The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 4, 2025

Accurately Reflecting Production Behavior A key part of our solution is insights into production behavior, which necessitates our requests to the endpoint result in traffic to the real service functions that mimics the same pathways the traffic would take if it came from the usualcallers. there is a dedicated collector.

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Traffic Strategy Entertainment Innovation 172

Dynatrace

JUNE 25, 2020

Dynatrace Managed is intrinsically highly available as it stores three copies of all events, user sessions, and metrics across its cluster nodes. Our Premium High Availability comes with the following features: Active-active deployment model for optimum hardware utilization. Minimized cross-data center network traffic.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

For retail organizations, peak traffic can be a mixed blessing. While high-volume traffic often boosts sales, it can also compromise uptimes. The nirvana state of system uptime at peak loads is known as “five-nines availability.” But is five nines availability attainable? Downtime per year. 90% (one nine).

Infrastructure 246

Infrastructure Availability Systems Retail 246

Dynatrace

JANUARY 11, 2023

In fact, according to a Dynatrace global survey of 1,300 CIOs , 99% of enterprises utilize a multicloud environment and seven cloud monitoring solutions on average. What is cloud monitoring? Cloud monitoring is a set of solutions and practices used to observe, measure, analyze, and manage the health of cloud-based IT infrastructure.

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Cloud Monitoring Best Practices Infrastructure 295

Scalegrid

AUGUST 22, 2019

In the final post of this series, we will review the last solution, Patroni by Zalando, and compare all three at the end so you can determine which high availability framework is best for your PostgreSQL hosting deployment. Managing High Availability in PostgreSQL – Part I: PostgreSQL Automatic Failover. Patroni for PostgreSQL.

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Availability Servers Network Testing 277

Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Scaling RabbitMQ ensures your system can handle growing traffic and maintain high performance. Implementing clustering and quorum queues in RabbitMQ significantly improves load distribution and data redundancy, ensuring high availability and fault tolerance for messaging services.

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Best Practices Traffic Strategy Scalability 147

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.

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Availability Servers Database Open Source 257

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.

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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. Monitoring with ?the The following day, a normally mundane Wednesday , traffic soared to 128,000 sessions.

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Website Monitoring Retail Media 278

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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Monitoring Azure AWS Traffic 264

Dynatrace

MAY 19, 2023

For cloud operations teams, network performance monitoring is central in ensuring application and infrastructure performance. Network traffic growth is the main reason for increasing spending, largely because of the adoption of hybrid and multi-cloud architectures.

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Network Monitoring Performance Traffic 246

The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 13, 2020

Over the years we’ve learned from on-call engineers about the pain points of application monitoring: too many alerts, too many dashboards to scroll through, and too much configuration and maintenance. Our streaming teams need a monitoring system that enables them to quickly diagnose and remediate problems; seconds count!

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Monitoring Tuning Traffic Metrics 219

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

Having released this functionality in an Early Adopter Release with OneAgent version 1.173 and Dynatrace version 1.174 back in August 2019, we’re now happy to announce the General Availability of OneAgent full-stack monitoring for Linux on the IBM Z platform, sometimes informally referred to as Z/Linux. What’s included.

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Availability Hardware Java Tuning 43

Dynatrace

JULY 21, 2020

Dynatrace OneAgent is great for monitoring the full stack. While this will give you a lot of information about the health of these components, sometimes a simple synthetic monitor is sufficient. Heading up the Platform Extension Services team at Dynatrace, we’re the go-to team for anything that isn’t available out of the box.

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Infrastructure Monitoring Open Source Traffic 213

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?

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Dynatrace

APRIL 26, 2022

Digital experience monitoring (DEM) allows an organization to optimize customer experiences by taking into account the context surrounding digital experience metrics. What is digital experience monitoring? Primary digital experience monitoring tools.

Monitoring 246

Monitoring Social Media IoT Metrics 246

The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 1, 2023

To do this, we devised a novel way to simulate the projected traffic weeks ahead of launch by building upon the traffic migration framework described here. New content or national events may drive brief spikes, but, by and large, traffic is usually smoothly increasing or decreasing.

Traffic 349

Traffic Best Practices Systems Testing 349

Dynatrace

APRIL 16, 2019

We’re proud to announce the general availability of OneAgent full-stack monitoring for the AIX operating system. We’ve already reached a percentage of monitored AIX hosts running OneAgent that is equivalent to AIX market share. The ones that are available are old generation. Installation.

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Availability Monitoring Metrics Operating System 145

Dynatrace

JUNE 28, 2022

Organizations can now accelerate innovation and reduce the risk of failed software releases by incorporating on-demand synthetic monitoring as a metrics provider for automatic, continuous release-validation processes. Dynatrace combines Synthetic Monitoring with automatic release validation for continuous quality assurance across the SDLC.

Monitoring 246

Monitoring Software Software DevOps 246

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. Why monitor F5 BIG-IP load balancers? Business-critical applications typically rely on F5 for availability and success.

