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Five-nines availability: Always-on infrastructure delivers system availability during the holidays’ peak loads

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? What is always-on infrastructure?

Infrastructure

Infrastructure Availability Systems Retail

Dynatrace extends Synthetic Monitoring capabilities with Network Availability Monitors to validate the availability of infrastructure and services

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. Combined with Dynatrace OneAgent ® , you gain a precise view of the status of your systems at a glance.

Availability

Availability Network Monitoring Infrastructure

Implementing a Self-Healing Infrastructure With Kubernetes and Prometheus

DZone

MAY 3, 2023

In today's world, the need for highly available and fault-tolerant systems is more important than ever. Furthermore, with the increased adoption of microservices and containerization , the need for a reliable infrastructure that can automatically detect and recover from failures has become critical.

Infrastructure

Infrastructure Open Source Scalability Monitoring

Netflix’s Distributed Counter Abstraction

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

However, this category requires near-immediate access to the current count at low latencies, all while keeping infrastructure costs to a minimum. Eventually Consistent : This category needs accurate and durable counts, and is willing to tolerate a slight delay in accuracy and a slightly higher infrastructure cost as a trade-off.

Latency

Latency Cache Infrastructure Strategy

Achieving High Availability in CI/CD With Observability

DZone

MARCH 5, 2024

Forbes estimates that cloud budgets will break all previous records as businesses will spend over $1 trillion on cloud computing infrastructure in 2024. By integrating observability tools in CI/CD pipelines, organizations can increase deployment frequency, minimize risks, and build highly available systems.

Availability

Availability DevOps Infrastructure Scalability

Enrich Tenable vulnerability findings with Dynatrace runtime context

Dynatrace

JANUARY 14, 2025

However, the challenge often lies in the fragmentation of vulnerability data across different systems and tools. On the other hand, Tenable focuses on infrastructure, conducting comprehensive scans of hosts, web applications, and compliance checks.

Infrastructure

Infrastructure Monitoring Availability Systems

The Dynatrace Platform Subscription model enables broad Infrastructure Monitoring

Dynatrace

JUNE 27, 2023

This subscription model offers the flexibility to deploy Dynatrace even more broadly to gain greater visibility into system performance, improve the ability to detect and prevent bottlenecks, and quickly detect and diagnose problems. With DPS, metrics are available as a pool per tenant.

Infrastructure

Infrastructure Monitoring Metrics Network

Power Dashboarding, Part I: Start your exploration journey with Dashboards

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Whether you’re a seasoned IT expert or a marketing professional looking to improve business performance, understanding the data available to you is essential. With Dashboards , you can monitor business performance, user interactions, security vulnerabilities, IT infrastructure health, and so much more, all in real time.

Metrics

Metrics Infrastructure Monitoring Best Practices

OpenPipeline: Simplify access to critical business data

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

There’s a goldmine of business data traversing your IT systems, yet most of it remains untapped. Other data sources, including APIs and log files — are used to expand access, often to external or proprietary systems. In fact, it’s likely that some of your critical business systems already write business data to log files.

Analytics

Analytics Airlines Metrics Monitoring

Flexible, scalable, self-service Kubernetes native observability now in General Availability

Dynatrace

MAY 17, 2022

For years, enterprises managed observability data on a team-by-team basis , using a combination of ticketing systems and configuration management tools. None of this complexity is exposed to application and infrastructure teams. The application consists of several microservices that are available as pod-backed services.

Availability

Availability Scalability Cloud Metrics

Infrastructure Monitoring tools: 3 steps to evolve ITOps into AIOps

Dynatrace

JUNE 28, 2021

Infrastructure monitoring is the process of collecting critical data about your IT environment, including information about availability, performance and resource efficiency. Many organizations respond by adding a proliferation of infrastructure monitoring tools, which in many cases, just adds to the noise. Dynatrace news.

Infrastructure

Infrastructure Monitoring Artificial Intelligence Open Source

Cloud infrastructure monitoring in action: Dynatrace on Dynatrace

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Since we moved to AWS in May 2014 we have had an availability of 99.95%! It was on August 25 th at 14:00 when Davis initially alerted on a disk write latency issues to Elastic File System (EFS) on one of our EC2 instances in AWS’s Sydney Data Center. Sydney, we have a disk write latency problem!

Infrastructure

Infrastructure Cloud Monitoring AWS

Next-level interaction and customization of data visualizations in Dynatrace Dashboards and Notebooks

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Take your monitoring, data exploration, and storytelling to the next level with outstanding data visualization All your applications and underlying infrastructure produce vast volumes of data that you need to monitor or analyze for insights. Infrastructure health: A honeycomb chart is often used to visualize infrastructure health.

