Dynatrace

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Software and data are a company’s competitive advantage. But for software to work perfectly, organizations need to use data to optimize every phase of the software lifecycle. The only way to address these challenges is through observability data — logs, metrics, and traces. Teams interact with myriad data types.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

There’s a goldmine of business data traversing your IT systems, yet most of it remains untapped. To unlock business value, the data must be: Accessible from anywhere. Data has value only when you can access it, no matter where it lies. Agile business decisions rely on fresh data. Easy to access. Contextualized.

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Cassandra serves as the backbone for a diverse array of use cases within Netflix, ranging from user sign-ups and storing viewing histories to supporting real-time analytics and live streaming. Second, developers had to constantly re-learn new data modeling practices and common yet critical data access patterns.

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Rajiv Shringi Vinay Chella Kaidan Fullerton Oleksii Tkachuk Joey Lynch Introduction As Netflix continues to expand and diversify into various sectors like Video on Demand and Gaming , the ability to ingest and store vast amounts of temporal data — often reaching petabytes — with millisecond access latency has become increasingly vital.

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DZone

JUNE 3, 2024

In an era where data is the new oil, effectively utilizing data is crucial for the growth of every organization. It is not enough to store these data durably, but also to effectively query and analyze them. Without a querying capability, the data stored in S3 would not be of any benefit.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 6, 2024

They create an explosion of data that is extremely challenging to manually capture, analyze, and act on. Fragmented monitoring and analytics can’t keep up The continued reliance on fragmented monitoring tools and manual analytics strategies is a particular pain point for IT and security teams.

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DZone

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

In today's data-driven world, efficient data processing plays a pivotal role in the success of any project. Apache Spark , a robust open-source data processing framework, has emerged as a game-changer in this domain.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 4, 2022

For IT infrastructure managers and site reliability engineers, or SREs , logs provide a treasure trove of data. But on their own, logs present just another data silo as IT professionals attempt to troubleshoot and remediate problems. Data volume explosion in multicloud environments poses log issues.

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Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

A distributed storage system is foundational in today’s data-driven landscape, ensuring data spread over multiple servers is reliable, accessible, and manageable. Understanding distributed storage is imperative as data volumes and the need for robust storage solutions rise.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

How do you get more value from petabytes of exponentially exploding, increasingly heterogeneous data? The short answer: The three pillars of observability—logs, metrics, and traces—converging on a data lakehouse. To solve this problem, Dynatrace launched Grail, its causational data lakehouse , in 2022.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Log management and analytics is an essential part of any organization’s infrastructure, and it’s no secret the industry has suffered from a shortage of innovation for several years. Several pain points have made it difficult for organizations to manage their data efficiently and create actual value.

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Dynatrace

JULY 29, 2022

What is log analytics? Log analytics is the process of viewing, interpreting, and querying log data so developers and IT teams can quickly detect and resolve application and system issues. In what follows, we explore log analytics benefits and challenges, as well as a modern observability approach to log analytics.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 9, 2023

The massive volumes of log data over months, sometimes years, of a breach have made this a complicated and expensive problem to solve. A traditional log-based SIEM approach to security analytics may have served organizations well in simpler on-premises environments. and “was any sensitive data stolen?”

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 4, 2022

While data lakes and data warehousing architectures are commonly used modes for storing and analyzing data, a data lakehouse is an efficient third way to store and analyze data that unifies the two architectures while preserving the benefits of both. What is a data lakehouse? How does a data lakehouse work?

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

However, these environments can drown enterprises in data, forcing them to adopt multiple tools and services to manage and secure it. With unified observability and security, organizations can protect their data and avoid tool sprawl with a single platform that delivers AI-driven analytics and intelligent automation.

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Dynatrace

JULY 29, 2022

What is log analytics? Log analytics is the process of viewing, interpreting, and querying log data so developers and IT teams can quickly detect and resolve application and system issues. In what follows, we explore log analytics benefits and challenges, as well as a modern observability approach to log analytics.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Some time ago, at a restaurant near Boston, three Dynatrace colleagues dined and discussed the growing data challenge for enterprises. At its core, this challenge involves a rapid increase in the amount—and complexity—of data collected within a company. Work with different and independent data types. Thus, Grail was born.

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Scalegrid

MAY 11, 2024

MongoDB offers several storage engines that cater to various use cases. The default storage engine in earlier versions was MMAPv1, which utilized memory-mapped files and document-level locking. The newer, pluggable storage engine, WiredTiger, addresses this by using prefix compression, collection-level locking, and row-based storage.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Should business data be part of your observability solution? Technology and business leaders express increasing interest in integrating business data into their IT observability strategies, citing the value of effective collaboration between business and IT.

