The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 13, 2023

A small percentage of production traffic is redirected to the two new clusters, allowing us to monitor the new version’s performance and compare it against the current version. By tracking metrics only at the level of service being updated, we might miss capturing deviations in broader end-to-end system functionality.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Constantly monitoring infrastructure health state and making ongoing optimizations are essential for Ops teams, SREs (site-reliability engineers), and IT admins. Quick and easy network infrastructure monitoring. Tired of constantly switching between all your monitoring tools? Start monitoring in minutes.

Network 246

Network Infrastructure Virtualization Metrics 246

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. Continuously monitor cost and optimize your capacity needs. But managing these three data types at a scale becomes unsustainable for even the most experienced teams.

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Dynatrace

MAY 28, 2020

Now, while we’ve been pushing these concepts in Keptn we haven’t explained well enough how to level-up your existing load testing scripts for better SLI monitoring and how to integrate them with Dynatrace in order to reap all the benefits of SLI-based Performance Analysis. A key concept in monitoring is proper tagging.

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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

JANUARY 20, 2020

Effective monitoring calls for effective reporting. 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.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 15, 2020

Having released this functionality in an Preview Release back in September 2019, we’re now happy to announce the General Availability of our Citrix monitoring extension. Synthetic monitoring: Citrix login availability and performance. OneAgent: Citrix StoreFront services discovered and monitored by Dynatrace. Dynatrace news.

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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. Infrastructure Monitoring. Settings > Maintenance windows > Monitoring, alerting and availability. Infrastructure Monitoring. Log Monitoring. Dashboards.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

This acronym can stand for application performance monitoring or application performance management — two distinct but related concepts. Application performance monitoring. Application performance monitoring involves tracking key software application performance metrics using monitoring software and telemetry data.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Consolidate log management tools into a unified observability platform As businesses increasingly shift toward software-centric models, the number of specialized IT monitoring tools to manage cloud environments has proliferated. The first best practice is to consolidate log management with application monitoring in a single platform.

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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. Managing regressions and model drift is crucial when deploying and monitoring machine learning models in operation, especially as new data comes in.

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Cache Azure Infrastructure Monitoring 276

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

2021 Gartner Peer Insights Voice of the Customer: Application Performance Monitoring. Observability provides deeper technical insights into what’s happening within cloud environments, in comparison to APM and/or traditional monitoring methods. Observability isn’t simply a new name for application performance monitoring (APM).

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Dynatrace

MAY 24, 2023

Because it’s critical that operations teams ensure that all internal resources are available for their users, synthetic monitoring of those resources is important. So why not use the advantages of K8s to make synthetic deployment monitoring easier and more effective? Private locations are crucial in achieving this goal.

Scalability 246

Scalability Virtualization Monitoring Open Source 246

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. What’s next.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 31, 2024

Data observability involves monitoring and managing the internal state of data systems to gain insight into the data pipeline, understand how data evolves, and identify any issues that could compromise data integrity or reliability. Scenario : For many B2B SaaS companies, the number of reported customers is an important metric.

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DevOps Analytics Airlines Metrics 272

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. Release monitoring | Dynatrace Help.

Software 246

Software Software Strategy Metrics 246

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 260

Energy Airlines Analytics Transportation 260

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. Data sources typically include common infrastructure monitoring tools and second-generation APM solutions as well as other solutions.

Software 264

Software Software Artificial Intelligence Metrics 264

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.

Open Source 246

Open Source Metrics Monitoring Technology 246

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. Log monitoring works out-of-the-box with no further configuration needed.

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Percona

MARCH 17, 2023

2022 was an exciting year for Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM). PMM2 uses VictoriaMetrics (VM) as its metrics storage engine. Planning for resources of a PMM Server host instance can be tricky because the numbers can change depending on the DB instances being monitored by PMM. We have tested PMM version 2.33.0

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Monitoring Scalability Database Cache 117

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 5, 2020

The challenge with ASP.NET Web Service Observability, Diagnostics and Performance Optimization is that most monitoring & diagnostic tools only provide global Service Level Indicators metrics (SLIs) such as response time, failure rate, and throughput, but not metrics for each individual service endpoint.

