Dynatrace Perform 2022: Themes to watch at Dynatrace's annual conference

Published: 2022-01-19 11:44:14 ET DT

At Perform 2022, the theme is "empowering the game changers." The conference and this guide indicate how modern observability helps IT pros manage complex multicloud environments.

As strained IT, development, and security teams head into 2022, the pressure to deliver better, more secure software faster has never been more consequential.

Technology that helps teams securely regain control of complex, dynamic, ever-expanding cloud environments can be game-changing. At our virtual conference, Dynatrace Perform 2022, the theme is "Empowering the game changers."

Managing cloud complexity becomes critical as organizations continue to digitally transform. Over the past 18 months, the need to utilize cloud architecture has intensified. Organizations seek to modernize, reduce costs, and adjust to the realities of globalization, increased competition in virtually every industry, and shifts in economic development since the emergence of COVID-19.

A key arrow in the quiver for game-changers for developing and managing modern software is automatic, intelligent observability. Modern IT and development environments include multiple public clouds, dynamic containers, and widely distributed microservices. But managing and securing these environments can be downright impossible without technology to identify and alert users to issues.

Teams can no longer effectively manage and secure today's multicloud environments using traditional monitoring tools. While conventional monitoring scans the environment using correlation and statistics, it provides little contextual information for remediating performance or security issues. On the other hand, modern observability enables IT pros to gather real-time information on their environments, identify the root cause of issues, and take prompt, precise action to remediate problems.

IT professionals understand they need a new approach to monitoring and securing their environments. They know these environments are too expansive, porous, and complex for IT teams to manage with human resources alone. Instead, teams need modern observability to automatically discover and fix performance and security problems immediately.

At Dynatrace Perform 2022, we'll explore how a modern observability platform helps IT teams boost performance and shore up application security. The advantage of modern observability helps IT teams free their time for revenue-generating tasks rather than fire-fighting ones. In what follows, we survey some of the capabilities of a modern observability platform and themes we will highlight at Dynatrace Perform 2022.

As dynamic systems architectures increase in complexity and scale, IT teams face mounting pressure to track and respond to the activity in their multi-cloud environments. As a result, teams need a solution that provides immediate, actionable answers to save time and effort.

Monitoring that relies solely on correlation produces a large volume of information teams must sift through to deduce the underlying causes of performance and security issues. But this statistics-based approach with too much data and not enough context requires expert analysts to draw conclusions that amount to educated guesses.

In contrast, a modern observability platform uses artificial intelligence (AI) to gather information in real-time and automatically pinpoint root causes in context. This precision gives teams immediate and reliable insight they can use to automate responses. Teams can understand exactly which systems and services are affected and have a clear path of action.

Check out these resources to learn more about modern observability and how it contrasts with traditional monitoring.

Understanding the difference between observability and monitoring helps DevOps teams understand root causes and deliver better applications.

Observability and monitoring solutions are not created equal. Only observability can transform multicloud data into actionable intelligence.

To understand highly distributed cloud-native technologies, teams need observability that scales using fewer tools, not more. Explore the five main challenges to achieving observability-and learn how to overcome them.

With automation and AI, observability delivers actionable answers that ensure cloud-native applications work perfectly across the enterprise.

For more on Dynatrace observability, check out the Observability resource center.

Modern cloud-native environments rely heavily on microservices architectures. This poses a dilemma for application teams responsible for innovation: How can they comply with ever-increasing security requirements while managing fast release cycles for hundreds of microservices? If teams lack an automated approach to application security, it can drastically slow down your ability to release new application functionality safely.

As teams adopt DevSecOps practices, which integrate security and vulnerability management into development and operations, they also incorporate a security mindset into their operational culture.

An automatic and intelligent observability platform with integrated runtime application self-protection (RASP) capabilities can change the game. A single source of truth with comprehensive RASP-based capabilities that span pre-production and production environments enables organizations to consolidate and streamline their security, development, and operations toolchains and processes. As a result, responsible teams across the organization can develop and operate secure, vulnerability-free software and detect security exposure such as Log4Shell (a vulnerability in the Log4j Apache library detected in late 2021) in production in real-time.

