Knowledge Base

Guides, references, and how-tos for getting the most out of your observability stack.

Getting Started

Your first observability audit: what to expect

A walkthrough of the audit process, deliverables, and how we prioritize findings.

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Onboarding checklist: what to prepare before kickoff

The access, documentation, and team availability you'll need to hit the ground running.

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How to invite your team to the monitoring platform

Role-based access setup in Dynatrace and Catchpoint for your engineers and stakeholders.

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Reading your first ObserveOps health report

How to interpret the weekly health summary we deliver to all clients.

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OpenTelemetry

Getting started with the OTel Collector

Deploying and configuring the OpenTelemetry Collector for your environment.

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Instrumenting a Node.js service with OTel

Auto and manual instrumentation for Express and Fastify applications.

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Tail-based sampling to reduce ingest costs

Configuring intelligent sampling policies that keep signal without the noise.

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Exporting traces to Dynatrace via OTLP

Configuring the OTLP exporter and validating trace delivery end-to-end.

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APM & Performance

Setting up Dynatrace OneAgent on Kubernetes

Namespace configuration, resource limits, and injection strategies for containerized workloads.

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Configuring service-level indicators (SLIs)

Defining SLIs that map to business outcomes rather than infrastructure metrics.

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Reducing alert fatigue with Davis AI baseline tuning

Working with Davis anomaly detection to reduce false positives by 60%+.

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Service maps: making sense of your microservices

Using Smartscape and service maps to visualize dependencies and identify bottlenecks.

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Synthetic Monitoring

Your first Catchpoint synthetic monitor

Creating and validating a basic availability check for your primary user flows.

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GitOps-driven synthetic monitoring with Catchpoint

Managing synthetic tests as code in your CI/CD pipeline.

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Multi-region monitoring: choosing your node strategy

Selecting the right mix of global nodes for your user geography.

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Writing resilient Playwright synthetic tests

Best practices for synthetic scripts that don't break on minor UI changes.

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AI Observability

Monitoring LLM latency and token costs

Instrumenting your LLM calls to track latency, cost per request, and model performance.

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Detecting hallucinations with observability signals

Practical metrics and logs strategies for surfacing model quality issues in production.

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Integrating LangSmith with your OTel pipeline

Connecting LangChain traces to your observability platform for unified visibility.

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Alerting on LLM error rates and timeouts

Configuring actionable alerts without drowning in model-level noise.

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Billing & Plans

How to upgrade or change your plan

Step-by-step guide to requesting a plan change and understanding proration.

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Understanding your monthly invoice

Breaking down the line items on your ObserveOps invoice.

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Requesting a data export before cancellation

How to request dashboards, configurations, and runbooks ahead of offboarding.

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Annual billing: how the 20% discount works

Switching from monthly to annual and what happens at renewal.

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