Dynatrace

JANUARY 31, 2024

Organizations choose data-driven approaches to maximize the value of their data, achieve better business outcomes, and realize cost savings by improving their products, services, and processes. However, there are many obstacles and limitations along the way to becoming a data-driven organization.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

By Abhinaya Shetty , Bharath Mummadisetty In the inaugural blog post of this series, we introduced you to the state of our pipelines before Psyberg and the challenges with incremental processing that led us to create the Psyberg framework within Netflix’s Membership and Finance data engineering team.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

A production bug is the worst; besides impacting customer experience, you need special access privileges, making the process far more time-consuming. It also makes the process risky as production servers might be more exposed, leading to the need for real-time production data. This cumbersome process should not be the norm.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 23, 2024

With the Distributed Tracing app, you can flexibly slice and dice raw trace data to understand what went wrong and why. Find what you’re looking for faster with: Enhanced charting and data visualization: Easily filter, group, search, and visualize trace data to gain deeper insights into your system’s behavior.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

By: Rajiv Shringi , Oleksii Tkachuk , Kartik Sathyanarayanan Introduction In our previous blog post, we introduced Netflix’s TimeSeries Abstraction , a distributed service designed to store and query large volumes of temporal event data with low millisecond latencies. Today, we’re excited to present the Distributed Counter Abstraction.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 5, 2025

The newly introduced step-by-step guidance streamlines the process, while quick data flow validation accelerates the onboarding experience even for power users. Step-by-step setup The log ingestion wizard guides you through the prerequisites and provides ready-to-use command examples to start the installation process.

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Scalegrid

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Managing High Availability (HA) in your PostgreSQL hosting is very important to ensuring your database deployment clusters maintain exceptional uptime and strong operational performance so your data is always available to your application. It reduces downtime and supports business continuity.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 12, 2024

The business process observability challenge Increasingly dynamic business conditions demand business agility; reacting to a supply chain disruption and optimizing order fulfillment are simple but illustrative examples. Most business processes are not monitored. First and foremost, it’s a data problem.

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 3, 2022

by Jasmine Omeke , Obi-Ike Nwoke , Olek Gorajek Intro This post is for all data practitioners, who are interested in learning about bootstrapping, standardization and automation of batch data pipelines at Netflix. You may remember Dataflow from the post we wrote last year titled Data pipeline asset management with Dataflow.

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Dynatrace

MAY 17, 2022

By taking advantage of native Kubernetes standards, Dynatrace Cloud Native Full Stack injection empowers you to precisely provide the data that your teams need in exceptionally fast and automated ways. These situations apply to organizations that are looking to: Onboard teams to Kubernetes observability data as quickly as possible.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

The nirvana state of system uptime at peak loads is known as “five-nines availability.” In its pursuit, IT teams hover over system performance dashboards hoping their preparations will deliver five nines—or even four nines—availability. But is five nines availability attainable? Downtime per year. 90% (one nine).

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Sometimes, introducing new IT solutions is delayed or canceled because a single business unit can’t manage the operating costs alone, and per-department cost insights that could facilitate cost sharing aren’t available. In scenarios like these, automated and precise cost allocation can make a huge difference.

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Dynatrace

JULY 15, 2024

As HTTP and browser monitors cover the application level of the ISO /OSI model , successful executions of synthetic tests indicate that availability and performance meet the expected thresholds of your entire technological stack. Our script, available on GitHub , provides details. Are the corresponding services running on those hosts?

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 21, 2025

Ensuring smooth operations is no small feat, whether you’re in charge of application performance, IT infrastructure, or business processes. However, your responsibilities might change or expand, and you need to work with unfamiliar data sets. Your trained eye can interpret them at a glance, a skill that sets you apart.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

Unrealized optimization potential of business processes due to monitoring gaps Imagine a retail company facing gaps in its business process monitoring due to disparate data sources. Due to separated systems that handle different parts of the process, the view of the process is fragmented.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 10, 2024

You’re gathering a lot of data, but you can’t make sense of it. A histogram is a specific type of metric that allows users to understand the distribution of data points over a period of time. In practice, histograms are useful when the measurement distribution is relevant and the data sets are large.

