unique ability to contextualize security events, metrics, logs, traces, and user behavior could revolutionize the security domain by converging observability and security. Collect observability and security data user behavior, metrics, events, logs, traces (UMELT) once, store it together and analyze in context.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 26, 2022

Fast, consistent application delivery creates a positive user experience that can ultimately drive customer loyalty and improve business metrics like conversion rate and user retention. What is digital experience monitoring? Primary digital experience monitoring tools.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Synthetic testing simulates real-user behaviors within an application or service to pinpoint potential problems. Here’s a look at why this testing matters, how it works, and what companies need to get the most from this approach. What is synthetic testing? RUM, meanwhile, requires actual users.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 3, 2022

So, whenever your end users’ digital experience is bogged down by a problem, whether it’s the result of a synthetic test (browser and synthetic), mobile app monitoring, or web monitoring, your teams need to see the most pertinent information about the impact and the root cause at a glance.

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DZone

AUGUST 29, 2021

In this blog post, we’ll examine one such case where we use the Sentry JavaScript SDK to instrument Jest (which runs our frontend test suite) and how we addressed the issues that we found. We have high-level metrics for how well (or not) our CI is performing.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 16, 2021

Monitoring and observability are important topics for any developer, architect, or Site Reliability Engineer (SRE), and this holds true independent of the language or runtime of choice. Relevant infrastructure, operations and business metrics on a single Dynatrace dashboard for CARY. Dynatrace news. Guidance for Django.

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Dynatrace

MAY 8, 2023

With the world’s increased reliance on digital services and the organizational pressure on IT teams to innovate faster, the need for DevOps monitoring tools has grown exponentially. But when and how does DevOps monitoring fit into the process? And how do DevOps monitoring tools help teams achieve DevOps efficiency?

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Dynatrace container monitoring supports customers as they collect metrics, traces, logs, and other observability-enabled data to improve the health and performance of containerized applications. With VA’s heavy focus on security, the platform enables developers to incorporate security testing for applications during development. “In

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Log monitoring, log analysis, and log analytics are more important than ever as organizations adopt more cloud-native technologies, containers, and microservices-based architectures. What is log monitoring? Log monitoring is a process by which developers and administrators continuously observe logs as they’re being recorded.

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DZone

MAY 15, 2020

Now that you’ve deployed your code, it’s time to monitor it, collect data, and analyze your metrics. Without application performance monitoring in place, you can’t accurately determine how well things are going. The first step to gather this type of data is application monitoring. Your job is done, right? If so, where?

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Dynatrace

APRIL 30, 2021

As organizations develop more applications and microservices, they are discovering they also need to run more performance tests in the same amount of time or less to meet service-level objectives (SLOs) that fulfill service-level agreements (SLAs). How can organizations address this process bottleneck and run more tests in less time?

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Dynatrace

JUNE 11, 2019

To explore this issue, we asked participants the following question: Which of your teams have access to production monitoring data? Three quick conclusions: 1) More than 80% of the respondents claim that their Development teams have access to production monitoring data. Production monitoring data: The lifeblood of cross-talented teams.

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Martin Tingley with Wenjing Zheng , Simon Ejdemyr , Stephanie Lane , and Colin McFarland This is the second post in a multi-part series on how Netflix uses A/B tests to inform decisions and continuously innovate on our products. An A/B test is a simple controlled experiment. Some metrics will be specific to the given hypothesis.

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DZone

AUGUST 21, 2021

The responsibility of developers keeps growing, and as mobile apps get more complex, new tools for mobile performance monitoring and testing are being born. Speed, UX, availability, and frequency of updates are increasingly important with mobile apps. But this process usually takes a couple of weeks.

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DZone

JANUARY 16, 2024

Monitoring application and website performance has become critical to delivering a smooth digital experience to users. This directly impacts key business metrics like customer conversions, engagement, and revenue. To proactively identify and fix performance problems, modern DevOps teams rely heavily on monitoring solutions.

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DZone

JANUARY 7, 2021

As we look forward to 2021, Synthetic Monitoring continues to be as important as ever in understanding the performance of your app or website. But your synthetic monitoring is only as good as the tool you're using and there are a lot of product choices. Since selecting the best one for you is critical, the choice can be overwhelming.

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DZone

MAY 31, 2022

A website needs to be constantly tested and optimized to be in line with Google's web and SEO guidelines. Core Web Vitals is a key performance metric that analyzes the website's performance by investigating the data and provides a strategic platform to scale up the website's user experience. What Is Web Performance Testing?

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 25, 2024

You will need to know which monitoring metrics for Redis to watch and a tool to monitor these critical server metrics to ensure its health. Redis returns a big list of database metrics when you run the info command on the Redis shell. You can pick a smart selection of relevant metrics from these.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 14, 2023

The three strategies we will discuss today are AB Testing , Replay Testing, and Sticky Canaries. To launch Phase 1 safely, we used AB Testing. To launch Phase 2 safely, we used Replay Testing and Sticky Canaries. We knew we could test the same query with the same inputs and consistently expect the same results.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 5, 2022

Credits on content go to him and the work he has been doing around performance & resiliency testing automation. Our Application Performance Management (APM) and load test team at T-Systems MMS helps our customers reduce the risk of failed releases. Automation : Single load test executions can be repeated and tracked.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 4, 2019

To tackle this problem Christian experimented with automatically creating Dynatrace Synthetic Tests as part of his GitLab Pipelines. Create Synthetic Test : Query the readiness endpoint and ingress of the deployed service, then create a Dynatrace Synthetic Test through the Dynatrace Synthetic API.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 5, 2021

In today’s complex IT environments, the sheer volume of data created makes it impossible for humans to monitor, comprehend, or troubleshoot problems before they impact the experience of your end users. Recently, we simplified StatsD, Telegraf, and Prometheus observability by allowing you to capture and analyze all your custom metrics.

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Dynatrace

MAY 28, 2020

After a new build gets deployed and automated tests executed, SLIs are evaluated against their SLOs and, depending on that result, a build is considered good (promoted) or bad (rolled back). “ The app description and supporting files such as load testing scripts are on the Keptn Example GitHub. This is what this blog is all about.

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CSS Wizardry

OCTOBER 27, 2018

A lot of companies—even if they are aware that performance is key to their business—are often unsure of how, when, or where performance testing sits within their development lifecycle. To make things worse, they’re also usually unsure whose responsibility performance measuring and monitoring is.

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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. This blog post explores the Reliability metric , which measures modern operational practices. Why reliability? While it is powerful, it presents several challenges that affect its adoption.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 13, 2023

Our previous blog post presented replay traffic testing — a crucial instrument in our toolkit that allows us to implement these transformations with precision and reliability. By tracking metrics only at the level of service being updated, we might miss capturing deviations in broader end-to-end system functionality.

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