Latency

Latency Infrastructure Monitoring Metrics

What is infrastructure as code? Discover the basics, benefits, and best practices

Dynatrace

JUNE 10, 2022

.” While this methodology extends to every layer of the IT stack, infrastructure as code (IAC) is the most prominent example. Here, we’ll tackle the basics, benefits, and best practices of IAC, as well as choosing infrastructure-as-code tools for your organization. What is infrastructure as code? Consistency.

Best Practices

Best Practices Infrastructure Code Speed

New continuous compliance requirements drive the need to converge observability and security

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Boost your operational resilience: Combining availability and security is now essential. The Federal Reserve Regulation HH in the United States focuses on operational resilience requirements for systemically important financial market utilities. Its time to adopt a unified observability and security approach.

Analytics

Analytics Government Efficiency Innovation

Monitoring of Kubernetes Infrastructure for day 2 operations

Dynatrace

JULY 8, 2020

Kubernetes has taken over the container management world and beyond , to become what some say the operating system or the new Linux of the cloud. For example, a pod might be stuck in a “Pending” state if it cannot be scheduled to run on any node because there aren’t sufficient resources available. Dynatrace news.

Infrastructure

Infrastructure Monitoring Cloud Metrics

Dynatrace observability now available for Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Z and LinuxONE mainframes

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. Dynatrace observability is available for Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Power. Learn more about the new Kubernetes Experience for Platform Engineering.

Availability

Availability Infrastructure Metrics Hardware

Cut costs and complexity: 5 strategies for reducing tool sprawl with Dynatrace

Dynatrace

APRIL 10, 2025

Dynatrace integrates application performance monitoring (APM), infrastructure monitoring, and real-user monitoring (RUM) into a single platform, with its Foundation & Discovery mode offering a cost-effective, unified view of the entire infrastructure, including non-critical applications previously monitored using legacy APM tools.

Strategy

Strategy Storage Network Architecture

Reliability indicators that matter to your business: SLOs for all data types

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 31, 2024

This lets you build your SLOs around the indicators that matter to you and your customers—critical metrics related to availability, failure rates, request response times, or select logs and business events. While the SLO management web UI and API are already available, the dashboard tile will be released within the next weeks.

Metrics

Metrics Availability Monitoring Scalability

Dynatrace SaaS on Google now generally available

Dynatrace

APRIL 20, 2022

In October 2021, Dynatrace announced the availability of the Dynatrace Software Intelligence Platform on Google Cloud as a software as a service (SaaS) solution. Today, we are excited to announce this SaaS delivery model is now generally available (GA) to the public through Dynatrace sales channels. Dynatrace news.

Google

Google Availability Cloud Infrastructure

Vulnerability assessment: key to protecting applications and infrastructure

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Protecting IT infrastructure, applications, and data requires that you understand security weaknesses attackers can exploit. Vulnerability assessment is the process of identifying, quantifying, and prioritizing the cybersecurity vulnerabilities in a given IT system. Dynatrace news. Identify vulnerabilities.

Infrastructure

Infrastructure Open Source Virtualization Operating System

Trace, diagnose, resolve: Introducing the Infrastructure & Operations app for streamlined troubleshooting

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Infrastructure and operations teams must maintain infrastructure health for IT environments. The complex interconnections in cloud-based systems make it crucial to always have a topological overview to understand dependencies. Start using the Infrastructure & Operations app now to assess the health of your system.

Infrastructure

Infrastructure Metrics Network Monitoring

Dynatrace EdgeConnect securely connects your local systems to Dynatrace SaaS

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 10, 2023

EdgeConnect provides a secure bridge for SaaS-heavy companies like Dynatrace, which hosts numerous systems and data behind VPNs. In this hybrid world, IT and business processes often span across a blend of on-premises and SaaS systems, making standardization and automation necessary for efficiency.

Systems

Systems Efficiency Internet Internet

Dynatrace Cost & Carbon Optimization certified for accuracy and transparency

Dynatrace

MARCH 5, 2025

This is partly due to the complexity of instrumenting and analyzing emissions across diverse cloud and on-premises infrastructures. Integration with existing systems and processes : Integration with existing IT infrastructure, observability solutions, and workflows often requires significant investment and customization.

Energy

Energy Analytics Traffic Cloud

Don’t just react: How executives can predict and prevent outages to maximize availability

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. Eventually, the goal is to arrive at self-healing through autonomous cloud operations.

Availability

Availability DevOps Analytics Cloud

Dynatrace joins the Microsoft Intelligent Security Association

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

This rising risk amplifies the need for reliable security solutions that integrate with existing systems. Dynatrace, available as an Azure-native service , has a longstanding partnership with Microsoft, deeply rooted in a strong “build with” approach to deliver seamless user experience.

