Dynatrace

JANUARY 21, 2025

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. An anomaly will be identified if traffic suddenly drops below 200 Mbps or above 800 Mbps, helping you identify unusual spikes or drops.

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Traffic Metrics Analytics Monitoring 262

DZone

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

We have developed a microservices architecture platform that encounters sporadic system failures when faced with heavy traffic events. System resilience stands as the key requirement for e-commerce platforms during scaling operations to keep services operational and deliver performance excellence to users.

Engineering 173

Engineering Traffic Architecture Network 173

Dynatrace

JULY 24, 2023

They need event-driven automation that not only responds to events and triggers but also analyzes and interprets the context to deliver precise and proactive actions. These initial automation endeavors paved the way for greater advancements, leading to the next evolution of event-driven automation.

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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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Traffic Best Practices Systems Testing 347

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. We call this capability TimeTravel.

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Traffic Strategy Entertainment Innovation 172

The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Collecting Raw Impression Events As Netflix members explore our platform, their interactions with the user interface spark a vast array of raw events. These events are promptly relayed from the client side to our servers, entering a centralized event processing queue.

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Tuning Latency Efficiency Storage 165

DZone

JANUARY 21, 2024

In today’s world, companies often find themselves grappling with unpredictable surges in workloads, especially during pivotal events. This incident serves as a stark illustration of insufficient infrastructure planning during a critical event.

Retail 182

Retail Games Latency Traffic 182

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Using the source of truth: Logs serve as a reliable source of truth by providing a comprehensive record of system events. To detect issues proactively, we need to simulate traffic and predict system behavior in advance. Once artificial traffic is generated, discarding the response object and relying solely on logs becomes inefficient.

Traffic 170

Traffic Scalability Strategy Monitoring 170

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.

Best Practices 147

Best Practices Traffic Strategy Scalability 147

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?

Latency 147

Latency Analytics Architecture Storage 147

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 279

Traffic Best Practices Strategy Engineering 279

Dynatrace

MARCH 25, 2025

Load generators simulate traffic. Or maybe you want to correlate an event with other events in your system. Performance benchmarking Performance benchmarking is one of the unresolved mysteries of software engineering. In many ways, it’s more of an art than a science. Sometimes, you need heavyweight tools.

Benchmarking 147

Benchmarking Code Open Source Engineering 147

DZone

JANUARY 8, 2024

This article provides an overview of Azure's load balancing options, encompassing Azure Load Balancer, Azure Application Gateway, Azure Front Door Service, and Azure Traffic Manager. Each of these services addresses specific use cases, offering diverse functionalities to meet the demands of modern applications.

Azure 287

Azure Scalability Traffic Performance 287

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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Traffic Ecommerce Retail Government 285

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 356

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. What’s worse, average latency degraded by more than 50%, with both CPU and latency patterns becoming more “choppy.”

Hardware 363

Hardware Cache Performance Latency 363

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. Event logs for ad-hoc analysis and auditing. In production, containers are easy to replicate. What is Docker?

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Open Source DevOps Traffic Cloud 334

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.

Software 290

Software Software Infrastructure Network 290

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. Where retailers can look to start tying together third-party services is through their logs and events. However, logs alone won’t solve everything.

Retail 278

Retail Social Media Performance Benchmarking 278

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

MARCH 26, 2020

This means that Dynatrace alerts more quickly when an error spike occurs in a high-traffic service (compared to a low-traffic service where statistical confidence is lower). Close issues sooner with shorter event timeouts. The screenshot below illustrates the timeout reduction for better understanding: Summary.

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Traffic Monitoring Efficiency Strategy 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.

Traffic 241

Traffic Media Processing Design 241

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 9, 2020

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. Davis then watches for any new problems that might be related and associates them with the deployment event.

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Traffic Performance Database Metrics 208

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 237

Latency Storage Traffic Infrastructure 237

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 264

Java Traffic Architecture Strategy 264

Dynatrace

MAY 19, 2023

Network traffic growth is the main reason for increasing spending, largely because of the adoption of hybrid and multi-cloud architectures. What are the issues with traffic losses and connectivity drops? Without the network, nothing will happen,” Ziemianowicz said. This starts with a different approach to data aggregation.

Network 246

Network Monitoring Performance Traffic 246

Dynatrace

JULY 2, 2024

Look for timeout events Exploitation attempts for this vulnerability can be identified by many lines of “Timeout before authentication” in the logs. Using the VPC flow log default pattern available in DPL Architect, we can extract the meaningful fields to see only the network traffic targeting the SSH port.

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AWS Network Traffic Servers 276

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. Problems have defined lifespans and are updated in real time with all incoming events and findings. Log Events. What is VPC Flow Logs. Once Davis® detects a problem it lists the issue on your Problems feed.

AWS 246

AWS Transportation Network Traffic 246

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

Latency 245

Latency Website Traffic DevOps 245

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. Events API v2 has been updated. You can override these at the monitor level.

Metrics 246

Metrics Monitoring Traffic Servers 246

Dynatrace

MARCH 22, 2021

Events and alerts. Some SNMP-enabled devices are designed to report events on their own with so-called SNMP traps. This allows for almost instant notification as soon as an important event is reported. It’s essential to focus on those events that provide useful information or report potential device problems.

Metrics 246

Metrics Network Infrastructure Traffic 246

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Each tenant gets its own e-commerce site deployed on a shared Kubernetes cluster, isolated through separate namespaces and additional traffic isolation. There was not much traffic during the weekend, but as Monday came along, Dynatrace started sending alerts about a high HTTP failure rate across almost every tenant on the backend service.

Java 246

Java Traffic Education Testing 246

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.

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Latency Traffic Transportation Cloud 220

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 17, 2019

In databases like MySQL and PostgreSQL, transaction logs are the source of CDC events. Some of DBLog’s features are: Processes captured log events in-order. Interleaves log with dump events, by taking dumps in chunks. No locks on tables are ever acquired, which prevent impacting write traffic on the source database.

Database 218

Database Traffic Transportation Open Source 218

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 246

Innovation Traffic Website Monitoring 246

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 260

Cloud Systems Analytics DevOps 260

Dynatrace

MARCH 20, 2024

Continuously monitoring application behavior, network traffic, and system logs allows teams to identify abnormal or suspicious activities that could indicate a security breach. Incident detection and response In the event of a security incident, there is a well-defined incident response process to investigate and mitigate the issue.

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Monitoring Analytics Traffic Best Practices 264