Traffic 246

Traffic Virtualization Metrics Monitoring 246

Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

RabbitMQ can be deployed in distributed environments and includes monitoring tools through a built-in dashboard and CLI. 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.

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Latency Analytics Architecture Storage 147

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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Traffic Latency Metrics Cache 357

Percona

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) is a state-of-the-art piece of software that exists in part thanks to great open source projects like VictoriaMetrics, PostgreSQL, and ClickHouse. Being software composed of different, multiple technologies can add complexity to a well-known concept: High Availability (HA).

Availability 122

Availability Monitoring Open Source Traffic 122

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

This opens the door to auto-scalable applications, which effortlessly matches the demands of rapidly growing and varying user traffic. Containers can be replicated or deleted on the fly to meet varying end-user traffic. Built-in monitoring. Needs third party tools for monitoring. Needs third party tools for monitoring.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 31, 2025

Our enhanced host monitoring dashboard that highlights disk usage includes AI forecasting for CPU usage. While the Explore interface is useful for quickly visualizing known metrics, Davis CoPilot is great for exploring your data when you know your desired outcome but are unfamiliar with the available data. Looking for something?

Metrics 147

Metrics Infrastructure Network Best Practices 147

Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Read Also: Best PostgreSQL GUI Incremental Backups PostgreSQL 17 introduces incremental backups , a game-changer for large and high-traffic databases. Get automated backups, high availability, and seamless scalingso you can focus on your applications, not database maintenance. Start your free trial today!

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Speed Database Storage Efficiency 130

Dynatrace

AUGUST 8, 2019

We’re happy to announce the Early Adopter Release of OneAgent full-stack monitoring for Linux on the IBM Z platform, sometimes informally referred to as Z/Linux (available with OneAgent version 1.173 and Dynatrace version 1.174). Mainframe monitoring is an area of significant investment for Dynatrace. Dynatrace news.

Availability 34

Availability Hardware Java Tuning 34

Dynatrace

MARCH 25, 2025

Load generators simulate traffic. Maybe you want to monitor performance under different system loads. Get started Dynatrace Live Debugger and its Visual Studio Code and JetBrains plug-ins are now available for all Dynatrace SaaS customers with a Dynatrace Platform Subscription. Distributed tracing shows transactions end-to-end.

Benchmarking 147

Benchmarking Code Open Source Engineering 147

The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Highlighting NewReleases For new content, impression history helps us monitor initial user interactions and adjust our merchandising efforts accordingly. This dual availability ensures immediate processing capabilities alongside comprehensive long-term data retention.

Tuning 166

Tuning Latency Efficiency Storage 166

Dynatrace

JUNE 15, 2021

The subject line said: “Success Story: Major Issue in single AWS Frankfurt Availability Zone!” The email walked through how our Dynatrace self-monitoring notified users of the outage but automatically remediated the problem thanks to our platform’s architecture. Ready to learn more? Fact #2: No significant impact on Dynatrace Users.

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AWS Traffic Architecture Azure 246

Dynatrace

JULY 15, 2024

Complex syslog ecosystems can be challenging Monitoring devices and applications that provide output via the syslog protocol is a must-have for many organizations. One change to send syslog to Dynatrace You can now use the syslog ingestion endpoint on Dynatrace Environment ActiveGate for performant network and system monitoring.

Infrastructure 278

Infrastructure Network Azure Monitoring 278

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

In a world where 99.999% availability is the standard, measuring MTTR is a crucial practice to ensure resiliency and stability. Anything that takes more than a day could indicate poor alerting or poor monitoring and can result in a larger number of affected systems. App availability. Application usage and traffic.

DevOps 246

DevOps Metrics Traffic Efficiency 246

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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Traffic Analytics Metrics Servers 264

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Even when the staging environment closely mirrors the production environment, achieving a complete replication of all potential scenarios, such as simulating extremely high traffic volumes to assess software performance, remains challenging. This can lead to a lack of insight into how the code will behave when exposed to heavy traffic.

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Traffic Best Practices Strategy Engineering 279

Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2023

These organizations rely heavily on performance, availability, and user satisfaction to drive sales and retain customers. Availability Availability SLO quantifies the expected level of service availability over a specific time period. Availability is typically expressed in 9’s, such as 99.9%. or 99.99% of the time.

Latency 245

Latency Website Traffic DevOps 245

Dynatrace

APRIL 16, 2020

Because of Dynatrace’s Real User Monitoring (RUM) capability, and insights from our AI engine, Davis, they were able to quickly prioritize and fix the issues to ensure their employees had an optimal remote work experience. Facilitating an understanding of traffic patterns and potential traffic spikes helps maintain customer experience.

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Traffic Government Database Network 280

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Let’s consider the business challenges of an online shop that is powered by a microservice architecture where several instances of each microservice run, including the shopping cart service, to ensure the highest possible availability. With Dynatrace OneAgent you also benefit from support for traffic routing and traffic control.

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Java Traffic Architecture Strategy 264