The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 7, 2021

By Alok Tiagi , Hariharan Ananthakrishnan , Ivan Porto Carrero and Keerti Lakshminarayan Netflix has developed a network observability sidecar called Flow Exporter that uses eBPF tracepoints to capture TCP flows at near real time. Without having network visibility, it’s difficult to improve our reliability, security and capacity posture.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

The success of an organization often depends on the quality of the on-premises or physical IT infrastructure, among other things. Constantly monitoring infrastructure health state and making ongoing optimizations are essential for Ops teams, SREs (site-reliability engineers), and IT admins. Start monitoring in minutes.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Mobile applications (apps) are an increasingly important channel for reaching customers, but the distributed nature of mobile app platforms and delivery networks can cause performance problems that leave users frustrated, or worse, turning to competitors. Some of the most important KPIs are listed below. Performance optimization.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 20, 2020

Infrastructure exists to support the backing services that are collectively perceived by users to be your web application. Issues that manifest themselves as performance degradation on a user’s device can often be traced back to underlying infrastructure issues. Monitor additional metrics. Dynatrace news.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 28, 2021

Infrastructure monitoring is the process of collecting critical data about your IT environment, including information about availability, performance and resource efficiency. Many organizations respond by adding a proliferation of infrastructure monitoring tools, which in many cases, just adds to the noise. Dynatrace news.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Dynatrace has recently extended its Kubernetes operator by adding a new feature, the Prometheus OpenMetrics Ingest , which enables you to import Prometheus metrics in Dynatrace and build SLO and anomaly detection dashboards with Prometheus data. Here we’ll explore how to collect Prometheus metrics and what you can achieve with them.

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Now let’s look at how we designed the tracing infrastructure that powers Edgar. Reconstructing a streaming session was a tedious and time consuming process that involved tracing all interactions (requests) between the Netflix app, our Content Delivery Network (CDN), and backend microservices.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

For organizations running their own on-premises infrastructure, these costs can be prohibitive. Cloud service providers, such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) , can offer infrastructure with five-nines availability by deploying in multiple availability zones and replicating data between regions. What is always-on infrastructure?

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Native support for Syslog messages Syslog messages are generated by default in Linux and Unix operating systems, security devices, network devices, and applications such as web servers and databases. Native support for syslog messages extends our infrastructure log support to all Linux/Unix systems and network devices.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 18, 2023

To get a more granular look into telemetry data, many analysts rely on custom metrics using Prometheus. Named after the Greek god who brought fire down from Mount Olympus, Prometheus metrics have been transforming observability since the project’s inception in 2012.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 29, 2022

More than 90% of enterprises now rely on a hybrid cloud infrastructure to deliver innovative digital services and capture new markets. That’s because cloud platforms offer flexibility and extensibility for an organization’s existing infrastructure. Dynatrace news. With public clouds, multiple organizations share resources.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Enable the Davis AI causation engine to automatically analyze every metric. In response to customer feedback, we’ve distilled the vital information provided within HANA DB performance views down to a short list of metrics that offer comprehensive, detailed, and reliable insights into HANA DB performance.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

The emerging concepts of working with DevOps metrics and DevOps KPIs have really come a long way. DevOps metrics to help you meet your DevOps goals. Like any IT or business project, you’ll need to track critical key metrics. Here are nine key DevOps metrics and DevOps KPIs that will help you be successful.

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Dynatrace

JULY 15, 2024

These include traditional on-premises network devices and servers for infrastructure applications like databases, websites, or email. A local endpoint in a protected network or DMZ is required to capture these messages. The ultimate challenge lies in making data from syslog-supported log sources actionable.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

Sure, cloud infrastructure requires comprehensive performance visibility, as Dynatrace provides , but the services that leverage cloud infrastructures also require close attention. Extend infrastructure observability to WSO2 API Manager. Looking at the key metrics of the deployment does not reveal anything out of the ordinary.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

IT infrastructure is the heart of your digital business and connects every area – physical and virtual servers, storage, databases, networks, cloud services. We’ve seen the IT infrastructure landscape evolve rapidly over the past few years. What is infrastructure monitoring? . Dynatrace news.

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Dynatrace

JULY 2, 2020

By minimizing bandwidth and preventing unrelated traffic between data centers, you can maintain healthy network infrastructure and save on costs. Dynatrace network zones provide an easy means of routing OneAgent traffic between data centers using a unique approach that separates Dynatrace from its competitors.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 8, 2020

If you’re doing it right, cloud represents a fundamental change in how you build, deliver and operate your applications and infrastructure. And that includes infrastructure monitoring. This also implies a fundamental change to the role of infrastructure and operations teams. Able to provide answers, not just data.

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DZone

AUGUST 29, 2023

Intro to Istio Observability Using Prometheus Istio service mesh abstracts the network from the application layers using sidecar proxies. You can implement security and advance networking policies to all the communication across your infrastructure using Istio. But another important feature of Istio is observability.

