Name: [IBM + Instana] Precision Observability for Mainframe z/OS Systems
Start: 2022-07-14T15:00:00Z
End: 2022-07-14T15:00:21.000Z
Location: BrightTALK

Instana, an IBM company, provides an Enterprise Observability Platform with automated application monitoring capabilities to businesses operating complex, modern, cloud-native applications no matter where they reside – on-premises or in public and private clouds, including mobile devices or IBM Z.

Control hybrid modern applications with Instana’s AI-powered discovery of deep contextual dependencies inside hybrid applications. Instana also gives visibility into development pipelines to help enable closed-loop DevOps automation.

This provides actionable feedback needed for clients as they to optimize application performance, enable innovation and mitigate risk, helping Dev+Ops add value and efficiency to software delivery pipelines while meeting their service and business level objectives.

In this webinar we will provide an overview of the technology and the scenarios that empowers operations teams like never before, including:
1. Simple instrumentation of application transaction tracing into business-critical IBM Z-based resources
2. Identification of complete application performance from mobile to mainframe
3. Isolation of affected resources so the right IBM Z subject matter expert can be engaged promptly with appropriate contextual information to resolve the issue

[IBM + Instana] Hybrid Cloud Observability from Mobile to Mainframe with Instana

How do Kubernetes requests and limits factor in when you are observing what’s happening in your Kubernetes cluster? What are the different scaling approaches? What can you actually scale? We are going to review all these concepts and learn some best practices you can apply in your environment. We’ll also discuss how much easier life is when an observability tool reminds you how many workloads you can allocate and what’s consuming your resources.

In the second half of this webinar, we’ll take a look at how to instrument your workloads and analyze the signals in a third-party system. We’ll show some code and take a look at a live polyglot microservice application for illustration.

Observing resources and applications in Kubernetes is hard… But it doesn’t have to be! OpenTelemetry is a standard under CNCF governance, and it can greatly reduce the burden of observing applications and services provisioned in Kubernetes clusters.

Kubernetes Observability With OpenTelemetry And Beyond

Learn how IBM and Instana came to be. You’ll understand how Instana can make sense of your chaotic cloud-native environments, uncover anomalies in the performance of your applications before they can affect your customers – with the context to fix it.

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[IBM + Instana] IBM Observability by Instana

Learn about observability of IBM middleware environments using Instana. In environments using IBM middleware, you’ll learn how Instana can help you avoid problems, quickly identify root cause, and resolve those problems.  Key IBM middleware includes IBM DataPower, IBM WebSphere MQ, and IBM App Connect Enterprise (ACE).

[IBM + Instana] Observability of IBM Middleware

In this webinar Sven and Yury bring together software architecture and service level objective principles to give you an opinionated step-by-step guide to define, communicate and implement adequate operational quality attributes and how to turn them into actionable Service Level Objectives.

Developer’s Guide to Service Level Objectives

There are a lot of choices out there for monitoring and observability — if you’re in the cloud native ecosystem, you’re likely all too familiar with the “Cloud Native Hellscape”.

Prometheus and Grafana are two great pieces of software that are commonly paired together to create a single solution that has emerged as the de-facto open source standard for monitoring and observability. Depending on your familiarity with cloud native technologies in general, they can be a convenient tool for learning about the APM space and they can be easy to get up and running. Of course, nothing in the IT Industry is as easy as marketing people would have you believe.

Instana can expand the capabilities already provided by Prometheus and Grafana and fill in some holes at the same time — and with Traefik, it can close an important gap in terms of visibility.

Eating the Kubernetes Observability Elephant with Instana and Traefik

Containers and microservices have increased the speed at which software is put into production. They have also increased scalability, especially for Cloud-native applications. Agile development and CI/CD practices have been instrumental in making these new application modernization methods effective.

For production applications, i.e. once the application code and enhancements have been released through the CD process, Enterprise Observability (EO) and Machine Learning (ML) are extremely effective in detecting and isolating application issues for SRE, DevOps and Ops team in production.

