The OpenTelemetry Collector acts as a translation and routing layer that decouples application instrumentation from specific observability backends. Instead of a single version, it…
This article provides a step-by-step guide for configuring the OpenTelemetry Astronomy Shop demo application to use Dynatrace as an observability backend. It explains how to deploy…
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 …
Dynatrace’s OpenPipeline now enables the extraction of histogram metrics from existing spans and logs during ingestion, eliminating the need for manual service re-instrumentation. …
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…
The Model Context Protocol is transitioning to a stateless architecture, enabling remote MCP servers to function as scalable HTTP services that no longer require complex session ma…
To transform unreliable AI-generated code into production-ready software, organizations must move beyond simple prompting toward a multi-layered approach involving structured plann…
As autonomous AI agent architectures become increasingly complex, robust observability through OpenTelemetry is essential for diagnosing issues like hallucinations and performance …
New Relic’s hybrid agent facilitates an incremental transition to OpenTelemetry by allowing developers to use standard OTel APIs while leveraging existing New Relic APM infrastruct…
Dynatrace highlights its active leadership and significant contributions to key open-source projects, including OpenTelemetry, W3C Trace Context, and OpenFeature. By driving the de…
OpenTelemetry has officially graduated from the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), establishing itself as a stable, production-ready standard for observability. This milesto…
This article explains how New Relic represents errors through metrics and spans and highlights the importance of filtering non-actionable errors to prevent alert fatigue and inflat…