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Running Ansible From Windows Using Virtualization

DZone

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Recently, I had to use Ansible to implement infrastructure as code. Since the virtual memory processes used to enable WSL are protected and cannot be killed or restarted, the only recourse is a good old Windows reboot. Initially, I used Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) to run the Ansible playbooks.

Virtualization

Virtualization Infrastructure Servers Processing

Everything as Code

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 17, 2019

We’re no longer living in an age where large companies require only physical servers, with similar and rarely changing configurations, that could be manually maintained in a single Datacenter. And, applying the “Everything as Code” principles can greatly help achieve that. Benefits of Everything as Code.

Code

Code Infrastructure DevOps Cloud

Optimize your environment: Unveiling Dynatrace Hyper-V extension for enhanced performance and efficient troubleshooting

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Microsoft Hyper-V is a virtualization platform that manages virtual machines (VMs) on Windows-based systems. Firstly, managing virtual networks can be complex as networking in a virtual environment differs significantly from traditional networking. What is Microsoft Hyper-V?

Efficiency

Efficiency Virtualization Hardware Performance

What is container as a service? How CaaS compares to PaaS, IaaS, and FaaS

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Because container as a service doesn’t rely on a single code language or code stack, it’s platform agnostic. The emergence of Docker and other container services enabled companies to transport code quickly and easily. Instead, enterprises manage individual containers on virtual machines (VMs). CaaS vs. PaaS.

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Serverless Azure Hardware Transportation

Virtual consensus in Delos

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 8, 2020

Virtual consensus in Delos , Balakrishnan et al. If you think of this a bit like mapping memory addresses to data in memory, then another parallel comes to mind: the virtual address space. We propose the novel abstraction of a virtual shared log (or VirtualLog). Facebook, Inc. ), OSDI’2020. What does the VirtualLog give us?

Virtualization

Virtualization Latency Storage Systems

What is infrastructure monitoring and why is it mission-critical in the new normal?

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

IT infrastructure is the heart of your digital business and connects every area – physical and virtual servers, storage, databases, networks, cloud services. This shift requires infrastructure monitoring to ensure all your components work together across applications, operating systems, storage, servers, virtualization, and more.

Infrastructure

Infrastructure Monitoring Virtualization Serverless

AI-powered DNS request tracking extends infrastructure observability for high quality network traffic

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Applications and services are often slowed down by under-performing DNS communications or misconfigured DNS servers, which can result in frustrated customers uninstalling your application. Identify under-performing DNS servers. Slower response times can be a sign of a stressed DNS server or network communication issues.

Traffic

Traffic Network Infrastructure Artificial Intelligence

What is serverless computing? Driving efficiency without sacrificing observability

Dynatrace

JANUARY 26, 2021

Traditional computing models rely on virtual or physical machines, where each instance includes a complete operating system, CPU cycles, and memory. VMware commercialized the idea of virtual machines, and cloud providers embraced the same concept with services like Amazon EC2, Google Compute, and Azure virtual machines.

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Serverless Efficiency Lambda Azure

Unmatched scalability and security of Dynatrace extensions now available for all supported technologies: 7 reasons to migrate your JMX and Python plugins

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Extensions can monitor virtually any type of technology in your environment. focused on technology coverage, building on the flexibility of JMX for Java and Python-based coded extensions for everything else. supports SNMP, WMI, Prometheus, and SQL data sources, and now also JMX; no code is required to leverage these extensions.

Technology

Technology Technology Scalability Availability

Firecracker: lightweight virtualization for serverless applications

The Morning Paper

MARCH 1, 2020

Firecracker is the virtual machine monitor (VMM) that powers AWS Lambda and AWS Fargate, and has been used in production at AWS since 2018. The traditional view is that there is a choice between virtualization with strong security and high overhead, and container technologies with weaker security and minimal overhead.

Virtualization

Virtualization Serverless Lambda AWS

DevOps engineer tools: Deploy, test, evaluate, repeat

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 8, 2022

DevOps platform engineers are responsible for cloud platform availability and performance, as well as the efficiency of virtual bandwidth, routers, switches, virtual private networks, firewalls, and network management. Version control system and source code management with end-to-end DevOps platform and cloud-hosted Git services.

