Observability
OpenTelemetry vs Dynatrace OneAgent: open standard or proprietary magic?
Understand the difference between OpenTelemetry's standardized manual instrumentation and the full automation of Dynatrace OneAgent.
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Observability
Dynatrace: management zones, segments and IAM policies
Management zones on the classic platform, segments on the new platform and IAM policies: what each is for (filtering or authorising), how to migrate and w…
Observability
Service types in Dynatrace: web, database, messaging, custom and unified services
What a service is for Dynatrace, the automatically detected service types (web requests, web services, databases, messaging, remote calls, unified service…
Observability
SLOs in Dynatrace: objectives, error budget and burn rate
SLI, SLO and SLA, error budget and burn rate: defining an availability or performance SLO in Dynatrace, tracking it, alerting on budget consumption and au…
Observability
Types of SQL statements: reads, modifications, procedures and transactions
Reads (SELECT), modifications (INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE, MERGE), stored procedures, schema definition and ACID transactions: what each type of SQL statement…
Observability
Dynatrace: analysing database statements (modifications, queries and procedures, transactions)
How Dynatrace captures database calls from the application, groups them into database services, classifies them (modifications, queries or procedures, tra…
Observability
Grail: the Dynatrace data lakehouse and the DQL language
Grail stores all Dynatrace SaaS observability data (logs, metrics, traces, events, entities) without an imposed schema. Buckets and retention, DQL queries…
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