Navigating observability’s intricacies, especially in the cloud-native landscape, can feel like wading through murky waters. Companies such as Dynatrace LLC, however, are doing their share to enhance enterprise observability within open-source deployments.

“This week, we actually launched our own distribution for the OpenTelemetry collector where we bundle everything up, make it secure, make it enterprise-ready, take care of end-to-end testing and even provide it open source back to everybody who’s out there who wants to use it,” said Alois Reitbauer (pictured), chief technology strategist at Dynatrace. “We also funded two of our own open-source projects within the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, which has been around for quite some time.”

Reitbauer spoke with theCUBE’s principal analyst Rob Strechay and guest host Dustin Kirkland at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe, during an exclusive broadcast on theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio. They discussed Dynatrace’s facilitation of a more transparent, agile and secure cloud-native future through its community initiatives. (* Disclosure below.)

Dynatrace’s footprint within the CNCF

Dynatrace’s open-source community involvement is hardly obvious considering its commercial software vendor status. However, it has long been active, contributing to standards and projects within the CNCF, including OpenTelemetry, from its inception.

“Within the CNCF, we were part of OpenTelemetry from day one,” Reitbauer said. “We even were part of the group that was working on the observability topics before the project merged, and the OpenTelemetry eventually merged. We have people in the governance board, we have people in the technical committee.”

Another notable contribution comes from two of its CNCF projects: Keptn and OpenFeature. Keptn offers observability for GitHub deployments, facilitating tracing and metrics analysis, while OpenFeature provides a unified software development kit for feature flagging, streamlining the process for application developers. These initiatives aim to streamline development workflows and enhance application performance in cloud-native environments, according to Reitbauer.

“[With] OpenFeature, the goal is to have a unified SDK for feature flagging that you put into your application because up to now it was either proprietary solutions that the companies built or it was a vendor-specific solution that was out there,” he said. “We figured out all of these SDKs are doing the same things, all of them are actually open source, so why don’t we create the standard around it?”

Here’s the complete video interview, part of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE Research’s coverage of KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe: 

(* Disclosure: TheCUBE is a paid media partner for the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe event. No sponsors have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

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