Synthetic monitoring vs. real user monitoring: Understanding best practices

Dynatrace news In today’s competitive business environment, customers demand seamless user experiences. As businesses compete for customer loyalty, it’s critical for organizations to harness tools that help them see how users interact with their services. ... more

Microservices vs. monolithic architecture: Understanding the difference

Dynatrace news As the pace of business quickens, software development has adapted. Increasingly, teams release software features more quickly to accommodate customer needs. As a result, organizations are weighing microservices vs. monolithic architecture ... more

Creating a seamless end user experience with an AIOps platform approach to DEM

Dynatrace news The ideal end user experience is friction-free: users can access available and functional applications how, when, and where they want. But how do companies ensure they’re delivering this level of omnichannel user experience? Obtaining ... more

Dynatrace SaaS release notes version 1.240

Dynatrace news See what’s new in the Dynatrace version 1.240. Announcements Session Replay masking v1 end-of-life Starting with Dynatrace version 1.240 or later, Session Replay masking v1 will no longer be supported. If your application uses the RUM ... more

How digital experience monitoring helps deliver business observability

Dynatrace news Fast, consistent application delivery creates a positive user experience that can ultimately drive customer loyalty and improve business metrics like conversion rate and user retention. Digital experience monitoring (DEM) allows an organization ... more

Dynatrace SaaS release notes version 1.239

Dynatrace news See what’s new in the Dynatrace version 1.239. Announcements TLS 1.0 and 1.1 end-of-support for RUM data Starting with April 2022, Dynatrace is retiring TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1 for Dynatrace SaaS RUM data. For more details, see TLS 1.0 and ... more

Dynatrace SaaS release notes version 1.233

Dynatrace news Dynatrace SaaS release notes version 1.233 Announcements TLS 1.0 and 1.1 end-of-support for RUM data Starting with April 2022, Dynatrace is retiring TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1 for Dynatrace SaaS RUM data. For more details, see TLS 1.0 and 1.1 ... more

What is real user monitoring (RUM)?

Dynatrace news A customer’s interaction with your online services sets the stage for their experience of doing business with you. If your digital experience is slow, unavailable, or difficult to work with, your risk of losing a customer to a competitor ... more

Enhance user experience with simple and easy-to-use session analytics

Dynatrace news We’re pleased to announce the release of enhanced User sessions pages with a new and improved workflow. Now, you can get insights into the dimensions that matter most to your customers and leverage quick searches, filters, and segmentation. ... more

Open Observability – Part 1: Distributed tracing and observability

Dynatrace news I lead a dedicated Dynatrace engineering team which has contributed to the OpenTelemetry project since its inception. My team holds a seat on the OpenTelemetry governance- and technical committee and maintains the project’s JavaScript ... more

How to ensure payment gateway problems don’t become business problems

Dynatrace news If you conduct business on the web, you’re likely dealing with multiple payment gateway providers. One single payment provider issue can undo HUNDREDS of hours spent optimizing the critical user journeys of your mobile or web applications, ... more

Optimize modern web applications with automatic insights into pages and page groups

Dynatrace news As one of the first platforms to tackle the challenges of monitoring Single Page Applications and Progressive Web Applications, Dynatrace is a pioneer in meaningful performance monitoring of modern web applications. Now, we’re happy to ... more

Business Insights extends support for optimizing Core Web Vitals

Dynatrace news In February 2021, Dynatrace announced full support for Google’s Core Web Vitals metrics, which will help site owners as they start optimizing Core Web Vitals performance for SEO. This is good news if you’ve been tasked with leading a Core ... more

Core Web Vitals: Practical metrics for optimal user experiences

Dynatrace news User experience now defines website success. Ben Rushlo, Dynatrace Vice President of DEM Services, puts it this way: “As performance degrades, user experience degrades, engagement degrades, and business outcomes degrade.” The solution? ... more

Common use-cases for AWS Lambda in the enterprise (and how to get observability for them)

Dynatrace news AWS Lambda is enormously popular amongst our customers and while it was once perceived as just a new toy for startups who wanted to be at the cutting edge of technology, we’ve seen that many enterprise customers are now adding Lambda functions ... more

What is Azure Functions?

