Applying flame graphs outside of performance analysis

Flame graphs are commonly used for CPU performance analysis but have seen limited adoption outside of these use cases. The Observability team at Twitter utilized flame graphs to determine scaling factors contributing to increased metric ingestion for their time series database.
#FlameGraphs #Observability

Realtime monitoring of microservices and cloud-native applications with IBM Instana SaaS on AWS

The post discusses how customers are utilizing microservices architecture on AWS and seeking observability solutions to effectively monitor and manage their application performance in real-time, with IBM Instana being one such solution.
#microservices #AWS #observability

Announcing preview: Collect Syslog from your AKS nodes using Container Insights

Azure Monitor Container Insights now allows customers to collect Syslog from Linux nodes in their Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) clusters for improved observability and unified security. By collecting syslog natively using the Azure Monitor Agent, customers can easily store, query, and visualize their data using tools in the Azure Monitor ecosystem.
#AzureMonitor #ContainerInsights

Centralized Log Management Best Practices and Tools

Centralized logging is crucial for observability in modern infrastructure and applications, as it enables engineers to diagnose problems and understand user experiences by providing access to log data.
#CentralizedLogging #Observability #ModernInfrastructure

SLOs done right: how DevOps teams can build better service-level objectives

The blog post discusses the importance of service-level objectives (SLOs) for DevOps and SRE teams in aligning technical success with business objectives. It highlights the key components of a good SLO, SLOs to avoid, and offers advice on how to build better SLOs.
#DevOps #SRE

Optimizing Cost Per Tenant Visibility in SaaS Solutions

The post discusses the challenge of measuring resource consumption in SaaS solutions and offers insights on how to use this data to optimize SaaS architecture and make informed business decisions.
#SaaS #architecture

Dynatrace Managed release notes version 1.262

Dynatrace Managed release notes version 1.262 includes a new branding logo in Managed deployments and added support for Oracle Linux 8.7, 9.0, and 9.1. The release also contains information on future and past operating systems support changes.
#Dynatrace #Managed

Verify POST endpoint availability with Uptime Checks

Google Cloud Monitoring’s Uptime checks is a lightweight observability tool that enables application owners to easily monitor the performance of an application’s critical user journeys. The tool now supports POST requests with any content type, enabling comprehensive monitoring and response validation matching.
#GoogleCloudMonitoring #UptimeChecks

Preserving authorship in a GitOps world with Kyverno

The post discusses the challenge of identifying the author of Kubernetes resources in GitOps and suggests using Kyverno CLI to automate the process by assigning team names or individual owners as labels or annotations to the resources.
#GitOps #KyvernoCLI

Is Managed Prometheus Right For You?

Prometheus is an open-source tool used for collecting and monitoring metrics data. Its versatility and ease of use make it a popular choice for integrating with cloud-native systems.
#Prometheus #cloudnative

AppDynamics Cloud integrates with Grafana to add key metrics for dashboards

Cisco AppDynamics has created an open-source integration for AppDynamics Cloud customers to expand support and use cases for Grafana, making it easier to visualize data from AppDynamics Cloud with the dashboarding tool.
#Cisco #AppDynamics #Grafana

How to perform Error Analysis on a model with the Responsible AI dashboard (Part 4)

The post discusses the limitations of traditional performance metrics for machine learning models and emphasizes the importance of identifying error distribution in data to ensure model fairness and reliability. It introduces the Error Analysis component of Azure Machine Learning Responsible AI dashboard as a tool for identifying a model's error distribution across its test dataset.
#MachineLearning #ResponsibleAI

Splunk adds new security and observability features

Splunk is enhancing its Observability Cloud and Mission Control with new security and observability features that will aid in identifying threats and incidents more efficiently. The updates will provide IT and development operation teams with increased visibility, allowing for a unified approach to incident response.
#Splunk #ObservabilityCloud #MissionControl

Dynatrace Managed release notes version 1.258

Dynatrace Managed released version 1.258, which includes features such as the ability to check Mission Control connection status and a new cluster event message in case of a node's inability to receive OneAgent traffic. This release also updates the procedure to replicate nodes across data centers to make it easier and more resilient.
#DynatraceManaged #MissionControl #DataCenters

