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HTTP monitors on the latest Dynatrace platform extend insights into the health of your API endpoints and simplify test management

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Traditional insight into HTTP monitor execution details For nearly two thousand Dynatrace customers, Dynatrace Synthetic HTTP monitors provide insights into the health of monitored endpoints worldwide and around the clock. It now fully supports not only Network Availability Monitors but also HTTP synthetic monitors.

Monitoring

Monitoring Testing Metrics Analytics

Build resilient IT systems and manage regulatory requirements with compliance and resilience capabilities from Dynatrace

Dynatrace

JANUARY 15, 2025

Here’s how Dynatrace can help automate up to 80% of technical tasks required to manage compliance and resilience: Understand the complexity of IT systems in real time Proactively prevent, prioritize, and efficiently manage performance and security incidents Automate manual and routine tasks to increase your productivity 1.

Systems

Systems DevOps Analytics Monitoring

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

Dynatrace

JULY 15, 2024

Current synthetic capabilities Dynatrace Synthetic Monitoring is a powerful tool that provides insight into the health of your applications around the clock and as they’re perceived by your end users worldwide. Combined with Dynatrace OneAgent ® , you gain a precise view of the status of your systems at a glance.

Availability

Availability Network Monitoring Infrastructure

Elevating System Management: The Role of Monitoring and Observability in DevOps

DZone

JUNE 21, 2023

In the ever-evolving world of DevOps , the ability to gain deep insights into system behavior, diagnose issues, and improve overall performance is one of the top priorities. Monitoring and observability are two key concepts that facilitate this process, offering valuable visibility into the health and performance of systems.

DevOps

DevOps Systems Monitoring Metrics

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? Downtime per year. 90% (one nine).

Infrastructure

Infrastructure Availability Systems Retail

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

Tailored access management, Part 3: Simplified setup for enterprise-scale access management

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Manage the complexity of authorization systems Most modern authorization systems provide access management using Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC). The system demands significant effort to design, manage, and maintain, especially as an organization’s needs evolve.

Monitoring

Monitoring Metrics Systems Scalability

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. Service-level objectives are typically used to monitor business-critical services and applications. This feature is valuable for platform owners who want to monitor and optimize their Kubernetes environment.

Efficiency

Efficiency Best Practices Monitoring Cloud

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. The integration of Dynatrace with Tenable Vulnerability Management and the Tenable One platform brings a comprehensive approach to vulnerability management and user activity monitoring.

Infrastructure

Infrastructure Monitoring Availability Systems

Rapid Event Notification System at Netflix

The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

To this end, we developed a Rapid Event Notification System (RENO) to support use cases that require server initiated communication with devices in a scalable and extensible manner. In this blog post, we will give an overview of the Rapid Event Notification System at Netflix and share some of the learnings we gained along the way.

Systems

Systems Traffic Architecture Mobile

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. A team looking for metrics, traces, and logs no longer needs to file a ticket to get their app monitored in their own environments. Monitoring such an application is easy.

Availability

Availability Scalability Cloud Metrics

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

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

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Automate digital excellence with Dynatrace Synthetic Monitoring and Workflows

Dynatrace

JULY 18, 2024

On one hand, the complexity of systems demands precise control; on the other, staying competitive requires frequent updates and rapid service enhancements. Synthetic monitoring enhances observability by enabling proactive testing and monitoring systems to identify potential issues before they quickly impact users.

Monitoring

Monitoring DevOps Infrastructure Games

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

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. Runtime application protection.

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Best Practices Innovation Azure Cloud

10 digital experience monitoring best practices

Dynatrace

JUNE 21, 2024

Digital experience monitoring (DEM) is crucial for organizations to meet this demand and succeed in today’s competitive digital economy. DEM solutions monitor and analyze the quality of digital experiences for users across digital channels. The time taken to complete the page load.

Best Practices

Best Practices Monitoring Metrics Transportation

New Distributed Tracing app provides effortless trace insights

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 23, 2024

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. The new Services app is already available to all DPS and non-DPS customers. They use Kubernetes to power their marketplace.

Tuning

Tuning Website Availability Performance

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. Full stack observability gives you comprehensive observability across your entire stack, including Kubernetes clusters, logs, and more.

