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Migrating Critical Traffic At Scale with No Downtime?—?Part 1

The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 4, 2023

Migrating Critical Traffic At Scale with No Downtime — Part 1 Shyam Gala , Javier Fernandez-Ivern , Anup Rokkam Pratap , Devang Shah Hundreds of millions of customers tune into Netflix every day, expecting an uninterrupted and immersive streaming experience.

Traffic

Traffic Latency Tuning Systems

Migrating Critical Traffic At Scale with No Downtime?—?Part 2

The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 13, 2023

Migrating Critical Traffic At Scale with No Downtime — Part 2 Shyam Gala , Javier Fernandez-Ivern , Anup Rokkam Pratap , Devang Shah Picture yourself enthralled by the latest episode of your beloved Netflix series, delighting in an uninterrupted, high-definition streaming experience. This is where large-scale system migrations come into play.

Traffic

Traffic Metrics Systems Strategy

AI-powered DNS request tracking extends infrastructure observability for high quality network traffic

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 1, 2020

The Dynatrace Software Intelligence Platform gives you a complete Infrastructure Monitoring solution for the monitoring of cloud platforms and virtual infrastructure, along with log monitoring and AIOps. Ensure high quality network traffic by tracking DNS requests out-of-the-box. What’s next.

Traffic

Traffic Network Infrastructure Artificial Intelligence

Black Friday traffic exposes gaps in observability strategies

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

What’s the problem with Black Friday traffic? But that’s difficult when Black Friday traffic brings overwhelming and unpredictable peak loads to retailer websites and exposes the weakest points in a company’s infrastructure, threatening application performance and user experience. Why Black Friday traffic threatens customer experience.

Traffic

Traffic Strategy Retail Ecommerce

What is application security monitoring?

Dynatrace

MARCH 20, 2024

With the pace of digital transformation continuing to accelerate, organizations are realizing the growing imperative to have a robust application security monitoring process in place. What are the goals of continuous application security monitoring and why is it important?

Monitoring

Monitoring Analytics Traffic Best Practices

Telltale: Netflix Application Monitoring Simplified

The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 13, 2020

You’re not yet convinced there’s a real problem but you’re also aware that the clock is ticking as you dig through a mountain of data looking for clues. Our streaming teams need a monitoring system that enables them to quickly diagnose and remediate problems; seconds count! Regional traffic evacuations. So we built Telltale.

Monitoring

Monitoring Tuning Traffic Metrics

Network performance monitoring top of mind for CloudOps teams

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. If the network is sluggish, an application may also be slow, frustrating users.

Network

Network Monitoring Performance Traffic

Dynatrace Managed turnkey Premium High Availability for globally distributed data centers (Early Adopter)

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.

Availability

Availability Hardware Latency Traffic

Apollo Router Performance Monitoring with OpenTelemetry and Splunk APM

DZone

APRIL 13, 2023

With its ability to handle large amounts of traffic and complex data, the Apollo router is quickly becoming a popular choice among developers seeking a reliable and efficient routing solution. With this integrated telemetry functionality, the Apollo router provides a streamlined and efficient performance monitoring solution.

Monitoring

Monitoring Performance Traffic Efficiency

Ensuring the Successful Launch of Ads on Netflix

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.

Traffic

Traffic Best Practices Systems Testing

Easy SLA and SLO reporting for all your API endpoints with public synthetic HTTP monitors

Dynatrace

JUNE 26, 2020

Dynatrace Digital Experience Monitoring , as part of the Dynatrace Software Intelligence Platform, connects front-end monitoring and the outside-in user perspective with application performance to understand the impact of performance issues across your full stack on user experience and business outcomes. Virginia (Azure), N.

Monitoring

Monitoring Azure AWS Traffic

Data Reprocessing Pipeline in Asset Management Platform @Netflix

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.

Media

Media Traffic Processing Design

The new normal of digital experience delivery – lessons learned from monitoring mission-critical websites during COVID-19

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. Monitoring with ?the A deeper investigation into industry-specific data reveals several interesting findings. .

Website

Website Monitoring Retail Media

Dynatrace adds support for VPC Flow Logs to Kinesis Data Firehose

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?

Traffic

Traffic AWS Network Cloud

Why End User Experience Monitoring is critical for IT teams?

Dynatrace

AUGUST 13, 2020

Throughout my career I’ve been asked several times by members of the ITOps teams, “Why end-user experience monitoring is critical”. So, I figured it’s about time I summarized the top reasons why you as an ITOps person need to look beyond your typical IT sources – logs, metrics and traces – which are these days known as Observability data.

Monitoring

Monitoring Airlines Analytics Strategy

DevOps monitoring tools: How to drive DevOps efficiency

Dynatrace

MAY 8, 2023

With the world’s increased reliance on digital services and the organizational pressure on IT teams to innovate faster, the need for DevOps monitoring tools has grown exponentially. But when and how does DevOps monitoring fit into the process? And how do DevOps monitoring tools help teams achieve DevOps efficiency?

