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Catching up with OpenTelemetry in 2025

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

As an open-source project, OpenTelemetry sets standards for telemetry data sets and works with a wide range of systems and platforms to collect and export telemetry data to backend systems. Semconv for HTTP Spans quite possibly the most important signal have been declared stable, and HTTP Metrics will hopefully soon follow.

Tuning

Tuning Open Source Innovation Monitoring

Using OpenTelemetry and AI-powered observability to eliminate open source data silos

Dynatrace

APRIL 22, 2022

As a solution, teams often adopt open source observability tools like OpenTelemetry to gain situational awareness of their cloud-native environments. Open source observability tools help address cloud complexity. Using open-source tools to tame cloud complexity can lead to data silos.

Open Source

Open Source Metrics Cloud Tuning

Part 1: A Survey of Analytics Engineering Work at Netflix

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 17, 2024

DataJunction: Unifying Experimentation and Analytics Yian Shang , AnhLe At Netflix, like in many organizations, creating and using metrics is often more complex than it should be. DJ acts as a central store where metric definitions can live and evolve. As an example, imagine an analyst wanting to create a Total Streaming Hours metric.

Analytics

Analytics Engineering Entertainment Metrics

Simplify observability for all your custom metrics (Part 2: OneAgent metric API)

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Welcome back to the blog series where we provide you with deep dives into the latest observability awesomeness from Dynatrace , demonstrating how we bring scale, zero configuration, automatic AI driven alerting, and root cause analysis to all your custom metrics, including open source observability frameworks like StatsD, Telegraf, and Prometheus.

Metrics

Metrics Open Source Tuning Traffic

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. The configuration also includes an optional span metrics connector, which generates Request, Error, and Duration (R.E.D.)

Open Source

Open Source Metrics Architecture Infrastructure

Announcing enterprise-grade observability at scale for OpenTelemetry custom metrics (Part 2)

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

Welcome back to the second part of our blog series on how easy it is to get enterprise-grade observability at scale in Dynatrace for your OpenTelemetry custom metrics. In Part 1 , we announced our new OpenTelemetry custom-metric exporters that provide the broadest language coverage on the market, including Go , .NET record(value); }.

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Metrics Open Source Lambda Serverless

Announcing enterprise-grade observability at scale for your OpenTelemetry custom metrics

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

To ensure observability, the open source CNCF project OpenTelemetry aims at providing a standardized, vendor-neutral way of pre-instrumenting libraries and platforms and annotating UserLAnd code. New OpenTelemetry metrics exporters provide the broadest language support on the market.

Metrics

Metrics Open Source Tuning Analytics

Dynatrace partners with AWS to provide enterprise-grade, intelligent observability for custom OpenTelemetry metrics

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. Enterprise-grade observability for custom OpenTelemetry metrics from AWS. Dynatrace news.

AWS

AWS Metrics Analytics Government

Observability engineering: Getting Prometheus metrics right for Kubernetes with Dynatrace and Kepler

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 18, 2023

This challenge has given rise to the discipline of observability engineering, which concentrates on the details of telemetry data to fine-tune observability use cases. To get a more granular look into telemetry data, many analysts rely on custom metrics using Prometheus. What is Prometheus?

Metrics

Metrics Engineering Energy Tuning

Ingesting JMeter, temperature and humidity metrics: A Dynatrace innovation day report

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Dynatrace has recently enhanced its Metrics APIs, allowing everyone to send any type of metric with any set of data dimension to Davis, Dynatrace’s AI engine. For some of these tests, he’s using the open source tool Apache JMeter. For some of these tests, he’s using the open source tool Apache JMeter.

Innovation

Innovation Metrics Hardware Open Source

Enhance data collection with Dynatrace OpenTelemetry Collector distribution

Dynatrace

MARCH 15, 2024

This collector, fully supported and maintained by Dynatrace, is entirely open source. Understanding OpenTelemetry OpenTelemetry is an open, vendor-neutral standard for creating, collecting, and transferring telemetry data, like traces, metrics, and logs. So, stay tuned. Why do I need an OpenTelemetry collector?

