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 18, 2023

Business events are a special class of events, new to Business Analytics; together with Grail, our data lakehouse, they provide the precision and advanced analytics capabilities required by your most important business use cases. What are business events? This diagram shows a few examples of business events.

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DZone

MARCH 11, 2024

The cybersecurity landscape is undergoing a significant shift, moving from security tools monitoring applications running within userspace to advanced, real-time approaches that monitor system activity directly and safely within the kernel by using eBPF. The open-source project Falco exemplifies this trend.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 10, 2023

But existing business intelligence (BI) tools often lack the broad context, ease of data access, and real-time insights needed to understand and improve customer experience and complex business processes. The key challenges include: Business data is often difficult to access, resulting in fragile data pipelines.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

Unrealized optimization potential of business processes due to monitoring gaps Imagine a retail company facing gaps in its business process monitoring due to disparate data sources. Due to separated systems that handle different parts of the process, the view of the process is fragmented.

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Dynatrace

JULY 18, 2024

Synthetic monitoring enhances observability by enabling proactive testing and monitoring systems to identify potential issues before they quickly impact users. Returning to the Jenga metaphor, synthetic monitoring observes the tower from a distance, from the end user’s perspective, and triggers instability warnings immediately.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

The volume of data and events grows in tandem with the rising complexity of IT infrastructure. Monitoring modern IT infrastructure is difficult, sometimes impossible, without advanced network monitoring tools. These can range from routine state transition events to critical problem reports.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

But are observability platforms—born from the collision between the demands of cloud computing and the limitations of APM and infrastructure monitoring—the best solution for managing business analytics? Observability fault lines The monitoring of complex and dynamic IT systems includes real-time analysis of baselines, trends, and anomalies.

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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?

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Dynatrace

APRIL 13, 2021

Also, thanks to the ease of deploying OneAgent, the time-to-value for monitoring complex enterprise environments is short. As with any other software, OneAgent instances need to be maintained, updated, and monitored. When disabled, OneAgents don’t perform any monitoring tasks, and consequently, don’t consume any licensing.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 21, 2024

Digital experience monitoring (DEM) is crucial for organizations to meet this demand and succeed in today’s competitive digital economy. DEM solutions monitor and analyze the quality of digital experiences for users across digital channels. The time taken to complete the page load.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 17, 2023

Without adequate flexibility in the subscription model, your organization might fail to benefit from capabilities that could transform your observability and security processes. While if limits are set too high, you might pay for more monitoring than you need and exceed your budget.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 16, 2022

Even worse, if your service logs record critical events such as errors in a non-standard way, those errors might go unnoticed by your observability team. Whether a web server, mobile app, backend service, or other custom application, log data can provide you with deep insights into your software’s operations and events.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Davis is the causational AI from Dynatrace that processes billions of events and dependencies and constantly analyzes your IT infrastructure. Customize monitoring for a specific area of your IT infrastructure. Dynatrace metric events offer the flexibility needed to customize your anomaly detection configuration.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

This trend is prompting advances in both observability and monitoring. But exactly what are the differences between observability vs. monitoring? Monitoring and observability provide a two-pronged approach. To get a better understanding of observability vs monitoring, we’ll explore the differences between the two.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Log monitoring, log analysis, and log analytics are more important than ever as organizations adopt more cloud-native technologies, containers, and microservices-based architectures. A log is a detailed, timestamped record of an event generated by an operating system, computing environment, application, server, or network device.

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Dynatrace

MAY 19, 2023

For cloud operations teams, network performance monitoring is central in ensuring application and infrastructure performance. Network performance monitoring core to observability For these reasons, network activity becomes a key data source in IT observability. But this approach merely perpetuates data silos and cloud complexity.

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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

DECEMBER 3, 2024

This integration simplifies the process of embedding Dynatrace full-stack observability directly into custom Amazon Machine Images (AMIs). By automating OneAgent deployment at the image creation stage, organizations can immediately equip every EC2 instance with real-time monitoring and AI-powered analytics.

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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. What is AWS observability?