DevOps

DevOps Engineering Testing Open Source

What is function as a service? App development gets FaaS and furious

Dynatrace

AUGUST 11, 2022

Function as a service is a cloud computing model that runs code in small modular pieces, or microservices. Cloud providers then manage physical hardware, virtual machines, and web server software management. FaaS enables developers to create and run a single function in the cloud using a serverless compute model.

Development

Development Serverless Best Practices Lambda

Mastering Kubernetes with Dynatrace

Dynatrace

AUGUST 24, 2020

To make this possible, the application code should be instrumented with telemetry data for deep insights, including: Metrics to find out how the behavior of a system has changed over time. Dynatrace VMware and virtualization documentation . Logs represent event data in plain-text, structured or binary format.

Analytics

Analytics Infrastructure AWS Operating System

Kubernetes: Challenges for observability platforms

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Nevertheless, there are related components and processes, for example, virtualization infrastructure and storage systems (see image below), that can lead to problems in your Kubernetes infrastructure. After applying the first manifests (which are likely copied and pasted from a how-to tutorial ), a web server is up and running within minutes.

Virtualization

Virtualization Infrastructure Monitoring Cloud

Weighing a microservices approach means covering all architecture bases

Dynatrace

JULY 7, 2022

One large team generally maintains the source code in a centralized repository that’s visible to all engineers, who commit their code in a single build. These teams typically use standardized tools and follow a sequential process to build, review, test, deliver, and deploy code. Common problems with monolithic architecture.

Architecture

Architecture Serverless Azure Programming

OneAgent release notes version 1.231

Dynatrace

JANUARY 9, 2022

Sometimes the Python virtual machine crashes. Impact : This issue affects only those extensions that use native libraries called from Python code distributed with the extension. Windows: Windows Server 2004. Windows: Windows Server 1903. Windows: Windows Server 1909. Extension-specific advisory. x – 2.12.x.

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Operating System Google Java Virtualization

Easily monitor your SAP ABAP platform and user experience with Dynatrace (GA)

Dynatrace

JANUARY 19, 2020

As of today, the SAP ABAP application server remains the central component of the SAP ERP solution. The ABAP platform monitoring solution is based on the remote monitoring approach and so relies on a Dynatrace ActiveGate extension: No agent installation on SAP servers is required. No ABAP code instrumentation or injection is performed.

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Monitoring Best Practices Infrastructure Servers

New critical vulnerability, CVE-2022-42889, in Apache Commons Text discovered (but no need to panic)

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 18, 2022

A new critical remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability was disclosed on October 13, 2022. A remote code execution vulnerability is a cyberattack an attacker can remotely execute commands on a user’s computing device. url” to load values from remote servers via URLs. The vulnerability affects the Apache Commons Text library.

Java

Java Open Source Virtualization Code

What is Log4Shell? The Log4Shell vulnerability explained (and what to do about it)

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Since December 10, days after a critical vulnerability known as Log4Shell was discovered in servers supporting the game Minecraft, millions of exploit attempts have been made of the Log4j 2 Java library, according to one team tracking the impact, with potential threat to millions more applications and devices across the globe. Dynatrace news.

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Internet Internet Games Java

Introducing the Dynatrace SAP ABAP platform monitoring extension (EAP)

Dynatrace

MAY 31, 2019

As of today, the SAP ABAP application server remains the central component of the SAP ERP solution. The ABAP platform monitoring solution is based on the remote monitoring approach and so relies on a Dynatrace ActiveGate extension: No agent installation on SAP servers is required. No ABAP code instrumentation or injection is performed.

Monitoring

Monitoring Best Practices Programming Infrastructure

Using Generative AI to Build Generative AI

O'Reilly

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

On April 24, OReilly Media will be hosting Coding with AI: The End of Software Development as We Know It a live virtual tech conference spotlighting how AI is already supercharging developers, boosting productivity, and providing real value to their organizations. You can find more information and our call for presentations here.

