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What is observability? Not just logs, metrics and traces

Dynatrace

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. In a monitoring scenario, you typically preconfigure dashboards that are meant to alert you to performance issues you expect to see later. What is observability?

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DORA Metrics: Tracking and Observability With Jenkins, Prometheus, and Observe

DZone

DORA ( DevOps Research and Assessment ) metrics, developed by the DORA team have become a standard for measuring the efficiency and effectiveness of DevOps implementations. As organizations start to adopt DevOps practices to accelerate software delivery, tracking performance and reliability becomes critical. What Are DORA Metrics?

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How to Configure Custom Metrics in AWS Elastic Beanstalk Using Memory Metrics Example

DZone

Recently, I encountered a task where a business was using AWS Elastic Beanstalk but was struggling to understand the system state due to the lack of comprehensive metrics in CloudWatch. By default, CloudWatch only provides a few basic metrics such as CPU and Networks.

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Best practices and key metrics for improving mobile app performance

Dynatrace

Mobile applications (apps) are an increasingly important channel for reaching customers, but the distributed nature of mobile app platforms and delivery networks can cause performance problems that leave users frustrated, or worse, turning to competitors. What is mobile app performance? Some of the most important KPIs are listed below.

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Dynatrace simplifies OpenTelemetry metric collection for context-aware AI analytics

Dynatrace

The release candidate of OpenTelemetry metrics was announced earlier this year at Kubecon in Valencia, Spain. Since then, organizations have embraced OTLP as an all-in-one protocol for observability signals, including metrics, traces, and logs, which will also gain Dynatrace support in early 2023.

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14 Product Success Metrics to Measure Software Development Performance

DZone

This software makes the different tasks easier and allows for increased efficiency and performance. Development of any software is a tedious and long process, and it undergoes a series of quality and performance tests before its release and use. With the development in technology, the software gets upgraded with the latest updates.

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A Comprehensive Approach to Performance Monitoring and Observability

DZone

This is an article from DZone's 2023 Observability and Application Performance Trend Report. Overlooking the nuances of the system state — spanning infrastructure, application performance, and user interaction — is a risk businesses can't afford.