Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

OneAgent knows where to connect for further runtime configuration and where to send data because the installer itself is pre-configured to connect to the exact tenant and server that it’s downloaded from. But what if your environment grows and you decide to distribute data between two Dynatrace servers?

Servers 157

Servers Tuning Systems Availability 157

The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Central to this infrastructure is our use of multiple online distributed databases such as Apache Cassandra , a NoSQL database known for its high availability and scalability. While many databases offer server-side compression, handling compression on the client side reduces expensive server CPU usage, network bandwidth, and disk I/O.

Latency 261

Latency Storage Cache Efficiency 261

SQL Performance

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Many database administrators find themselves having to support instances of SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS), or at least the backend databases that are required for SSRS. This article will cover many areas that database administrators need to be aware of in order to properly license, recover, and tune a Reporting Services installation.

Tuning 67

Tuning Servers Database Best Practices 67

Dynatrace

MAY 4, 2021

So, you start your investigation on the frontend server service which shows an increased failure rate with every second request failing for a couple of hours. When selecting the cart-checkout service in PurePath view, you see that the service fails with an internal server error. Stay tuned for the general availability of trace ingest.

Cloud 264

Cloud Java Tuning Monitoring 264

Scalegrid

MARCH 4, 2019

from these database reporters, and CouchDB, Berkeley DB, Microsoft SQL Server, Redshift, Firebase, Elasticsearch, and InfluxDB users combined our Other category at 2.4%. DB-Engines Ranking – Trend Popularity report places these leaders in the top 5, but Oracle keeps hold at number one and Microsoft SQL Server at number 3.

Database 255

Database Metrics Systems Strategy 255

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

With almost 100 public locations worldwide, Dynatrace Synthetic Monitoring enables 24/7 measurement of the availability and performance of your applications as experienced by your customers and coworkers worldwide. More than 50% of the Synthetic-enabled ActiveGates used by our customers are deployed on Linux servers. What’s next.

Monitoring 204

Monitoring Tuning Network Operating System 204

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Stay tuned for an upcoming blog series where we’ll give you a more hands-on walkthrough of how to ingest any kind of data from StatsD, Telegraf, Prometheus, scripting languages, or our integrated REST API. Once you send metrics via the OneAgent REST API, the relevant hosts are automatically enriched with all available monitoring dimensions.

Open Source 261

Open Source Metrics Analytics Tuning 261

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). For details on available metrics, see our help page on host performance monitoring. Dynatrace news.

Availability 26

Availability Hardware Java Tuning 26

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Both categories share common requirements, such as high throughput and high availability. Eventually Consistent Global Counter While some users may accept the limitations of a Best-Effort counter, others opt for precise counts, durability and global availability. This is where most of the complexity in Counter Abstraction comes in.

Latency 251

Latency Cache Infrastructure Strategy 251

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 5, 2024

That’s particularly true of our GRPC clients and servers, where request cancellations due to timeouts interact with reliability features such as retries, hedging and fallbacks. Operational simplicity Service owners often reach out to us with questions about excessive pause times and for help with tuning.

Latency 238

Latency Java Tuning Efficiency 238

Percona

MARCH 1, 2023

EXPLAIN ANALYSE is a big boon to query tuning. EXPLAIN without the ANALYSE gives you the server’s estimated analysis of the performance of your query. But before going with the MySQL Community Edition, you should look at Percona Server for MySQL. Why Percona Server for MySQL? And Percona Server for MySQL is free.

Servers 124

Servers Open Source Tuning C++ 124

Scalegrid

JULY 29, 2019

Managing a database is hard, as it needs continuous updating, tuning, and monitoring to ensure the performance of your website. High Availability. Make sure your website doesn’t go down with a server or datacenter crash by configuring a master-slave setup for high availability. Replication. Firewall Rules.

