Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

For retail organizations, peak traffic can be a mixed blessing. While high-volume traffic often boosts sales, it can also compromise uptimes. For organizations running their own on-premises infrastructure, these costs can be prohibitive. What is always-on infrastructure?

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Metadata and assets must be correctly configured, data must flow seamlessly, microservices must process titles without error, and algorithms must function as intended. This approach provides a few advantages: Low burden on existing systems: Log processing imposes minimal changes to existing infrastructure.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 5, 2019

Central engineering teams enable this operational model by reducing the cognitive burden on innovation teams through solutions related to securing, scaling and strengthening (resilience) the infrastructure. All these micro-services are currently operated in AWS cloud infrastructure. Canaries ), detection and improved KPIs.

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Dynatrace

JULY 21, 2020

In those cases, what should you do if you want to be proactive and ensure that your infrastructure is always up and running? You could of course create a custom device in Dynatrace and send data to it using our API or an ActiveGate extension. Visualize your synthetic monitor data. Easy and flexible infrastructure monitoring.

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Rajiv Shringi Vinay Chella Kaidan Fullerton Oleksii Tkachuk Joey Lynch Introduction As Netflix continues to expand and diversify into various sectors like Video on Demand and Gaming , the ability to ingest and store vast amounts of temporal data — often reaching petabytes — with millisecond access latency has become increasingly vital.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 1, 2023

This tier extended existing infrastructure by adding new backend components and a new remote call to our ads partner on the playback path. To do this, we devised a novel way to simulate the projected traffic weeks ahead of launch by building upon the traffic migration framework described here.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Infrastructure as code is a way to automate infrastructure provisioning and management. In this blog, I explore how Dynatrace has made cloud automation attainable—and repeatable—at scale by embracing the principles of infrastructure as code. Infrastructure-as-code. But how does it work in practice?

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Dynatrace

JUNE 25, 2020

With Dynatrace actively managing business-critical applications, some of our globally distributed enterprise customers require Dynatrace Managed to continue operating even when an entire data center goes down. Near-zero RPO and RTO—monitoring continues seamlessly and without data loss in failover scenarios.

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Dynatrace

MAY 3, 2024

Log data—the most verbose form of observability data, complementing other standardized signals like metrics and traces—is especially critical. As cloud complexity grows, it brings more volume, velocity, and variety of log data. When trying to address this challenge, your cloud architects will likely choose Amazon Data Firehose.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Dynatrace and the Dynatrace Intelligent Observability Platform have added support for the newly introduced Amazon VPC Flow Logs to Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose. This support enables customers to define specific endpoint delivery of real-time streaming data to platforms such as Dynatrace. What is VPC Flow Logs? Why Dynatrace?

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Dynatrace

MARCH 31, 2025

Welcome back to our power dashboarding blog series , data enthusiasts! You can either continue with the custom infrastructure metrics dashboard you created in Part I or use the dashboard we prepared here (Dynatrace login required). exploring your data when you know your desired outcome but are unfamiliar with the available data.

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Vidhya Arvind , Rajasekhar Ummadisetty , Joey Lynch , Vinay Chella Introduction At Netflix our ability to deliver seamless, high-quality, streaming experiences to millions of users hinges on robust, global backend infrastructure. To overcome these challenges, we developed a holistic approach that builds upon our Data Gateway Platform.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JULY 26, 2021

This happens at an unprecedented scale and introduces many interesting challenges; one of the challenges is how to provide visibility of Studio data across multiple phases and systems to facilitate operational excellence and empower decision making. With the latest Data Mesh Platform, data movement in Netflix Studio reaches a new stage.

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Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

RabbitMQ is designed for flexible routing and message reliability, while Kafka handles high-throughput event streaming and real-time data processing. Both serve distinct purposes, from managing message queues to ingesting large data volumes.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 16, 2022

Over the last year, Dynatrace extended its AI-powered log monitoring capabilities by providing support for all log data sources. We added monitoring and analytics for log streams from Kubernetes and multicloud platforms like AWS, GCP, and Azure, as well as the most widely used open-source log data frameworks. Duration: 163.41

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Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Scaling RabbitMQ ensures your system can handle growing traffic and maintain high performance. Youll also learn strategies for maintaining data safety and managing node failures so your RabbitMQ setup is always up to the task. This setup prioritizes data safety, with most replicas online at any given time.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 13, 2023

Log auditing—and its investigative partner, log forensics—are becoming essential practices for securing cloud-native applications and infrastructure. The massive volumes of log data associated with a breach have made cybersecurity forensics a complicated, costly problem to solve. What is log auditing?

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 8, 2024

From business operations to personal communication, the reliance on software and cloud infrastructure is only increasing. Cyberattack Cyberattacks involve malicious activities aimed at disrupting services, stealing data, or causing damage. Possible scenarios A retail website crashes during a major sale event due to a surge in traffic.

