The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Imagine a ML practitioner on the Netflix Content ML team, sourcing features from hundreds of columns in our data warehouse, and creating a multitude of models against a growing suite of metrics. Subsequent versions of the model will result from experimenting with hyper parameters, tweaking feature engineering, or conducting feature diets.

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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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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Explore OpenTelemetry data with Dynatrace Dynatrace makes unified observability possible by storing all data in Grail, a unified and purpose-built data lakehouse optimized for storing and analyzing traces, metrics, logs, and more. With Notebooks , you can Chart, analyze, set up alerts, and forecast any of your metrics. Whats next?

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Open Source Metrics Engineering 173

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Dynatrace currently supports the following: Traces Logs Metrics What information do I need to send OpenTelemetry data to Dynatrace? Does Dynatrace support OpenTelemetry metrics? Yes, but its important to note the following: Dynatrace requires metrics data to be sent with delta temporality and not cumulative temporality.

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Open Source Metrics C++ Java 147

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 18, 2023

To get a more granular look into telemetry data, many analysts rely on custom metrics using Prometheus. Named after the Greek god who brought fire down from Mount Olympus, Prometheus metrics have been transforming observability since the project’s inception in 2012.

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Metrics Engineering Energy Tuning 245

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 21, 2021

There’s no lack of metrics, logs, traces, or events when monitoring your Kubernetes (K8s) workloads. Dynatrace Davis , our deterministic AI, recently notified our teams about a problem in one of our Keptn instances we just recently spun up to demo our automated performance analysis capabilities orchestrated by Keptn. Dynatrace news.

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Metrics DevOps Engineering Strategy 246

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Dynatrace Dashboards provide a clear view of the health of the OpenTelemetry Demo application by utilizing data from the OpenTelemetry collector. Set up the Demo To run this demo yourself, you’ll need the following: A Dynatrace tenant. To install the OpenTelemetry Demo application dashboard, upload the JSON file.

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Monitoring Metrics Availability Database 130

Dynatrace

AUGUST 2, 2021

Metrics matter. But without complex analytics to make sense of them in context, metrics are often too raw to be useful on their own. To achieve relevant insights, raw metrics typically need to be processed through filtering, aggregation, or arithmetic operations. Examples of metric calculations. Dynatrace news.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 12, 2025

Amazon Bedrock , equipped with Dynatrace Davis AI and LLM observability , gives you end-to-end insight into the Generative AI stack, from code-level visibility and performance metrics to GenAI-specific guardrails. Send unified data to Dynatrace for analysis alongside your logs, metrics, and traces.

Metrics 165

Metrics Serverless Analytics Innovation 165

Dynatrace

JULY 11, 2019

As I highlight the keptn integration with Dynatrace during my demos, I have rolled out a Dynatrace OneAgent using the OneAgent Operator into my GKE cluster. Automated Metric Anomaly Detection. From here we also get access to all other pod & process relevant metrics, e.g. memory, threads, … or accessing the container logs.

Open Source 54

Open Source Metrics Monitoring Cloud 54

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 18, 2020

Agentless RUM, OpenKit, and Metric ingest to the rescue! What insights can we gain from usage metrics that we can feed-back to our product management teams? Doing so is as simple as a click on the Create Metric button and then Pin to Dashboard. So here I chose the Metric Ingest API ( /api/v2/metrics/ingest ).

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Analytics Metrics IoT Monitoring 200

DZone

AUGUST 31, 2023

In the demo, I show how you can see the traces of a simple distributed system consisting of the Apache APISIX API Gateway, a Kotlin app with Spring Boot, a Python app with Flask, and a Rust app with Axum. One of the talks demoed the Grafana stack: Mimir for metrics, Tempo for traces, and Loki for logs.

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CSS Wizardry

JUNE 30, 2023

I never thought I’d write an article in defence of DOMContentLoaded , but here it is… For many, many years now, performance engineers have been making a concerted effort to move away from technical metrics such as Load , and toward more user-facing, UX metrics such as Speed Index or Largest Contentful Paint. Or are they…?

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Metrics Google Code Monitoring 337

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

The ops team understood the concept of business metrics like NPS, conversions rates, even call center volume—but believed these KPIs were meant for other teams. Similarly, IT’s solid SLOs and Apdex scores—important metrics agreed upon by the app owner and IT—were met with a lack of enthusiasm by the business team.

FinTech 299

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Davis AI contextually aligns all relevant data points—such as logs, traces, and metrics—enabling teams to act quickly and accurately while still providing power users with the flexibility and depth they desire and need. Learn how Dynatrace can address your specific needs with a custom live demo.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

While an SLI is just a metric, an SLO just a threshold you expect your SLI to be in and SLA is just the business contract on top of an SLO. Thanks to its event-driven architecture, Keptn can pull SLIs (=metrics) from different data sources and validate them against the SLOs. class SRE implements DevOps) !

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DevOps Metrics Innovation Azure 326

Dynatrace

AUGUST 17, 2023

Spring also introduced Micrometer, a vendor-agnostic metric API with rich instrumentation options. Soon after, Dynatrace built a registry for exporting Micrometer metrics. Our data APIs, which ingest millions of metrics, traces, and logs per second, are reconciled using Micrometer-based metrics.

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Metrics Analytics Speed Java 246

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

In addition to automatic full-stack monitoring, Dynatrace provides comprehensive support for all AWS services that publish metrics to Amazon CloudWatch, providing advanced observability for dynamic hybrid clouds. We’re therefore excited to announce that Dynatrace has received the AWS Outposts Service Ready designation. Next steps.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Monitoring focuses on watching specific metrics. Observability is the ability to understand a system’s internal state by analyzing the data it generates, such as logs, metrics, and traces. For example, we can actively watch a single metric for changes that indicate a problem — this is monitoring.

