DZone

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Today, I want to share my experience working with Zabbix, its architecture, its pros, and its cons. The number of monitored network devices grew to several hundred, and we added monitoring for VPN tunnels, physical servers, VMware vCenter, virtual machines, and some services like DNS and NTP.

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Monitoring Systems DevOps Virtualization 278

Dynatrace

JANUARY 26, 2021

Traditional computing models rely on virtual or physical machines, where each instance includes a complete operating system, CPU cycles, and memory. VMware commercialized the idea of virtual machines, and cloud providers embraced the same concept with services like Amazon EC2, Google Compute, and Azure virtual machines.

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Table 1: Movie and File Size Examples Initial Architecture A simplified view of our initial cloud video processing pipeline is illustrated in the following diagram. Figure 1: A Simplified Video Processing Pipeline With this architecture, chunk encoding is very efficient and processed in distributed cloud computing instances.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 7, 2021

Flow Exporter The Flow Exporter is a sidecar that uses eBPF tracepoints to capture TCP flows at near real time on instances that power the Netflix microservices architecture. After several iterations of the architecture and some tuning, the solution has proven to be able to scale. What is BPF?

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 11, 2023

Teams can keep track of storage resources and processes that are provisioned to virtual machines, services, databases, and applications. Virtual machine (VM) monitoring. An integrated platform monitors physical, virtual, and cloud infrastructure. Cloud storage monitoring. End-user experience monitoring.

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Dynatrace

JULY 13, 2022

Arm architecture. Today, Google announced virtual machines (VMs) based on the Arm architecture on Compute Engine called Tau T2A , which are optimized for cost-effective performance for scale-out workloads, as well as GKE Arm. For some, that means looking to the? Meet Davis, our powerful AI-engine | Dynatrace.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

More organizations are adopting a hybrid IT environment, with data center and virtualized components. Hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) is an IT architecture that combines servers, storage, and networking functions into a unified, software-centric platform to streamline resource management. What is hyperconverged infrastructure?

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Alex Podelko

OCTOBER 20, 2016

New Architectures (this post). Cloud seriously impacts system architectures that has a lot of performance-related consequences. The answer to this challenge is service virtualization, which allows simulating real services during testing without actual access. – Cloud. – Agile. – Continuous Integration.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 8, 2022

As cloud-native, distributed architectures proliferate, the need for DevOps technologies and DevOps platform engineers has increased as well. Organizations often adopt advanced architecture and move to progressive delivery in the cloud. DevOps engineer tools can help ease the pressure as environment complexity grows.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 11, 2022

Cloud providers then manage physical hardware, virtual machines, and web server software management. FaaS vs. monolithic architectures. Monolithic architectures were commonplace with legacy, on-premises software solutions. Function as a service is a cloud computing model that runs code in small modular pieces, or microservices.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 21, 2022

As organizations adopt microservices architecture with cloud-native technologies such as Microsoft Azure , many quickly notice an increase in operational complexity. Getting precise root cause analysis when dealing with several layers of virtualization in a containerized world. Dynatrace news. Operational excellence. Reliability.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

IT infrastructure is the heart of your digital business and connects every area – physical and virtual servers, storage, databases, networks, cloud services. This shift requires infrastructure monitoring to ensure all your components work together across applications, operating systems, storage, servers, virtualization, and more.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 3, 2020

This involves new software delivery models, adapting to complex software architectures, and embracing automation for analysis and testing. One way to apply improvements is transforming the way application performance engineering and testing is done. Performance-as-a-self-service . Here is a shortlist to get you started.

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Percona

JUNE 12, 2023

So why not use a proven architecture instead of starting from scratch on your own? This blog provides links to such architectures — for MySQL and PostgreSQL software. You can use these Percona architectures to build highly available PostgreSQL or MySQL environments or have our experts do the heavy lifting for you.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 23, 2024

If you’re unable to join us in Las Vegas, be sure to register to attend virtually —or view sessions on-demand afterward—so you don’t miss out! What will the new architecture be? Register now to attend in person (or virtually). Read on to learn what you can look forward to hearing about from each of our cloud partners at Perform.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 19, 2022

At our virtual conference, Dynatrace Perform 2022 , the theme is “Empowering the game changers.”. Over the past 18 months, the need to utilize cloud architecture has intensified. Modern cloud-native environments rely heavily on microservices architectures. Empowering the game changers at Dynatrace Perform 2022.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Monitoring and logging tools that once worked well with earlier IT architectures no longer provide sufficient context and integration to understand the state of complex systems or diagnose and correct security issues. Manually managing and securing multi-cloud environments is no longer practical.

DevOps 264

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 16, 2023

Accordingly, the remaining 27% of clusters are self-managed by the customer on cloud virtual machines. Specifically, they provide asynchronous communications within microservices architectures and high-throughput distributed systems. Java Virtual Machine (JVM)-based languages are predominant.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 15, 2022

This transition to public, private, and hybrid cloud is driving organizations to automate and virtualize IT operations to lower costs and optimize cloud processes and systems. Besides the traditional system hardware, storage, routers, and software, ITOps also includes virtual components of the network and cloud infrastructure.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Using Dynatrace on Microsoft Azure allows customers to leverage all the benefits of the Dynatrace platform’s underlying cloud-native, web-scale architecture while operating entirely in the Azure cloud. This improves security and compliance and creates a single source for troubleshooting, performance optimization, and cross-team collaboration.

