The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Analytical Insights Additionally, impression history offers insightful information for addressing a number of platform-related analytics queries. Collecting Raw Impression Events As Netflix members explore our platform, their interactions with the user interface spark a vast array of raw events.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 9, 2023

Not only that, teams struggle to correlate events and alerts from a wide range of security tools, need to put them into context, and infer their risk for the business. In this blog post, we’ll use Dynatrace Security Analytics to go threat hunting, bringing together logs, traces, metrics, and, crucially, threat alerts.

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Dynatrace

JULY 24, 2023

They need event-driven automation that not only responds to events and triggers but also analyzes and interprets the context to deliver precise and proactive actions. These initial automation endeavors paved the way for greater advancements, leading to the next evolution of event-driven automation.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Grail combines the big-data storage of a data warehouse with the analytical flexibility of a data lake. With Grail, we have reinvented analytics for converged observability and security data,” Greifeneder says. Logs on Grail Log data is foundational for any IT analytics. Grail and DQL will give you new superpowers.”

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Highly Scalable

MAY 1, 2012

Statistical analysis and mining of huge multi-terabyte data sets is a common task nowadays, especially in the areas like web analytics and Internet advertising. This approach often leads to heavyweight high-latency analytical processes and poor applicability to realtime use cases. Case Study. Case Study. Case Study.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Customers can also proactively address issues using Davis AI’s predictive analytics capabilities by analyzing network log content, such as retries or anomalies in performance response times. It also enhances syslog messages with additional context and optimizes network traffic, improving overall system resilience and security.

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Dynatrace

JULY 1, 2020

In my last blog , I’ve provided an example of this happening, whereby the traffic spiked and quadrupled the usual incoming traffic. These are all interesting metrics from marketing point of view, and also highly interesting to you as they allow you to engage with the teams that are driving the traffic against your IT-system.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

In cloud-native environments, there can also be dozens of additional services and functions all generating data from user-driven events. Event logging and software tracing help application developers and operations teams understand what’s happening throughout their application flow and system.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 8, 2024

As recent events have demonstrated, major software outages are an ever-present threat in our increasingly digital world. Possible scenarios A Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack overwhelms servers with traffic, making a website or service unavailable.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 20, 2024

Continuously monitoring application behavior, network traffic, and system logs allows teams to identify abnormal or suspicious activities that could indicate a security breach. Incident detection and response In the event of a security incident, there is a well-defined incident response process to investigate and mitigate the issue.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

This opens the door to auto-scalable applications, which effortlessly matches the demands of rapidly growing and varying user traffic. Containers can be replicated or deleted on the fly to meet varying end-user traffic. Event logs for ad-hoc analysis and auditing. In production, containers are easy to replicate. What is Docker?

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Dynatrace

MAY 3, 2024

Real-time streaming needs real-time analytics As enterprises move their workloads to cloud service providers like Amazon Web Services, the complexity of observing their workloads increases. Take the example of Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) flow logs, which provide insights into the IP traffic of your network interfaces.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Dynatrace is fully committed to the OpenTelemetry community and to the seamless integration of OpenTelemetry data , including ingestion of custom metrics , into the Dynatrace open analytics platform. With Dynatrace OneAgent you also benefit from support for traffic routing and traffic control. Deep-code execution details.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 10, 2020

The “normal” set up, is that marketers will be looking at their web-analytics solutions, whilst the IT operations team are looking at their monitoring but neither are connected or talking with one another about what is going on in each other’s team. Even days after the event they couldn’t figure out why the push was not successful.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 17, 2024

Perform is our company’s event once a year in Las Vegas, where our customers and partners visit us to learn more about our product and industry. However, it was my first time at Perform, and although I knew I would learn a thing or two in the next week, I was unaware of how beneficial taking part in this event would be.

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Dynatrace

MAY 19, 2023

Network traffic growth is the main reason for increasing spending, largely because of the adoption of hybrid and multi-cloud architectures. What are the issues with traffic losses and connectivity drops? Without the network, nothing will happen,” Ziemianowicz said. This starts with a different approach to data aggregation.

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Dynatrace

JULY 25, 2022

VPC Flow Logs is a feature that gives you the capability to capture more robust IP traffic data that traverses your VPCs. Problems have defined lifespans and are updated in real time with all incoming events and findings. Log Events. Check out our Power Demo: Log Analytics with Dynatrace. What is VPC Flow Logs.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 10, 2023

Production Use Cases Real-Time APIs (backed by the Cassandra database) for asset metadata access don’t fit analytics use cases by data science or machine learning teams. Existing data got updated to be backward compatible without impacting the existing running production traffic. Generally, this flow is used for small datasets.