Database 166

Database Cloud Website Azure 166

Dynatrace

APRIL 17, 2024

With the availability of Linux on IBM Z and LinuxONE, the IBM Z platform brings a familiar host operating system and sustainability that could yield up to 75% energy reduction compared to x86 servers. You can now install OneAgent on Linux with s390 architecture. Next, set up log ingest.

Operating System 218

Operating System Energy Infrastructure Architecture 218

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. Running containers : Docker Engine is a container runtime that runs in almost any environment: Mac and Windows PCs, Linux and Windows servers, the cloud, and on edge devices.

Open Source 313

Open Source DevOps Traffic Cloud 313

Dynatrace

MARCH 15, 2024

Syslog is the go-to protocol that delivers infrastructure administrators, network engineers, and security team logs that tell them all they need to know about their systems’ delivery, performance, availability, and security. Syslog is a protocol with clear specifications that require a dedicated syslog server.

Open Source 213

Open Source Infrastructure Network Government 213

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Although model-based anomaly detection approaches are more scalable and suitable for real-time analysis, they highly rely on the availability of (often labeled) context-specific data. On the client’s side, a request is sent to the streaming server to obtain the protected encrypted digital content.

C++ 322

C++ Metrics Tuning Strategy 322

The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 22, 2019

Once the instance was available, the engineer would use a remote administration tool like RDP to login to the instance to install software and customize settings. We can easily test server tuning changes, software upgrades, and other modifications to the runtime environment.

DevOps 211

DevOps AWS Tuning Infrastructure 211

Dynatrace

MAY 21, 2024

The settings on the General tab remain unchanged and govern the privacy settings executed on the server side ( masking at storage ), offering a second layer of control. Open the available tabs to explore and easily tailor your data privacy settings. Open the available tabs to explore and easily tailor your data privacy settings.

Government 221

Government Storage Tuning Monitoring 221

Percona

APRIL 7, 2023

If we were to select the most important MySQL setting, if we were given a freshly installed MySQL or Percona Server for MySQL and could only tune a single MySQL variable, which one would it be? Sysbench ran on a third server, which I’ll refer to as the application server (APP).

Tuning 139

Tuning Cache Servers Benchmarking 139

Dynatrace

MAY 12, 2022

To stay tuned, keep an eye on our release notes. General Availability (Build 1.241.153). General Availability (Build 1.241.153). Fixed an issue with “500 Internal Server Error” response of Anomaly detection – Disk events API. (APM-370270). Classic user sessions page end-of-life. Application Security.

Tuning 205

Tuning Metrics Cloud Mobile 205

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

This enables effective DevSecOps collaboration, as well as observability-driven automation against all critical metrics (speed, security, stability, availability, productivity, and business metrics) at enterprise scale. All Dynatrace enhancements mentioned in this blog post will be available within the next 90 days. How to get started.

Code 228

Code Software Software DevOps 228

Dynatrace

JANUARY 26, 2021

Within this paradigm, it is possible to run entire architectures without touching a traditional virtual server, either locally or in the cloud. Every time the trigger executes, the function runs on an available resource. Unlike on-premises machines, shared servers, or rented virtual machines, there is no cost for downtime.

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Serverless Efficiency Lambda Azure 246

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. This separation allows us to tune system configuration and scaling policies independently for different event priorities and traffic patterns.

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Systems Traffic Architecture Mobile 334

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 8, 2024

However, storing and querying such data presents a unique set of challenges: High Throughput : Managing up to 10 million writes per second while maintaining high availability. Here’s how we manage this: Horizontal scaling : TimeSeries server instances can auto-scale up and down as per attached scaling policies to meet the traffic demand.

Latency 240

Latency Storage Traffic Tuning 240

Dynatrace

AUGUST 12, 2020

Serverless computing is a computing model that “allows you to build and run applications and services without thinking about servers.”. Dynatrace is thrilled to announce the General Availability of support for both the 2.x So stay tuned! AI-powered observability and end-to-end tracing of serverless applications.

