The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 17, 2024

We kick off with a few topics focused on how were empowering Netflix to efficiently produce and effectively deliver high quality, actionable analytic insights across the company. DJ acts as a central store where metric definitions can live and evolve. As an example, imagine an analyst wanting to create a Total Streaming Hours metric.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 21, 2025

Ensuring smooth operations is no small feat, whether you’re in charge of application performance, IT infrastructure, or business processes. Chances are, youre a seasoned expert who visualizes meticulously identified key metrics across several sophisticated charts.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Second, it enables efficient and effective correlation and comparison of data between various sources. Finally, it empowers automated systems to process and analyze OpenTelemetry data, without requiring adaptations for every framework. At the same time, having aligned telemetry data is crucial for adopting OpenTelemetry at scale.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 29, 2024

The Dynatrace platform automatically captures and maps metrics, logs, traces, events, user experience data, and security signals into a single datastore, performing contextual analytics through a “power of three AI”—combining causal, predictive, and generative AI. It’s about uncovering insights that move business forward. With over 2.5

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Adopting AI to enhance efficiency and boost productivity is critical in a time of exploding data, cloud complexities, and disparate technologies. The Grail™ data lakehouse provides fast, auto-indexed, schema-on-read storage with massively parallel processing (MPP) to deliver immediate, contextualized answers from all data at scale.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 23, 2024

My goal was to provide IT teams with insights to optimize customer experience by collaborating with business teams, using both business KPIs and IT metrics. Consolidate real-user monitoring, synthetic monitoring, session replay, observability, and business process analytics tools into a unified platform.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 16, 2024

You can now: Kickstart your creation journey using ready-made dashboards Accelerate your data exploration with seamless integration between apps Start from scratch with the new Explore interface Search for known metrics from anywhere Let’s look at each of these paths through an end-to-end use case focused on Kubernetes monitoring.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 1, 2021

In IT and cloud computing, observability is the ability to measure a system’s current state based on the data it generates, such as logs, metrics, and traces. An advanced observability solution can also be used to automate more processes, increasing efficiency and innovation among Ops and Apps teams. What is observability?

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

They now use modern observability to monitor expanding cloud environments in order to operate more efficiently, innovate faster and more securely, and to deliver consistently better business results. Further, automation has become a core strategy as organizations migrate to and operate in the cloud. What is a data lakehouse?

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

The emerging concepts of working with DevOps metrics and DevOps KPIs have really come a long way. DevOps metrics to help you meet your DevOps goals. Your next challenge is ensuring your DevOps processes, pipelines, and tooling meet the intended goal. Deployment frequency measures both long-term and short-term efficiency.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 22, 2025

By integrating Dynatrace with GitHub Actions, you can proactively monitor for potential issues or slowdowns in the deployment processes. This awareness allows teams to allocate and scale resources more effectively, reducing costs while ensuring CI/CD pipelines operate smoothly and efficiently.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 29, 2024

A Dynatrace API token with the following permissions: Ingest OpenTelemetry traces ( openTelemetryTrace.ingest ) Ingest metrics ( metrics.ingest ) Ingest logs ( logs.ingest ) To set up the token, see Dynatrace API – Tokens and authentication in Dynatrace documentation. If you don’t have one, you can use a trial account.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 5, 2023

This growth was spurred by mobile ecosystems with Android and iOS operating systems, where ARM has a unique advantage in energy efficiency while offering high performance. Energy efficiency and carbon footprint outshine x86 architectures The first clear benefit of ARM in the enterprise IT landscape is energy efficiency.

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Dynatrace

MAY 8, 2023

This demand for rapid innovation is propelling organizations to adopt agile methodologies and DevOps principles to deliver software more efficiently and securely. But when and how does DevOps monitoring fit into the process? And how do DevOps monitoring tools help teams achieve DevOps efficiency? Lost efficiency.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 12, 2024

The business process observability challenge Increasingly dynamic business conditions demand business agility; reacting to a supply chain disruption and optimizing order fulfillment are simple but illustrative examples. Most business processes are not monitored. First and foremost, it’s a data problem.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

One of the more popular use cases is monitoring business processes, the structured steps that produce a product or service designed to fulfill organizational objectives. By treating processes as assets with measurable key performance indicators (KPIs), business process monitoring helps IT and business teams align toward shared business goals.

