Dynatrace

OCTOBER 1, 2020

The Dynatrace Software Intelligence Platform gives you a complete Infrastructure Monitoring solution for the monitoring of cloud platforms and virtual infrastructure, along with log monitoring and AIOps. Ensure high quality network traffic by tracking DNS requests out-of-the-box. Identify under-performing DNS servers.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 4, 2025

Accurately Reflecting Production Behavior A key part of our solution is insights into production behavior, which necessitates our requests to the endpoint result in traffic to the real service functions that mimics the same pathways the traffic would take if it came from the usualcallers. there is a dedicated collector.

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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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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.

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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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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 1, 2023

To do this, we devised a novel way to simulate the projected traffic weeks ahead of launch by building upon the traffic migration framework described here. New content or national events may drive brief spikes, but, by and large, traffic is usually smoothly increasing or decreasing.

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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.

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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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Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Scaling RabbitMQ ensures your system can handle growing traffic and maintain high performance. Optimizing RabbitMQ performance through strategies such as keeping queues short, enabling lazy queues, and monitoring health checks is essential for maintaining system efficiency and effectively managing high traffic loads.

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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!

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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.

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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.

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Highlighting NewReleases For new content, impression history helps us monitor initial user interactions and adjust our merchandising efforts accordingly. Collecting Raw Impression Events As Netflix members explore our platform, their interactions with the user interface spark a vast array of raw events.

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

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Dynatrace

MARCH 25, 2025

Load generators simulate traffic. Maybe you want to monitor performance under different system loads. Maybe you want to monitor performance under different system loads. Or maybe you want to correlate an event with other events in your system. Distributed tracing shows transactions end-to-end.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Hardware Cache Performance Latency 363

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.

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Traffic Monitoring Efficiency Strategy 245

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.

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Traffic Latency Metrics Cache 357

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?

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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.

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Infrastructure Network Azure Monitoring 278

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Metrics Network Infrastructure Traffic 246

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 9, 2020

New extensions enable AI-powered monitoring of connection pool performance. You can even integrate Dynatrace into your CI/CD pipeline using the Events API. This allows you to create a deployment event that contains all important details each time a new version is released. Automatically detect undersized connection pools.

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Traffic Performance Database Metrics 208

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.

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Java Traffic Architecture Strategy 264

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.

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Retail Social Media Performance Benchmarking 278

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.

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Google Cloud Infrastructure Metrics 264

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.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2023

Traffic This SLO measures the amount of traffic or workload an application receives, either in terms of requests per second or data transfer rate. The traffic SLO targets the website’s ability to handle a high volume of transactional activity during periods of high demand. The Apdex score of 0.85 This means that 99.5%

Latency 245

Latency Website Traffic DevOps 245

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.

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Media Traffic Processing Design 243

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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