Best Practices

Best Practices Innovation Azure Cloud

Hybrid cloud infrastructure explained: Weighing the pros, cons, and complexities

Dynatrace

JUNE 29, 2022

More than 90% of enterprises now rely on a hybrid cloud infrastructure to deliver innovative digital services and capture new markets. That’s because cloud platforms offer flexibility and extensibility for an organization’s existing infrastructure. Dynatrace news. With public clouds, multiple organizations share resources.

Infrastructure

Infrastructure Cloud Azure AWS

Managing PostgreSQL® High Availability – Part I: PostgreSQL Automatic Failover

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. Effective management of failover and switchover operations is crucial for high availability.

Availability

Availability Servers Database Open Source

Globalizing Productions with Netflix’s Media Production Suite

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 31, 2025

As file sizes grow and workflows become more complex, these issues are magnified, leading to inefficiencies that slow down post-production and reduce the available time spent on creativework. Depending on the market, or production budget, cutting-edge technology might not be available or affordable. So what isit?

Media

Media Logistics Innovation Cloud

Build systems more reliably with Dynatrace: Chaos Engineering

Dynatrace

AUGUST 21, 2024

These releases often assumed ideal conditions such as zero latency, infinite bandwidth, and no network loss, as highlighted in Peter Deutsch’s eight fallacies of distributed systems. With Dynatrace, teams can seamlessly monitor the entire system, including network switches, database storage, and third-party dependencies.

Engineering

Engineering Systems Latency Metrics

Protecting critical infrastructure and services: Ensure efficient, accurate information delivery this election year

Dynatrace

APRIL 15, 2024

The importance of critical infrastructure and services While digital government is necessary, protecting critical infrastructure and services is equally important. Critical infrastructure and services refer to the systems, facilities, and assets vital for the functioning of society and the economy.

Infrastructure

Infrastructure Efficiency Government Transportation

Supporting Diverse ML Systems at Netflix

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 7, 2024

Berg , Romain Cledat , Kayla Seeley , Shashank Srikanth , Chaoying Wang , Darin Yu Netflix uses data science and machine learning across all facets of the company, powering a wide range of business applications from our internal infrastructure and content demand modeling to media understanding. ETL workflows), as well as downstream (e.g.

Systems

Systems Media Cache Open Source

New analytics capabilities for messaging system-related anomalies

Dynatrace

JANUARY 12, 2022

Messaging systems can significantly improve the reliability, performance, and scalability of the communication processes between applications and services. In serverless and microservices architectures, messaging systems are often used to build asynchronous service-to-service communication. Dynatrace news. This is great!

Analytics

Analytics Systems DevOps Healthcare

RabbitMQ vs. Kafka: Key Differences

Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Introduction to Message Brokers Message brokers enable applications, services, and systems to communicate by acting as intermediaries between senders and receivers. This decoupling simplifies system architecture and supports scalability in distributed environments.

Latency

Latency Analytics Architecture Storage

What is log management? How to tame distributed cloud system complexities

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Log management is an organization’s rules and policies for managing and enabling the creation, transmission, analysis, storage, and other tasks related to IT systems’ and applications’ log data. Most infrastructure and applications generate logs. Two major benefits of properly managed logs are their availability and searchability.

Cloud

Cloud Systems Analytics DevOps

SLOs for Kubernetes clusters: Optimize resource utilization of Kubernetes clusters with service-level objectives

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Kubernetes is a widely used open source system for container orchestration. By gaining insights into how your Kubernetes workloads utilize computing and memory resources, you can make informed decisions about how to size and plan your infrastructure, leading to reduced costs.

Efficiency

Efficiency Best Practices Monitoring Cloud

Foundation Model for Personalized Recommendation

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 28, 2025

By Ko-Jen Hsiao , Yesu Feng and Sudarshan Lamkhede Motivation Netflixs personalized recommender system is a complex system, boasting a variety of specialized machine learned models each catering to distinct needs including Continue Watching and Todays Top Picks for You. Refer to our recent overview for more details).

Tuning

Tuning Efficiency Latency Strategy

Solve hybrid Kubernetes performance and reliability problems with unified observability

Dynatrace

APRIL 10, 2025

In modern containerized environments, teams often deploy Kubernetes across mixed operating systems, creating a situation where both Linux and Windows nodes reside in the same cluster. This inconsistency leads to gaps in monitoring and alerting, making it difficult to maintain a unified view of the cluster’s health.

Performance

Performance Java Operating System Infrastructure

Better dashboarding with Dynatrace Davis AI: Instant meaningful insights

Dynatrace

JANUARY 21, 2025

Ensuring smooth operations is no small feat, whether you’re in charge of application performance, IT infrastructure, or business processes. Activate Davis AI to analyze charts within seconds Davis AI can help you expand your dashboards and dive deeper into your available data to extract additional information.