Code

Code Programming Servers Cloud

Managing Dynatrace Managed at scale

Dynatrace

JULY 2, 2020

With Dynatrace being able to handle thousands of connected agents, services, containers, servers, and individual user tracking, synthetic monitoring measurements and ingesting external data monitoring becomes a breeze . Part IV: Maintaining configuration as code and configuration management. How large is “large scale”?

Virtualization

Virtualization Monitoring Servers Cloud

Dynatrace receives FedRAMP authorization at moderate impact level

Dynatrace

JULY 30, 2020

With Dynatrace for Government , you simply configure a local gateway server, set up your single sign-on (this setup will require support from our FedRAMP D ev O ps team), and deploy the automated One Agent to your physical or virtual hosts. . Benefits of Dynatrace for Government includ e : . hybrid and?multi

Government

Government Analytics Cloud Infrastructure

Storage handling improvements increase retention of transaction data for Dynatrace Managed

Dynatrace

JULY 29, 2021

Dynatrace stores transaction data (for example, PurePaths and code-level traces) on disk for 10 days by default. Compression of data that’s older than three days utilizes one virtual CPU. This typically doesn’t include code-level data and is stored in small chunks with high retention times. Session Replay data.

Storage

Storage Virtualization Infrastructure Availability

Modernize cloud operations to transform the way you work

Dynatrace

APRIL 15, 2022

Organizations hit this cloud operations wall when replacing static virtual machines with dynamic container orchestration and expanding to multicloud environments. The agency executed one of the largest email migrations from on-premises Exchange servers to Microsoft Office 365 — moving almost 480,000 mailboxes to the cloud.

Cloud

Cloud Infrastructure Innovation Monitoring

Why you need Dynatrace on Azure Workloads

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Microsoft offers a wide variety of tools to monitor applications deployed within Microsoft Azure, and the Azure Monitor suite includes several integration points into the enterprise applications, including: VM agent – Collects logs and metrics from the guest OS of virtual machines. Available as an agent installer).

Azure

Azure Artificial Intelligence Metrics Innovation

Azure Well-Architected Framework: What it is and how to tame it with AI and automation

Dynatrace

APRIL 21, 2022

Getting precise root cause analysis when dealing with several layers of virtualization in a containerized world. Using high-fidelity metrics, logs, code-level tracing, and a dynamic topology map of your applications, Davis can identify the precise root cause and prioritize its business impact. Let’s look at an example.

Azure

Azure Monitoring Virtualization Metrics

Plan, execute, and modernize a cloud migration strategy with Dynatrace

Dynatrace

MAY 9, 2022

Overprovisioned servers lead to CPU and memory waste, creating inefficient usage and increasing costs. Right-sizing matches server to workload performance and capacity requirements at the lowest possible cost. Modernize the application, containerize the application, and refactor the code. Right-sizing infrastructure. Repurchase.

Strategy

Strategy Cloud Infrastructure Metrics

What is Azure Functions?

Dynatrace

APRIL 5, 2021

Similar to AWS Lambda , Azure Functions is a serverless compute service by Microsoft that can run code in response to predetermined events or conditions (triggers), such as an order arriving on an IoT system, or a specific queue receiving a new message. Consider using virtual machines or specialized frameworks for these types of tasks.

Azure

Azure Serverless IoT Lambda

CrowdStrike incident takeaways: Revisiting vendor quality control and release standards to minimize outage exposure

Dynatrace

JULY 25, 2024

Rather than releasing updates directly to production clients and servers, organizations can add confidence by testing new releases in sandbox environments and then do gradual rollouts. code reviews, penetration testing)? Vendors typically offer a wide range of support options and tiers, whether via chat, phone, or virtual.

Strategy

Strategy Monitoring Open Source Testing

Automatic observability on Amazon EKS for AWS Fargate with intelligent Dynatrace Operators

Dynatrace

APRIL 29, 2021

Many Site Reliability Engineers could do without the frustrations of managing virtual or bare-metal compute nodes. Dynatrace news. Though serverless platforms relieve them from this burden, such platforms are built using Kubernetes alternatives that require different APIs, orchestration tools, and observability requirements.

