Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2023

Certain service-level objective examples can help organizations get started on measuring and delivering metrics that matter. Teams can build on these SLO examples to improve application performance and reliability. In this post, I’ll lay out five SLO examples that every DevOps and SRE team should consider. or 99.99% of the time.

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Analyzing impression history, for example, might help determine how well a specific row on the home page is functioning or assess the effectiveness of a merchandising strategy. This dual availability ensures immediate processing capabilities alongside comprehensive long-term data retention.

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DZone

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

And there are a lot of monitoring tools available providing all kinds of features and concepts. For example, you can monitor the behavior of your applications, the hardware usage of your server nodes, or even the network traffic between servers. For that reason, we use monitoring tools.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 14, 2023

The control group’s traffic utilized the legacy Falcor stack, while the experiment population leveraged the new GraphQL client and was directed to the GraphQL Shim. This helped us successfully migrate 100% of the traffic on the mobile homepage canvas to GraphQL in 6 months. How does it work?

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Scalegrid

APRIL 16, 2019

In this three-part blog series, we introduced a High Availability (HA) Framework for MySQL hosting in Part I, and discussed the details of MySQL semisynchronous replication in Part II. Now in Part III, we review how the framework handles some of the important MySQL failure scenarios and recovers to ensure high availability.

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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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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

How viewers are able to watch their favorite show on Netflix while the infrastructure self-recovers from a system failure By Manuel Correa , Arthur Gonigberg , and Daniel West Getting stuck in traffic is one of the most frustrating experiences for drivers around the world. Logs and background requests are examples of this type of traffic.

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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. Example F5 overview dashboard.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 22, 2020

While most government agencies and commercial enterprises have digital services in place, the current volume of usage — including traffic to critical employment, health and retail/eCommerce services — has reached levels that many organizations have never seen before or tested against. So how do you know what to prepare for?

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

A standard Docker container can run anywhere, on a personal computer (for example, PC, Mac, Linux), in the cloud, on local servers, and even on edge devices. This opens the door to auto-scalable applications, which effortlessly matches the demands of rapidly growing and varying user traffic. Here are some examples. Networking.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2023

But how do you get started, and what are some service level objective examples? In this post, I’ll lay out five foundational service level objective examples that every DevOps and SRE team should consider. These organizations rely heavily on performance, availability, and user satisfaction to drive sales and retain customers.

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Dynatrace

MAY 21, 2021

This becomes even more challenging when the application receives heavy traffic, because a single microservice might become overwhelmed if it receives too many requests too quickly. How service meshes work: The Istio example. The Envoy proxies also collect and report telemetry on all traffic among the services in the mesh.

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Dynatrace

MAY 6, 2020

Over the last two month s, w e’ve monito red key sites and applications across industries that have been receiving surges in traffic , including government, health insurance, retail, banking, and media. Readers who share our privacy concerns, please note, all the data we monitor is publicly available. . Monitoring with ?the

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Dynatrace

APRIL 16, 2020

Aside from the huge surge in internal application usage, businesses are also witnessing increased levels of user traffic to their applications. Facilitating an understanding of traffic patterns and potential traffic spikes helps maintain customer experience. One example of these surges was from an unemployment application.

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

For example, a member-triggered event such as “ change in a profile’s maturity level” should have a much higher priority than a “ system diagnostic signal”. We thus assigned a priority to each use case and sharded event traffic by routing to priority-specific queues and the corresponding event processing clusters.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

For example, by measuring deployment frequency daily or weekly, you can determine how efficiently your team is responding to process changes. In a world where 99.999% availability is the standard, measuring MTTR is a crucial practice to ensure resiliency and stability. App availability. Application usage and traffic.

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High Scalability

APRIL 16, 2019

In this three-part blog series, we introduced a High Availability (HA) Framework for MySQL hosting in Part I, and discussed the details of MySQL semisynchronous replication in Part II. Now in Part III, we review how the framework handles some of the important MySQL failure scenarios and recovers to ensure high availability.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 9, 2020

For example, to address challenges like asynchronous communications or security and isolation in microservice architectures, organizations often introduce third-party libraries and frameworks like Hazelcast IMDG. With Dynatrace OneAgent you also benefit from support for traffic routing and traffic control. Dynatrace news.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 5, 2024

Next, a pragmatic approach involves examining the backend, focusing on Service type entities prominently exposed to the frontend (for example, Apache Tomcat in a Linux environment). In today’s landscape, we lack a clear understanding of properly creating frontend SLOs (for example, RUM application type entities) based on key user actions.

