Unleash the Power of Distributed Traces - Understanding and Analyzing Traces with Dynatrace

This 33-minute video tutorial explores how distributed traces help architects, SREs, and performance engineers understand and optimize complex distributed systems. Join Christoph Neumueller, senior principal Product Architect at Dynatrace, as he explains the fundamental concepts of spans, requests, and traces, and demonstrates how to analyze them effectively. Learn how Dynatrace connects all observability signals through DQL (Dynatrace Query Language), allowing for advanced analytics by combining traces with logs, metrics, and topology data. The tutorial covers the anatomy of traces, analyzing individual traces in Dynatrace, understanding different span types, executing queries on requests and database calls, extracting timeseries from traces, and connecting traces with logs and topology information. Perfect for those looking to leverage OpenTelemetry in cloud-native environments and enhance their observability capabilities.