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OpenTelemetry histograms reveal patterns, outliers, and trends

Dynatrace

Imagine you’re using a lot of OpenTelemetry and Prometheus metrics on a crucial platform. A histogram is a specific type of metric that allows users to understand the distribution of data points over a period of time. You’re gathering a lot of data, but you can’t make sense of it. What are histograms, and why use them?

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How executives reveal breakthrough insights into customer experiences with Dynatrace to accelerate business growth

Dynatrace

My goal was to provide IT teams with insights to optimize customer experience by collaborating with business teams, using both business KPIs and IT metrics. Automate smarter using actual customer experience metrics, not just server-side data. Using causal AI, we identified and resolved performance issues automatically.

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How to collect Prometheus metrics in Dynatrace

Dynatrace

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.

Metrics 246
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Power Dashboarding, Part I: Start your exploration journey with Dashboards

Dynatrace

Even if infrastructure metrics aren’t your thing, you’re welcome to join us on this creative journey simply swap out the suggested metrics for ones that interest you. For our example dashboard, we’ll only focus on some selected key infrastructure metrics. Click on Select metric. Change it now to sum.

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Time To First Byte: Beyond Server Response Time

Smashing Magazine

Time To First Byte: Beyond Server Response Time Time To First Byte: Beyond Server Response Time Matt Zeunert 2025-02-12T17:00:00+00:00 2025-02-13T01:34:15+00:00 This article is sponsored by DebugBear Loading your website HTML quickly has a big impact on visitor experience. But actually, theres a lot more to optimizing this metric.

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The road to observability with OpenTelemetry demo part 1: Identifying metrics and traces

Dynatrace

That is, relying on metrics, logs, and traces to understand what software is doing and where it’s running into snags. When software runs in a monolithic stack on on-site servers, observability is manageable enough. In addition to tracing, observability also defines two other key concepts, metrics and logs. What is OpenTelemetry?

Metrics 245
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Next-level interaction and customization of data visualizations in Dynatrace Dashboards and Notebooks

Dynatrace

You can use it to visualize CPU utilization across your hosts, disk space used, server-side response time, web request/service failure rates, or any other area where you need to spot outliers immediately. That way, you can compare multiple charts more easily, regardless of the metric or time span.

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