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Monitoring Metrics DevOps Scalability 264

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

This view seamlessly correlates crucial events across all affected components, eliminating the manual effort of sifting through various monitoring tools for infrastructure, process, or service metrics. By using JavaScript and DQL, these dashboards can help generate reports on the current DORA metrics. What’s next?

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DevOps Metrics Engineering Analytics 264

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Like general observability , AWS observability is the capacity to measure the current state of your AWS environment based on the data it generates, including its logs, metrics, and traces. To learn more about how Dynatrace manages AWS observability, join us for an on-demand demo, AWS Observability with Serverless. Watch demo now!

Best Practices 246

Best Practices AWS Monitoring Serverless 246

Dynatrace

JUNE 28, 2022

Organizations can now accelerate innovation and reduce the risk of failed software releases by incorporating on-demand synthetic monitoring as a metrics provider for automatic, continuous release-validation processes. This metric indicates how quickly software can be released to production. Dynatrace news.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 21, 2024

This approach enhances key DORA metrics and enables early detection of failures in the release process, allowing SREs more time for innovation. This blog post explores the Reliability metric , which measures modern operational practices. Why reliability?

Engineering 262

Engineering Systems Latency Metrics 262

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

With this announcement: Davis now automatically ingests additional Kubernetes events and metrics, including state changes, workload changes and critical events across clusters, containers and runtimes. Ability to create custom metrics and events from log data, extending Dynatrace observability to any application, script or process.

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Performance Mobile Analytics Innovation 278

Dynatrace

MAY 5, 2021

In fact, for most of us, has become a priority, requiring us to expand our focus on observability to include business analytics metrics. You have a common view of business metrics–including page names and audience segments–through a shared business lens. Is your organization’s story filled with villains or heroes? And now, the video….

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Receive alerts for any metric event in your Azure Automation account. The Dynatrace Software Intelligence Platform provides a simple one-click setup and integration for ingestion of metrics from Azure Monitor, which facilitates data consolidation. Receive alerts for any metric event in your Azure Automation account.

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Azure Cloud Metrics Best Practices 264

Dynatrace

APRIL 6, 2022

A full-stack observability solution uses telemetry data such as logs, metrics, and traces to give IT teams insight into application, infrastructure, and UX performance. Check out the on-demand Power Demo, Dynatrace and Business Observability: Tying IT Metrics to Business Outcomes. See observability in action! Watch webinar now!

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DevOps Innovation Infrastructure Cloud 303

Dynatrace

JULY 25, 2022

A full list of metrics can be found here and include dimensions such as the following: Packets. When it comes to logs and metrics, the Dynatrace platform provides direct access to the log content of all mission-critical processes. Log Metrics. Check out our Power Demo: Log Analytics with Dynatrace. Resource type.

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Dynatrace

MAY 17, 2023

Ensure expected production behavior One Dynatrace team is responsible for the demo applications we use to demonstrate Dynatrace capabilities. We use monitored demo applications to deliver constant load and a defined set of business transactions. The queries are depicted below (sensitive data has been removed).

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Dynatrace

MAY 28, 2024

What about correlated trace data, host metrics, real-time vulnerability scanning results, or log messages captured just before an incident occurs? See for yourself Watch a demo of logs in context within various Dynatrace Apps in this Dynatrace University course. In the past, more work was needed to understand the context of log data.

Analytics 267

Analytics Infrastructure Database Cloud 267

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Metrics, logs , and traces make up three vital prongs of modern observability. Together with metrics, three sources of data help IT pros identify the presence and causes of performance problems, user experience issues, and potential security threats. For context, teams collect metrics for further analysis and indexing.

Cloud 260

Cloud Systems Analytics DevOps 260

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 14, 2021

The hotel’s rental subsidiary limits their IT monitoring to internal system metrics, with no visibility into user journeys or business transactions. Note the business observability realized by extracting business metrics and segmentation – including conversions, revenue, product, and audience segments – from Dynatrace-monitored user sessions.

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O'Reilly

MARCH 25, 2025

Someone hacks together a quick demo with ChatGPT and LlamaIndex. The system is inconsistent, slow, hallucinatingand that amazing demo starts collecting digital dust. Check out the graph belowsee how excitement for traditional software builds steadily while GenAI starts with a flashy demo and then hits a wall of challenges?

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

While you’re waiting for the information to come back from the teams, Davis on-demand exploratory analysis can proactively find, gather, and automatically analyze any related metrics, helping get you closer to an answer. Demo: Add the human factor using the Dynatrace events API. Tag your host with demo: cpu_stress.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 9, 2023

In this blog post, we’ll use Dynatrace Security Analytics to go threat hunting, bringing together logs, traces, metrics, and, crucially, threat alerts. In the following sections, we demo the following: Introduce Unguard, our insecure cloud-native microservices demo application.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

automating ingestion of logs, metrics, and traces and continuous dependency mapping with precise context across hybrid and multicloud environments. Log Metrics create metrics from log data or log metadata that allow users to add to a dashboard or create custom alerting from each metric created.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

If you want to see a more hands-on approach, I encourage you to watch the recording as Stefano did a live demo of Akamas’s integration with Dynatrace, showing how to minimize the footprint of a Java application with automated JVM tuning. Akamas also enables you to automate the analysis of the experiment metrics in powerful ways.

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