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

It requires a state-of-the-art system that can track and process these impressions while maintaining a detailed history of each profiles exposure. In this multi-part blog series, we take you behind the scenes of our system that processes billions of impressions daily.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 3, 2023

UK Home Office: Metrics meets service The UK Home Office is the lead government department for many essential, large-scale programs. In this episode, Dimitris discusses the many different tools and processes they use. Make sure to stay connected with our social media pages. Tag us with #TechTransforms to be featured on our pages!

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The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 1, 2022

A Data Movement and Processing Platform @ Netflix By Bo Lei , Guilherme Pires , James Shao , Kasturi Chatterjee , Sujay Jain , Vlad Sydorenko Background Realtime processing technologies (A.K.A stream processing) is one of the key factors that enable Netflix to maintain its leading position in the competition of entertaining our users.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 26, 2021

This allows teams to sidestep much of the cost and time associated with managing hardware, platforms, and operating systems on-premises, while also gaining the flexibility to scale rapidly and efficiently. REST APIs, authentication, databases, email, and video processing all have a home on serverless platforms. The Serverless Process.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 5, 2025

Integration with existing systems and processes : Integration with existing IT infrastructure, observability solutions, and workflows often requires significant investment and customization. Actions resulting from the evaluation The certification process surfaced a few recommendations for improving the app.

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

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Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

This guide will cover how to distribute workloads across multiple nodes, set up efficient clustering, and implement robust load-balancing techniques. Proper setup involves creating a configuration process that accounts for hostname changes, which could prevent nodes from rejoining the cluster.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 11, 2025

The Dynatrace platform now enables comprehensive data exploration and interactive analytics across data sets (trace, logs, events, and metrics)empowering you to solve complex use cases, handle any observability scenario, and gain unprecedented visibility into your systems.

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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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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. RabbitMQ follows a message broker model with advanced routing, while Kafkas event streaming architecture uses partitioned logs for distributed processing. What is RabbitMQ?

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 31, 2024

Organizations choose data-driven approaches to maximize the value of their data, achieve better business outcomes, and realize cost savings by improving their products, services, and processes. Data is then dynamically routed into pipelines for further processing. Understanding the context.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

by Jun He , Yingyi Zhang , and Pawan Dixit Incremental processing is an approach to process new or changed data in workflows. The key advantage is that it only incrementally processes data that are newly added or updated to a dataset, instead of re-processing the complete dataset.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 15, 2024

Government agencies aim to meet their citizens’ needs as efficiently and effectively as possible to ensure maximum impact from every tax dollar invested. In contrast, observability enables teams to understand a system’s internal state by analyzing the data it generates, including logs, metrics, and traces.

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DZone

JULY 21, 2022

This software makes the different tasks easier and allows for increased efficiency and performance. Development of any software is a tedious and long process, and it undergoes a series of quality and performance tests before its release and use. With the development in technology, the software gets upgraded with the latest updates.

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Dynatrace

MAY 7, 2024

Fluent Bit is a telemetry agent designed to receive data (logs, traces, and metrics), process or modify it, and export it to a destination. Fluent Bit and Fluentd were created for the same purpose: collecting and processing logs, traces, and metrics. Observability: Elevating Logs, Metrics, and Traces!

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

As the application owner of an e-commerce application, for example, you can enrich the source code of your application with domain-specific knowledge by adding actionable semantics to collected performance or business metrics. New OpenTelemetry metrics exporters provide the broadest language support on the market.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 2, 2025

The primary goals of these campaigns are to encourage more people to install and play the games, making incremental installs and engagement crucial metrics for evaluating their effectiveness. Each format has a different production process and different patterns of cash spend, called our Content Forecast.

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

One issue that often complicates this process is the "noisy neighbor" problem. Continuous instrumentation is critical to catching such matters as they emerge, and eBPF, with its hooks into the Linux scheduler with minimal overhead, enabled us to monitor run queue latency efficiently.

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Dynatrace

JULY 22, 2024

Using OpenTelemetry, developers can collect and process telemetry data from applications, services, and systems. Observability Observability is the ability to determine a system’s health by analyzing the data it generates, such as logs, metrics, and traces. There are three main types of telemetry data: Metrics.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

However, they can also be used to monitor optimization processes effectively. Efficient coordination among resource usage, requests, and allocation is critical. It’s important to choose the right metrics to track based on your objective. It provides insights into how efficiently the blocked resources are being utilized.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

These developments open up new use cases, allowing Dynatrace customers to harness even more data for comprehensive AI-driven insights, faster troubleshooting, and improved operational efficiency. Customers have had a positive response to our native syslog implementation, noting its easy setup and efficiency.

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