AWS

AWS Serverless Java Virtualization

What is Kubernetes?

Dynatrace

MAY 31, 2021

Kubernetes (aka K8s) is an open-source platform used to run and manage containerized applications and services on clusters of physical or virtual machines across on-premises, public, private, and hybrid clouds. This virtualization makes it possible to efficiently deploy and securely run a container independently of the hosting infrastructure.

Virtualization

Virtualization DevOps Infrastructure Cloud

Common use-cases for AWS Lambda in the enterprise (and how to get observability for them)

Dynatrace

APRIL 8, 2021

In short, Lambda functions can take on almost all of the operational duties of running an application; all you need to do is provide the code that should be executed on a given event or trigger. This means that there is no need to provision or manage servers (or even containers). Auto scaling. Failure retries. Security isolation.

Lambda

Lambda AWS Serverless Monitoring

Common use-cases for AWS Lambda in the enterprise (and how to get observability for them)

Dynatrace

APRIL 8, 2021

In short, Lambda functions can take on almost all of the operational duties of running an application; all you need to do is provide the code that should be executed on a given event or trigger. This means that there is no need to provision or manage servers (or even containers). Auto scaling. Failure retries. Security isolation.

Lambda

Lambda AWS Serverless Monitoring

Extending Dynatrace

Dynatrace

JULY 10, 2019

Just a single OneAgent per host is required to collect all relevant monitoring data, all the way down to specific lines of code. OneAgents are optimized to send data to the Dynatrace servers with the smallest possible impact, querying the metrics every minute, and the data is a first-class citizen for the Dynatrace AI root-cause analysis.

Java

Java Best Practices Metrics Azure

A look behind the scenes of AWS Lambda and our new Lambda monitoring extension

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Dynatrace has offered a Lambda code module for Node.js The virtual CPU is turned off. In theory, an existing code module or agent can be used to monitor a Lambda function if there’s a way to load it into the running Lambda process. After each execution, AWS Lambda puts the instance to sleep. A small memory footprint.

Lambda

Lambda AWS Monitoring Serverless

DevOps monitoring tools: How to drive DevOps efficiency

Dynatrace

MAY 8, 2023

Infrastructure monitoring Infrastructure monitoring reviews servers, storage, network connections, virtual machines, and other data center elements that support applications. The Dynatrace platform also enables teams to monitor logs generated by applications, servers, and infrastructure components.

DevOps

DevOps Efficiency Monitoring Infrastructure

Improving JavaScript Bundle Performance With Code-Splitting

Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Improving JavaScript Bundle Performance With Code-Splitting. Improving JavaScript Bundle Performance With Code-Splitting. It’s a common misconception that the code which is produced by the framework build tools (Webpack, for example) is fully optimized and cannot be improved upon any further. The answer lies in code-splitting.

Code

Code Performance Network Website

Dynatrace supports the newly released AWS Lambda Response Streaming

Dynatrace

APRIL 7, 2023

The difference is the owner of the Lambda function does not have to worry about provisioning and managing servers. Lambda functions allow teams to run code for applications, back-end services, streaming processing, or any layer of the stack with less overhead. Auto-detection starts monitoring new virtual machines as they are deployed.

Lambda

Lambda AWS Serverless Latency

Monitoring of Kubernetes Infrastructure for day 2 operations

Dynatrace

JULY 8, 2020

A container with inefficient code might affect critical workloads and practically make the whole node unusable , or worse, because of replication, it can impact the whole cluster. Event objects are not typical log events ; they are produced by the API Server and not included in the logs produced by the cluster.