Open Source

Open Source Best Practices Infrastructure Tuning

Tech Transforms podcast: Company Culture, Hyperautomation, User Experience in a Zero Trust World, and Security Metrics – June 2022 recap?

Dynatrace

JULY 14, 2022

We also explore how to improve user experiences within the Zero Trust framework and how to develop security metrics that eliminate DevSecOps bottlenecks. Tune in for Mark and Willie’s highlights and takeaways from the event. Episode 40 – Security Metrics: Measure Twice, Cut Once with Rick Stewart. Enjoy the summer break!

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Prometheus AWS Exporter and Grafana

DZone

MAY 1, 2023

The main purpose of this article and use case is to scrape AWS CloudWatch metrics into the Prometheus time series and to visualize the metrics data in Grafana. These tools give greater visibility other than collecting the metrics also, where we can set up critical alerts, live views, and custom dashboards.

AWS

AWS Open Source Tuning Metrics

Dynatrace simplifies StatsD, Telegraf, and Prometheus observability with Davis AI

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Open-source metric sources automatically map to our Smartscape model for AI analytics. We’ve just enhanced Dynatrace OneAgent with an open metric API. Here’s a quick overview of what you can achieve now that the Dynatrace Software Intelligence Platform has been extended to ingest third-party metrics.

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Open Source Metrics Analytics Tuning

Deliver secure, safe, and trustworthy GenAI applications with Amazon Bedrock and Dynatrace

Dynatrace

MARCH 12, 2025

Amazon Bedrock , equipped with Dynatrace Davis AI and LLM observability , gives you end-to-end insight into the Generative AI stack, from code-level visibility and performance metrics to GenAI-specific guardrails. Send unified data to Dynatrace for analysis alongside your logs, metrics, and traces.

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Metrics Serverless Analytics Innovation

Toward a Better Quality Metric for the Video Community

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 7, 2020

VMAF is a video quality metric that Netflix jointly developed with a number of university collaborators and open-sourced on Github. Since its open-sourcing, we have started seeing VMAF being applied in a wider scope within the open-source community. animation vs. documentary).

Metrics

Metrics Open Source Tuning Speed

Why applying chaos engineering to data-intensive applications matters

Dynatrace

MAY 23, 2024

This high level of abstraction is provided by industry-grade, open source stream processing frameworks such as Kafka Streams , Apache Flink , and Spark Structured Streaming. Failures are injected using Chaos Mesh , an open source chaos engineering platform integrated with Kubernetes deployment.

Engineering

Engineering Tuning Latency Open Source

RabbitMQ vs. Kafka: Key Differences

Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

RabbitMQ is an open-source message broker that supports multiple messaging protocols , including AMQP, STOMP, MQTT, and RabbitMQ Streams. Apache Kafka is an open-source event streaming platform for high-volume, event-driven data processing. What is RabbitMQ? What is Apache Kafka?

Latency

Latency Analytics Architecture Storage

Kubernetes vs Docker: What’s the difference?

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Docker Engine is built on top containerd , the leading open-source container runtime, a project of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (DNCF). Kubernetes is an open-source container orchestration platform for managing, automating, and scaling containerized applications. Here the overlap with Kubernetes begins.

Open Source

Open Source DevOps Traffic Cloud

Running the OpenTelemetry demo application with Dynatrace

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 6, 2022

OpenTelemetry is an exciting open source observability standard that provides a common collection of tools, APIs, and SDKs to help collect observability signals. Jaeger and Prometheus backends for displaying the collected traces and metrics, but you can easily configure alternative backends. Dynatrace metrics exporter ?

Open Source

Open Source Metrics Tuning Technology

Observability throughout the software development lifecycle increases delivery performance

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 4, 2024

Similar to the observability desired for a request being processed by your digital services, it’s necessary to comprehend the metrics, traces, logs, and events associated with a code change from development through to production. Stay tuned Currently, the API allows for the configuration of an event processing pipeline.