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Dynatrace

MAY 17, 2023

That is, relying on metrics, logs, and traces to understand what software is doing and where it’s running into snags. In addition to tracing, observability also defines two other key concepts, metrics and logs. When software runs in a monolithic stack on on-site servers, observability is manageable enough. What is OpenTelemetry?

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Dynatrace

JULY 21, 2020

There are certain situations when an agent based approach isn’t possible, such as with network or storage devices, or a very old OS. In those cases, what should you do if you want to be proactive and ensure that your infrastructure is always up and running? Easy and flexible infrastructure monitoring.

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DZone

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

These software entities act as data collectors, processors, and transmitters, gathering critical telemetry data from applications, infrastructure, and network devices. By efficiently capturing, processing, and transmitting logs, metrics, and traces, observability agents provide a comprehensive view of system health and behavior.

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Dynatrace

JULY 11, 2024

The journey toward business observability Traditional IT monitoring that relies on a multitude of tools to collect, index, and correlate logs from IT infrastructure, networks, applications, and security systems is no longer effective at supporting the need of the wider organization for business insights. Operational optimization.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 11, 2023

With more organizations taking the multicloud plunge, monitoring cloud infrastructure is critical to ensure all components of the cloud computing stack are available, high-performing, and secure. Cloud monitoring is a set of solutions and practices used to observe, measure, analyze, and manage the health of cloud-based IT infrastructure.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Citrix is critical infrastructure For businesses operating in industries with strict regulations, such as healthcare, banking, or government, Citrix virtual apps and virtual desktops are essential for simplified infrastructure management, secure application delivery, and compliance requirements.

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Dynatrace

JULY 23, 2020

With the advent and ingestion of thousands of custom metrics into Dynatrace, we’ve once again pushed the boundaries of automatic, AI-based root cause analysis with the introduction of auto-adaptive baselines as a foundational concept for Dynatrace topology-driven timeseries measurements. In many cases, metric behavior changes over time.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 22, 2021

While today’s IT world continues the shift toward treating everything as a service, many organizations need to keep their environments under strict control while managing their infrastructure themselves on-premises. The monitoring challenges of on-premises environments. SNMP collects and organizes information about your managed devices.

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DZone

JANUARY 31, 2024

This marked a significant improvement in its networking infrastructure. The aim was to enhance the user experience and improve critical business metrics by leveraging the capabilities of the modern HTTP/3 protocol. In a recent announcement, Pinterest revealed its successful migration from HTTP/2 to HTTP/3.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Get ready for Nutanix insights: Here’s how Dynatrace helps The extension comes with a comprehensive set of essential metrics that can quickly identify the root causes of performance issues, saving time and minimizing disruptions. With Dynatrace, Nutanix metrics can be leveraged for various use cases.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

With this solution, customers will be able to use Dynatrace’s deep observability , advanced AIOps capabilities , and application security to all applications, services, and infrastructure, out-of-the-box. This enables organizations to tame cloud complexity, minimize risk, and reduce manual effort so teams can focus on driving innovation.

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Dynatrace

MAY 13, 2020

OneAgent gives you all the operational and business performance metrics you need, from the front end to the back end and everything in between—cloud instances, hosts, network health, processes, and services. But what if a particular metric is crucial for your monitoring needs and it isn’t there? What’s next.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Software performance can be compromised in many ways, including software bugs, cyberattacks, overwhelming demand, backup failures, network issues, and human error. By correlating security data with performance metrics, security teams can prioritize threats based on the potential impact on critical business operations.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 21, 2024

This approach enhances key DORA metrics and enables early detection of failures in the release process, allowing SREs more time for innovation. This blog post explores the Reliability metric , which measures modern operational practices. Why reliability?

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Dynatrace

MARCH 6, 2024

Effortlessly analyze IBM i Performance with the new Dynatrace extension Dynatrace has created a new version of its popular extension that is faster, offers better interactive pages, and includes more metrics, metadata, and analytics without having to install anything on your mainframe infrastructure. It’s all monitored remotely !

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Dynatrace

MAY 31, 2023

As a result, site reliability has emerged as a critical success metric for many organizations. How site reliability engineering affects organizations’ bottom line SRE applies the disciplines of software engineering to infrastructure management, both on-premises and in the cloud. Service-level objectives (SLOs).

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Dynatrace

JUNE 5, 2023

The F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) is an application delivery controller (ADC) that ensures the availability, security, and optimal performance of network traffic flows. By analyzing metric anomalies between hosts and load balancers, Davis AI can quickly resolve problems, thus expediting the process.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 21, 2024

They collect data from multiple sources through real user monitoring , synthetic monitoring, network monitoring, and application performance monitoring systems. Align business and development teams’ input on what user experience metrics to measure to understand users’ most critical digital experience aspects.

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