The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 4, 2023

The second phase involves migrating the traffic over to the new systems in a manner that mitigates the risk of incidents while continually monitoring and confirming that we are meeting crucial metrics tracked at multiple levels. The batch job creates a high-level summary that captures some key comparison metrics.

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Traffic Latency Tuning Systems 347

Dynatrace

JULY 23, 2019

The OneAgent SDK enables you to extend Dynatrace, including our AI-based root cause analysis , Smartscape , and service flow , to monitor Python-based applications. The application I want to monitor is called Flaskr. I would like to monitor that functionality as a separate service. Defining custom request attributes. fetchone().

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Monitoring Software Software Database 178

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

For example, this year I was doing comparisons of headphones to purchase. The site I was using to do a side-by-side comparison had an issue with loading in my mobile browser. Dynatrace RUM (Real User Monitoring) has a session replay capability that allows you to see what an end user would see during a session in real time.

Retail 278

Retail Social Media Performance Benchmarking 278

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 27, 2022

In what follows, we explore some of these best practices and guidance for implementing service-level objectives in your monitored environment. To measure availability, we can rely on an HTTP monitor from Dynatrace Synthetic Monitoring. Best practices for implementing service-level objectives. Availability.

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Software Software Benchmarking Latency 306

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

DECEMBER 18, 2023

During the testing stage, generate on-demand synthetic monitors to monitor the performance of the application as experienced by your end users in different geolocations. Optional best practices Optionally, the following best practices are recommended to achieve the most effective outcomes.

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Testing Best Practices Performance Testing Engineering 306

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. Continuously monitor the application and the underlying infrastructure.

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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. At every step, relevant stakeholders are informed, and key metrics are monitored, including service, device, operational, and business metrics.

Traffic 285

Traffic Metrics Systems Strategy 285

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. Interfaces.

Network 246

Network Infrastructure Virtualization Metrics 246

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

JULY 28, 2021

If you only add new hosts to your monitored environments one at a time at a manageable rate, then mass rollout of OneAgent isn’t required. Time to value is the main consideration for scenarios like: Setting up full-stack monitoring for a large, new Dynatrace environment where data analysis is required within a few hours.

Infrastructure 246

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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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Scalegrid

APRIL 28, 2020

Here are the configurations for this comparison: Plan. These plans are fully managed for you across any of these cloud providers, and comes with a comprehensive console to automate all of your database management, monitoring and maintenance tasks in the cloud. Dedicated Hosting. MongoDB® Database. Replication Strategy.

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Azure AWS Database Latency 344

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. Metric comparisons over previous timeframes. Dynatrace news. Turn powerful Dynatrace dashboards into custom reports with just two clicks.

Metrics 252

Metrics Monitoring Availability Network 252

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Infrastructure Monitoring. Settings > Maintenance windows > Monitoring, alerting and availability. To see all queues and topics detected by OneAgent within your monitoring environment. Infrastructure Monitoring. Log Monitoring. Synthetic monitoring. Infrastructure Monitoring. Dashboards.

Lambda 246

Lambda Azure Metrics Monitoring 246

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.

Engineering 270

Engineering Performance Metrics Best Practices 270

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.

Latency 52

Latency Performance Virtualization Infrastructure 52

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

The predefined set of files monitored for configuration alterations is maintained within ruxitagentproc.conf. Additionally, consider using the DT_CUSTOM_PROP environment variable to include extra metadata about the build, providing valuable information for monitoring and analysis.

Traffic 279

Traffic Best Practices Strategy Engineering 279

Percona

MARCH 17, 2023

2022 was an exciting year for Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM). 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’ve added and improved many features, including Alerting and Backup Management.

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Monitoring Scalability Database Cache 117

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. Collect user behavior data Organizations typically use analytics software to collect a large volume of data on user behavior from relevant sources. An organization may collect this data the following ways.

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Analytics Social Media Website IoT 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.

