Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2023

Certain service-level objective examples can help organizations get started on measuring and delivering metrics that matter. Teams can build on these SLO examples to improve application performance and reliability. In this post, I’ll lay out five SLO examples that every DevOps and SRE team should consider. or 99.99% of the time.

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DZone

JANUARY 18, 2023

This release resulted from several months of hard work where we had to thoroughly review our data model and implement a very resource-efficient permissions calculation mechanism. Disclaimer: I’ll be using Django in my code examples, but the ideas can be generalized; however, a relational database is a stronger requirement.

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DZone

MARCH 7, 2023

Broadcast variables can be used to efficiently distribute large read-only data structures, such as lookup tables, to worker nodes. For example, to broadcast a lookup table named lookup_table : Use Broadcast Variables Broadcast variables are read-only variables that can be shared across nodes in a Spark cluster.

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Dynatrace

JULY 24, 2024

By leveraging Dynatrace observability on Red Hat OpenShift running on Linux, you can accelerate modernization to hybrid cloud and increase operational efficiencies with greater visibility across the full stack from hardware through application processes. Get started monitoring Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Z and LinuxONE New to Dynatrace?

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

When Davis detects deviations from this baseline (for example, a sudden dip in usage or a user action that lasts longer than expected), it generates a problem event , identifies the root cause of the problem, and sends notifications based on the configured alerting profile. OneAgent for mobile apps is specific to iOS and Android.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 12, 2024

In dynamic and distributed cloud environments, the process of identifying incidents and understanding the material impact is beyond human ability to manage efficiently. For example, user behavior helps identify attacks or fraud. Another example is when anomaly detection identifies services impacted by ransomware.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

The complexity and numerous moving parts of Kubernetes multicloud clusters mean that when monitoring the health of these clusters—which is critical for ensuring reliable and efficient operation of the application—platform engineers often find themselves without an easy and efficient solution.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

This is a set of best practices and guidelines that help you design and operate reliable, secure, efficient, cost-effective, and sustainable systems in the cloud. The framework comprises six pillars: Operational Excellence, Security, Reliability, Performance Efficiency, Cost Optimization, and Sustainability.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Indeed, according to one survey, DevOps practices have led to 60% of developers releasing code twice as quickly. But increased speed creates a tradeoff: According to another study, nearly half of organizations consciously deploy vulnerable code because of time pressure. Increased adoption of Infrastructure as code (IaC).

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Dynatrace

APRIL 29, 2021

Together, these practices ensure better collaboration and greater efficiency for DevOps teams throughout the software development life cycle. When they check in their code, the build management system automatically creates a build and tests it. If the test fails, the system notifies the team to fix the code.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Evaluating these on three levels—data center, host, and application architecture (plus code)—is helpful. Most approaches focus on improving Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE), a data center energy-efficiency measure. energy-efficient data centers—cloud providers—achieve values closer to 1.2. A PUE of 1.0

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Dynatrace

MARCH 20, 2024

In this article, we’ll explore these challenges in detail and introduce Keptn, an open source project that addresses these issues, enhancing Kubernetes observability for smoother and more efficient deployments. Insufficient CPU and memory allocation to pods can lead to resource contention and stop Pods from being created.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

For example, a CNBC report found that training just one LLM can cost millions of dollars, and then millions more to update. How cloud cost optimization mitigates the effects of tool sprawl For example, the Dynatrace team investigated its Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) usage. Generative AI and LLMs are compounding these figures.

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

link] Example: Netflix Studio Production Money Heist (La casa de papel) / Netflix Let’s assume there is a Production service that manages Studio Content Productions (in the film and TV industry, the term production refers to the process of making a movie, not the environment to run a software). Our protobuf message definition (.proto

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Dynatrace

JULY 22, 2024

The OpenTelemetry Protocol (OTLP) plays a critical role in this framework by standardizing how systems format and transport telemetry data, ensuring that data is interoperable and transmitted efficiently. OpenTelemetry provides [extensive documentation]([link] and examples to help you fine-tune your configuration for maximum effectiveness.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 27, 2024

The automated extraction of ownership information, for example, from Kubernetes annotations, is therefore essential. How to efficiently introduce team ownerships Dynatrace provides different ways of associating team ownership with entities and adding desired team metadata, such as contact details, to your environments.

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Dynatrace

MAY 17, 2023

This is one example of the many use cases we’re exploring. For example, it can help DevOps and platform engineering teams write code snippets by drawing on information from software libraries. It highlights the potential of GPT technology to drive “information democracy” even further.

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Dynatrace

MAY 17, 2022

Onboarding teams using self-service Kubernetes selectors is one of the best examples of how Dynatrace embraces cloud native technologies to increase automation, reduce bureaucracy, and encourage agility. The following example drives the point home. Embracing cloud native best practices to increase automation. Putting it all together.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

As global warming advances, growing IT carbon footprints are pushing energy-efficient computing to the top of many organizations’ priority lists. Energy efficiency is a key reason why organizations are migrating workloads from energy-intensive on-premises environments to more efficient cloud platforms.