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Building on these foundational abstractions, we developed the TimeSeries Abstraction  — a versatile and scalable solution designed to efficiently store and query large volumes of temporal event data with low millisecond latencies, all in a cost-effective manner across various use cases. Let’s dive into the various aspects of this abstraction.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 28, 2023

IT teams spend months preparing for the peak traffic they anticipate will arrive with holiday shopping. Business events deliver real-time business observability to business and IT teams with the precision and context to support data-driven decisions and improve business outcomes.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

VPC Flow Logs is an Amazon service that enables IT pros to capture information about the IP traffic that traverses network interfaces in a virtual private cloud, or VPC. By default, each record captures a network internet protocol (IP), a destination, and the source of the traffic flow that occurs within your environment.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 28, 2021

Such additional telemetry data includes user-behavior analytics, code-level visibility, and metadata (including open-source data). PurePath 4 integrates OpenTelemetry Go data for enterprise-grade collection and contextual AI analytics. With Dynatrace OneAgent you also benefit from support for traffic routing and traffic control.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 13, 2023

Log auditing is a cybersecurity practice that involves examining logs generated by various applications, computer systems, and network devices to identify and analyze security-related events. But with a platform approach to log analytics based on observability at a cloud-native scale, organizations can accomplish much more.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 25, 2023

For example, to handle traffic spikes and pay only for what they use. Serverless applications are composed of event-driven functions that run on demand in response to triggers from various sources, such as HTTP requests, messages, or timers. Scale automatically based on the demand and traffic patterns.

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The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 29, 2019

Demand Engineering Demand Engineering is responsible for Regional Failovers , Traffic Distribution, Capacity Operations and Fleet Efficiency of the Netflix cloud. CORE The CORE team uses Python in our alerting and statistical analytical work. Internally, we also built an event-driven platform that is fully written in Python.

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All Things Distributed

MARCH 11, 2015

Many of these innovations will have a significant analytics component or may even be completely driven by it. For example many of the Internet of Things innovations that we have seen come to life in the past years on AWS all have a significant analytics components to it. Cloud analytics are everywhere.

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CSS - Tricks

JUNE 25, 2020

There are other analytics we can gather on a site, like usage analytics. For example, we might slap Google Analytics on a site, doing nothing but installing the generic snippet. This is going to tell us stuff like what pages are the most popular, how long people spend on the site, and what countries deliver the most traffic.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 26, 2023

Full platform access Dynatrace is a unified analytics and automation platform—not a collection of standalone modules. DPS offers you flexibility to scale-up deployments during peak traffic events or to provide extra observability during high-stakes moments.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Dynatrace provides advanced observability across on-premises systems and cloud providers in a single platform, providing application performance monitoring, infrastructure monitoring, Artificial Intelligence-driven operations (AIOps), code-level execution, digital experience monitoring (DEM), and digital business analytics.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Open-source metric sources automatically map to our Smartscape model for AI analytics. Dynatrace is working on an OpenTelemetry metrics exporter which will automatically tap into metrics exposed via OpenTelemetry instrumentation to send the telemetry data to the Dynatrace analytics engine. Stay tuned.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JULY 26, 2021

The paradigm spans across methods, tools, and technologies and is usually defined in contrast to analytical reporting and predictive modeling which are more strategic (vs. Change Data Capture(CDC) source connector reads from studio applications’ database transaction logs and emits the change events. tactical) in nature.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

EC2 is ideally suited for large workloads with constant traffic. Lambda is Amazon’s event-driven, functions-as-a-service (FaaS) compute service that runs code when triggered for application and back-end services. AWS Lambda. Automated and intelligent: The Dynatrace approach to AWS observability.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 8, 2021

During a breakout session at Dynatrace’s Perform 2021 event, Senior Product Marketing Manager Logan Franey and Product Manager Dominik Punz shared mobile app monitoring best practices to maximize business outcomes. And those are just the tools for monitoring the tech stack. These teams may also have a separate mobile crash tool.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

For retail organizations, peak traffic can be a mixed blessing. While high-volume traffic often boosts sales, it can also compromise uptimes. Include metrics, event logs, distributed traces, metadata, user experience data, and telemetry data from open source technologies and cloud platforms. Automate IT operations.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 5, 2019

In the People space, our data teams contribute to consolidated systems of record on employees, contractors, partners and talent data to help central teams manage headcount planning, reduce acquisition cost, improve hiring practices, and other people analytics related use-cases. Give us a holler if you are interested in a thought exchange.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 26, 2020

Cloud Network Insight is a suite of solutions that provides both operational and analytical insight into the Cloud Network Infrastructure to address the identified problems. VPC Flow Logs VPC Flow Logs is an AWS feature that captures information about the IP traffic going to and from network interfaces in a VPC. 43416 5001 52.213.180.42

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 27, 2022

First, it helps to understand that applications and all the services and infrastructure that support them generate telemetry data based on traffic from real users. Dynatrace provides a centralized approach for establishing, instrumenting, and implementing SLOs that uses full-stack observability , topology mapping, and AI-driven analytics.

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