DevOps

DevOps Efficiency Monitoring Infrastructure

Data Movement in Netflix Studio via Data Mesh

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.

Big Data

Big Data Government Processing Analytics

Real user monitoring vs. synthetic monitoring: Understanding best practices

Dynatrace

JUNE 27, 2022

As businesses compete for customer loyalty, it’s critical to understand the difference between real-user monitoring and synthetic user monitoring. However, not all user monitoring systems are created equal. What is real user monitoring? Real-time monitoring of user application and service interactions.

Best Practices

Best Practices Monitoring Wireless Traffic

Stream logs to Dynatrace with Amazon Data Firehose to boost your cloud-native journey

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.

Cloud

Cloud Lambda AWS Analytics

Advanced analytics: Leverage edge IoT data with OpenTelemetry and Dynatrace

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.

IoT

IoT Analytics Transportation Metrics

What is cloud monitoring? How to improve your full-stack visibility

Dynatrace

JANUARY 11, 2023

In fact, according to a Dynatrace global survey of 1,300 CIOs , 99% of enterprises utilize a multicloud environment and seven cloud monitoring solutions on average. What is cloud monitoring? Cloud monitoring is a set of solutions and practices used to observe, measure, analyze, and manage the health of cloud-based IT infrastructure.

Cloud

Cloud Monitoring Best Practices Infrastructure

Introducing Netflix TimeSeries Data Abstraction Layer

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.

Latency

Latency Storage Traffic Tuning

AI techniques enhance and accelerate exploratory data analytics

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.

Analytics

Analytics Metrics Media Monitoring

How digital experience monitoring helps deliver business observability

Dynatrace

APRIL 26, 2022

Digital experience monitoring (DEM) allows an organization to optimize customer experiences by taking into account the context surrounding digital experience metrics. What is digital experience monitoring? DEM can give organizations business observability—insight into the effects of user experience on the bottom line.

Monitoring

Monitoring Social Media IoT Metrics

AWS observability: AWS monitoring best practices for resiliency

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

These resources generate vast amounts of data in various locations, including containers, which can be virtual and ephemeral, thus more difficult to monitor. These challenges make AWS observability a key practice for building and monitoring cloud-native applications. AWS monitoring best practices. And why it matters.

Best Practices

Best Practices AWS Monitoring Serverless

Architected for resiliency: How Dynatrace withstands data center outages

Dynatrace

JUNE 15, 2021

The email walked through how our Dynatrace self-monitoring notified users of the outage but automatically remediated the problem thanks to our platform’s architecture. There are several ways Dynatrace monitors and alerts on the impact of service disruption. Ready to learn more? Fact #2: No significant impact on Dynatrace Users.

AWS

AWS Traffic Architecture Azure

Transform log data into actionable metrics and have Davis AI do the work for you

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.

Metrics

Metrics Lambda Infrastructure Monitoring

Migrating Netflix to GraphQL Safely

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.

Traffic

Traffic Latency Cache Metrics

Load Management With Istio Using FluxNinja Aperture

DZone

APRIL 4, 2023

Service meshes are becoming increasingly popular in cloud-native applications as they provide a way to manage network traffic between microservices. Istio, one of the most popular service meshes, uses Envoy as its data plane. Distributed rate-limiting : Prevents abuse and protects the service from excessive requests.

Traffic

Traffic Network Architecture Monitoring

Orchestrating Data/ML Workflows at Scale With Netflix Maestro

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 18, 2022

by Jun He , Akash Dwivedi , Natallia Dzenisenka , Snehal Chennuru , Praneeth Yenugutala , Pawan Dixit At Netflix, Data and Machine Learning (ML) pipelines are widely used and have become central for the business, representing diverse use cases that go beyond recommendations, predictions and data transformations.

Java

Java Scalability Traffic Architecture

Kubernetes vs Docker: What’s the difference?

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. Built-in monitoring. Needs third party tools for monitoring. Needs third party tools for monitoring.

Open Source

Open Source Traffic DevOps Cloud

Easily monitor your entire infrastructure with Dynatrace Synthetic monitors

Dynatrace

JULY 21, 2020

Dynatrace OneAgent is great for monitoring the full stack. You could of course create a custom device in Dynatrace and send data to it using our API or an ActiveGate extension. While this will give you a lot of information about the health of these components, sometimes a simple synthetic monitor is sufficient. Dynatrace news.

Infrastructure

Infrastructure Monitoring Open Source Traffic

Breaking data silos: Liquid Reply’s journey to custom API observability with OpenTelemetry and Dynatrace

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. For this comprehensive monitoring in context, they had adopted Dynatrace.

Open Source

Open Source Google Serverless Azure

Seeing through hardware counters: a journey to threefold performance increase

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

A quick canary test was free of errors and showed lower latency, which is expected given that our standard canary setup routes an equal amount of traffic to both the baseline running on 4xl and the canary on 12xl. Luckily, the m5.12xl instance type exposes a set of core PMCs (Performance Monitoring Counters, a.k.a.

