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.

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Dynatrace

MAY 3, 2024

Log data—the most verbose form of observability data, complementing other standardized signals like metrics and traces—is especially critical. Amazon CloudWatch is the most common method of collecting logs across your AWS footprint. These already provide a common integration with AWS log sources.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

by Shefali Vyas Dalal AWS re:Invent is a couple weeks away and our engineers & leaders are thrilled to be in attendance yet again this year! Netflix shares how Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling allows its infrastructure to automatically adapt to changing traffic patterns in order to keep its audience entertained and its costs on target.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 25, 2023

For example, to handle traffic spikes and pay only for what they use. These functions are executed by a serverless platform or provider (such as AWS Lambda, Azure Functions or Google Cloud Functions) that manages the underlying infrastructure, scaling and billing. Scale automatically based on the demand and traffic patterns.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

VPC Flow Logs is an Amazon service that enables IT pros to capture information about the IP traffic that traverses network interfaces in a virtual private cloud, or VPC. By default, each record captures a network internet protocol (IP), a destination, and the source of the traffic flow that occurs within your environment.

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

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

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

to a larger AWS instance size, from m5.4xl (16 vCPUs) to m5.12xl (48 vCPUs). 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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Scalegrid

APRIL 16, 2020

Each of these models is suitable for production deployments and high traffic applications, and are available for all of our supported databases, including MySQL , PostgreSQL , Redis™ and MongoDB® database ( Greenplum® database coming soon). AWS , Azure. AWS , Azure. AWS , Azure. AWS , Azure. AWS , Azure.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 26, 2020

Dynatrace Synthetic Monitoring helps you quickly verify if your application is delivering the expected end user experience by offering an outside-in view of all your applications and services, independent of real traffic. Virginia (AWS) ?, California (AWS), San Jose (Azure), Texas (Azure), Ohio (AWS), Toronto (Azure) ?,

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Dynatrace

JULY 2, 2024

If you’re using AWS for your cloud platform and you have forwarded your VPC flow logs to Dynatrace, you can use DQL to look for your potential victims AND suspicious IP addresses that have tried to access your servers using SSH. Analyze network flow logs Last but not least, your network logs are the ultimate source of data.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 28, 2021

To effectively address such warning signs, organizations need to focus on putting observability data into context—mapping and visualizing relationships and dependencies within all collected telemetry data—not only traces, metrics, and logs. With Dynatrace OneAgent you also benefit from support for traffic routing and traffic control.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

AWS EKS for Integration and Production. When focusing on the LanguageController service we learn that it’s currently deployed in three pods across three EKS nodes across two AWS Availability Zones (AZ). 4 AWS EFS monitoring. Their technology stack looks like this: Spring Boot-based Microservices. NGINX as an API Gateway.

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Dynatrace

JULY 15, 2024

You also might be required to capture syslog messages from cloud services on AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud related to resource provisioning, scaling, and security events. Without seeing syslog data in the context of your infrastructure, metrics, and transaction traces, you’re slowed down by manual work with siloed data.

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All Things Distributed

MARCH 27, 2019

At re:Invent 2018, AWS announced the AWS App Mesh public preview, a service mesh that allows you to easily monitor and control communications across applications. Today, I'm happy to announce that App Mesh is generally available for use by customers. New architectural patterns.

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Dynatrace

MAY 6, 2021

To improve management of node capabilities , we added Enable/disable Web UI traffic operation for cluster node in Cluster Mission Control UI. Metric data points are no longer erroneously billed (DDUs) after the dimension limit is exceeded. Removed AWS Amazon MQ Supporting Service EnqueueTime metrics with Multi aggregation.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 28, 2020

Dynatrace is an AWS Partner Network (APN) Advanced Technology Partner that provides software intelligence for simplifying enterprise cloud complexity and accelerating digital transformation. Partner Solutions Architect at AWS and will also be published via the AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Dynatrace news. Prerequisites.

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The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 13, 2020

A metric crossed a threshold. Metrics are a key part of understanding application health. But sometimes you can have too many metrics, too many graphs, and too many dashboards. It usually has dependencies, talks to other services, and lives in different AWS regions. Regional traffic evacuations. By Andrei U.,

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Dynatrace

MAY 17, 2023

While the first guardian validates the traffic, the second guardian checks the business transactions generated during the observation period. More precisely, this team uses AWS Fault Injection Simulator (FIS) to run fault injection to improve the application’s performance and resiliency.

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

In order to achieve this level of availability, we leverage an N+1 architecture where we treat Amazon Web Services (AWS) regions as fault domains, allowing us to withstand single region failures. So, if we evacuate South American traffic to North America, demand for CE and Android DRM won’t grow uniformly.

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Scalegrid

DECEMBER 16, 2019

While you may assume a great majority of the cloud database deployments are run on AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform, small to medium-sized businesses in particular are gravitating towards the developer-friendly cloud provider, DigitalOcean , for their hosting for MongoDB® needs. DigitalOcean Advantages for MongoDB. DigitalOcean Droplets.

