The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

How viewers are able to watch their favorite show on Netflix while the infrastructure self-recovers from a system failure By Manuel Correa , Arthur Gonigberg , and Daniel West Getting stuck in traffic is one of the most frustrating experiences for drivers around the world. Logs and background requests are examples of this type of traffic.

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Traffic Metrics Infrastructure Architecture 263

CSS Wizardry

JULY 23, 2023

All Core Web Vitals data used to rank you is taken from actual Chrome-based traffic to your site. The Core Web Vitals Metrics Generally, I approve of the Core Web Vitals metrics themselves ( Largest Contentful Paint , First Input Delay , Cumulative Layout Shift , and the nascent Interaction to Next Paint ).

Engineering 246

Engineering Google Speed Mobile 246

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Open-source metric sources automatically map to our Smartscape model for AI analytics. With this announcement, Dynatrace brings the value of its AI engine, the scale, security, and automation of Dynatrace OneAgent and the scale of our platform (which can handle 50,000 hosts) to open source technologies so that you get the best of both worlds.

Open Source 261

Open Source Metrics Analytics Tuning 261

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

This opens the door to auto-scalable applications, which effortlessly matches the demands of rapidly growing and varying user traffic. Running containers : Docker Engine is a container runtime that runs in almost any environment: Mac and Windows PCs, Linux and Windows servers, the cloud, and on edge devices. What is Docker? Networking.

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Open Source Traffic DevOps Cloud 313

Dynatrace

MARCH 22, 2021

As a Network Engineer, you need to ensure the operational functionality, availability, efficiency, backup/recovery, and security of your company’s network. As you might know, we recently simplified observability for all custom metrics by making it possible to ingest hundreds of custom data sources into Dynatrace. Events and alerts.

Metrics 246

Metrics Network Infrastructure Traffic 246

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. A page with low traffic and failing CWV compliance does not hold the same weight as a failing page with high traffic. Dynatrace news. Tell me more!

Traffic 264

Traffic Metrics Mobile Analytics 264

Dynatrace

MAY 31, 2023

As a result, site reliability has emerged as a critical success metric for many organizations. Site reliability engineering (SRE) has recently become a critical discipline in recent years as the world has shifted in favor of web-based interactions. Mobile retail e-commerce spending in the U. Service-level objectives (SLOs).

Best Practices 233

Best Practices DevOps Latency Metrics 233

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

VPC Flow Logs is an Amazon service that enables IT pros to capture information about the IP traffic that traverses network interfaces in a virtual private cloud, or VPC. By default, each record captures a network internet protocol (IP), a destination, and the source of the traffic flow that occurs within your environment.

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Traffic AWS Network Cloud 227

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. A full list of metrics can be found here and include dimensions such as the following: Packets. Log Metrics. What is VPC Flow Logs. The number of packets transferred during the flow. Resource type.

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AWS Transportation Network Traffic 229

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. With Dynatrace OneAgent you also benefit from support for traffic routing and traffic control.

Java 245

Java Traffic Architecture Strategy 245

Dynatrace

MAY 3, 2024

Log data—the most verbose form of observability data, complementing other standardized signals like metrics and traces—is especially critical. Amazon Data Firehose helps stream logs to the right destination But your SREs and DevOps engineers know CloudWatch is not the terminal destination for data but rather an intermediate station.

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Cloud Lambda AWS Analytics 263

The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 13, 2020

A metric crossed a threshold. Over the years we’ve learned from on-call engineers about the pain points of application monitoring: too many alerts, too many dashboards to scroll through, and too much configuration and maintenance. Metrics are a key part of understanding application health. Regional traffic evacuations.

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Monitoring Tuning Traffic Metrics 221

The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

For engineers, instead of whodunit, the question is often “what failed and why?” An engineer can find herself digging through logs, poring over traces, and staring at dozens of dashboards. Edgar captures 100% of interesting traces , as opposed to sampling a small fixed percentage of traffic. the trace, logs, analysis?—?and

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Latency Transportation Engineering Traffic 299

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? To detect issues proactively, we need to simulate traffic and predict system behavior in advance.

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Traffic Scalability Strategy Monitoring 174

The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

Niosha Behnam | Demand Engineering @ Netflix At Netflix we prioritize innovation and velocity in pursuit of the best experience for our 150+ million global customers. In the event of an isolated failure we first pre-scale microservices in the healthy regions after which we can shift traffic away from the failing one.

Traffic 191

Traffic Metrics Mobile Government 191

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.

Efficiency 237

Efficiency Traffic Tuning Metrics 237

The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 29, 2019

Python has long been a popular programming language in the networking space because it’s an intuitive language that allows engineers to quickly solve networking problems. Demand Engineering Demand Engineering is responsible for Regional Failovers , Traffic Distribution, Capacity Operations and Fleet Efficiency of the Netflix cloud.

Open Source 280

Open Source Network Infrastructure Big Data 280

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 27, 2022

By implementing service-level objectives, teams can avoid collecting and checking a huge amount of metrics for each service. SLOs can be a great way for DevOps and infrastructure teams to use data and performance expectations to make decisions, such as whether to release and where engineers should focus their time.

Software 276

Software Software Benchmarking Latency 276

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

The more data ingestion channels you provide to the Dynatrace Davis® AI engine, the more comprehensive Dynatrace automated root cause analysis becomes. It also enhances syslog messages with additional context and optimizes network traffic, improving overall system resilience and security.

