Distributed Tracing with Dynatrace

Distributed tracing is all about seeing how different services are connected and how your requests flow through those different services. It allows for the finding of cause-effect relationships between events, for instance, identifying which user action in a browser caused a failure in the business logic layer. Distributed tracing has been a core component in Dynatrace from the very beginning and allows for powerful analytics.
In this Performance Clinic; Sonja Chevre, Technical Product Manager at Dynatrace, will look at how Dynatrace automatically traces transactions between services for most technologies and what value we get out-of-it. We will discuss the challenges of distributed tracing in today’s highly dynamic microservices and cloud-based environment:
How can you trace through a cloud service?
What if Dynatrace doesn’t support your framework or technology out-of-the-box?
We will show you with a practical example how W3C trace context support and the OneAgent SDK can help.
Ultimately we will discuss our plans around OpenTelemetry.

[@user-gx1sd6qr7s]

Thanks for the video explaining detailed view of distributed traces. And, how did you add easytravel journey ID or journey ID?

[@stephentittel4742]

Interesting from around 26:00. What happens if you have loose ends somewhere? We just starting to look at it if we can connect ELK APM to Dynatrace APM. I read that ELK APM supports the open trace header. So we will see if the end 2 end tracing is complete or not.

[@stephentittel4742]

The same for the open source Mirth messaging system, used in health care sector. I will let you know what the outcome is.

[@stephentittel4742]

Is it possible to add the links in the description?

[@kucera_jan]

Can you link the Davis video, please? There are several but either too broad or too specific.

[@grabnerandi]

Hi. I have a couple of other videos that explain the anomaly detection, the baselining and root cause analysis. Here are a few links - if you need anything else let me know: kzbin.info/www/bejne/jmSYlJ6sopWceJY, kzbin.info/www/bejne/hIfYmoethL57h6M, kzbin.info/www/bejne/gHzPhIyfp6eJn6c

[@kucera_jan]

@@grabnerandi Thank you!