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

Dynatrace

OpenTelemetry (also referred to as OTel) is an open-source observability framework made up of a collection of tools, APIs, and SDKs, that enables IT teams to instrument, generate, collect, and export telemetry data for analysis and understand software performance and behavior. What are the future plans for OpenTelemetry?

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Understanding the Power of Coefficient of Variation in Software Performance Testing

DZone

Most performance tools already report a bunch of them (e.g., which we have to review for our report; why add a new metric to the list? Actually, the Coefficient of Variation (CoV) stands out as a valuable metric to prove that your application will perform reliably under various conditions. average, min, max, percentiles.),

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What are quality gates? How to use quality gates to deliver better software at speed and scale

Dynatrace

Automating quality gates is ideal, as it minimizes manually checking and validating key metrics throughout the SDLC. By actively monitoring metrics such as error rate, success rate, and CPU load, quality gates instill confidence in teams during software releases. Fewer expensive fixes.

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Why business resiliency depends on unified observability and security

Dynatrace

trillion this year 1 , more than two-thirds of the adult population now relying on digital payments 2 for financial transactions, and more than 400 million terabytes of data being created each day 3 , it’s abundantly clear that the world now runs on software. With global e-commerce spending projected to reach $6.3

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Observability platform vs. observability tools

Dynatrace

With observability, teams can understand what part of a system is performing poorly and how to correct the problem. Observability is made up of three key pillars: metrics, logs, and traces. Metrics are measures of critical system values, such as CPU utilization or average write latency to persistent storage.

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Common SLO pitfalls and how to avoid them

Dynatrace

This demand creates an increasing need for DevOps teams to maintain the performance and reliability of critical business applications. Developing dashboards and spreadsheets to track SLO performance can be extremely useful for organizing and visualizing your SLOs and SLIs. But there are SLO pitfalls.

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Extending Vector with eBPF to inspect host and container performance

The Netflix TechBlog

by Jason Koch , with Martin Spier , Brendan Gregg , Ed Hunter Improving the tools available to our engineers to help them diagnose, triage, and work through software performance challenges in the cloud is a key goal for the cloud performance engineering team at Netflix.