Innovation 273

Innovation AWS Analytics Storage 273

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Rexed, Singh, and Stull outline the importance of metrics, traces, logs, events, and the role they play in achieving full–context Kubernetes observability and driving automated responses in hybrid and multi-cloud environments. To ensure everything runs smoothly, they employ the Dynatrace automated monitoring and observability solution.

Google 238

Google Cloud Infrastructure Metrics 238

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Constantly monitoring infrastructure health state and making ongoing optimizations are essential for Ops teams, SREs (site-reliability engineers), and IT admins. The F5 BIG-IP LTM extension offers a complete view, beyond simple metrics, into your Local Traffic Manager (LTM) platform. Advanced load balancer analysis.

Network 223

Network Infrastructure Virtualization Metrics 223

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

This is where Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices are applied. SREs face ever more challenging situations as environment complexity increases, applications scale up, and organizations grow: Growing dependency graphs result in blind spots and the inability to correlate performance metrics with user experience.

DevOps 230

DevOps Latency Traffic Best Practices 230

Dynatrace

MARCH 16, 2023

So how do development and operations (DevOps) teams and site reliability engineers (SREs) distinguish among good, great, and suboptimal SLOs? Enterprises now have access to myriad metrics they can track and measure, but an abundance of choice doesn’t equal actionable insight. The result?

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DevOps Latency Metrics Traffic 228

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Depending on the type of client, we need to determine the right strategy to sample consumer devices, and provide a system that can enable various client engineering teams to look for their signals. Typically, teams time-shift one metric over the other to visually detect metric deviations, but time can still be a confounder.

Metrics 209

Metrics Mobile Testing Strategy 209

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Search Engine Optimization Checklist (PDF). Search Engine Optimization Checklist (PDF). Search engine optimization (SEO) is an essential part of a website’s design, and one all too often overlooked. Following best practice usually means a better website, more organic traffic, and happier visitors. Frederick O’Brien.

Engineering 132

Engineering Google Website Mobile 132

The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

By Jose Fernandez , Sebastien Dabdoub , Jason Koch , Artem Tkachuk The Compute and Performance Engineering teams at Netflix regularly investigate performance issues in our multi-tenant environment. To emit a run queue latency metric, we leveraged three eBPF hooks: sched_wakeup, sched_wakeup_new, and sched_switch.

Latency 251

Latency Metrics Programming Monitoring 251

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. Minimized cross-data center network traffic. – A Dynatrace customer, Head of Performance Engineering. Reduce cross-region traffic for Log Monitoring and Synthetic Monitoring.

Availability 256

Availability Hardware Latency Traffic 256

Dynatrace

AUGUST 27, 2024

This can require process re-engineering to fill gaps and ensuring clear communication and collaboration across security, operations, and development teams. Moreover, the Davis AI engine assists in prioritizing what needs to be fixed first. The Dynatrace platform also delivers runtime application protection for common attack types.

Best Practices 276

Best Practices Government DevOps Analytics 276

Dynatrace

MAY 19, 2022

A service-level objective ( SLO ) is the new contract between business, DevOps, and site reliability engineers (SREs). This greatly reduced the number of metrics to manage and provided a more comprehensive picture of what was behind their primary reliability service-level objective. The metrics behind the four signals vary by row.

Automotive 279

Automotive Latency Architecture Azure 279

Dynatrace

AUGUST 25, 2023

According to the Google Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) handbook, monitoring the four golden signals is crucial in delivering high-performing software solutions. These signals ( latency, traffic, errors, and saturation ) provide a solid means of proactively monitoring operative systems via SLOs and tracking business success.

Performance 185

Performance Latency Traffic Metrics 185

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Details pertaining to HDR-VMAF exceed the scope of this article and will be covered in a future blog post; for now, suffice it to say that the first version of HDR-VMAF landed internally in 2021 and we have been improving the metric ever since. 1) depicts the migration of traffic from fixed bitrates to DO encodes. Krasula, A.

Open Source 262

Open Source Software Engineering Internet Internet 262

Dynatrace

APRIL 26, 2022

Fast, consistent application delivery creates a positive user experience that can ultimately drive customer loyalty and improve business metrics like conversion rate and user retention. It is proactive monitoring that simulates traffic with established test variables, including location, browser, network, and device type.

Monitoring 216

Monitoring Social Media IoT Metrics 216

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. Start by asking yourself what’s there, whether it’s logs, metrics, or traces. Select the relevant category (such as “Metrics”) and type the search term.

Analytics 222

Analytics Metrics Media Monitoring 222

The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

This allowed Android engineers to have much more control and observability over how we get our data. To prepare ourselves for a big change in the tech stack of our endpoint, we decided to track metrics around the time taken to respond to queries. We will talk more about how we used these metrics in the sections to follow.

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Latency Cache Java Traffic 243

Dynatrace

AUGUST 29, 2024

IoT is transforming how industries operate and make decisions, from agriculture to mining, energy utilities, and traffic management. Both methods allow you to ingest and process raw data and metrics. They enable real-time tracking and enhanced situational awareness for air traffic control and collision avoidance systems.

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IoT Analytics Transportation Metrics 223

The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Supporting developers through those checklists for edge cases, and then validating that each team’s choices resulted in an architecture with all the desired security properties, was similarly not scalable for our security engineers. Netflix engineers talk a lot about the concept of a “ Paved Road ”.

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Internet Internet Cloud Traffic 229

Dynatrace

JANUARY 28, 2021

To effectively address such warning signs, organizations need to focus on putting observability data into context—mapping and visualizing relationships and dependencies within all collected telemetry data—not only traces, metrics, and logs. With Dynatrace OneAgent you also benefit from support for traffic routing and traffic control.

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Traffic Open Source Servers Cloud 176