Cloud 242

Cloud DevOps Speed Metrics 242

Dynatrace

JANUARY 31, 2024

Integrations with cloud services and custom models such as OpenAI, Amazon Translate, Amazon Textract, Azure Computer Vision, and Azure Custom Vision provide a robust framework for model monitoring. To observe model drift and accuracy, companies can use holdout evaluation sets for comparison to model data.

Cache 276

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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DevOps Innovation Cloud Programming 246

The Morning Paper

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

Watchman: monitoring dependency conflicts for Python library ecosystem Wang et al., In comparison, this ratio is only 0.03% for Java projects managed by Maven following the same investigation method. There are more than 1.4M Python libraries in the PyPI repository. We found that 92.2%

Monitoring 137

Monitoring Java C++ Strategy 137

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

APRIL 2, 2020

For two decades, Dynatrace NAM—Network Application Monitoring, formerly known as DC RUM—has been successfully monitoring the user experience of our customers’ enterprise applications. All-traffic monitoring, analysis on demand—network performance management started to grow as an independent engineering discipline.

Network 221

Network Traffic Monitoring Java 221

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.

Metrics 297

Metrics Engineering Code Tuning 297

Dynatrace

JANUARY 31, 2022

Organizations can also apply shift-right testing to code that gets configured or is monitored in the field. Synthetic monitoring. Another variety of shift-right testing is synthetic monitoring , which is the use of software tools to emulate the paths users might take when engaging with an application.

DevOps 246

DevOps Testing Monitoring Speed 246

Dynatrace

JANUARY 31, 2022

Organizations can also apply shift-right testing to code that gets configured or is monitored in the field. Synthetic monitoring. Another variety of shift-right testing is synthetic monitoring , which is the use of software tools to emulate the paths users might take when engaging with an application. Watch webinar.

DevOps 246

DevOps Testing Monitoring Speed 246

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

This hospitality company uses Dynatrace Digital Experience Monitoring to find the exact user sessions where their user journeys drop off between steps 3 and 4. Also, by making a quick comparison across time periods, you can see how your improvements affect user journeys over time.

Strategy 249

Strategy Monitoring Testing Software 249

Scalegrid

MARCH 23, 2020

It is important to continuously monitor the health of your MySQL master and slave servers so you can detect potential issues and take corrective actions. As you can see, Pgpool and PgBouncer have rather differing strengths – in our final post of the series, we will do a head-to-head testing, and feature comparison! Expert Tip.

Cache 264

Cache Servers Architecture Processing 264

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. Solution : Like the freshness example, Dynatrace can monitor the record count over time.

DevOps 272

DevOps Analytics Airlines Metrics 272

Dynatrace

APRIL 28, 2021

How is the new version behaving in comparison to previous versions? Dynatrace shows issue statistics related to monitored entities in the Releases inventory on the Releases page. Release monitoring | Dynatrace Help. Dynatrace currently supports integration with Jira (on-premise and cloud), GitHub, GitLab, and ServiceNow.

Software 246

Software Software Strategy Metrics 246

Dynatrace

JANUARY 16, 2020

Since we began the series pointing out parallels to technical debt, let’s revisit that comparison. The reasons we inadvertently accrue intellectual debt are similar to those that contribute to technical debt. We make sub-optimal or under-informed choices under pressure.

Cloud 226

Cloud Artificial Intelligence Virtualization Efficiency 226

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

APRIL 8, 2022

Comparison of Kubernetes log ingestion via Fluentd and Dynatrace OneAgent. Log monitoring works out-of-the-box with no further configuration needed. The Dynatrace platform is substantially different because it automatically captures the topology and dependencies of an environment.

Metrics 245

Metrics Analytics Software Architecture Open Source 245

Scalegrid

JULY 8, 2019

If you’re reading this, you likely already know the magnitude of operational tasks associated with maintaining a production deployment, but for a quick recap, there’s provisioning, deprovisioning, master-slave configurations, backups, scaling, upgrades, log rotations, OS patching, and monitoring to name a few. High Availability Deployment.

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Azure Cloud Virtualization Database 219