Dynatrace

DECEMBER 2, 2024

DevOps and security teams managing today’s multicloud architectures and cloud-native applications are facing an avalanche of data. This has resulted in visibility gaps, siloed data, and negative effects on cross-team collaboration. At the same time, the number of individual observability and security tools has grown.

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 17, 2024

The Challenge of Title Launch Observability As engineers, were wired to track system metrics like error rates, latencies, and CPU utilizationbut what about metrics that matter to a titlessuccess? This allows us to focus on data analysis and problem-solving rather than managing complex systemchanges.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 29, 2024

In today’s data-driven world, businesses across various industry verticals increasingly leverage the Internet of Things (IoT) to drive efficiency and innovation. IoT is transforming how industries operate and make decisions, from agriculture to mining, energy utilities, and traffic management.

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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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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

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Welcome to the blog series where we give you a deeper dive into the latest awesomeness around Dynatrace : how we bring scale, zero configuration, automatic AI driven alerting, and root cause analysis to all your custom metrics, including open source observability frameworks like StatsD, Telegraf, and Prometheus.

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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

MAY 17, 2023

That is, relying on metrics, logs, and traces to understand what software is doing and where it’s running into snags. OpenTelemetry, the open source observability tool, has emerged as an industry-standard solution for instrumenting application telemetry data to make it observable.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 10, 2023

This platform has evolved from supporting studio applications to data science applications, machine-learning applications to discover the assets metadata, and build various data facts. Hence we built the data pipeline that can be used to extract the existing assets metadata and process it specifically to each new use case.

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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. They also need a high-performance, real-time analytics platform to make that data actionable.

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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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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

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Every image you hover over isnt just a visual placeholder; its a critical data point that fuels our sophisticated personalization engine. This nuanced integration of data and technology empowers us to offer bespoke content recommendations. This queue ensures we are consistently capturing raw events from our global userbase.

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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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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 1, 2023

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. New content or national events may drive brief spikes, but, by and large, traffic is usually smoothly increasing or decreasing.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 25, 2020

Dynatrace Managed is intrinsically highly available as it stores three copies of all events, user sessions, and metrics across its cluster nodes. Near-zero RPO and RTO—monitoring continues seamlessly and without data loss in failover scenarios. Minimized cross-data center network traffic. Dynatrace news.

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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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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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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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Highly Scalable

MAY 1, 2012

Statistical analysis and mining of huge multi-terabyte data sets is a common task nowadays, especially in the areas like web analytics and Internet advertising. Analysis of such large data sets often requires powerful distributed data stores like Hadoop and heavy data processing with techniques like MapReduce.

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Dynatrace

MAY 17, 2023

Making applications observable—relying on metrics, logs, and traces to understand what software is doing and how it’s performing—has become increasingly important as workloads are shifting to multicloud environments. We also introduced our demo app and explained how to define the metrics and traces it uses.

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Scalegrid

AUGUST 30, 2019

Redis , short for Remote Dictionary Server, is a BSD-licensed, open-source in-memory key-value data structure store written in C language by Salvatore Sanfillipo and was first released on May 10, 2009. Instead, Redis stores data in data structures which makes it very flexible to use. Data Structures in Redis.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 13, 2023

The massive volumes of log data associated with a breach have made cybersecurity forensics a complicated, costly problem to solve. As organizations adopt more cloud-native technologies, observability data—telemetry from applications and infrastructure, including logs, metrics, and traces—and security data are converging.

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Dynatrace

JULY 1, 2020

In my last blog , I’ve provided an example of this happening, whereby the traffic spiked and quadrupled the usual incoming traffic. These are all interesting metrics from marketing point of view, and also highly interesting to you as they allow you to engage with the teams that are driving the traffic against your IT-system.

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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

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

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

APRIL 5, 2024

When the SLO status converges to an optimal value of 100%, and there’s substantial traffic (calls/min), BurnRate becomes more relevant for anomaly detection. SLOs must be evaluated at 100%, even when there is currently no traffic. Data Explorer “test your Metric Expression” for info result coming from the above metric.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Dynatrace is fully committed to the OpenTelemetry community and to the seamless integration of OpenTelemetry data , including ingestion of custom metrics , into the Dynatrace open analytics platform. Announcing seamless integration of OpenTracing data into Dynatrace PurePath 4.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

This opens the door to auto-scalable applications, which effortlessly matches the demands of rapidly growing and varying user traffic. Containers can be replicated or deleted on the fly to meet varying end-user traffic. Application teams and Kubernetes/Swarm platform operators alike depend on detailed monitoring data.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 28, 2020

Dynatrace automatically detects and connects monitored services and web applications, considers synthetic data in AI-powered answers by Davis, and even lets you drill down from a synthetic transaction to code-level if necessary. Easily integrate Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics data into Dynatrace. This blog post explains how to do this.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 22, 2021

Such on-premises environments are usually large, typically consisting of thousands of hosts that are organized in physical data centers. Each SNMP-enabled device provides access to its state and performance metrics in a simple and robust way that allows Dynatrace to fetch the metrics and run them through Davis®, our AI causation engine.

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Dynatrace

MAY 21, 2021

This becomes even more challenging when the application receives heavy traffic, because a single microservice might become overwhelmed if it receives too many requests too quickly. It controls the delivery of service requests to other services, performs load balancing, encrypts data, and discovers other services.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 7, 2020

We’re happy to announce that by opening up Dynatrace OneAgent for integration of custom metrics, Dynatrace has automated alerting on crucial metrics and removes the need to maintain local configurations for StatsD, Telegraf, and Prometheus—even in the largest of environments, which can include hundreds of thousands of instances and containers.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Automating quality gates is ideal, as it minimizes manually checking and validating key metrics throughout the SDLC. By actively monitoring metrics such as error rate, success rate, and CPU load, quality gates instill confidence in teams during software releases. Several tools can be used to collect metrics in load/performance testing.

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Dynatrace

JULY 25, 2022

VPC Flow Logs is a feature that gives you the capability to capture more robust IP traffic data that traverses your VPCs. Flow log data can be published to Amazon CloudWatch Logs or Amazon S3 after which you can retrieve and view its data in the Dynatrace Intelligent Observability Platform. Log Metrics. Log Events.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 21, 2021

In February 2021, Dynatrace announced full support for Google’s Core Web Vitals metrics , which will help site owners as they start optimizing Core Web Vitals performance for SEO. To do this effectively, you need a big data processing approach. How do you clearly communicate this data to your marketing and business stakeholders?

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