The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 17, 2024

DataJunction: Unifying Experimentation and Analytics Yian Shang , AnhLe At Netflix, like in many organizations, creating and using metrics is often more complex than it should be. DJ acts as a central store where metric definitions can live and evolve. As an example, imagine an analyst wanting to create a Total Streaming Hours metric.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 22, 2025

Your teams want to iterate rapidly but face multiple hurdles: Increased complexity: Microservices and container-based apps generate massive logs and metrics. You can select any trigger thats available for standard workflows, including schedules, problem triggers, customer event triggers, or on-demand triggers.

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Dynatrace

MAY 20, 2020

Dynatrace collects a huge number of metrics for each OneAgent-monitored host in your environment. Depending on the types of technologies you’re running on individual hosts, the average number of metrics is about 500 per computational node. Running metric queries on a subset of entities for live monitoring and system overviews.

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Dynatrace

JULY 24, 2024

Telemetry data, such as traces and metrics, allow you to analyze the end-to-end performance of your deployed applications. It automates tasks such as provisioning and scaling Dynatrace monitoring components, updating configurations, and ensuring the health and availability of your monitoring infrastructure.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

A Kubernetes SLO that continuously evaluates CPU, memory usage, and capacity and compares these available resources to the requested and utilized memory of Kubernetes workloads makes potential resource waste visible, revealing opportunities for countermeasures.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 7, 2022

Micrometer is used for instrumenting both out-of-the-box and custom metrics from Spring Boot applications. Davis topology-aware anomaly detection and alerting for your Micrometer metrics. Topology-related custom metrics for seamless reports and alerts. Micrometer uses a registry to export metrics to monitoring systems.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 5, 2025

The Carbon Impact app directly supports our customers sustainability efforts through granular real-time emissions reporting and analytics, translating host utilization metrics into their CO2 equivalent (CO2e). The certification results are now publicly available. Today, Carbon Impact has a new name: Cost & Carbon Optimization.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Dynatrace has recently extended its Kubernetes operator by adding a new feature, the Prometheus OpenMetrics Ingest , which enables you to import Prometheus metrics in Dynatrace and build SLO and anomaly detection dashboards with Prometheus data. Here we’ll explore how to collect Prometheus metrics and what you can achieve with them.

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Dynatrace

JULY 23, 2020

With the advent and ingestion of thousands of custom metrics into Dynatrace, we’ve once again pushed the boundaries of automatic, AI-based root cause analysis with the introduction of auto-adaptive baselines as a foundational concept for Dynatrace topology-driven timeseries measurements. In many cases, metric behavior changes over time.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 16, 2022

Now, Dynatrace has the ability to turn numerical values from logs into metrics, which unlocks AI-powered answers, context, and automation for your apps and infrastructure, at scale. The parameter Billed Duration is only available in logs , so it makes sense to extract it from your logs so that you can keep an eye on your cloud costs.

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Dynatrace

JULY 31, 2020

We’re happy to announce the General Availability of cross-environment dashboarding capabilities (having released this functionality in an Early Adopter release with Dynatrace version 1.172 back in June 2019). Keep the token secret available for the second and final configuration step. Dynatrace news. What you get with this update.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 2, 2021

Metrics matter. But without complex analytics to make sense of them in context, metrics are often too raw to be useful on their own. To achieve relevant insights, raw metrics typically need to be processed through filtering, aggregation, or arithmetic operations. Examples of metric calculations. Dynatrace news.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Dynatrace provides tooling and documentation to help you migrate your Extensions 1.0 address these limitations and brings new monitoring and analytical capabilities that weren’t available to Extensions 1.0: Comprehensive metrics support Extensions 2.0 available, and more are in the pipeline. We’re here to help.

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 19, 2024

The standard dictionary subscript notation is also available. Consider these examples from the updated documentation: You can choose the right level of runtime configurability versus fixed deployments by mixing Parameters and Configs. Take a look at two interesting examples of this pattern in the documentation.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 13, 2025

You can find additional deployment options in the OpenTelemetry demo documentation. The configuration also includes an optional span metrics connector, which generates Request, Error, and Duration (R.E.D.) metrics from span data. metrics from span data. Select + then select Metrics from the drop-down.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 22, 2019

After being available in an Early Adopter Release, we’re happy to announce that AWS supporting services are now Generally Available (GA). Supporting services include every service that isn’t available with out-of-the-box Dynatrace monitoring. Get up to 300 new AWS metrics out of the box. Everything is customizable.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 24, 2020

To make this possible, the application code should be instrumented with telemetry data for deep insights, including: Metrics to find out how the behavior of a system has changed over time. And because Dynatrace can consume CloudWatch metrics, almost all your AWS usage information is available to you within Dynatrace.

