The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 28, 2020

As for HDR, our team is currently developing an HDR extension to VMAF, Netflix’s video quality metric , which will then be used to optimize the HDR streams. ¹ This in turn allows us to compare error rates as well as various metrics related to quality of experience (QoE). The 8-bit stream profiles go up to 1080p resolution.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

framework , the SNMP extensions are a bundle of everything that’s needed (DataSource configuration, a dashboard template, a unified analysis page template, topology definition, entity extraction rules, relevant metric definitions and more) to get going with monitoring. As with other extensions based on the new Dynatrace Extensions 2.0

Network 223

Network Infrastructure Virtualization Metrics 223

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Security vulnerabilities are checked throughout the lifecycle, including comparisons against previous releases. To enrich a release validation with security, simply add one of the out-of-the-box Dynatrace security metrics to your release validation dashboard.

Serverless 225

Serverless DevOps Cloud Metrics 225

Dynatrace

JUNE 4, 2024

Consequently, this blog post highlights the new capability of the Site Reliability Guardian to define auto-adaptive thresholds that tackle the challenge of configuring static thresholds and protect your quality and security investments with relative comparisons to previous validations.

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Dynatrace

JULY 13, 2021

Service-level indicators (SLIs) are checked against your SLOs early in the lifecycle, including comparison against previous builds. Automated comparison of different timeframes based on SLIs and SLOs. By identifying degradation in quality early in the lifecycle, remediation actions can be triggered automatically.

Cloud 245

Cloud DevOps Benchmarking Speed 245

Dynatrace

APRIL 8, 2022

All metrics, traces, and real user data are also surfaced in the context of specific events. With Dynatrace, you can create custom metrics based on user-defined log events. Comparison of Kubernetes log ingestion via Fluentd and Dynatrace OneAgent. So, let’s compare the two approaches for ingesting logs.

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Dynatrace

JULY 15, 2024

Example NAM TCP test configuration The reporting also looks similar; easy-to-understand charts indicate the availability and performance of the whole network availability monitor, and metrics provide an overall summary and links to currently open problems. Overview and detailed requests comparison.

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Rigor

JUNE 14, 2019

It’s true that what might be considered the “most important” or “best” web performance metrics can vary by industry. These six metrics were not chosen at random – they work together to give you a snapshot of your site’s performance and overall user experience so you can set a baseline and improve speed and usability. Speed Index.

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Metrics Performance Speed Ecommerce 101

Dynatrace

APRIL 28, 2021

Organizations that have transitioned to agile software development strategies (including the adoption of a DevOps culture and continuous delivery automation) enforce automated solutions for such decision making—or at the very least, use automation in the gathering of a release-quality metrics.

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Software Software Strategy Metrics 243

The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 24, 2022

Metric A slate recommendation algorithm generates slates and then the user model is used to predict the success/failure of each slate. We compare the change in this metric for different user budget distributions. Paired comparison between RL and Contextual bandit. This is known as the SARSA algorithm.

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Dynatrace

MAY 28, 2020

In Dynatrace, tagging also allows you to control access rights (via Management Zones), filter data on dashboards or via the API as well as allowing you to control calculation of custom service metrics or extraction of request attributes. This allows us to analyze metrics (SLIs) for each individual endpoint URL.

Engineering 200

Engineering Performance Metrics Best Practices 200

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

In comparison, the AIOps approach discussed within this article, is built upon a radically different deterministic AI engine – at Dynatrace known as Davis – that yields precise, actionable results in real-time. metrics) but it’s just adding another dataset and not solving the problem of cause-and-effect certainty.

Software 264

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Rigor

JULY 25, 2019

You’ll typically want to find a way to make a connection between a performance metric (such as First Meaningful Paint ) and a business metric (Conversion Rate). We’ve made your life easier by starting the comparison for you. The Simpsons Family = Web Performance Metrics. webperf #perfmatters Click To Tweet. Ned Flanders.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 20, 2020

Custom charts allow you to visualize metric performance over time, and USQL tiles allow you to dig deep into user session monitoring data. Aggregation metrics over a set of entities (global aggregation). Metric comparisons over previous timeframes. Dynatrace dashboards support a variety of chart visualizations and tiles.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 21, 2022

Most monitoring tools for migrations, development, and operations focus on collecting and aggregating the three pillars of observability— metrics, traces, and logs. Using a data-driven approach to size Azure resources, Dynatrace OneAgent captures host metrics out-of-the-box to assess CPU, memory, and network utilization on a VM host.

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DZone

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

There were languages I briefly read about, including other performance comparisons on the internet. According to other comparisons [Google for 'Performance of Programming Languages'] spread over the net, they clearly outshine others in all speed benchmarks. These include Python, PHP, Perl, and Ruby.

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Java C++ Benchmarking Programming 214

Dynatrace

JANUARY 16, 2023

In comparison, on-premises clusters have more and larger nodes: on average, 9 nodes with 32 to 64 GB of memory. In general, metrics collectors and providers are most common, followed by log and tracing projects. Kubernetes infrastructure models differ between cloud and on-premises.

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Open Source Java Operating System Programming 351

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Symptoms : No data is provided for affected metrics on dashboards, alerts, and custom device pages populated by the affected extension metrics. Select a specific queue or topic to display details about its connected producer and consumer services, as well as technology-specific metrics. Extension logs display errors.

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Lambda Azure Metrics Monitoring 206

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

SREs face ever more challenging situations as environment complexity increases, applications scale up, and organizations grow: Growing dependency graphs result in blind spots and the inability to correlate performance metrics with user experience. Additionally, you can easily use any previously defined metrics and SLOs from your environments.