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Many organizations also adopt an observability solution to help them detect and analyze the significance of events to their operations, software development life cycles, application security, and end-user experiences. What is the difference between monitoring and observability? Is observability really monitoring by another name?

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Dynatrace container monitoring supports customers as they collect metrics, traces, logs, and other observability-enabled data to improve the health and performance of containerized applications. We’re using automation to kick off scaling events,” he said. “We This is a continuous process,” Fuqua said.

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Dynatrace

JULY 19, 2024

Dynatrace does this by automatically creating a dependency map of your IT ecosystem, pinpointing the technologies in your stack and how they interact with each other, including servers, processes, application services, and web applications across data centers and multicloud environments. asc | fields `Host`, `Recently Restarted?

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

One issue that often complicates this process is the "noisy neighbor" problem. In this blog post, we'll reveal how we leveraged eBPF to achieve continuous, low-overhead instrumentation of the Linux scheduler, enabling effective self-serve monitoring of noisy neighbor issues.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 1, 2023

New content or national events may drive brief spikes, but, by and large, traffic is usually smoothly increasing or decreasing. Next, we launched a Mantis job that processed all requests in the stream and replayed them in a duplicate production environment created for replay traffic. We used Elasticsearch dashboards to analyze results.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 18, 2022

Now, something other than a human with a big red button could kick off an automated process. The next phase of my amazement involves deep introspection into a monitoring and observability solution called Dynatrace. Traditional monitoring agents are programmed by a human with a threshold of specific events.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 4, 2024

Today, development teams suffer from a lack of automation for time-consuming tasks, the absence of standardization due to an overabundance of tool options, and insufficiently mature DevSecOps processes. This process begins when the developer merges a code change and ends when it is running in a production environment.

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Scalegrid

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Ensuring high availability in PostgreSQL involves implementing automatic failover, a critical process that maintains database operability and preserves data accessibility when unexpected failures occur. Tools for PostgreSQL high availability include automatic failover, monitoring, replication, and user management.

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Dynatrace

MAY 6, 2024

A tight integration between Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, Dynatrace Davis ® AI, and the Dynatrace observability and security platform enables closed-loop remediation to automate the process from: Detecting a problem. Managing incidents in corresponding tools. Identifying the root cause and proper countermeasures.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 16, 2023

SLO monitoring and alerting on SLOs using error-budget burn rates are critical capabilities that can help organizations achieve that goal. SLOs are specifically processed metrics that help businesses balance breakthroughs with reliability. What is SLO monitoring? And what is an error budget burn rate?

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 10, 2023

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. After reading the asset ids using one of the ways, an event is created per asset id to be processed synchronously or asynchronously based on the use case.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 5, 2023

The SEC cybersecurity mandate states that starting December 15 th , all public organizations are required to annually describe their processes for assessing, identifying, and managing material risks from any cybersecurity threats on a Form 10-K. What constitutes a “material event” for application security?

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Dynatrace

APRIL 28, 2021

Deployed versions, release events, and release information are all correlated and displayed on a single page. Each entry represents a process group instance. Each Release details page shows a summary of captured release metadata and provides links to the process group and hosts where the release was deployed. Events ingestion.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Business events: Delivering the best data It’s been two years since we introduced business events , a special class of events designed to support even the most demanding business use cases. Business event ingestion and analysis with log files. OpenPipeline: Simplify access and unify business events from anywhere.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

By: Rajiv Shringi , Oleksii Tkachuk , Kartik Sathyanarayanan Introduction In our previous blog post, we introduced Netflix’s TimeSeries Abstraction , a distributed service designed to store and query large volumes of temporal event data with low millisecond latencies. This process can also be used to track the provenance of increments.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 27, 2024

Overseeing SaaS security and monitoring audit logs across multiple SaaS applications is complex, which often involves building and maintaining dedicated integrations for each application that can retrieve audit logs. Let’s see a pie chart with the breakdown of log events per SaaS application.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Leverage OneAgent functionality Ingesting configuration changes into Dynatrace through the events API call and utilizing OneAgent to detect configuration changes for supported technologies help maintain close alignment between your staging and production environments. This approach effectively combats configuration drift.

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