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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Traffic Best Practices Systems Testing 349

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Kubernetes (k8s) provides basic monitoring through the Kubernetes API and you can find instructions like Top 9 Open Source Tools for Monitoring Kubernetes as a “do it yourself guide”. End-user monitoring. AWS EKS for Integration and Production. Dynatrace news. Full-stack observability. End-to-end code-level tracing.

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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

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 38

Dynatrace

MAY 3, 2024

Amazon CloudWatch is the most common method of collecting logs across your AWS footprint. As a native tool used by many enterprises, CloudWatch supports a wide range of AWS resources, applications, and services. These already provide a common integration with AWS log sources. Select ingest logs as the scope of the token.

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Cloud Lambda AWS Analytics 279

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Monitor your cloud OpenPipeline ™ is the Dynatrace platform data-handling solution designed to seamlessly ingest and process data from any source, regardless of scale or format. Seamless integration with AWS Data Firehose: address high-impact issues quickly through real-time, high-frequency log analytics.

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Cloud Lambda AWS Analytics 299

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

APRIL 16, 2019

Based on what Andy Jassy, CEO of Amazon Web Services, presented at re:Invent 2018, it seems that the majority is moving their workloads to AWS: These stats tell us that there are a lot of Microsoft related workloads in the public cloud that can be optimized! Setup the Dynatrace AWS CloudWatch Integration. Step #1: Install Dynatrace.

AWS 186

AWS Database Best Practices Traffic 186

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. Fact #1: AWS EC2 outage properly documented. Ready to learn more?

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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

Hardware 363

Hardware Cache Performance Latency 363

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. 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.

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Infrastructure Network Azure Monitoring 278

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. After validating performance, we slowly built up scope.

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Traffic Latency Metrics Cache 357

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Today, I am happy to announce our plans to open a new AWS Region in Italy! The AWS Europe (Milan) Region is the 25th AWS Region that we've announced globally. It's the sixth AWS Region in Europe, joining existing regions in France, Germany, Ireland, the UK, and the new Region that we recently announced in Sweden.

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AWS Energy Automotive Traffic 164

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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Traffic AWS Network Cloud 246

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

JANUARY 28, 2021

Such monitoring data is critical to providing satisfying digital experiences and services to customers. OpenTelemetry complements OneAgent by enabling you to: Enrich local monitoring data with project-specific additions (for example, using custom instrumentation to add business data or capture developer-specific diagnostics points).

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Traffic Open Source Servers Cloud 242

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.

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AWS Monitoring Traffic Website 189

Dynatrace

MARCH 16, 2022

Over the last year, Dynatrace extended its AI-powered log monitoring capabilities by providing support for all log data sources. We added monitoring and analytics for log streams from Kubernetes and multicloud platforms like AWS, GCP, and Azure, as well as the most widely used open-source log data frameworks. Dynatrace news.

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Metrics Lambda Infrastructure Monitoring 246

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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AWS Traffic Innovation Architecture 126

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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Dynatrace

JUNE 20, 2023

Data is proliferating in separate silos from containers and Kubernetes to open source APIs and software to serverless compute services, such as AWS and Azure. In this case, the bank group could not rely solely on Google Cloud Trace because they needed to collect traces and monitor the applications across all their systems.

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Dynatrace

MAY 6, 2021

Starting with version 1.216, for fresh-installed Dynatrace Managed, the private Synthetic browser monitor screenshots are stored on the Cluster, and not uploaded to the S3 bucket. To improve management of node capabilities , we added Enable/disable Web UI traffic operation for cluster node in Cluster Mission Control UI. APM-294399).

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Operating System AWS Metrics Storage 246

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. Integrate infrastructure monitoring on a single AIOps platform. The nirvana state of system uptime at peak loads is known as “five-nines availability.” Automate IT operations.

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Infrastructure Availability Systems Retail 246

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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Azure AWS Database Latency 187

Dynatrace

MAY 17, 2023

We use monitored demo applications to deliver constant load and a defined set of business transactions. While the first guardian validates the traffic, the second guardian checks the business transactions generated during the observation period. The functionality is implemented via an automated workflow.

DevOps 246

DevOps Traffic Latency Best Practices 246

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Cloud services platforms like AWS, Azure, and GCP are reshaping how organizations deliver value to their customers, making cloud migration an increasingly attractive option for running applications. In case of a spike in traffic, you can automatically spin up more resources, often in a matter of seconds. Inconsistent performance.

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Cloud Traffic Best Practices Strategy 241

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. This is made to avoid SSL certificates since everything goes through the same VPC (everything runs on ec2 instances on AWS).

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Availability Monitoring Open Source Traffic 122

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

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 17, 2020

Methods include the observability capabilities of the platforms their applications run on; monitoring tools, OpenTelemetry, OpenTracing, OpenMonitor, OpenCensus, Jaeger, Zipkin, Log, CloudWatch, and more. Just one command instruments your entire application environment for monitoring. Automatic topology analysis.

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Analytics Technology Technology Cloud 236

Dynatrace

MAY 17, 2023

With that, we could make use of the full set of OpenTelemetry’s features to instrument and monitor our applications in the Dynatrace back end, including traces with spans and metrics. OneAgent is the native telemetry data collector and monitoring solution of Dynatrace.

Metrics 243

Metrics Database Monitoring Network 243

Dynatrace

JULY 8, 2019

With Cloud, we are leveraging the largest cloud providers’ locations, including AWS, Azure, Alibaba and Google coming very soon. With most traffic coming from mobile for many of our customers, and the complexity of the “last mile,” do we really need to be troubleshooting core backbone ISP routing paths? Clearly that is the cloud.

Cloud 203

Cloud Hardware Testing Logistics 203

Adrian Cockcroft

MAY 6, 2023

Then they tried to scale it to cope with high traffic and discovered that some of the state transitions in their step functions were too frequent, and they had some overly chatty calls between AWS lambda functions and S3. They state in the blog that this was quick to build, which is the point.

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Serverless Lambda Best Practices Traffic 145

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Additionally, it became easy to provide deep links to different monitoring and deployment systems in Edgar due to consistent tagging. The use of a cheaper EBS Elastic volume instead of an SSD instance store was an attractive option because AWS allows dynamic increase in EBS volume size without re-provisioning the EC2 node.

Infrastructure 238

Infrastructure Transportation Storage Open Source 238

Dynatrace

AUGUST 9, 2023

Likewise, operation specialists can prioritize their efforts on monitoring the highest-risk tactics, and executives can better communicate the business risk. 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.

Analytics 246

Analytics AWS Infrastructure Strategy 246

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?

Cloud 38

Cloud Traffic Database Network 38

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 31, 2019

With Dynatrace Synthetic you can deliver clean-room performance benchmark and availability monitoring for your business. More resiliency and even safer public synthetic monitoring locations. Some organizations require adding IP addresses to security configurations to allow traffic from and to them. So what does this mean for me?

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