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Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

To make data count and to ensure cloud computing is unabated, companies and organizations must have highly available databases. This guide provides an overview of what high availability means, the components involved, how to measure high availability, and how to achieve it. How does high availability work?

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Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Its design prioritizes high availability and efficient data transfer with minimal overhead, making it a practical choice for handling real-time data pipelines and distributed event processing. It follows a push-based approach, ensuring messages are distributed to consumers as soon as they become available.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Cloud migration is the process of transferring some or all your data, software, and operations to a cloud-based computing environment that offers unlimited scale and high availability. In case of a spike in traffic, you can automatically spin up more resources, often in a matter of seconds. Improved performance and availability.

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DZone

DECEMBER 28, 2020

The system could work efficiently with a specific number of concurrent users; however, it may get dysfunctional with extra loads during peak traffic. For example, the gaming app has to present definite actions to bring the right experience. An app is built with some expectations and is supposed to provide firm results.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

At Netflix, we periodically reevaluate our workloads to optimize utilization of available capacity. A quick canary test was free of errors and showed lower latency, which is expected given that our standard canary setup routes an equal amount of traffic to both the baseline running on 4xl and the canary on 12xl. let’s call it GS2?—?to

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Most applications communicate with databases to, for example, pull a catalog entry or submit a new record when an order is placed. For example, what happens if there is a bug that prevents an app from letting go of a database connection once a transaction is completed? Dynatrace news. Automatically detect undersized connection pools.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 25, 2023

These signals ( latency, traffic, errors, and saturation ) provide a solid means of proactively monitoring operative systems via SLOs and tracking business success. SLOs, as a measure of service quality, can track the related availability, reliability, and performance. This is what Dynatrace captures as response time.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Quality gates examples in Dynatrace Quality gates hold much promise for organizations looking to release better software faster. The following are specific examples that demonstrate quality gates in action: Security gates Security gates ensure code meets key security requirements defined by development and security stakeholders.

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Dynatrace

MAY 3, 2024

Take the example of Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) flow logs, which provide insights into the IP traffic of your network interfaces. 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

JUNE 26, 2020

With today’s high expectations for the speed and availability of applications, you need a deep understanding of real user experiences to make the best business decisions. Dynatrace Synthetic Monitoring ensures that your application is available and performs well from anywhere in the world to meet your SLAs. Dynatrace news.

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Dynatrace

JULY 15, 2024

Finally, adding additional components on the edge to filter and transform syslog messages (for example, Dynatrace OpenTelemetry distribution ) isn’t always possible due to architectural reasons or because it adds unnecessary complexity and cost of ownership when scaling your business. Setting up your first Environment ActiveGate?

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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. In this example, “Reverse proxy” and “Front-end server” are clearly in the critical path. Availability. So how can teams start implementing SLOs? Reliability.

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Percona

JUNE 12, 2023

When it comes to access to their applications, users demand instant, reliable, and secure interactions — and that means databases must be highly available. With database high availability (HA), services are largely uninterrupted, and end users are largely satisfied. The obvious answer is this: To achieve high availability.

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

This means that our microservices constantly evolve and change, but what doesn’t change is our responsibility to provide a highly available service that delivers 100+ million hours of daily streaming to our subscribers. In addition, the ratio of CE to mobile streaming differs regionally; for example, mobile is more popular in South America.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 25, 2020

Example #1 Order System: No change in user or buyers’ behavior. The first example comes from Thomas, who is using Dynatrace to monitor core business applications. Thomas has set up Dynatrace Real User Monitoring in a way for it to monitor internal and external traffic separately. One of our version control systems is Bitbucket.

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Dynatrace

JULY 2, 2024

For example, some Proof-of-concept attacks have failed, and these failures write various error messages to the victims’ sshd logs. Using the VPC flow log default pattern available in DPL Architect, we can extract the meaningful fields to see only the network traffic targeting the SSH port.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 11, 2023

With more organizations taking the multicloud plunge, monitoring cloud infrastructure is critical to ensure all components of the cloud computing stack are available, high-performing, and secure. For example, uptime detection can identify database instability and help to improve mean time to restoration. Database monitoring.

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Scalegrid

MAY 2, 2019

When deploying in production, it’s highly recommended to setup in a MongoDB replica set configuration so your data is geographically distributed for high availability. It is also recommended that SSL connections be enabled to encrypt the client-database traffic. servers.mongodirector.com:27017,SG-example-1.servers.mongodirector.com:27017,SG-example-2.servers.mongodirector.com:27017/admin?replicaSet=RS-example&ssl=true'

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