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Dynatrace

JULY 18, 2023

Dynatrace Configuration as Code enables complete automation of the Dynatrace platform’s configuration, ensuring that software is secure and reliable. With Configuration as Code, developers can manage their observability and security tasks with config files that can be developed alongside source code conveniently and at scale.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 26, 2021

This includes custom, built-in-house apps designed for a single, specific purpose, API-driven connections that bridge the gap between legacy systems and new services, and innovative apps that leverage open-source code to streamline processes. Application security has historically been addressed after development is completed.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 6, 2024

As organizations look to expand DevOps maturity, improve operational efficiency, and increase developer velocity, they are embracing platform engineering as a key driver. As a result, teams can focus on writing code and building features rather than dealing with infrastructure nuances.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Business and technology leaders are increasing their investments in AI to achieve business goals and improve operational efficiency. From generating new code and boosting developer productivity to finding the root cause of performance issues with ease, the benefits of AI are numerous.

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Dynatrace

JULY 19, 2024

The following is an example of a query using the Dynatrace Query Language (DQL) to find out when BSOD issues are being written to Windows System logs. The Dynatrace platform establishes context across all observability data sources – metrics, events, logs, traces, user sessions, synthetic probes, runtime security vulnerabilities, and more.

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Dynatrace

JULY 25, 2022

The DevOps playbook has proven its value for many organizations by improving software development agility, efficiency, and speed. This method known as GitOps would also boost the speed and efficiency of practicing DevOps organizations. Development teams use GitOps to specify their infrastructure requirements in code.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 17, 2023

Code changes are often required to refine observability data. This results in site reliability engineers nudging development teams to add resource attributes, endpoints, and tokens to their source code. This example is a good starting point for exploratory analysis with context-aware Dynatrace Davis insights.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 21, 2024

This information specifies which function in the source code relates to a vulnerability. Vulnerable function monitoring Tracking vulnerable open source software components efficiently is one of the most important pillars of managing attack surfaces. See Dynatrace documentation for how to efficiently manage third-party vulnerabilities.

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Dynatrace

JULY 24, 2023

In the world of DevOps and SRE, DevOps automation answers the undeniable need for efficiency and scalability. This evolution in automation, referred to as answer-driven automation, empowers teams to address complex issues in real time, optimize workflows, and enhance overall operational efficiency.

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DZone

JANUARY 6, 2024

Profile-Guided Optimization (PGO) stands as a potent technique capable of substantially enhancing the efficiency of your Java programs. By harnessing runtime profiling data, PGO empowers developers to fine-tune their code and apply optimizations that align with their application's real-world usage patterns.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Let’s dive into how these metrics and DevOps KPIs can help your team perform better and deliver better code. Deployment frequency measures both long-term and short-term efficiency. For example, by measuring deployment frequency daily or weekly, you can determine how efficiently your team is responding to process changes.

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Continuous instrumentation is critical to catching such matters as they emerge, and eBPF, with its hooks into the Linux scheduler with minimal overhead, enabled us to monitor run queue latency efficiently. These functions ensure that our eBPF program remains safe and efficient while retrieving the cgroup ID from the task struct.

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 27, 2020

For example, in order to enhance our user experience, one online application fetches subscribers’ preferences data to recommend movies and TV shows. Therefore, we must efficiently move data from the data warehouse to a global, low-latency and highly-reliable key-value store. An Example of Schema Mapping.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Organizations can customize quality gate criteria to validate technical service-level objectives (SLOs) and business goals, ensuring early detection and resolution of code deficiencies. Ultimately, quality gates safeguard code viability as it advances through the delivery pipeline. But how do they function in practice?

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Dynatrace

JUNE 20, 2023

With the introduction of Jetpack Compose and SwiftUI , the development of mobile apps has become more accessible, efficient, and streamlined. With this additional context—for example, location in code, initial and transition states, interaction types, and more—Dynatrace makes sense of the user journey and the technical components in use.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Business processes are important because they improve the efficiency, consistency, and quality of the business outcome. Business process monitoring helps organizations: Increase efficiency by identifying and addressing bottlenecks or inefficiencies that may slow down a business process. Reduce costs.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Yet, ensuring code quality and breaking down silos are some of the many challenges that come with DevOps methodologies. In a similar way that developers automate a single task to improve consistency, efficiency, and speed, orchestration tools can coordinate the automation of tasks across platforms. Automation versus orchestration.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 16, 2023

At the Dynatrace Innovate conference in Barcelona, Bernd Greifeneder, Dynatrace chief technology officer, discussed key examples of how the Dynatrace observability platform delivers value well beyond traditional monitoring. As customers continue to operate in the cloud, their needs for efficiency and cost-effectiveness only grow.

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