Enterprise Observability is the combination of Metrics, Events, Traces and Logs into a rich mosaic of rich contextual data. EO also provides precise information at 1 second intervals, with no sampling. Machine Learning learns from that rich contextual data to expose potential issues and enable alerts for those issues.

Optimizing your CI/CD Pipeline with Shift-Left Enterprise Observability

Join Priya Satheesh, Instana and Oliver Tylmann, Co-Founder and CCO of Giant Swarm, to discuss how making the road to Cloud Native success can be quick and painless with Instana and Giant Swarm.

Cloud-Native Success, The Fast Way

Today’s modern application stack is constantly changing.  New technologies, from cloud-native to containers, microservices and Kubernetes orchestration, have emerged to help organizations drive digital transformation.  To effectively manage modern cloud-native applications, SRE’s and DevOps teams need real-time visibility into their IT environments.  This requires a new approach and set of requirements to effectively manage highly dynamic, massively distributed application environments.

Expanding Into Observability

Even as Observability has gained momentum, the myriad definitions and “Observability” technologies has led to confusion. Some simply promote that Observability is just the new word for “monitoring.” The truth is that Observability has the potential to be so much more.

Observability Isn’t Just the New Word for Monitoring

For years, all organizations have been working on becoming more agile and going through a digital transformation journey. These journeys have only become more relevant and urgent in the wake of COVID. As these trends continue, Kubernetes has continued its rapid ascent from captivating DevOps teams at small companies to running the business critical applications of the world’s largest companies. With this transition came the reality that the complexity of  managing the underlying infrastructure and the performance of Cloud-Native environments has exploded.

Digital Transformations during the Wake of COVID

Vorwerk Thermomix Enables Developers to Whip Up Customer Value with Instana

As a multi-channel retailer of electronics and technology, Conrad Electronic SE provides many of the items that make our day-to-day life easier, more efficient, and more comfortable. Continuously developing new product concepts for the world of technology, Conrad acts as an inspiration to everyone involved in electronics both professionally or privately.

Conrad Electronic Procures Transparency into Microservices on GCP with Instana

"Abstract: 

Wouldn't it be great if you could dream up a new application, have it running and meet all of the ""extra"" organizational requirements? We think that with AWS Lambda and Instana you can.
""Serverless"" runtimes have the potential to enable some staggering cost savings and offer a very streamlined developer experience. To show how quick and easy it can be to get to a ""production"" state, let us build an application together, live.
We will cover:
        * Why we chose our stack of Ruby, Sinatra and a RDBMS.
        * How to work with Ruby on AWS Lambda and migrate our application to it using Lamby.
        * How to get observability into the application using Instana without code changes."

Speed Building a Fully Observable Ruby Lambda

As distributed systems grow bigger they have become more complex and harder to manage. The amount of data coming out of these microservices based applications is more than any human, or even group of humans, can process on their own. Because of this, AIOps is essential for proper management of all the Observability data points.

With a look into the AIOps space, there are many different options to choose from. And, those choices are not just limited to products and companies. A bigger challenge is to understand the different routes to implement data gathering. Domain-Centric or Domain-Agnostic are the two main approaches. 

In this presentation I’ll walk down the road of issues, how they can be solved, and take a quick tour into the differences of Domain-Centric and Domain-Agnostic approaches, as well as their pros or cons.

The Road to Observability: Centric or Agnostic – That is the question

In this webinar you’ll learn about Instana observability strengths and how Instana on z/OS brings best-in class observability for hybrid cloud environments from mobile through  to mainframe.

Tom will discuss the key  Instana capabilities including the dynamic graph, context guide, and application dependency maps for every application. This allows you to see issues as they occur and rapidly determine the root cause within seconds. Instana on z/OS adds mainframe metrics from CICS, IMS, DB2 and IBM middleware to follow transactions and view performance from start to finish..

Next, Tom will discuss the intelligent action capabilities. Which include smart alerts, machine learning, actionable information, correlated alerting, Incident reporting, guided troubleshooting, and automated preventive issue remediation. 

Finally, watch Instana in action during a demo connecting all the knowledge one learned during this webinar.

[IBM + Instana] Precision Observability for Mainframe z/OS Systems

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