Break down the barriers to end-to-end monitoring with Dynatrace

Dynatrace has announced the release of cross-environment tracing, which allows businesses to trace individual distributed traces across multiple environments while still providing a comprehensive view. This new feature is designed to help reduce the restrictions of end-to-end monitoring.
#CrossEnvironmentTracing #EndtoEndMonitoring #Dynatrace

How the DoD’s Joint Warfighter Cloud Capability (JWCC) will Improve Mission-Supporting Cloud Performance and Security

The Department of Defense has launched the Joint Warfighter Cloud Capability, a series of contracts that provide enterprise cloud computing services to the DoD. It is not mandatory but will be the only vehicle through which authorized cloud offerings that handle unclassified data can be accessed.
#JointWarfighterCloud #DoD #CloudComputing

Tech Transforms podcast: Favorite episodes of the So What? Federal News Roundup from 2022

The Tech Transforms podcast, sponsored by Dynatrace, features interviews with influential government technology decision makers. The Dynatrace blog recently featured a roundup of the most popular episodes of the podcast from 2022.
#TechTransforms #Dynatrace #GovernmentTechnology

Set up AI-powered observability for your Microsoft Azure cloud resources in just one click

Dynatrace customers using the Azure Native Dynatrace Service can now integrate Dynatrace and Azure Monitor with just one click, enabling AI-powered observability of their complete workloads in Azure. The integration is automatically set up in the background with no further action required.
#Dynatrace #AzureMonitor #AIObservability

Beginner’s Guide to Prometheus Metrics

Prometheus has become a widely used open source monitoring tool in the last 10 years, due to its ability to easily collect system metrics and identify problems in cloud infrastructure and applications. Developed by SoundCloud, Prometheus was created to fill the need for more comprehensive metrics and monitoring solutions.
#Prometheus #CloudInfrastructure #Monitoring

Dynatrace SaaS release notes version 1.260

Dynatrace SaaS version 1.260 has been released, containing new features and enhancements such as on-demand synthetic monitor executions from any location and the ability to view any user action for mobile and custom applications.
#Dynatrace #SaaS #OnDemand

Visualize real-time mobile app data with the Embrace data source plugin for Grafana

Chakshu Mehta is a principal product marketer at Embrace, helping customers build amazing mobile app experiences by providing best-in-class mobile insights. Today, the introduction of a new Embrace data source plugin for Grafana enables teams to visualize and analyze Embrace mobile golden signal metrics directly in Grafana, allowing them to gain full-stack mobile app observability.
#grafana #mobileapp #mobileinsights

Dynatrace AppEngine: Everything thinkable is now possible

Dynatrace has revolutionized the analysis of observability, security, and business data at any scale with their introduction of Grail. Additionally, they have further expanded their platform capabilities with Dynatrace AutomationEngine and Dynatrace AppEngine, enabling customers to create custom, compliant, and intelligent data-driven apps.
#Dynatrace #Observability #Security

Extending modern observability for exploratory analytics

Modern observability has enabled teams to operate clouds more efficiently and securely, while an analytics platform provides exploratory analytics capabilities for data-backed decision making. This has the potential to drive better business results.
#ModernObservability #CloudOperations #AnalyticsPlatform

Super bot for Kubernetes clusters

Vishal Anand, Utpal Mangla, Saurabh Agrawal and Luca Marchi have created a Super Bot, an all-in-one messaging bot for monitoring, notifying and debugging Kubernetes clusters. This modern bot is based on open-source technology and can be used to monitor events and enable health checks across multiple public and private clusters.
#Kubernetes #SuperBot #OpenSource

AppEngine empowers organizations to create custom apps for better data insights

Modern observability platforms provide root-cause analysis and data insights, but AppEngine allows organizations to create custom apps for even more specialized data insights. AppEngine is a tool that helps organizations make the most of their data insights.
#AppEngine #DataInsights #RootCauseAnalysis