Observability
Grail buckets in Dynatrace: creation, routing, retention, rights and costs
Complete guide to Grail buckets: purpose, default buckets, creation in Storage management, with the API or Terraform, routing with OpenPipeline, DQL queri…
Guides & insights
A library for curious minds
Observability
Fluent Bit: outputs, routing and delivery reliability
Send Fluent Bit data: routing with Match and Match_Regex, Loki, Elasticsearch/OpenSearch, OpenTelemetry, S3, Kafka, HTTP and forward outputs, retries, wor…
Cloud computing
AWS networking: VPC, subnets, routing and security
Design an AWS network: VPCs and CIDR ranges, public and private subnets, route tables, Internet and NAT gateways, security groups and NACLs, endpoints, pe…
Observability
ActiveGate and network zones: architecture, routing and high availability
Understand and deploy ActiveGate in Dynatrace: roles (routing, API, cloud integrations, extensions, private synthetic locations), Environment and Cluster …
Observability
Reducing, masking and routing telemetry with Bindplane
Reduce ingestion costs with Bindplane: severity filters, deduplication, sampling, field removal, sensitive data masking, routing to several destinations, …
Observability
Routing, grouping and receivers in Alertmanager
The Alertmanager routing tree: matchers, group_by, group_wait, group_interval, repeat_interval, continue, receivers (email, Slack, Teams, webhook, PagerDu…
Observability
Prometheus: alerting with Alertmanager (rules, routing, silences)
Set up Prometheus alerting: alert rules, Alertmanager, routing, grouping, inhibition, silences, Slack/email receivers and testing with promtool and amtool.
Observability
OpenTelemetry Collector: connectors, extensions and observing the Collector
Go further with the Collector: connectors (spanmetrics, servicegraph, count, routing, failover), extensions (health_check, pprof, zpages, file_storage, au…
Observability
Advanced logs with OpenPipeline: processing, masking, buckets and retention
Manage logs in Dynatrace with OpenPipeline: ingestion, routing, DQL processing (parsing, enrichment), sensitive data masking, metric and event extraction,…
Observability
Transforming with VRL and testing Vector pipelines
The VRL language (Vector Remap Language): parsing logs (JSON, regex, syslog), error handling, enrichment, masking, routing, converting logs to metrics, an…
Observability
Alertmanager: role, architecture and lifecycle of an alert
What Alertmanager does between Prometheus and your teams: deduplication, grouping, routing, silences and inhibitions, and the lifecycle of an alert from p…
Observability
Alerting best practices: Prometheus, Alertmanager and on-call
Checklist for effective alerting: symptom-based rules, severities, routing by team, noise reduction, high availability, tests and alert reviews.
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