OpenTelemetry series: Anatomy of an OTel span
This article provides a detailed breakdown of the anatomy of an OpenTelemetry span, explaining its core building blocks such as context, name, kind, and attributes. It illustrates …
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Bring observability to SCADA systems in operational technology environments
Operational technology (OT) is critical for managing the physical infrastructure essential to society, such as power, water, and manufacturing, where system failures can have sever…
OpenTelemetry series: Understanding OTel traces and spans
This article explains how OpenTelemetry uses traces and spans to provide end-to-end visibility into the journey of requests within complex distributed systems like microservices an…
How Observability transforms vibe coding into AI engineering
To transform unreliable AI-generated code into production-ready software, organizations must move beyond simple prompting toward a multi-layered approach involving structured plann…
Cyber Deception with Koney and Dynatrace
Koney is an open-source Kubernetes operator that automates cyber deception by deploying "honeytokens," or decoy files, across a cluster to catch attackers during unauthorized acces…
How CISA BOD 26-04 is reshaping the vulnerability remediation approach
CISA’s new Binding Operational Directive (BOD) 26-04 mandates that U.S. federal agencies transition from using static severity scores to a risk-based vulnerability prioritization m…
Your Kubernetes cluster has a graph. Here’s how to interrogate it.
This article explores how Dynatrace Smartscape on Grail uses a traversable, typed graph to model Kubernetes environments, providing SREs with a unified data model for observability…
Beyond LLM-as-a-judge: Establishing LLM evaluations as a foundation for trustworthy agentic AI systems
This article explores how LLM evaluations provide a systematic framework for measuring the quality, accuracy, and safety of probabilistic AI models as they move from experimentatio…
The silent network killer: Preventing Azure SNAT exhaustion with Dynatrace
SNAT exhaustion in Azure is a networking failure that often masquerades as an application bug, causing intermittent service timeouts that are difficult to diagnose. Dynatrace’s Azu…
Dynatrace expands AI Coding Agent monitoring for Claude Code, Google Gemini CLI, Codex CLI, OpenCode, and GitHub Copilot SDK
Dynatrace provides a unified observability layer to help engineering teams monitor and manage the growing adoption of various AI coding agents, such as Claude Code, Gemini CLI, and…
Observability is a team sport
The author argues that observability should be treated as a shared responsibility across all engineering roles—including developers, SREs, and DevOps—rather than the task of a cent…
index4j: Open-source FM-Index for fast queries on compressed logs
The FM-Index is a data structure designed to provide both high compression and fast, flexible substring searching for large, static datasets like log files. The article introduces …