Observability
Cloud SRE Agents and autonomous agents in Dynatrace
Entrust part of remediation to governed AI agents, from multicloud to incidents.
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DevOps
Observability, SRE and incident management for DevOps teams
Operate what you ship: metrics, logs and traces, golden signals, SLIs, SLOs and error budgets, actionable alerts, on-call, incident management, post-morte…
Observability
SRE: SLI, SLO and SLA explained simply
The fundamentals of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE): the difference between SLI, SLO and SLA, choosing indicators, number of nines and allowed downtime.
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SRE best practices: useful SLOs and respected budgets
Checklist for setting up SLOs that matter: choosing user journeys, realistic objectives, budget policies, burn rate alerts, reviews and culture.
Observability
Chaos engineering: principles, tools and practice with SLOs
A complete guide to chaos engineering: principles, steady state and hypothesis, blast radius, link with SLOs and error budgets, failure types, tools (Chao…
Observability
The error budget: making decisions with SLOs
Calculate and track an error budget, write an error budget policy and use it to arbitrate between new features and reliability.
Observability
Alerting on error budget burn rate (multi-window burn rate)
Why alert on burn rate rather than a threshold, and how to build the multi-window, multi-burn-rate alerts recommended by the Google SRE Workbook with Prom…
Observability
OpenTelemetry Collector: exporters (sending telemetry to backends)
Configure OpenTelemetry Collector exporters: OTLP gRPC/HTTP, Prometheus, prometheusremotewrite, Loki, debug, file, load balancing, TLS, authentication, re…
Observability
DevOps variants: understanding how engineering culture has evolved
Discover the different flavors of DevOps: DevSecOps, AIOps, NoOps, GitOps and FinOps. Understand their specifics and what they add to the original model.
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…
DevOps
The wall of confusion
The 'wall of confusion' is a metaphor often used in a DevOps context to describe the cultural, organizational and technical barriers between development (…
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