The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 13, 2020

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. Our streaming teams need a monitoring system that enables them to quickly diagnose and remediate problems; seconds count!

Monitoring 221

Monitoring Tuning Traffic Metrics 221

Dynatrace

MAY 19, 2023

For cloud operations teams, network performance monitoring is central in ensuring application and infrastructure performance. Network traffic growth is the main reason for increasing spending, largely because of the adoption of hybrid and multi-cloud architectures.

Network 227

Network Monitoring Performance Traffic 227

Dynatrace

JUNE 26, 2020

Dynatrace Digital Experience Monitoring , as part of the Dynatrace Software Intelligence Platform, connects front-end monitoring and the outside-in user perspective with application performance to understand the impact of performance issues across your full stack on user experience and business outcomes. Virginia (Azure), N.

Monitoring 261

Monitoring Azure AWS Traffic 261

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.

Best Practices 186

Best Practices Monitoring Wireless Traffic 186

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Even when the staging environment closely mirrors the production environment, achieving a complete replication of all potential scenarios, such as simulating extremely high traffic volumes to assess software performance, remains challenging. This can lead to a lack of insight into how the code will behave when exposed to heavy traffic.

Traffic 270

Traffic Best Practices Strategy Engineering 270

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. EC2 is ideally suited for large workloads with constant traffic.

Best Practices 224

Best Practices AWS Monitoring Serverless 224

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

This opens the door to auto-scalable applications, which effortlessly matches the demands of rapidly growing and varying user traffic. Containers can be replicated or deleted on the fly to meet varying end-user traffic. Built-in monitoring. Needs third party tools for monitoring. Needs third party tools for monitoring.

Open Source 313

Open Source Traffic DevOps Cloud 313

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

A quick canary test was free of errors and showed lower latency, which is expected given that our standard canary setup routes an equal amount of traffic to both the baseline running on 4xl and the canary on 12xl. Luckily, the m5.12xl instance type exposes a set of core PMCs (Performance Monitoring Counters, a.k.a.

Hardware 363

Hardware Cache Performance Latency 363

Dynatrace

JULY 21, 2020

Dynatrace OneAgent is great for monitoring the full stack. While this will give you a lot of information about the health of these components, sometimes a simple synthetic monitor is sufficient. Third-party synthetic monitors. Visualize your synthetic monitor data. Easy and flexible infrastructure monitoring.

Infrastructure 154

Infrastructure Monitoring Open Source Traffic 154

The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 14, 2023

The control group’s traffic utilized the legacy Falcor stack, while the experiment population leveraged the new GraphQL client and was directed to the GraphQL Shim. This helped us successfully migrate 100% of the traffic on the mobile homepage canvas to GraphQL in 6 months. After validating performance, we slowly built up scope.

Traffic 358

Traffic Latency Metrics Cache 358

Dynatrace

MARCH 22, 2021

The monitoring challenges of on-premises environments. Our new extension framework now makes it a no-brainer to start monitoring your SNMP protocols. SNMP extensions have their own dedicated dashboards that serve as an entry point and allow you to monitor the performance of your monitored environment. Events and alerts.

Metrics 246

Metrics Network Infrastructure Traffic 246

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 10, 2023

Existing data got updated to be backward compatible without impacting the existing running production traffic. 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. Generally, this flow is used for small datasets.

Media 245

Media Traffic Processing Design 245

Dynatrace

JULY 1, 2020

In my last blog , I’ve provided an example of this happening, whereby the traffic spiked and quadrupled the usual incoming traffic. These are all interesting metrics from marketing point of view, and also highly interesting to you as they allow you to engage with the teams that are driving the traffic against your IT-system.

Traffic 264

Traffic Analytics Metrics Servers 264

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 9, 2020

To address potentially high numbers of requests during online shopping events like Singles Day or Black Friday, it’s crucial that this online shop have a memory storage strategy that allows for speed, scaling, and resilience of all microservices, especially the shopping cart service.

Java 245

Java Traffic Architecture Strategy 245

Dynatrace

AUGUST 8, 2024

As recent events have demonstrated, major software outages are an ever-present threat in our increasingly digital world. Possible scenarios A Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack overwhelms servers with traffic, making a website or service unavailable. Human error Human error remains one of the leading causes of tech outages.

Software 260

Software Software Infrastructure Network 260

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Problems API v2 now includes event evidence data as part of the event details. Custom events for alerting using the Build tab and advanced query mode now apply the same metric dimension limits that are applied to Code -tab-based configurations. You can override these at the monitor level. Events API v2 has been updated.

Metrics 218

Metrics Monitoring Traffic Servers 218

Scalegrid

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

The key components of automatic failover include the primary server for write operations, standby servers for backup, and a monitor node for health checks and coordination of failover events. Tools for PostgreSQL high availability include automatic failover, monitoring, replication, and user management.

Availability 257

Availability Servers Database Open Source 257

The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

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. Learn how Linux kernel instrumentation can improve your infrastructure observability with deeper insights and enhanced monitoring.

Latency 251

Latency Metrics Programming Monitoring 251

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 2, 2024

On average, organizations use 10 different tools to monitor applications, infrastructure, and user experiences across these environments. Clearly, continuing to depend on siloed systems, disjointed monitoring tools, and manual analytics is no longer sustainable.