Infrastructure

Infrastructure Monitoring Cloud Metrics

tempdb Enhancements in SQL Server 2019

SQL Performance

AUGUST 2, 2019

I have been making the same recommendations about tempdb since I started working with SQL Server over 15 years ago, when I was working with customers running version 2000. From the customer side, this has been the limit of what can be done*, until SQL Server 2019. I have SQL Server 2019 CTP 3.2 Now that 2019 CTP 3.2

Servers

Servers C++ Testing Systems

Mastering Kubernetes with Dynatrace

Dynatrace

AUGUST 24, 2020

To make this possible, the application code should be instrumented with telemetry data for deep insights , includin g: . Dynatrace is the only monitoring solution that provides observability (with no code changes) into every layer of your Kubernetes deployment , including your cloud infrastructure provider. .

Analytics

Analytics Infrastructure AWS Operating System

Improve your cloud deployments with automated observability into your Azure Deployment Slots

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 20, 2020

You can also track how many requests each slot serves and quickly see if there are any client- or server-side HTTP errors. Dynatrace allows you to quickly check if the new code in the staging slot works as expected. . Thanks to Dynatrace, you can see all this clearly aggregated on a chart and then respond accordingly.

Azure

Azure Cloud Traffic Metrics

Pushy to the Limit: Evolving Netflix’s WebSocket proxy for the future

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. The first was voice control, where you can play a title or search using your virtual assistant with a voice command like “Show me Stranger Things on Netflix.”

Latency

Latency Cache Tuning Efficiency

Running Ansible From Windows Using Virtualization

Everything as Code

Trending Sources

Optimize your environment: Unveiling Dynatrace Hyper-V extension for enhanced performance and efficient troubleshooting

What is container as a service? How CaaS compares to PaaS, IaaS, and FaaS

Virtual consensus in Delos

What is infrastructure monitoring and why is it mission-critical in the new normal?

AI-powered DNS request tracking extends infrastructure observability for high quality network traffic

What is serverless computing? Driving efficiency without sacrificing observability

Unmatched scalability and security of Dynatrace extensions now available for all supported technologies: 7 reasons to migrate your JMX and Python plugins

Firecracker: lightweight virtualization for serverless applications

DevOps engineer tools: Deploy, test, evaluate, repeat

What is function as a service? App development gets FaaS and furious

Mastering Kubernetes with Dynatrace

Kubernetes: Challenges for observability platforms

Weighing a microservices approach means covering all architecture bases

OneAgent release notes version 1.231

Easily monitor your SAP ABAP platform and user experience with Dynatrace (GA)

New critical vulnerability, CVE-2022-42889, in Apache Commons Text discovered (but no need to panic)

What is Log4Shell? The Log4Shell vulnerability explained (and what to do about it)

Introducing the Dynatrace SAP ABAP platform monitoring extension (EAP)

Using Generative AI to Build Generative AI

Managing Dynatrace Managed at scale

Dynatrace receives FedRAMP authorization at moderate impact level

Storage handling improvements increase retention of transaction data for Dynatrace Managed

Modernize cloud operations to transform the way you work

Why you need Dynatrace on Azure Workloads

Azure Well-Architected Framework: What it is and how to tame it with AI and automation

Plan, execute, and modernize a cloud migration strategy with Dynatrace

What is Azure Functions?

CrowdStrike incident takeaways: Revisiting vendor quality control and release standards to minimize outage exposure

Automatic observability on Amazon EKS for AWS Fargate with intelligent Dynatrace Operators

What is Kubernetes?

Common use-cases for AWS Lambda in the enterprise (and how to get observability for them)

Common use-cases for AWS Lambda in the enterprise (and how to get observability for them)

Extending Dynatrace

A look behind the scenes of AWS Lambda and our new Lambda monitoring extension

DevOps monitoring tools: How to drive DevOps efficiency

Improving JavaScript Bundle Performance With Code-Splitting

Dynatrace supports the newly released AWS Lambda Response Streaming

Monitoring of Kubernetes Infrastructure for day 2 operations

tempdb Enhancements in SQL Server 2019

Mastering Kubernetes with Dynatrace

Improve your cloud deployments with automated observability into your Azure Deployment Slots

Pushy to the Limit: Evolving Netflix’s WebSocket proxy for the future

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