Hardware

Hardware Cache Performance Latency

Istio Explained: Unlocking the Power of Service Mesh in Microservices

DZone

MARCH 11, 2024

Introduction to Istio Istio is an open-source service mesh that provides a uniform way to secure, connect, and monitor microservices.

Open Source

Open Source Traffic Architecture Monitoring

Automate CI/CD pipelines with Dynatrace: Part 2, Deploy stage

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Even when the staging environment closely mirrors the production environment, achieving a complete replication of all potential scenarios, such as simulating extremely high traffic volumes to assess software performance, remains challenging. This can lead to a lack of insight into how the code will behave when exposed to heavy traffic.

Traffic

Traffic Best Practices Strategy Engineering

Unlock the observability value of log data with processing at scale

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.

Processing

Processing Metrics Monitoring Java

Unlock end-to-end observability insights with Dynatrace PurePath 4 seamless integration of OpenTracing for Java

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.

Java

Java Traffic Architecture Strategy

Top Redis Use Cases by Core Data Structure Types

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.

Cache

Cache Ecommerce Social Media Database

A Dynatrace champions guide to get ahead of digital marketing campaigns

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.

Traffic

Traffic Analytics Metrics Servers

Title Launch Observability at Netflix Scale

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. Option 1: Log Processing Log processing offers a straightforward solution for monitoring and analyzing title launches.

Traffic

Traffic Scalability Strategy Monitoring

Observe syslog with Dynatrace ActiveGate, a secure, trusted edge component

Dynatrace

JULY 15, 2024

Complex syslog ecosystems can be challenging Monitoring devices and applications that provide output via the syslog protocol is a must-have for many organizations. The key to success is making data in this complex ecosystem actionable, as many types of syslog producers exist.

Infrastructure

Infrastructure Network Azure Monitoring

Data lakehouse innovations advance the three pillars of observability for more collaborative analytics

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.

Analytics

Analytics Innovation Metrics Database

Get the insights you need for your F5 BIG-IP LTM

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. Why monitor F5 BIG-IP load balancers? That’s why monitoring every BIG-IP instance is crucial to ensure smooth operation.

Traffic

Traffic Virtualization Metrics Monitoring

Migrating Critical Traffic At Scale with No Downtime?—?Part 1

Migrating Critical Traffic At Scale with No Downtime?—?Part 2

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AI-powered DNS request tracking extends infrastructure observability for high quality network traffic

Black Friday traffic exposes gaps in observability strategies

What is application security monitoring?

Telltale: Netflix Application Monitoring Simplified

Network performance monitoring top of mind for CloudOps teams

Dynatrace Managed turnkey Premium High Availability for globally distributed data centers (Early Adopter)

Apollo Router Performance Monitoring with OpenTelemetry and Splunk APM

Ensuring the Successful Launch of Ads on Netflix

Easy SLA and SLO reporting for all your API endpoints with public synthetic HTTP monitors

Data Reprocessing Pipeline in Asset Management Platform @Netflix

The new normal of digital experience delivery – lessons learned from monitoring mission-critical websites during COVID-19

Dynatrace adds support for VPC Flow Logs to Kinesis Data Firehose

Why End User Experience Monitoring is critical for IT teams?

DevOps monitoring tools: How to drive DevOps efficiency

Data Movement in Netflix Studio via Data Mesh

Real user monitoring vs. synthetic monitoring: Understanding best practices

Stream logs to Dynatrace with Amazon Data Firehose to boost your cloud-native journey

Advanced analytics: Leverage edge IoT data with OpenTelemetry and Dynatrace

What is cloud monitoring? How to improve your full-stack visibility

Introducing Netflix TimeSeries Data Abstraction Layer

AI techniques enhance and accelerate exploratory data analytics

How digital experience monitoring helps deliver business observability

AWS observability: AWS monitoring best practices for resiliency

Architected for resiliency: How Dynatrace withstands data center outages

Transform log data into actionable metrics and have Davis AI do the work for you

Migrating Netflix to GraphQL Safely

Load Management With Istio Using FluxNinja Aperture

Orchestrating Data/ML Workflows at Scale With Netflix Maestro

Kubernetes vs Docker: What’s the difference?

Easily monitor your entire infrastructure with Dynatrace Synthetic monitors

Breaking data silos: Liquid Reply’s journey to custom API observability with OpenTelemetry and Dynatrace

Seeing through hardware counters: a journey to threefold performance increase

Istio Explained: Unlocking the Power of Service Mesh in Microservices

Automate CI/CD pipelines with Dynatrace: Part 2, Deploy stage

Unlock the observability value of log data with processing at scale

Unlock end-to-end observability insights with Dynatrace PurePath 4 seamless integration of OpenTracing for Java

Top Redis Use Cases by Core Data Structure Types

A Dynatrace champions guide to get ahead of digital marketing campaigns

Title Launch Observability at Netflix Scale

Observe syslog with Dynatrace ActiveGate, a secure, trusted edge component

Data lakehouse innovations advance the three pillars of observability for more collaborative analytics

Get the insights you need for your F5 BIG-IP LTM

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