DevOps 230

DevOps Latency Traffic Best Practices 230

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Observability provides deeper technical insights into what’s happening within cloud environments, in comparison to APM and/or traditional monitoring methods. And for observability to be successful, it requires much more than just logs, metrics, and traces. Traditional approaches and tooling simply don’t work in the new cloud world.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

This is the Multiple Comparisons Problem , and there are a number of approaches to controlling the overall false positive rate that we’ll not cover here. Does the metric story hang together? even if, in truth, the null hypothesis is true in each case and there is no actual effect. In Part 2 (What is an A/B Test?),

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Metrics Testing Innovation Design 215

The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Having the right metrics available on demand and at a high resolution is key to understanding how a system behaves and helps to quickly troubleshoot performance issues. This makes it much easier for engineers to get the graphs they want arranged in a manner for comparisons and to focus in the required areas. is more clearly visible.

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Performance Latency Open Source Metrics 217

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 30, 2023

In a unified strategy, logs are not limited to applications but encompass infrastructure, business events, and custom metrics. A prime example is when a business analyst requests information about how many units of a product were sold within the last month or wants to perform a year-to-year comparison. Set up processing rules.

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Best Practices Analytics Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure 256

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 10, 2020

The increasing vastness and diversity of what our members are watching make answering these questions particularly challenging using conventional methods, which draw on a limited set of comparable titles and their respective performance metrics (e.g., box office, Nielsen ratings). This challenge is also an opportunity.

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Entertainment Architecture Network Open Source 245

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

With the release of Dynatrace 1.177, you can now do exactly this—our most recent dashboarding update provides a powerful comparison feature for all available dashboard tiles. Compare metrics and KPIs over time. Comparisons over time are necessary for analyzing trends. Other improvements.

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Metrics Availability Design 128

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

ESG metrics are increasingly important to investors as they evaluate risk; in turn, these metrics are increasingly important to organizations because they measure and disclose their performance. The app translates utilization metrics, including CPU, memory, disk, and network I/O, into their CO2 equivalent (CO2e).

Energy 194

Energy Airlines Analytics Transportation 194

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

The comparison to an iceberg is appropriate in this case. You only need to flip a few settings toggles to activate critical Kubernetes alerts —there’s no need to research which essential metrics you need to alert on, learn a complex query language, figure out which metrics to use, or learn how to capture metrics.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Application performance monitoring involves tracking key software application performance metrics using monitoring software and telemetry data. Application performance monitoring has a strong focus on specific metrics and measurements. Application performance management.

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Monitoring Innovation Open Source Infrastructure 217

Scalegrid

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

We use Sysbench to benchmark key performance metrics under different workloads and thread configurations, including Transactions Per Second (TPS) and Queries Per Second (QPS). Key metrics include TPS and QPS. Test Environment Setup Instance Types : We used similar cloud instances for AWS RDS and ScaleGrid to ensure a fair comparison.

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Benchmarking AWS Tuning Metrics 130

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Automated release inventory and version comparison , which allows teams to easily evaluate the performance of individual release versions, and as needed, roll back to a previous version. Automated release inventory and version comparison. ” – Wim Verhaeghe, KBI-Connect DevOps team lead at Inetum-Realdolmen.

Cloud 177

Cloud DevOps Speed Metrics 177

Dynatrace

JANUARY 31, 2024

Bringing together metrics, logs, traces, problem analytics, and root-cause information in dashboards and notebooks, Dynatrace offers an end-to-end unified operational view of cloud applications. To observe model drift and accuracy, companies can use holdout evaluation sets for comparison to model data.

Cache 215

Cache Azure Infrastructure Monitoring 215

The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 24, 2022

Technically, “performance” metrics are those relating to the responsiveness or latency of the app, including start up time. At Netflix the term “performance” usually encompasses both performance metrics (in the strict meaning) and memory metrics, and that’s how we’re using the term here. What do we mean by Performance?

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Performance Performance Testing Metrics Testing 210

Dynatrace

JUNE 8, 2021

You’ll learn how to create production SLOs, to continuously improve the performance of services, and I’ll guide you on how to become a champion of your sport by: Creating calculated metrics with the help of multidimensional analysis. Metric 2: number of requests in error. Let’s start by creating a dashboard to follow our metrics.

Metrics 176

Metrics Tuning Programming Systems 176

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Modern observability has evolved from simple metric telemetry monitoring to encompass a wide range of data, including logs, traces, events, alerts, and resource attributes. The native multi-select feature lets users open a filtered group of problems simultaneously, facilitating quick comparisons and detailed analysis.

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Infrastructure Cloud Speed Architecture 220

Dynatrace

JANUARY 15, 2020

As a part of the Citrix monitoring extension for Dynatrace, we deliver a OneAgent plugin that adds several Citrix-specific WMI counters to the set of metrics reported by OneAgent. These metrics help you understand whether your Citrix landscape is sized correctly for its load.

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Latency Performance Virtualization Infrastructure 37

Dynatrace

JANUARY 31, 2024

Scenario : For many B2B SaaS companies, the number of reported customers is an important metric. In this scenario, a manually triggered run of a production pipeline had the unintended consequence of duplicating the reported customer metric.

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DevOps Analytics Airlines Metrics 203

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Perceptual quality measurements are used to drive video encoding optimizations , perform video codec comparisons , carry out A/B testing and optimize streaming QoE decisions to mention a few. In particular, the VMAF metric lies at the core of improving the Netflix member’s streaming video quality. Assembly for two of the metrics (e.g.

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Media Innovation Metrics Latency 180