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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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

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

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

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

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

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

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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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

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

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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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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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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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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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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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Common Infrastructure ExpensesYour first step in optimizing CDN expenses isn’t to look for the best-priced solution but to remember that a cheaper price isn’t always the best deal. If your traffic is mostly static, you may be able to meet all your needs with a less expensive CDN that provides content distribution services.

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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

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

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Understanding that the first mile of getting data in can often be the hardest, Dynatrace continues to invest in log ingest, offering a range of out-of-the-box solutions within the Dynatrace Platform and apps. Native support for syslog messages extends our infrastructure log support to all Linux/Unix systems and network devices.

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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

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

trillion this year 1 , more than two-thirds of the adult population now relying on digital payments 2 for financial transactions, and more than 400 million terabytes of data being created each day 3 , it’s abundantly clear that the world now runs on software. With global e-commerce spending projected to reach $6.3

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VoltDB

AUGUST 8, 2024

quintillion bytes of data are generated each day, enterprises have more data under their control than ever before. Unfortunately, many organizations lack the tools, infrastructure, and architecture needed to unlock the full value of that data. What are the benefits of a real-time data platform? In a world where 2.5

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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

JUNE 10, 2024

Security analytics combines data collection, aggregation, and analysis to search for and identify potential threats. Using a combination of historical data and information collected in real time, security teams can detect threats earlier in the SDLC. Infrastructure type In most cases, legacy SIEM tools are on-premises.

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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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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Common Infrastructure ExpensesYour first step in optimizing CDN expenses isn’t to look for the best-priced solution but to remember that a cheaper price isn’t always the best deal. If your traffic is mostly static, you may be able to meet all your needs with a less expensive CDN that provides content distribution services.

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DZone

AUGUST 16, 2023

Caching is the process of storing frequently accessed data or resources in a temporary storage location, such as memory or disk, to improve retrieval speed and reduce the need for repetitive processing. Bandwidth optimization: Caching reduces the amount of data transferred over the network, minimizing bandwidth usage and improving efficiency.

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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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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Organizations are doing their best to monitor what they can, often using disparate tools for logs, infrastructure, and digital experience. So many tools can result in data inconsistencies. The Dynatrace platform automatically identifies and monitors all newly spawned containers, capturing essential data and metrics at scale.

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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

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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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

MAY 17, 2023

OpenTelemetry , the open source observability tool, has become the go-to standard for instrumenting custom applications to collect observability telemetry data. For this third and final part of our series, we saved the best for last: How you can enhance telemetry data even more and with less effort on your end with Dynatrace OneAgent.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 25, 2023

For example, to handle traffic spikes and pay only for what they use. These functions are executed by a serverless platform or provider (such as AWS Lambda, Azure Functions or Google Cloud Functions) that manages the underlying infrastructure, scaling and billing. Scale automatically based on the demand and traffic patterns.

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DZone

JUNE 11, 2023

Introduction to Service Mesh A service mesh is an infrastructure layer to abstract network and security from applications for better manageability and implementation. With the network getting abstracted from the application logic using sidecars, security and traffic management will be easy to manage from a central location.

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Dynatrace

JULY 31, 2024

Real-time monitoring with out-of-the-box features Real-time data and monitoring are crucial for maintaining situational awareness of IT environment stability and performance, especially during a crisis. It allows users to chain commands together to filter, manipulate, and analyze data efficiently.

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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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