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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. With this out-of-the-box support for scalable data ingest, log data is immediately available to your teams for troubleshooting and observability, investigating security issues, or auditing.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

A simple and automated approach can help you stay on top of things and ensure your systems are available and secure. Search the Hub to find Extensions for effortlessly importing technology-specific metrics. These include links to documentation, a list of similar technologies, customer stories, and further reading materials.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 22, 2019

After being available in an Early Adopter Release, we’re happy to announce that AWS supporting services are now Generally Available (GA). Supporting services include every service that isn’t available with out-of-the-box Dynatrace monitoring. Get up to 300 new AWS metrics out of the box. Everything is customizable.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 4, 2025

It provides unified observability by automatically correlating logs and placing them in the context of traces and metrics. Since you can ingest Journald logs using Dynatrace OneAgent, this feature is available to customers of both the latest Dynatrace SaaS and Dynatrace Managed.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 17, 2025

To set up the token, see Dynatrace APITokens and authentication in Dynatrace documentation. If you dont have one, you can use a trial account. A Dynatrace API token with the following permissions. It also showed the power of DQL to pinpoint the root cause of an unexpected problem.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 17, 2023

Spring also introduced Micrometer, a vendor-agnostic metric API with rich instrumentation options. Soon after, Dynatrace built a registry for exporting Micrometer metrics. Our data APIs, which ingest millions of metrics, traces, and logs per second, are reconciled using Micrometer-based metrics.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 5, 2023

The F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) is an application delivery controller (ADC) that ensures the availability, security, and optimal performance of network traffic flows. Business-critical applications typically rely on F5 for availability and success. You can customize the metrics shown to suit your individual needs.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Optimizing cloud services can prove quite challenging because logs, metrics, and traces are not always put together in context, and you don’t have access to the underlying hosts. Even so, logs are normally available in cloud consoles, though effective analysis can’t be performed using logs alone. One place to rule them all.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 4, 2024

The training times and other quality metrics, such as the RMSE (Root Mean Squared Error), SMAPE (Scaled Mean Absolute Percentage Error), and coverage probability, are monitored using Dynatrace. Our data scientists utilize metrics and events to store these quality metrics. For full details, see Dynatrace Documentation.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 21, 2022

Log Monitoring documentation. Starting with Dynatrace version 1.239, we have restructured and enhanced our Log Monitoring documentation to better focus on concepts and information that you, the user, look for and need. Legacy Log Monitoring v1 Documentation. The display name is now required in metric metadata. Dashboards.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Resource consumption: Observing computational resource availability and saturation, whether deployed in cloud-native environments like Kubernetes or CPU-enabled servers. OpenTelemetry has become a standard for collecting traces, metrics, and logs. Maintained under the Apache 2.0

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Dynatrace

JULY 5, 2023

We can establish these SLOs by setting availability and performance targets, such as a target uptime percentage or a target response time. We can build the availability SLO using the Dynatrace SLO wizard. We already know how to build the availability SLO. You can use the status metric as a reference for the global SLO.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 27, 2020

Dynatrace’s ability to ingest metrics from all 95 AWS services will be available within the next 60 days. Those in the left column are readily available now, with those in the right available soon. Available Now. AWS SDK Metrics for Enterprise Support. Achieve full observability of all AWS services.

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Dynatrace

MAY 23, 2024

With the AI-powered Dynatrace platform now generally available on Azure, Azure Native Dynatrace Service customers can now leverage the full AI power of the Dynatrace platform directly from Azure. Clouds provides resource properties, metrics, problems, and events in a single view, as shown below.

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Dynatrace

JULY 15, 2024

Without seeing syslog data in the context of your infrastructure, metrics, and transaction traces, you’re slowed down by manual work with siloed data. What’s next See these related resources for complete details about Dynatrace syslog support: Syslog ingestion is available with Dynatrace Environment ActiveGate version 1.295.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 7, 2022

Micrometer is used for instrumenting both out-of-the-box and custom metrics from Spring Boot applications. Davis topology-aware anomaly detection and alerting for your Micrometer metrics. Topology-related custom metrics for seamless reports and alerts. Micrometer uses a registry to export metrics to monitoring systems.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 7, 2022

Micrometer is used for instrumenting both out-of-the-box and custom metrics from Spring Boot applications. Davis topology-aware anomaly detection and alerting for your Micrometer metrics. Topology-related custom metrics for seamless reports and alerts. Micrometer uses a registry to export metrics to monitoring systems.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 21, 2024

Define monitoring goals and user experience metrics Next, define what aspects of a digital experience you want to monitor and improve — such as website performance, application responsiveness, or user engagement — and prioritize what to measure for each application. The time it takes to begin the page’s load event. Load event end.

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

This framework was initially intended to be internal only, focusing on integration with the Netflix ecosystem for tracing, logging, metrics, etc. Comprehensive documentation is available on the website but let’s walk through an example to show you how easy it is to use this framework. Let’s start with a simple schema.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 28, 2020

In addition to APM , th is platform offers our customers infrastructure monitoring spanning logs and metrics, digital business analytics, digital experience monitoring, and AIOps capabilities. as part of a larger research document and should be evaluated in the context of the entire document.

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