Dynatrace news What is Azure Functions? Similar to AWS Lambda, Azure Functions is a serverless compute service by Microsoft that can run code in response to predetermined events or conditions (triggers), such as an order arriving on an IoT system, or ... more

What is synthetic monitoring?

Dynatrace news To give your customers a top-quality digital experience, it’s important to make sure your applications are always working properly. Synthetic monitoring can help to confirm your applications are performing as intended and, in the event ... more

Full support for Google’s Core Web Vitals improves your user experience and search rankings

Dynatrace news Particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic, we’ve seen how poor application performance can impact business bottom lines and lead to lost revenue for many organizations, as laid out in our recent blog post about digital experience. To provide ... more

Dynatrace Application Security boosts BizDevSecOps for Kubernetes

Dynatrace news After announcing our new Application Security Module in December, the fast adoption and great feedback we heard from customers confirmed the urgent need for a more automated approach to continuous runtime application security with full ... more

Business Analytics for mobile and custom applications enables advanced segmentation and BizDevOps collaboration

Dynatrace news Each interaction your customers have with your mobile app is a make-or-break opportunity for your business to drive lasting customer loyalty. Dynatrace is the only solution to capture the full visibility of customer experience across every ... more

What is serverless computing? Driving efficiency without sacrificing observability

Dynatrace news The phrase “serverless computing” appears contradictory at first, but for years now, successful companies have understood the benefit of using serverless technologies to streamline operations and reduce costs. Still, this model is not ... more

Automate configuration changes by leveraging the extended Real User Monitoring APIs

Dynatrace news If there’s one thing we’ve learned over the last few years, it’s that there’s an ever-growing need for automation in setting up and configuring your environments at scale. Our bigger customers have 100+ applications in a single monitoring ... more

DYOC: Agentless RUM, OpenKit, Metric ingest, and Business Analytics

Dynatrace news This year I wrote two open-source apps for Dynatrace users. As they gained in popularity, now hundreds of users each, so did the pace of new feature requests. So too did the risk of introducing bugs with all the rapid change. Wouldn’t ... more

OneAgent release notes version 1.207

Dynatrace news Rollout starts 15 December 2020 With this release, the oldest supported OneAgent versions are: Dynatrace ONE Dynatrace ONE Premium 1.189 1.183 Node.js Added support for Node.js 15 for Linux, Alpine Linux 64-bit (PPCLE) Added support for ... more

Announcing enterprise-grade observability at scale for OpenTelemetry custom metrics (Part 2)

Dynatrace news Welcome back to the second part of our blog series on how easy it is to get enterprise-grade observability at scale in Dynatrace for your OpenTelemetry custom metrics. In Part 1, we announced our new OpenTelemetry custom-metric exporters ... more

Announcing enterprise-grade observability at scale for OpenTelemetry custom metrics (Part 1)

Dynatrace news Today’s highly dynamic, heterogeneous, and complex software systems require organizations to establish observability for all provided cloud-native services. With observability across all these technologies, teams can quickly deploy high-quality ... more

OTel contributor Q&A: Dynatrace works to ensure enterprise readiness for OpenTelemetry

Dynatrace news The OpenTelemetry community is working hard towards a first GA release of the OpenTelemetry project. Reaching another milestone in their journey, last month the OpenTelemetry community announced the freeze and first release candidate of ... more

Gain broader applicability for Session Replay through easier, automated and GDPR-compliant masking presets

Dynatrace news Whether you run a multinational hotel group or a global ecommerce business, you need a 360-degree view of each end-user journey through your application to make sure that your customers have a perfect experience every time. With Dynatrace ... more

Find and analyze your web frontend errors faster

Dynatrace news In a world of accelerating deployment cycles, understanding and fixing web front-end errors quickly can make or break your business. For example, developers know that a JavaScript error can ruin the user experience of your web application, ... more

Keep track of thousands of environments from 20,000 feet

Dynatrace news In part two of this series, I showed how I‘m consolidating multiple Dynatrace API endpoints across my thousands of Dynatrace environments into one. The purpose of this consolidated API was mainly for being able to easily access a large ... more