This article will give you a quick overview of some of the key attributes you should know in order to get started with leveraging the OpenTelemetry collector for your next telemetry project. As an integral component of any project that involves distributed tracking, the OpenTelemetry Collector plays an important role. Simply put, it is helpful to know that the collector itself is a data pipeline service that collects telemetry data.
The Dynatrace platform is a software-driven monitoring platform that simplifies enterprise cloud complexity and accelerates the pace of digital transformation for enterprises. There are many top solutions on the market, but Dynatrace is one of the most popular for its ability to monitor both mobile apps and real users simultaneously. By offering a shared platform for understanding metrics, Dynatrace also helps developers, operations, and business teams improve performance.
Observability is one of the most critical ways to improve visibility and control over complex software systems. If you've ever wondered how observability differs from monitoring, then this guide will explain some of the key differences between these two popular concepts.
All the various systems in IT, from cloud infrastructures and servers to applications and wireless networks, are hubs for activity and traffic. One way administrators are able to keep an eye on the activity, current and past of their systems, is by keeping logs and analyzing them both in real-time and regularly.
As distributed environments become more complex, users often use distributed tracing tools to improve the visibility of issues evident within their traces. Throughout this post, we will examine some of the best open-source and other generally popular distributed tracing tools available today.
OpenTracing was an open-source project developed to provide vendor-neutral APIs and instrumentation for distributed tracing across a variety of environments. As it is often extremely difficult for engineers to see the behaviour of requests when they are working across services in a distributed environment, OpenTracing aimed to provide a solution to heighten observability.
There are numerous types of services and processes in place to make software development more accessible and efficient for programmers. One ready-for-launch service developers can access remotely is Function as a Service, abbreviated as (FaaS).
Prometheus is among the leading open-source metric-gathering and alerting platforms for managing metrics from microservices architectures. As Prometheus is such a popular choice in the cloud computing landscape today, we will explain how Prometheus metrics can be leveraged for observability.
Systems and applications alike have become progressively distributed as microservices, open-source tools, and containerisation have gained traction. In order to actively monitor and respond quickly to issues that arise in our environment, distributed tracing has proven to be vital for businesses such as Uber, Postmates, Hello Fresh and TransferWise. It is, however, important to clarify what distributed tracing actually means.
If you have any experience with comparing the leading tools in observability then it is very likely that you will have come across Splunk & ELK during your research. These two titans have provided a swiss army knife of useful tools to many developers, cybersecurity specialists and devops professionals over the years since their inception. In this guide, we’ll be comparing these two leading SIEM tools against each other to help you to decide on which solution will help your security use case.