Traffic

Traffic Metrics Analytics Monitoring

Simplify log onboarding: From zero to observability in minutes

Dynatrace

MARCH 5, 2025

This blog post explains how Dynatrace simplifies log ingestion, whether youre onboarding logs from your infrastructure using OneAgent, cloud services using log forwarding, or driving open-source standardization leveraging OpenTelemetry (OTel), Fluent Bit, or any other API-based ingestion methods.

Open Source

Open Source IoT Cloud Azure

How to observe logs with Journald and Dynatrace

Dynatrace

APRIL 4, 2025

In this blog post, youll learn how Dynatrace OneAgent automatically identifies Journald and ingests structured logs into Dynatrace while enriching them with topology and infrastructure context. Journald provides unified structured logging for systems, services, and applications, eliminating the need for custom parsing for severity or details.

Analytics

Analytics Operating System Scalability Infrastructure

Mastering Kubernetes with Dynatrace

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. Traces help find the flow of a request through a distributed system. Logs represent event data in plain-text, structured or binary format.

Analytics

Analytics Infrastructure AWS Operating System

Keeping an eye on your control plane is critical to ensuring the high availability and health of your self-managed OpenShift Container Platform

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

While many large-scale environments use OpenShift Container Platform (OCP) as their Kubernetes distribution of choice, teams typically still lack intelligent observability and centralized alerting despite the monitoring system included with the platform. This results in performance issues or even downtime that could easily be prevented.

Availability

Availability Best Practices Infrastructure Monitoring

Best Practices for Scaling RabbitMQ

Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Scaling RabbitMQ ensures your system can handle growing traffic and maintain high performance. Key Takeaways RabbitMQ improves scalability and fault tolerance in distributed systems by decoupling applications, enabling reliable message exchanges.

Best Practices

Best Practices Traffic Strategy Scalability

Five-nines availability: Always-on infrastructure delivers system availability during the holidays’ peak loads

Dynatrace extends Synthetic Monitoring capabilities with Network Availability Monitors to validate the availability of infrastructure and services

Trending Sources

Implementing a Self-Healing Infrastructure With Kubernetes and Prometheus

Netflix’s Distributed Counter Abstraction

Achieving High Availability in CI/CD With Observability

Enrich Tenable vulnerability findings with Dynatrace runtime context

The Dynatrace Platform Subscription model enables broad Infrastructure Monitoring

Power Dashboarding, Part I: Start your exploration journey with Dashboards

OpenPipeline: Simplify access to critical business data

Flexible, scalable, self-service Kubernetes native observability now in General Availability

Infrastructure Monitoring tools: 3 steps to evolve ITOps into AIOps

Cloud infrastructure monitoring in action: Dynatrace on Dynatrace

Next-level interaction and customization of data visualizations in Dynatrace Dashboards and Notebooks

What is infrastructure as code? Discover the basics, benefits, and best practices

New continuous compliance requirements drive the need to converge observability and security

Monitoring of Kubernetes Infrastructure for day 2 operations

Dynatrace observability now available for Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Z and LinuxONE mainframes

Cut costs and complexity: 5 strategies for reducing tool sprawl with Dynatrace

Reliability indicators that matter to your business: SLOs for all data types

Dynatrace SaaS on Google now generally available

Vulnerability assessment: key to protecting applications and infrastructure

Trace, diagnose, resolve: Introducing the Infrastructure & Operations app for streamlined troubleshooting

Dynatrace EdgeConnect securely connects your local systems to Dynatrace SaaS

Dynatrace Cost & Carbon Optimization certified for accuracy and transparency

Don’t just react: How executives can predict and prevent outages to maximize availability

Dynatrace joins the Microsoft Intelligent Security Association

Hybrid cloud infrastructure explained: Weighing the pros, cons, and complexities

Managing PostgreSQL® High Availability – Part I: PostgreSQL Automatic Failover

Globalizing Productions with Netflix’s Media Production Suite

Build systems more reliably with Dynatrace: Chaos Engineering

Protecting critical infrastructure and services: Ensure efficient, accurate information delivery this election year

Supporting Diverse ML Systems at Netflix

New analytics capabilities for messaging system-related anomalies

RabbitMQ vs. Kafka: Key Differences

What is log management? How to tame distributed cloud system complexities

SLOs for Kubernetes clusters: Optimize resource utilization of Kubernetes clusters with service-level objectives

Foundation Model for Personalized Recommendation

Solve hybrid Kubernetes performance and reliability problems with unified observability

Better dashboarding with Dynatrace Davis AI: Instant meaningful insights

Simplify log onboarding: From zero to observability in minutes

How to observe logs with Journald and Dynatrace

Mastering Kubernetes with Dynatrace

Keeping an eye on your control plane is critical to ensuring the high availability and health of your self-managed OpenShift Container Platform

Best Practices for Scaling RabbitMQ

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