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Performance Best Practices Architecture Monitoring 207

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 242

Metrics Tuning Programming Systems 242

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

The impact of limited visibility in CI/CD pipelines The journey for Omnilogy started when a customer explained that they needed a way to monitor and improve the performance of their CI/CD pipelines with Dynatrace. Developers can automatically ensure enterprise security and governance requirement compliance by leveraging these components.

Government 246

Government DevOps Azure Scalability 246

Dynatrace

AUGUST 14, 2023

These sources can include the website or app itself, a data warehouse or a customer data platform (CDP), or social media monitoring tools. Metrics like the net promoter score (NPS) or customer satisfaction (CSAT) score encapsulate this kind of customer feedback into measurable analytics.

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Analytics Social Media Website IoT 246

The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Today we are excited to announce latency heatmaps and improved container support for our on-host monitoring solution?—?Vector?—?to Vector is an open-source host-level performance monitoring framework which we have been using for some time. to the broader community. Vector is open source and in use by multiple companies.

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Performance Latency Open Source Metrics 216

Dynatrace

JULY 9, 2020

Gone are the days for Christian manually looking at dashboards and metrics after a new build got deployed into a testing or acceptance environment: Integrating Keptn into your existing DevOps tools such as GitLab is just a matter of an API call. Monitoring Configuration as Code. Incident Notification and Auto-Remediation.

Cloud 261

Cloud DevOps Architecture Azure 261

Dynatrace

JANUARY 16, 2020

Since we began the series pointing out parallels to technical debt, let’s revisit that comparison. Examine large data sets, applying statistical correlation to uncover patterns in observable behaviors, including metrics, events, logs, and alerts. We make sub-optimal or under-informed choices under pressure. Machine learning systems.

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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

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 264

Dynatrace

MARCH 10, 2021

Conventional (not built for cloud) monitoring tools are not much help. They collect metrics and raise alerts, but they provide few answers as to what went wrong in the first place. Weeks, if not months, can pass until the system is honed to completely trust it with production monitoring of business-critical processes.

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AWS Cloud Artificial Intelligence Innovation 221

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Along the journey, monitored entities can be selected to provide the context to fetch the right data from Dynatrace Grail™. In many cases, you want to retrieve the logs, metrics, or traces of a particular version, which is unknown upfront. A two-step approach to creating a guardian using a template.

Government 246

Government Best Practices DevOps Engineering 246

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Therefore, it requires multidimensional and multidisciplinary monitoring: Infrastructure health —automatically monitor the compute, storage, and network resources available to the Citrix system to ensure a stable platform. Synthetic monitoring: Citrix login availability and performance. OneAgent: SAP infrastructure performance.

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Latency Performance Virtualization Infrastructure 164

Smashing Magazine

MAY 16, 2022

Rethinking Server-Timing As A Critical Monitoring Tool. Rethinking Server-Timing As A Critical Monitoring Tool. To me, it’s a must-use in any project where real user monitoring (RUM) is being instrumented. To me, it’s a must-use in any project where real user monitoring (RUM) is being instrumented. Sean Roberts.

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Highly Scalable

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

Data version can be specified by a timestamps or application-specific metric. In comparison with pure anti-entropy, this greatly improves consistency with a relatively small performance penalty. This approach is used for example in Cassandra. Atomic Read-modify-write. It can be considered as a kind of targeted anti-entropy.

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Database Latency C++ Scalability 213

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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Speed Curve

APRIL 14, 2024

I've been spending a lot of time looking at the performance of European sites lately, and have found that the consent management platforms (CMPs) are consistently creating a bit of a false reality for folks when trying to understand performance using synthetic monitoring. It's common to see the consent scripts blocking by design.

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Performance Best Practices Metrics Internet 134