Software

Software Software Development Performance

Software intelligence as code enables tailored observability, AIOps, and application security at scale

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Modern infrastructure needs to be elastic and GitOps approaches are used to automate the provisioning of infrastructure and applications using Git, an open-source control system that provides the change processes including reviews and approvals. Dynatrace enables software intelligence as code.

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Code Software Software DevOps

Dynatrace extends automatic and intelligent observability to cloud and Kubernetes logs for smarter automation at scale

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Every service and component exposes observability data (metrics, logs, and traces) that contains crucial information to drive digital businesses. The “three pillars of observability,” metrics, logs, and traces, still don’t tell the whole story. Native support for open-source log data frameworks, Fluentd and Logstash.

Cloud

Cloud Azure Analytics Open Source

Python at Netflix

The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 29, 2019

We use and contribute to many open-source Python packages, some of which are mentioned below. One example is the Spectator Python client library, a library for instrumenting code to record dimensional time series metrics. Our Infrastructure Security team leverages Python to help with IAM permission tuning using Repokid.

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Open Source Network Infrastructure Big Data

OpenTelemetry 101: A nontechnical guide for IT leaders and enthusiasts

Dynatrace

JULY 22, 2024

OpenTelemetry is an open source observability project that encompasses a set of APIs, libraries, agents, and instrumentation standards. Observability Observability is the ability to determine a system’s health by analyzing the data it generates, such as logs, metrics, and traces. What is OpenTelemetry?

Latency

Latency Best Practices Metrics Open Source

OTel contributor Q&A: Dynatrace works to ensure enterprise readiness for OpenTelemetry

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

With the arrival of this release candidate (RC), the community’s focus now shifts to providing tracing RC component releases, as well as producing a metrics specification RC. We at Dynatrace understand the importance of contributing our expertise in enterprise-grade intelligent observability to the open source community.

Open Source

Open Source Software Engineering Government Java

Part 1: How Dynatrace and GitHub help you deliver better software faster

Dynatrace

AUGUST 16, 2021

Automatically collect and evaluate business, service, and architectural indicator metrics to promote or roll back deployments. Microsoft’s GitHub is the largest open-source software community in the world with millions of open-source projects. SLO validation – ?Automatically Topics in this blog series.

Software

Software Software Open Source Azure

Telltale: Netflix Application Monitoring Simplified

The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 13, 2020

A metric crossed a threshold. You’re half awake and wondering, “Is there really a problem or is this just an alert that needs tuning? Telltale learns what constitutes typical health for an application, no alert tuning required. Metrics are a key part of understanding application health. Client metrics and QoE changes.

Monitoring

Monitoring Tuning Traffic Metrics

Bringing AV1 Streaming to Netflix Members’ TVs

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

The Android launch leveraged the open-source software decoder dav1d built by the VideoLAN, VLC, and FFmpeg communities and sponsored by AOMedia. Netflix has also partnered with YouTube to develop an open-source solution for an AV1 decoder on game consoles that utilizes the additional power of GPUs.

Media

Media Open Source Software Engineering Efficiency

Data lakehouse innovations advance the three pillars of observability for more collaborative analytics

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

The short answer: The three pillars of observability—logs, metrics, and traces—converging on a data lakehouse. You’re getting all the architectural benefits of Grail—the petabytes, the cardinality—with this implementation,” including the three pillars of observability: logs, metrics, and traces in context.

Analytics

Analytics Innovation Metrics Database

OpenTelemetry services analysis and endpoint detection made easier with Dynatrace unified services

Dynatrace

JANUARY 4, 2024

Great news: OpenTelemetry endpoint detection, analyzing OpenTelemetry services, and visualizing Istio service mesh metrics just got easier. As a CNCF open source incubating project, OpenTelemetry provides a standardized set of APIs, libraries, agents, instrumentation, and specifications for logging, metrics, and tracing.