Availability

Availability Infrastructure Metrics Monitoring

Title Launch Observability at Netflix Scale

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 4, 2025

Part 3: System Strategies and Architecture By: VarunKhaitan With special thanks to my stunning colleagues: Mallika Rao , Esmir Mesic , HugoMarques This blog post is a continuation of Part 2 , where we cleared the ambiguity around title launch observability at Netflix. Implement proactive monitoring for each of these endpoints.

Traffic

Traffic Strategy Entertainment Innovation

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

Observability vs. monitoring: What’s the difference?

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

This trend is prompting advances in both observability and monitoring. But exactly what are the differences between observability vs. monitoring? Monitoring and observability provide a two-pronged approach. To get a better understanding of observability vs monitoring, we’ll explore the differences between the two.

Monitoring

Monitoring Metrics DevOps Scalability

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. Based on the color, you immediately see if any SLOs are off track. Try different cell shapes.

Latency

Latency Infrastructure Monitoring Metrics

Demo: Transform OpenTelemetry data into actionable insights with the Dynatrace Distributed Tracing app

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 29, 2024

The Service Level Monitoring section contains the following charts: Top Spans: An overview of the most frequent spans ingested into Dynatrace. Once the data is available in Dynatrace, DQL makes it easy to retrieve and visualize it on a dashboard. To install the OpenTelemetry Demo application dashboard, upload the JSON file.

Metrics

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Better dashboarding with Dynatrace Davis AI: Instant meaningful insights

Dynatrace

JANUARY 21, 2025

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. For example, if you’re monitoring network traffic and the average over the past 7 days is 500 Mbps, the threshold will adapt to this baseline.

Traffic

Traffic Metrics Analytics Monitoring

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. But moreover, business is the top priority; it never made sense to me to just monitor servers. And when outages do occur, Dynatrace AI-powered, automatic root-cause analysis can also help them to remediate issues as quickly as possible.

Availability

Availability DevOps Analytics Cloud

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

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

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

Netflix’s Distributed Counter Abstraction

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Use Cases and Requirements At Netflix, our counting use cases include tracking millions of user interactions, monitoring how often specific features or experiences are shown to users, and counting multiple facets of data during A/B test experiments , among others. Clients can use this token to safely retry or hedge their requests.

Latency

Latency Cache Infrastructure Strategy

Easily monitor IBM i with updated Dynatrace extension

Dynatrace

MARCH 6, 2024

IBM i, formerly known as iSeries, is an operating system developed by IBM for its line of IBM i Power Systems servers. It is based on the IBM AS/400 system and is known for its reliability, scalability, and security features. Some tools demand the installation of agents on those systems and provide complex, disconnected views.

Monitoring

Monitoring Infrastructure Metrics Operating System

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. Comparing log monitoring, log analytics, and log management. Log management brings together log monitoring and log analysis.

Cloud

Cloud Systems Analytics DevOps

DevOps monitoring tools: How to drive DevOps efficiency

Dynatrace

MAY 8, 2023

With the world’s increased reliance on digital services and the organizational pressure on IT teams to innovate faster, the need for DevOps monitoring tools has grown exponentially. But when and how does DevOps monitoring fit into the process? And how do DevOps monitoring tools help teams achieve DevOps efficiency?

DevOps

DevOps Efficiency Monitoring Infrastructure

Real user monitoring vs. synthetic monitoring: Understanding best practices

Dynatrace

JUNE 27, 2022

As businesses compete for customer loyalty, it’s critical to understand the difference between real-user monitoring and synthetic user monitoring. However, not all user monitoring systems are created equal. What is real user monitoring? Real-time monitoring of user application and service interactions.

Best Practices

Best Practices Monitoring Wireless Traffic

Create simple workflows to automate alerts during development

Dynatrace

JANUARY 22, 2025

Traditional monitoring approaches often require manual scripting and integration to get alerted about production-threatening issues in pre-production environments. You can select any trigger thats available for standard workflows, including schedules, problem triggers, customer event triggers, or on-demand triggers.

Development

Development Processing Monitoring Code

Simplify log onboarding: From zero to observability in minutes

Dynatrace

MARCH 5, 2025

The log ingestion wizard offers support for all log ingestion methods available in Dynatrace Hub Get started with Logs: The OneAgent advantage For most scenarios, Dynatrace OneAgent is your best friend for getting started with Dynatrace log ingestion. Different log ingestion methods are available to address various needs.