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Scalegrid

MAY 13, 2020

It can scale towards a multi-petabyte level data workload without a single issue, and it allows access to a cluster of powerful servers that will work together within a single SQL interface where you can view all of the data. This feature-packed database provides powerful and rapid analytics on data that scales up to petabyte volumes.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

As organizations adopt more cloud-based technologies, the increased volume and variety of data from these ecosystems drive complexity. This complexity creates silos that affect the ability of IT, development, security, and business teams to achieve the awareness they need to make data-driven decisions.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 28, 2023

Optimize cost and availability while staying compliant Observability data like logs and metrics provide automated answers, root cause detection, and security issues. Customer decisions about data retention are often determined by important security, privacy, and legal issues.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 4, 2024

Traditional analytics and AI systems rely on statistical models to correlate events with possible causes. While this approach can be effective if the model is trained with a large amount of data, even in the best-case scenarios, it amounts to an informed guess, rather than a certainty. But to be successful, data quality is critical.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 20, 2024

A summary of sessions at the first Data Engineering Open Forum at Netflix on April 18th, 2024 The Data Engineering Open Forum at Netflix on April 18th, 2024. At Netflix, we aspire to entertain the world, and our data engineering teams play a crucial role in this mission by enabling data-driven decision-making at scale.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 9, 2023

ln a world driven by macroeconomic uncertainty, businesses increasingly turn to data-driven decision-making to stay agile. They’re unleashing the power of cloud-based analytics on large data sets to unlock the insights they and the business need to make smarter decisions. All of these factors challenge DevOps maturity.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Considering the latest State of Observability 2024 report, it’s evident that multicloud environments not only come with an explosion of data beyond humans’ ability to manage it. It’s increasingly difficult to ingest, manage, store, and sort through this amount of data. You can find the list of use cases here.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 19, 2023

Creating an ecosystem that facilitates data security and data privacy by design can be difficult, but it’s critical to securing information. When organizations focus on data privacy by design, they build security considerations into cloud systems upfront rather than as a bolt-on consideration.

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Dynatrace

JULY 29, 2021

The complexity of such deployments has accelerated with the adoption of emerging, open-source technologies that generate telemetry data, which is exploding in terms of volume, speed, and cardinality. All this data is then consumed by Dynatrace Davis® AI for more precise answers, thereby driving AIOps for cloud-native environments.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Grail: Enterprise-ready data lakehouse Grail, the Dynatrace causational data lakehouse, was explicitly designed for observability and security data, with artificial intelligence integrated into its foundation. Tables are a physical data model, essentially the type of observability data that you can store.

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DZone

MAY 25, 2024

For most people looking for a log management and analytics solution, Elasticsearch is the go-to choice. The same applies to InfluxDB for time series data analysis. As NetEase expands its business horizons, the logs and time series data it receives explode, and problems like surging storage costs and declining stability come.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Predictive AI uses machine learning, data analysis, statistical models, and AI methods to predict anomalies, identify patterns, and create forecasts. By analyzing patterns and trends, predictive analytics helps identify potential issues or opportunities, enabling proactive actions to prevent problems or capitalize on advantageous situations.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 20, 2023

Modern organizations ingest petabytes of data daily, but legacy approaches to log analysis and management cannot accommodate this volume of data. based financial services group, discussed how the bank uses log monitoring on the Dynatrace platform with an emphasis on observability and security data.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Log monitoring, log analysis, and log analytics are more important than ever as organizations adopt more cloud-native technologies, containers, and microservices-based architectures. Logs can include data about user inputs, system processes, and hardware states. What is log analytics? Log monitoring vs log analytics.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Understanding that the first mile of getting data in can often be the hardest, Dynatrace continues to invest in log ingest, offering a range of out-of-the-box solutions within the Dynatrace Platform and apps. Dynatrace ActiveGate addresses these issues by enforcing configurable security settings and ensuring data uniformity.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 31, 2024

I have ingested important custom data into Dynatrace, critical to running my applications and making accurate business decisions… but can I trust the accuracy and reliability?” ” Welcome to the world of data observability. At its core, data observability is about ensuring the availability, reliability, and quality of data.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

But IT teams need to embrace IT automation and new data storage models to benefit from modern clouds. As they enlist cloud models, organizations now confront increasing complexity and a data explosion. Log management and analytics have become a particular challenge. Data explosion hinders better data insight.

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Data Engineers of Netflix?—?Interview Interview with Pallavi Phadnis This post is part of our “ Data Engineers of Netflix ” series, where our very own data engineers talk about their journeys to Data Engineering @ Netflix. Pallavi Phadnis is a Senior Software Engineer on the Product Data Science and Engineering team.

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