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Scalegrid

OCTOBER 17, 2019

Moving to a multithreaded architecture will require extensive rewrites. But that causes a problem with PostgreSQL’s architecture – forking a process becomes expensive when transactions are very short, as the common wisdom dictates they should be. The PostgreSQL Architecture | Source. The Connection Pool Architecture.

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Dynatrace

JULY 6, 2020

In addition to providing visibility for core Azure services like virtual machines, load balancers, databases, and application services, we’re happy to announce support for the following 10 new Azure services, with many more to come soon: Virtual Machines (classic ones). Azure Virtual Network Gateways. Azure Batch.

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All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

After years of optimizing traditional virtualization systems to the limit, we knew we had to make a dramatic change in the architecture if we were going to continue to increase performance and security for our customers.

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Virtualization AWS Systems Innovation 81

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

It’s a free virtual event so I hope you join me. Thanks to its event-driven architecture, Keptn can pull SLIs (=metrics) from different data sources and validate them against the SLOs. in October 2020 where I’ll specifically focus on how Keptn integrates and automates on top of Dynatrace Davis.

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Dynatrace

MAY 31, 2021

Kubernetes (aka K8s) is an open-source platform used to run and manage containerized applications and services on clusters of physical or virtual machines across on-premises, public, private, and hybrid clouds. Containers and microservices: A revolution in the architecture of distributed systems. What is Kubernetes? Distributed.

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Virtualization DevOps Infrastructure Cloud 182

Dynatrace

MAY 24, 2023

The core operating system has a lightweight footprint of only a few hundred MBs when uncompressed, yet it is powerful enough to support various profiles, including x64 or Arm64-based architectures. Microsoft designed the kernel and other aspects of the OS with an emphasis on security due to its focused role in executing container workloads.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

At a system level, SRE specialists develop tooling that coordinates releases and launches, evaluates system architecture readiness, and meets system-wide SLOs. Solving for SR. For more about this ongoing conversation, see A guide to event-driven SRE-inspired DevOps.

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Engineering DevOps Government Latency 264

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 23, 2023

The platform helps companies manage corporate spending using automation, card (physical and virtual), and integrations with expense management systems and enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems, such as Netsuite, Concur, Zucchetti, and so on. “We

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Dynatrace

APRIL 2, 2024

But now, you’re orchestrating containers, not virtual machines. The code-level visibility developers rely on is often poor in these environments, and direct access to the application and its filesystem is virtually impossible. How do you ensure they get the CPU and RAM they need? Through resource allocation!

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Dynatrace

APRIL 5, 2021

Azure is a large and growing cloud computing ecosystem that empowers its users to access databases, launch virtual servers, create websites or mobile applications, run a Kubernetes cluster, and train machine learning models, to name a few examples. Consider using virtual machines or specialized frameworks for these types of tasks.

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Dynatrace

JULY 6, 2022

IT admins can automate virtually any time-consuming task that requires regular application. As organizations continue to adopt multicloud strategies, the complexity of these environments grows, increasing the need to automate cloud engineering operations to ensure organizations can enforce their policies and architecture principles.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Understand and optimize your architecture. Auto-detection starts monitoring new virtual machines as they are deployed. If an IT team is building applications based on AWS Lambda, they need full visibility into all tiers of the stack in context to achieve the following: Optimize response time hotspots. Optimize timing hotspots.

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Lambda AWS Serverless Latency 246

Dynatrace

JUNE 26, 2023

Intelligent software automation can give organizations a competitive edge by analyzing historical and compute workload data in real time to automatically provision and deprovision virtual machines and Kubernetes. For more information, read our guide on how data lakehouse architectures store data insights in context.

Software 246

Software Software Analytics Big Data 246

Dynatrace

JULY 2, 2020

I’ll go through architectural concepts and examples, split into four separate posts: Part I: Autonomous Dynatrace roll-out. With the projected growth, a different architecture – switching to cloud providers instead of self-hosting – and moving away from traditional tools was required.

Virtualization 245

Virtualization Monitoring Servers Cloud 245

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

At a system level, SRE specialists develop tooling that coordinates releases and launches, evaluates system architecture readiness, and meets system-wide SLOs. Solving for SR. For more about this ongoing conversation, see A guide to event-driven SRE-inspired DevOps.

Engineering 245

Engineering DevOps Government Latency 245

Dynatrace

JUNE 28, 2021

Between multicloud environments, container-based architecture, and on-premises infrastructure running everything from the latest open-source technologies to legacy software, achieving situational awareness of your IT environment is getting harder to achieve. The challenge? Integrate monitoring on a single AIOps platform.

Infrastructure 257

Infrastructure Monitoring Artificial Intelligence Open Source 257

Dynatrace

JULY 6, 2022

Virtualization has revolutionized system administration by making it possible for software to manage systems, storage, and networks. With the self-service features and an everything-as-code architecture, labor requirements will significantly decrease and SRE best practices will emerge. Automate as much as possible.

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