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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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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

AI transformation, modernization, managing intelligent apps, safeguarding data, and accelerating productivity are all key themes at Microsoft Ignite 2024. Adopting AI to enhance efficiency and boost productivity is critical in a time of exploding data, cloud complexities, and disparate technologies.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 14, 2024

ABAC has several advantages: Enhanced security , providing granular control over access permissions, significantly reducing the risk of data breaches and unauthorized activities. High granularity by segmenting resource and record-level data, ensuring that access decisions are precise and context-aware.

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Dynatrace

MAY 2, 2024

Across the globe, privacy laws grant individuals data subject rights, such as the right to access and delete personal data processed about them. Successful compliance with privacy rights requests involves tracking and verifying requests across the entire data ecosystem, including third-party services.

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Dynatrace

JULY 24, 2024

IBM Z and LinuxONE mainframes running the Linux operating system enable you to respond faster to business demands, protect data from core to cloud, and streamline insights and automation. Telemetry data, such as traces and metrics, allow you to analyze the end-to-end performance of your deployed applications.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 3, 2024

The end goal, of course, is to optimize the availability of organizations’ software. Dynatrace is widely recognized for its AI capabilities’ ability to predict and prevent issues, and automatically identify root causes, maximizing availability.

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Every image you hover over isnt just a visual placeholder; its a critical data point that fuels our sophisticated personalization engine. It requires a state-of-the-art system that can track and process these impressions while maintaining a detailed history of each profiles exposure.

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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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Dynatrace

MAY 23, 2024

The jobs executing such workloads are usually required to operate indefinitely on unbounded streams of continuous data and exhibit heterogeneous modes of failure as they run over long periods. Performance is usually a primary concern when using stream processing frameworks. This significantly increases event latency.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 5, 2025

Cloud service providers (CSPs) share carbon footprint data with their customers, but the focus of these tools is on reporting and trending, effectively targeting sustainability officers and business leaders. The certification results are now publicly available.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 22, 2025

Dynatrace Simple Workflows make this process automatic and frictionlessthere is no additional cost for workflows. Why manual alerting falls short As your product and deployments scale horizontally and vertically, the sheer volume of data makes it impossible for teams to catch every error quickly using manual processes.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

By Abhinaya Shetty , Bharath Mummadisetty At Netflix, our Membership and Finance Data Engineering team harnesses diverse data related to plans, pricing, membership life cycle, and revenue to fuel analytics, power various dashboards, and make data-informed decisions. We expect complete and accurate data at the end of each run.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Log data provides a unique source of truth for debugging applications, optimizing infrastructure, and investigating security incidents. This contextualization of log data enables AI-powered problem detection and root cause analysis at scale. Dynamic landscape and data handling requirements result in manual work.

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Dynatrace

MAY 3, 2024

Log data—the most verbose form of observability data, complementing other standardized signals like metrics and traces—is especially critical. As cloud complexity grows, it brings more volume, velocity, and variety of log data. When trying to address this challenge, your cloud architects will likely choose Amazon Data Firehose.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

As an industry leader, Dynatrace promotes primarily using software and AI to deal with this complexity at scale instead of just putting data on dashboards. Does that mean that reactive and exploratory data analysis, often done manually and with the help of dashboards, are dead? Why today’s data analytics solutions still fail us.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 10, 2023

This platform has evolved from supporting studio applications to data science applications, machine-learning applications to discover the assets metadata, and build various data facts. Hence we built the data pipeline that can be used to extract the existing assets metadata and process it specifically to each new use case.

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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

JANUARY 4, 2024

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. Teams need to ensure the data is accurate and correctly represents real-world scenarios. Consistency.

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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

AUGUST 20, 2024

Driven by that value, Dynatrace brings real-time observability, security, and business data into context and makes sense of it so our customers can get answers, automate, predict, and prevent. Executives are sitting on a goldmine of data, and they don’t know it.

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Central to this infrastructure is our use of multiple online distributed databases such as Apache Cassandra , a NoSQL database known for its high availability and scalability. Second, developers had to constantly re-learn new data modeling practices and common yet critical data access patterns.

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