Metrics

Metrics Open Source Tuning Infrastructure

Accelerate your cloud journey with Dynatrace observability for AWS S3 logs

Dynatrace

JUNE 27, 2023

Logs complement metrics and enable automation Cloud practitioners agree that observability, security, and automation go hand in hand. Logs complement out-of-the-box metrics and enable automated actions for responding to availability, security, and other service events. Or explore the recently introduced support for AWS Lambda logs.

AWS

AWS Cloud Lambda Analytics

Enhancing Kubernetes cluster management key to platform engineering success

Dynatrace

MARCH 29, 2024

As organizations continue to modernize their technology stacks, many turn to Kubernetes , an open source container orchestration system for automating software deployment, scaling, and management. ” First, Akamas collects metrics, then recommends configuration improvements and applies these recommendations.

Engineering

Engineering DevOps Operating System Open Source

Kubernetes made simple? Kelsey Hightower and Andreas Grabner discuss the future of cloud-native technologies

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

And if you have other tools, like the open-source systems monitoring toolkit, Prometheus , you need a solution to make sense of all the data in context. If you’re going to have an SLO, you should have a story in mind of why you’re setting up all these alerts and collecting all these metrics.

Technology

Technology Technology Cloud Infrastructure

10 tips for migrating from monolith to microservices

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 2, 2023

End-to-end observability starts with tracking logs, metrics, and traces of all the components, providing a better understanding of service relationships and application dependencies. Many organizations also find it useful to use an open source observability tool, such as OpenTelemetry.

Architecture

Architecture Artificial Intelligence Cloud Open Source

Unbundling the Graph in GraphRAG

O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Also, in place of expensive retraining or fine-tuning for an LLM, this approach allows for quick data updates at low cost. See the primary sources “ REALM: Retrieval-Augmented Language Model Pre-Training ” by Kelvin Guu, et al., The haphazard results may be entertaining, although not quite based in fact. at Facebook—both from 2020.

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Open Source Entertainment Database Healthcare

A three-step implementation guide to answer-driven SLO-based release validation

Dynatrace

JULY 16, 2021

The innovative technology powering these recent and future use cases comes from Keptn , our recognized CNCF open-source project. If you want more information on Keptn, then I suggest joining the Keptn Open Source community and help us drive innovation that benefits both the open-source project and Dynatrace Cloud Automation Solution.

DevOps

DevOps Open Source Cloud Azure

5 SRE best practices you can implement today

Dynatrace

JULY 6, 2022

Organizations that have achieved SRE maturity have a better handle on the state of their infrastructure, the ability to tie reliability metrics more tightly to business objectives, and the means to ensure a consistent and responsive customer experience. Design, implement, and tune effective SLOs.

Best Practices

Best Practices Open Source Tuning Infrastructure

Dynatrace Cloud Automation Module provides observability-driven automation across the full lifecycle

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Over the past few years, Dynatrace has been a keen voice in the field of DevOps and provided enterprise knowledge and expertise in the shape of Keptn, the open-source, cloud-native, lifecycle orchestration control plane developed as a CNCF sandbox project. What’s next.

Cloud

Cloud DevOps Speed Metrics

Business Observability and Optimization through Apache Kafka and Dynatrace

Dynatrace

APRIL 20, 2022

We wanted to expand and provide business process metrics (# of total orders per restaurant, orders canceled ratios, time per order, ingredients in or out of stock …) to quickly react to any issues and also get automatically alerted on anomalies. To do that our developers use frameworks such as Micrometer to expose their own metrics (e.g.:

Metrics

Metrics Mobile Internet Internet

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

Dynatrace

MAY 17, 2023

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.

Metrics

Metrics Database Monitoring Network

Apply AI easily and drive automation at scale with the new Dynatrace Software Intelligence Hub

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

All technologies and extensions provide or permit additional contexts, like user sessions and experience, interdependencies between components, or code-level information in addition to the three pillars of observability (traces, metrics, and logs). So please stay tuned for updates. .