Open Source

Open Source IoT Cloud Azure

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 Efficiency

Why log monitoring and log analytics matter in a hyperscale world

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Log monitoring, log analysis, and log analytics are more important than ever as organizations adopt more cloud-native technologies, containers, and microservices-based architectures. A log is a detailed, timestamped record of an event generated by an operating system, computing environment, application, server, or network device.

Analytics

Analytics Monitoring DevOps Artificial Intelligence

Business Flow: Why IT operations teams should monitor business processes

Dynatrace

MARCH 12, 2024

However, business processes can be inefficient, broken, or violate Service Level Objectives (SLOs) even when the underlying system’s health is good; a process is greater than the sum of its parts. Most business processes are not monitored. First and foremost, it’s a data problem.

Processing

Processing Monitoring Analytics C++

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

Next-level batch job monitoring and alerting: Elevate performance and reliability

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

As batch jobs run without user interactions, failure or delays in processing them can result in disruptions to critical operations, missed deadlines, and an accumulation of unprocessed tasks, significantly impacting overall system efficiency and business outcomes. The urgency of monitoring these batch jobs can’t be overstated.

Monitoring

Monitoring Performance IoT Analytics

Citrix monitoring with Dynatrace: Easily observe your entire Citrix ecosystem

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Automated AI-powered analytics are necessary to match the scale of monitoring these enterprises require. Our journey began in 2019 with the introduction of the Dynatrace Citrix monitoring extension. Listen, learn, improve, and repeat The latest update to the Citrix monitoring extension is now available.

Monitoring

Monitoring Healthcare Infrastructure Metrics

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

Dynatrace Cost & Carbon Optimization certified for accuracy and transparency

Dynatrace

MARCH 5, 2025

Real-time monitoring : The periodic reports from cloud service providers lack real-time monitoring and actionable insights, limiting IT teams’ ability to make immediate adjustments to reduce carbon footprints. The certification results are now publicly available.

Energy

Energy Analytics Traffic Cloud

HTTP monitors on the latest Dynatrace platform extend insights into the health of your API endpoints and simplify test management

Build resilient IT systems and manage regulatory requirements with compliance and resilience capabilities from Dynatrace

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

Elevating System Management: The Role of Monitoring and Observability in DevOps

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

OpenPipeline: Simplify access to critical business data

Tailored access management, Part 3: Simplified setup for enterprise-scale access management

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

Enrich Tenable vulnerability findings with Dynatrace runtime context

Rapid Event Notification System at Netflix

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

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

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

Automate digital excellence with Dynatrace Synthetic Monitoring and Workflows

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

Dynatrace joins the Microsoft Intelligent Security Association

10 digital experience monitoring best practices

New Distributed Tracing app provides effortless trace insights

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

Title Launch Observability at Netflix Scale

Build systems more reliably with Dynatrace: Chaos Engineering

Observability vs. monitoring: What’s the difference?

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

Demo: Transform OpenTelemetry data into actionable insights with the Dynatrace Distributed Tracing app

Better dashboarding with Dynatrace Davis AI: Instant meaningful insights

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

Dynatrace SaaS on Google now generally available

New analytics capabilities for messaging system-related anomalies

The Dynatrace Platform Subscription model enables broad Infrastructure Monitoring

Netflix’s Distributed Counter Abstraction

Easily monitor IBM i with updated Dynatrace extension

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

DevOps monitoring tools: How to drive DevOps efficiency

Real user monitoring vs. synthetic monitoring: Understanding best practices

Create simple workflows to automate alerts during development

Simplify log onboarding: From zero to observability in minutes

Best Practices for Scaling RabbitMQ

Why log monitoring and log analytics matter in a hyperscale world

Business Flow: Why IT operations teams should monitor business processes

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

Next-level batch job monitoring and alerting: Elevate performance and reliability

Citrix monitoring with Dynatrace: Easily observe your entire Citrix ecosystem

RabbitMQ vs. Kafka: Key Differences

Dynatrace Cost & Carbon Optimization certified for accuracy and transparency

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