Artificial Intelligence 190

Artificial Intelligence DevOps Architecture Cloud 190

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. Near-zero RPO and RTO—monitoring continues seamlessly and without data loss in failover scenarios. Minimized cross-data center network traffic. Dynatrace news.

Availability 256

Availability Hardware Latency Traffic 256

Dynatrace

JULY 15, 2024

Complex syslog ecosystems can be challenging Monitoring devices and applications that provide output via the syslog protocol is a must-have for many organizations. You also might be required to capture syslog messages from cloud services on AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud related to resource provisioning, scaling, and security events.

Infrastructure 231

Infrastructure Network Azure Monitoring 231

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Option 1: Log Processing Log processing offers a straightforward solution for monitoring and analyzing title launches. Using the source of truth: Logs serve as a reliable source of truth by providing a comprehensive record of system events. As we thought more about this problem and possible solutions, two clear optionsemerged.

Traffic 174

Traffic Scalability Strategy Monitoring 174

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

We’re excited to announce several log management innovations, including native support for Syslog messages, seamless integration with AWS Firehose, an agentless approach using Kubernetes Platform Monitoring solution with Fluent Bit, a new out-of-the-box ingest dashboard, and OpenPipeline ingest improvements.

Innovation 273

Innovation AWS Analytics Storage 273

Dynatrace

APRIL 28, 2021

Deployed versions, release events, and release information are all correlated and displayed on a single page. The release inventory highlights releases that include detected problems and shows the throughput of those versions so that you see how much traffic is routed to each release. Events ingestion. Kubernetes metadata.

Software 243

Software Software Strategy Metrics 243

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. Dynatrace log monitoring also allows you to automate your cloud-related log tasks so you can accomplish the following: Automatically see precise root cause in real time to simplify cloud complexity. Log Events.

AWS 229

AWS Transportation Network Traffic 229

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

MARCH 26, 2020

What do stock markets and monitoring alerts have in common? While stock market decisions are based on market observation, alerts and decisions in software monitoring are mostly based on learned baselines. Both in stock markets and in software monitoring, the observation period and the point at which decisions are made are crucial.

Traffic 190

Traffic Monitoring Efficiency Strategy 190

Dynatrace

APRIL 9, 2020

As the world socially distances, we are seeing significant increases in website traffic as people turn to their phones and devices, to connect with loved ones, buy online, distance learn, work remotely, and continuously keep up with the news. . We are hopeful that the world can, and will, quickly return to normal. it’s not increasing!).

Innovation 226

Innovation Traffic Website Monitoring 226

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

What was once an onslaught of consumer traffic between Black Friday and Cyber Monday has turned into a weeklong event, with most retailers offering deals well ahead of Black Friday. Dynatrace RUM (Real User Monitoring) has a session replay capability that allows you to see what an end user would see during a session in real time.

Retail 234

Retail Social Media Performance Benchmarking 234

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.

Traffic 227

Traffic AWS Network Cloud 227

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Building on these foundational abstractions, we developed the TimeSeries Abstraction  — a versatile and scalable solution designed to efficiently store and query large volumes of temporal event data with low millisecond latencies, all in a cost-effective manner across various use cases. Let’s dive into the various aspects of this abstraction.

Latency 242

Latency Storage Traffic Tuning 242

Dynatrace

APRIL 25, 2023

For example, to handle traffic spikes and pay only for what they use. Serverless applications are composed of event-driven functions that run on demand in response to triggers from various sources, such as HTTP requests, messages, or timers. Scale automatically based on the demand and traffic patterns.

Serverless 220

Serverless Lambda Azure AWS 220

Dynatrace

JUNE 10, 2024

For example, an organization might use security analytics tools to monitor user behavior and network traffic. Improved compliance A better understanding of data security across multiple applications and environments provides a unified view of events and information. This offers two advantages for compliance.

Analytics 243

Analytics Network Open Source Hardware 243

Dynatrace

APRIL 22, 2020

While most government agencies and commercial enterprises have digital services in place, the current volume of usage — including traffic to critical employment, health and retail/eCommerce services — has reached levels that many organizations have never seen before or tested against. So how do you know what to prepare for?

Traffic 211

Traffic Ecommerce Retail Government 211

The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 30, 2021

In the Device Management Platform, this is achieved by having device updates be event-sourced through the control plane to the cloud so that NTS will always have the most up-to-date information about the devices available for testing. The RAE is configured to be effectively a router that devices under test (DUTs) are connected to.

Latency 224

Latency Traffic Transportation Cloud 224

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

After the jobs are created, it monitors their execution progress. With traffic growth, a single leader node handling all request volume started becoming overloaded. A new wire protocol provided by Titus Job Coordinator allows monitoring of the cache consistency level and guarantees that clients always receive the latest data version.

Cache 235

Cache Latency Traffic Systems 235

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

In cloud-native environments, there can also be dozens of additional services and functions all generating data from user-driven events. Event logging and software tracing help application developers and operations teams understand what’s happening throughout their application flow and system.

Cloud 195

Cloud Systems Analytics DevOps 195