Serverless 242

Serverless Azure Monitoring Lambda 242

Dynatrace

JULY 3, 2019

Anything you want to do on a web server, you can do with PHP. Here are some statistics: PHP now accounts for about 79% of the server-side programming used on the Internet. Argument return value capturing with deep object access is available. So, stay tuned for news about: MongoDB sensors for PHP monitoring.

Monitoring 177

Monitoring Ecommerce Internet Internet 177

The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

By Karthik Yagna , Baskar Odayarkoil , and Alex Ellis Pushy is Netflix’s WebSocket server that maintains persistent WebSocket connections with devices running the Netflix application. After tuning our store for Pushy’s needs, it has been on autopilot since, appropriately scaling and serving our requests with very low latency.

Latency 235

Latency Cache Tuning Efficiency 235

SQL Server According to Bob

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

I recall when we were tuning the sp_reset_connection (which releases the database lock and acquires it again) command we tested rates in excess of 250,000/sec to ensure the partitioned database lock scaled: [link]. Bob Dorr – Principal Software Engineer SQL Server.

Servers 103

Servers Database Scalability Tuning 103

Dynatrace

JULY 21, 2020

Hiring mainframe programmers with COBOL skills is challenging nowadays as most of them have retired, whereas Java expertise is widely available. To evaluate the performance and availability of your business services, it’s crucial to track the response time contribution and failure rate of each request within each end-to-end transaction.

Java 188

Java Database Programming Government 188

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. Stay tuned for upcoming announcements around OpenTracing and OpenTelemetry. What’s next?

Java 245

Java Traffic Architecture Strategy 245

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 1, 2020

Such web resources have two things in common: Their requests never hit your data center, hence any failed requests don’t show up in your web server logs. Stay tuned for Part 2. Their performance and any errors they cause can have a massive impact on your bottom line. How to fix HTTP errors in 3 easy steps with Dynatrace.

Tuning 187

Tuning Monitoring Network Best Practices 187

Dynatrace

APRIL 21, 2022

To stay tuned, keep an eye on our release notes. The Metric and dimension usage + rejections dashboard preset is now available. General Availability (Build 1.239.178). General Availability (Build 1.239.178). Actions of renamed apps will now display waterfall analysis button whenever data is available. (RUM-4956).

Azure 228

Azure Metrics AWS Monitoring 228

Percona

MARCH 23, 2023

Hardware Memory The amount of RAM to be provisioned for database servers can vary greatly depending on the size of the database and the specific requirements of the company. Some servers may need a few GBs of RAM, while others may need hundreds of GBs or even terabytes of RAM. Typically a good value is 70%-80% of available memory.

Performance 130

Performance Hardware Tuning Storage 130

Dynatrace

APRIL 26, 2022

DEM provides an outside-in approach to user monitoring that measures user experience (UX) in real time to ensure applications and services are available, functional, and well-performing across all channels of the digital experience, including web, mobile, and IoT. PC, smartphone, server) or virtual (virtual machines, cloud gateways).

Monitoring 216

Monitoring Social Media IoT Metrics 216

The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 15, 2022

This post will discuss how Studio Search supports querying the data available in these indices. One other challenge for the users when writing the search queries is to understand the fields that are available in the index and the associated types. We chose to apply “late binding” (or “query time”) security?—?on

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Engineering Availability Architecture Tuning 193

Percona

AUGUST 31, 2018

Out of the box, the default PostgreSQL configuration is not tuned for any particular workload. It is primarily the responsibility of the database administrator or developer to tune PostgreSQL according to their system’s workload. The effective_cache_size provides an estimate of the memory available for disk caching. Conclusion.

Tuning 59

Tuning Database Performance Benchmarking 59

SQL Performance

JANUARY 23, 2020

Tom Davidson, Opening Microsoft's Performance-Tuning Toolbox SQL Server Pro Magazine, December 2003. Waits and Queues has been used as a SQL Server performance tuning methodology since Tom Davidson published the above article as well as the well-known SQL Server 2005 Waits and Queues whitepaper in 2006.

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Tuning Servers Monitoring Hardware 115