Discover more about Dynatrace Application Security and its RASP capabilities from these sources:

Utilizing cloud-native platforms, Kubernetes, and open-source technologies requires a radically different approach to application security.

Dynamic IT environments have made application security more complex. Learn how your organization can create software quickly and securely.

What is a vulnerability assessment? Vulnerability assessment tools are essential for protecting IT infrastructure, applications, and data.

Check out the Application Security resource center for more information about Dynatrace Application Security.

In response to the increasing demand for technology teams to deliver greater functionality faster and more securely, teams are adopting DevOps and DevSecOps practices. DevOps brings developers and operations teams together and enables more agile IT. DevSecOps adds application security into shift-left (pre-production) and shift-right (production) operations.

Still, while DevOps and DevSecOps practices enable development agility and speed, they can also fall victim to tool complexity and data silos. Many organizations suffer from inefficiency because they're juggling too many DevOps tools or using tools that don't meet their needs. Some DevOps toolchains fail to yield value because teams select tools based only on technology considerations rather than the business value they provide.

Successful DevOps orchestration is a constant evolution of tools, processes, and communication on a journey to speed, stability, and scale. An automatic and intelligent observability platform optimized for the DevOps and DevSecOps pipeline-from CI/CD to user experience-promotes a culture of experimentation, risk, and trust teams need to succeed.

Learn more about the Dynatrace platform approach to DevOps and DevSecOps from these resources:

What is DevOps? Learn how development and operations teams can improve delivery and outcomes with this approach and what tools they need to succeed.

What is DevSecOps? DevSecOps connects three different disciplines: development, security, and operations. Learn how security improves DevOps.

In this webinar, we talk with IT systems integrator avodaq AG about their DevOps and Kubernetes adoption journey.

For more about how Dynatrace does DevOps, see the DevOps resource center. For more about Dynatrace DevSecOps and Application Security, see the Application Security resource center.

As organizations adopt more cloud-native technologies, their burgeoning multicloud environments offer many benefits, such as modular app design, dynamic app scalability, and faster time to market.

But these dynamic environments also pose challenges for IT teams across the organization. Apps and services depend on other services and infrastructure, but each tool and cloud platform stands alone. This dispersion means teams struggle to detect and anticipate issues, optimize applications, and automate DevSecOps workflows. While digital transformation is in full swing across the industry, a fragmented IT operations strategy can slow these modernization efforts and limit their benefits.

AIOps, or artificial intelligence for IT operations, uses AI and advanced analytics to manage IT. But not all AI is created equal. An AIOps solution that uses automatic and intelligent observability and causation-based AI can unlock productivity across the organization. An AIOps platform designed for dynamic multicloud environments turns teams from reactive to proactive. This enables them to optimize apps and DevSecOps workflows, and accelerates every team's transformation.

Dynatrace Davis® is a radically different AI engine. To learn more about Dynatrace AIOps, check out these resources.

At Dynatrace Perform 2022, the AIOps track will explore how an AIOps strategy helps organizations manage dynamic, multicloud environments.

What is AIOps? It brings AI to ITOps-but a modern approach to AIOps using deterministic AI makes it so much more. Learn why.

In this animated eBook, we dive into Davis AI and reveal how it changes the game for AIOps across the IT organization.

As organizations layer more technologies into their DevOps toolchains, an AIOps platform that can shift left is a good strategy.

For more on Dynatrace AIOps, check out the AIOps/AI and Automation resource center.

Explore all the ways modern observability transforms application performance monitoring, application security, DevOps/DevSecOps, AIOps, and more by joining us for our virtual event, Dynatrace Perform 2022, on February 7 - 9.

Meet Simone Biles, the world's most decorated gymnast, Kelsey Hightower, principal engineer at Google, and AI and physics professor Max Tegmark from MIT. And learn from Dynatrace's own technologists, including Chief Technology Officer Bernd Greifeneder, Technology Strategy Fellow and Pure Performance podcast host Andreas Berger, CEO Rick McConnell, and many more.

As a risk-free virtual event, you can attend every session and event from anywhere in the world.

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