Software

Software Software Technology Technology

Successful Kubernetes Monitoring – Three Pitfalls to Avoid

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

In order to accomplish this, one of the key strategies many organizations utilize is an open source Kubernetes environment, which helps build, deliver, and scale containerized Cloud Native applications. Today, most thought-leaders break down Observability into three pillars; metrics, distributed traces and logs.

Monitoring

Monitoring Cloud Metrics Code

Unlock end-to-end observability insights with Dynatrace PurePath 4 seamless integration of OpenTracing for Java

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Dynatrace is fully committed to the OpenTelemetry community and to the seamless integration of OpenTelemetry data , including ingestion of custom metrics , into the Dynatrace open analytics platform. Stay tuned for upcoming announcements around OpenTracing and OpenTelemetry. What’s next?

Java

Java Traffic Architecture Strategy

Catching up with OpenTelemetry in 2025

Using OpenTelemetry and AI-powered observability to eliminate open source data silos

Trending Sources

Part 1: A Survey of Analytics Engineering Work at Netflix

Simplify observability for all your custom metrics (Part 2: OneAgent metric API)

Running the Astronomy Shop OpenTelemetry demo application with Dynatrace

Announcing enterprise-grade observability at scale for OpenTelemetry custom metrics (Part 2)

Announcing enterprise-grade observability at scale for your OpenTelemetry custom metrics

Dynatrace partners with AWS to provide enterprise-grade, intelligent observability for custom OpenTelemetry metrics

Observability engineering: Getting Prometheus metrics right for Kubernetes with Dynatrace and Kepler

Ingesting JMeter, temperature and humidity metrics: A Dynatrace innovation day report

Enhance data collection with Dynatrace OpenTelemetry Collector distribution

Tech Transforms podcast: Company Culture, Hyperautomation, User Experience in a Zero Trust World, and Security Metrics – June 2022 recap?

Prometheus AWS Exporter and Grafana

Dynatrace simplifies StatsD, Telegraf, and Prometheus observability with Davis AI

Deliver secure, safe, and trustworthy GenAI applications with Amazon Bedrock and Dynatrace

Toward a Better Quality Metric for the Video Community

Why applying chaos engineering to data-intensive applications matters

RabbitMQ vs. Kafka: Key Differences

Kubernetes vs Docker: What’s the difference?

Running the OpenTelemetry demo application with Dynatrace

Observability throughout the software development lifecycle increases delivery performance

Software intelligence as code enables tailored observability, AIOps, and application security at scale

Dynatrace extends automatic and intelligent observability to cloud and Kubernetes logs for smarter automation at scale

Python at Netflix

OpenTelemetry 101: A nontechnical guide for IT leaders and enthusiasts

OTel contributor Q&A: Dynatrace works to ensure enterprise readiness for OpenTelemetry

Part 1: How Dynatrace and GitHub help you deliver better software faster

Telltale: Netflix Application Monitoring Simplified

Bringing AV1 Streaming to Netflix Members’ TVs

Data lakehouse innovations advance the three pillars of observability for more collaborative analytics

OpenTelemetry services analysis and endpoint detection made easier with Dynatrace unified services

Accelerate your cloud journey with Dynatrace observability for AWS S3 logs

Enhancing Kubernetes cluster management key to platform engineering success

Kubernetes made simple? Kelsey Hightower and Andreas Grabner discuss the future of cloud-native technologies

10 tips for migrating from monolith to microservices

Unbundling the Graph in GraphRAG

A three-step implementation guide to answer-driven SLO-based release validation

5 SRE best practices you can implement today

Dynatrace Cloud Automation Module provides observability-driven automation across the full lifecycle

Business Observability and Optimization through Apache Kafka and Dynatrace

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

Apply AI easily and drive automation at scale with the new Dynatrace Software Intelligence Hub

Successful Kubernetes Monitoring – Three Pitfalls to Avoid

Unlock end-to-end observability insights with Dynatrace PurePath 4 seamless integration of OpenTracing for Java

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