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The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 29, 2019

takes place in Amazon Web Services (AWS), whereas everything that happens afterwards (i.e., Demand Engineering Demand Engineering is responsible for Regional Failovers , Traffic Distribution, Capacity Operations and Fleet Efficiency of the Netflix cloud. are you logged in? what plan do you have? what do you want to watch?)

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Dynatrace

MAY 17, 2023

Making applications observable—relying on metrics, logs, and traces to understand what software is doing and how it’s performing—has become increasingly important as workloads are shifting to multicloud environments. We also introduced our demo app and explained how to define the metrics and traces it uses.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

by Shefali Vyas Dalal AWS re:Invent is a couple weeks away and our engineers & leaders are thrilled to be in attendance yet again this year! Netflix shares how Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling allows its infrastructure to automatically adapt to changing traffic patterns in order to keep its audience entertained and its costs on target.

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AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 100

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

by Shefali Vyas Dalal AWS re:Invent is a couple weeks away and our engineers & leaders are thrilled to be in attendance yet again this year! Netflix shares how Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling allows its infrastructure to automatically adapt to changing traffic patterns in order to keep its audience entertained and its costs on target.

AWS 100

AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 100

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. Include metrics, event logs, distributed traces, metadata, user experience data, and telemetry data from open source technologies and cloud platforms.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

The seamless integration enables enrichment of your OpenTelemetry metrics and traces with insights from the Dynatrace Software Intelligence Platform. PurePath 4 supports serverless computing out-of-the-box, including Kubernetes services from Amazon Web Services (AWS) , Microsoft Azure , and Google Cloud Platform (GCP).

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The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 16, 2023

That’s a significant amount and certainly more than is necessary relative to the traffic on most clusters. More acutely, if a traffic spike occurs and Zuul instances scale up, it exponentially increases connections open to origins. There is effectively no churn of connections, even at peak traffic.

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Dynatrace

MAY 1, 2020

The investment continues—we’re anticipating an upcoming release of the AWS Graviton2 processor , which has already been announced to be significantly more powerful than its predecessor. Host performance is tracked via high-level health metrics with details for each host (these appear on your home dashboard by default).

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

We took a hybrid head-based sampling approach that allows for recording 100% of traces for a specific and configurable set of requests, while continuing to randomly sample traffic per the policy set at ingestion point. We were adding new Cassandra nodes whenever the EC2 SSD instance stores of existing nodes reached maximum storage capacity.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 5, 2019

In this role, I am leading a global team that works closely with our strategic partners such as AWS, Microsoft, Google, Pivotal, Red Hat and others. Resource consumption & traffic analysis. What is the network traffic going to be between services we migrate and those that have to stay in the current data center?

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Percona

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Identifying which resources you can trim to reduce your monthly bill can be difficult, but looking at the right metrics will help you understand the application’s actual requirements. Configuration of the CPU metrics can be changed in the dashboard. Don’t pay for capacity you don’t use or need.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 9, 2023

In this blog post, we’ll use Dynatrace Security Analytics to go threat hunting, bringing together logs, traces, metrics, and, crucially, threat alerts. Install Falco in AWS EKS to gather security-relevant events from all the happenings in Unguard. To keep it real, we have a load generator that creates benign traffic.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JULY 30, 2019

Our cluster size ranges from 12–18 instances of AWS EC2 m4.4xlarge instances, typically running at ~30% capacity. *?—?Cassandra Below is a snapshot of our Kibana dashboard which shows the workflow execution metrics over a typical 7-day period. Cassandra persistence module is a partial implementation.

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Lambda Media Open Source Metrics 191

Dynatrace

APRIL 30, 2019

Introducing Pitometer: Metrics-based Deployment Validation in your CI/CD. The following shows how to evaluate a deployment score based on metrics from Prometheus and Dynatrace. Bamboo, Azure DevOps, AWS CodePipeline …. Beyond basic metrics: Detecting Architectural Regressions. Pitometer is a Node.js

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Architecture Open Source Azure Metrics 149

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 7, 2024

Compute: Titus Whereas open-source users of Metaflow rely on AWS Batch or Kubernetes as the compute backend , we rely on our centralized compute-platform, Titus. We have talked about the importance of a production-grade workflow orchestrator in the context of Metaflow when we released support for AWS Step Functions years ago.

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All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 26, 2013

As I discussed in my re:Invent keynote earlier this month, I am now happy to announce the immediate availability of Amazon RDS Cross Region Read Replicas , which is another important enhancement for our customers using or planning to use multiple AWS Regions to deploy their applications. Cross Region Read Replicas are available for MySQL 5.6

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All Things Distributed

JUNE 21, 2018

In fact, this is been proven by our customers as Amazon Aurora remains the fastest growing service in AWS history. Amazon Elasticsearch Service (Amazon ES) is purpose built for providing near real-time visualizations and analytics of machine-generated data by indexing, aggregating, and searching semi structured logs and metrics.

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