The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

To this end, we developed a Rapid Event Notification System (RENO) to support use cases that require server initiated communication with devices in a scalable and extensible manner. In this blog post, we will give an overview of the Rapid Event Notification System at Netflix and share some of the learnings we gained along the way.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Business processes support virtually all aspects of an organizations operations. Theyre often categorized by their function; core processes directly create customer value, support processes increase departmental efficiency, and management processes drive strategic goals and compliance.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 22, 2025

Traditional monitoring approaches often require manual scripting and integration to get alerted about production-threatening issues in pre-production environments. Dynatrace Simple Workflows make this process automatic and frictionlessthere is no additional cost for workflows. Go to Workflows and start creating a new workflow.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 31, 2024

This lets you build your SLOs around the indicators that matter to you and your customers—critical metrics related to availability, failure rates, request response times, or select logs and business events. Are you experiencing an increase or degradation in certain events that indicate a rising problem?

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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

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Recently, we’ve expanded our digital experience monitoring to cover the entire customer journey, from conversion to fulfillment. Consolidate real-user monitoring, synthetic monitoring, session replay, observability, and business process analytics tools into a unified platform.

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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. For example, if you’re monitoring network traffic and the average over the past 7 days is 500 Mbps, the threshold will adapt to this baseline.

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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

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. What’s behind it all? With over 2.5

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Business events powered by our new Grail™ data lakehouse and by other Dynatrace platform technologies ensures the real-time precision that business and IT teams need to make data-driven decisions and improve business outcomes. Business events deliver the industry’s broadest, deepest, and easiest access to your critical business data.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Dataflow overview Dynatrace ActiveGate extensions allow you to extend Dynatrace monitoring to any remote technology that exposes an interface. Dynatrace users typically use extensions to pull technical monitoring data, such as device metrics, into Dynatrace. There are three high-level steps to set up the database business-event stream.

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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

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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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

JANUARY 15, 2025

It gives you visibility into which components are monitored and which are not and helps automate time-consuming compliance configuration checks. Discovery & Coverage helps prevent unexpected outages by detecting and remediating monitoring coverage gaps across your entire enterprise.

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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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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. Kafka is optimized for high-throughput event streaming , excelling in real-time analytics and large-scale data ingestion. What is Apache Kafka?

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

This granular level of transparency helps identify cost drivers, monitor usage patterns, and uncover opportunities for cost savings. Figure 4: Set up an anomaly detector for peak cost events. You can also create individual reports using Notebooks —or export your data as CSV—and share it with your financial teams for further processing.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Add context to AWS Security Hub findings The Dynatrace platform, powered by OpenPipeline , provides unified security event ingest and analysis across tools and cloud environments. You can consume the ingested events via native Dynatrace Apps, such as Dashboards, Notebooks, Workflows, and more.

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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

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

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

OCTOBER 16, 2024

In this blog post, we look at these enhancements, exploring methods for monitoring your Kubernetes environment and showcasing how modern dashboards can transform your data. Kickstarting the dashboard creation process is, however, just one advantage of ready-made dashboards.

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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

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

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.

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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

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

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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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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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

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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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 17, 2024

As Netflix expanded globally and the volume of title launches skyrocketed, the operational challenges of maintaining this manual process became undeniable. Metadata and assets must be correctly configured, data must flow seamlessly, microservices must process titles without error, and algorithms must function as intended.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

This has led to the recent release of our new Lambda monitoring extension supporting Node.js, Java, and Python. This extension was built from scratch to take into account all we’ve learned and the special requirements for monitoring ephemeral, auto-scaling, micro VMs like AWS Lambda. A look under the hood of AWS Lambda.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 25, 2025

The Dynatrace solution Dynatrace addresses these issues by providing unified security event ingest and analysis for security findings across tools and products. In addition, with runtime entity contextualization , security findings can be mapped to monitored entities.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 4, 2025

In order to allow for this mimicking, many systems implement an event handling, where they convert our request into a call to the real service with properties enabled to log when titles are filtered out of their response and why. As a result, requests are uniformly handled, and responses are processed cohesively.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 25, 2025

This powerful tool can be leveraged across various environments, including production, to enhance development processes and ensure robust application performance. Many developers attempt to mitigate this challenge with logs, but thats a tedious and error-prone process. Maybe you want to monitor performance under different system loads.

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