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Dynatrace

MAY 21, 2021

This modular microservices-based approach to computing decouples applications from the underlying infrastructure to provide greater flexibility and durability, while enabling developers to build and update these applications faster and with less risk. A service mesh can solve these problems, but it can also introduce its own issues.

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DZone

MARCH 2, 2023

In the past 15+ years, online video traffic has experienced a dramatic boom utterly unmatched by any other form of content. It must be said that this video traffic phenomenon primarily owes itself to modernizations in the scalability of streaming infrastructure, which simply weren’t present fifteen years ago.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 14, 2023

Testing Strategies: A Summary Two key factors determined our testing strategies: Functional vs. non-functional requirements Idempotency If we were testing functional requirements like data accuracy, and if the request was idempotent , we relied on Replay Testing. In such cases, we were not testing for response data but overall behavior.

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Dynatrace

JULY 2, 2020

Large enterprise environments are often distributed across multiple data centers around the world. Unnecessary traffic between such data centers can result in wasted resources, unpredictable downtimes, and lost business. optimizing traffic routing. preventing unrelated traffic between data centers and regions.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 16, 2022

The data locked in your log files can be a goldmine for your application developers, operations teams, and your enterprise as a whole. However, it can be complicated , expensive , or even impossible to set up robust observability that makes use of this data. Log format inconsistency makes it a challenge to access critical data.

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Dynatrace

JULY 15, 2024

The key to success is making data in this complex ecosystem actionable, as many types of syslog producers exist. These include traditional on-premises network devices and servers for infrastructure applications like databases, websites, or email. The ultimate challenge lies in making data from syslog-supported log sources actionable.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

How do you get more value from petabytes of exponentially exploding, increasingly heterogeneous data? The short answer: The three pillars of observability—logs, metrics, and traces—converging on a data lakehouse. To solve this problem, Dynatrace launched Grail, its causational data lakehouse , in 2022.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 22, 2020

While most government agencies and commercial enterprises have digital services in place, the current volume of usage — including traffic to critical employment, health and retail/eCommerce services — has reached levels that many organizations have never seen before or tested against.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 20, 2023

Modern IT organizations are generating more data from more tools and technologies than ever. Data is proliferating in separate silos from containers and Kubernetes to open source APIs and software to serverless compute services, such as AWS and Azure. However, they had numerous custom applications with separate APIs.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 11, 2023

With more organizations taking the multicloud plunge, monitoring cloud infrastructure is critical to ensure all components of the cloud computing stack are available, high-performing, and secure. Cloud monitoring is a set of solutions and practices used to observe, measure, analyze, and manage the health of cloud-based IT infrastructure.

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Dynatrace

MAY 6, 2020

Over the last two month s, w e’ve monito red key sites and applications across industries that have been receiving surges in traffic , including government, health insurance, retail, banking, and media. Readers who share our privacy concerns, please note, all the data we monitor is publicly available. . Monitoring with ?the

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Dynatrace

MAY 19, 2023

For cloud operations teams, network performance monitoring is central in ensuring application and infrastructure performance. Worse, a malicious attacker may gain access to the network, compromising sensitive application data. But this approach merely perpetuates data silos and cloud complexity.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

In a digital-first world, site reliability engineers and IT data analysts face numerous challenges with data quality and reliability in their quest for cloud control. Increasingly, organizations seek to address these problems using AI techniques as part of their exploratory data analytics practices.

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Andreas Andreakis , Ioannis Papapanagiotou Overview Change-Data-Capture (CDC) allows capturing committed changes from a database in real-time and propagating those changes to downstream consumers [1][2]. No locks on tables are ever acquired, which prevent impacting write traffic on the source database. Writing events to any output.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Think of containers as the packaging for microservices that separate the content from its environment – the underlying operating system and infrastructure. This opens the door to auto-scalable applications, which effortlessly matches the demands of rapidly growing and varying user traffic. What is Docker? Networking. Observability.

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Andreas Andreakis , Ioannis Papapanagiotou Overview Change-Data-Capture (CDC) allows capturing committed changes from a database in real-time and propagating those changes to downstream consumers [1][2]. No locks on tables are ever acquired, which prevent impacting write traffic on the source database. Writing events to any output.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Cloud migration is the process of transferring some or all your data, software, and operations to a cloud-based computing environment that offers unlimited scale and high availability. Generally speaking, cloud migration involves moving from on-premises infrastructure to cloud-based services. Decrease security risks.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 5, 2023

The F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) is an application delivery controller (ADC) that ensures the availability, security, and optimal performance of network traffic flows. Detect and respond to security threats like DDoS attacks or web application attacks by monitoring application traffic and logs.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 16, 2020

With most employees now working from home, and the demand on e-commerce platforms hits an all-time high, applications and infrastructure are under intense pressure with new usage patterns that have never been planned for or tested against. IT teams are on the frontlines of these efforts.

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