The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

How viewers are able to watch their favorite show on Netflix while the infrastructure self-recovers from a system failure By Manuel Correa , Arthur Gonigberg , and Daniel West Getting stuck in traffic is one of the most frustrating experiences for drivers around the world. CRITICAL : This traffic affects the ability to play.

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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. Automatic observability for your SNMP-enabled devices.

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Dynatrace

JULY 21, 2020

In those cases, what should you do if you want to be proactive and ensure that your infrastructure is always up and running? Are you looking to monitor your infrastructure using one of our ready-made extensions, or would you like to draw on our experience and create your own synthetic monitors? Third-party synthetic monitors.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Think of containers as the packaging for microservices that separate the content from its environment – the underlying operating system and infrastructure. This opens the door to auto-scalable applications, which effortlessly matches the demands of rapidly growing and varying user traffic. What is Docker? Networking.

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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

MAY 21, 2021

This modular microservices-based approach to computing decouples applications from the underlying infrastructure to provide greater flexibility and durability, while enabling developers to build and update these applications faster and with less risk. A service mesh can solve these problems, but it can also introduce its own issues.

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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. Dynatrace news. ” What’s next.

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Network Infrastructure Virtualization Metrics 223

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Native support for syslog messages extends our infrastructure log support to all Linux/Unix systems and network devices. It also enhances syslog messages with additional context and optimizes network traffic, improving overall system resilience and security.

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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

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. Detect and respond to security threats like DDoS attacks or web application attacks by monitoring application traffic and logs.

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Traffic Virtualization Metrics Monitoring 207

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

To remain competitive in today’s fast-paced market, organizations must not only ensure that their digital infrastructure is functioning optimally but also that software deployments and updates are delivered rapidly and consistently. Continuous, informed improvement : Quality gates provide consistent feedback on key metrics.

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Dynatrace

MAY 6, 2020

Over the last two month s, w e’ve monito red key sites and applications across industries that have been receiving surges in traffic , including government, health insurance, retail, banking, and media. The following day, a normally mundane Wednesday , traffic soared to 128,000 sessions. seconds to 2.78

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Website Monitoring Retail Media 227

Dynatrace

JULY 15, 2024

These include traditional on-premises network devices and servers for infrastructure applications like databases, websites, or email. Without seeing syslog data in the context of your infrastructure, metrics, and transaction traces, you’re slowed down by manual work with siloed data.

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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. So many tools can result in data inconsistencies.

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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). availability.

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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.

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Traffic AWS Network Cloud 227

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Open-source metric sources automatically map to our Smartscape model for AI analytics. We’ve just enhanced Dynatrace OneAgent with an open metric API. Here’s a quick overview of what you can achieve now that the Dynatrace Software Intelligence Platform has been extended to ingest third-party metrics. Dynatrace news.

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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. A full list of metrics can be found here and include dimensions such as the following: Packets. Log Metrics. What is VPC Flow Logs. The number of packets transferred during the flow. Resource type.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 27, 2022

By implementing service-level objectives, teams can avoid collecting and checking a huge amount of metrics for each service. SLOs can be a great way for DevOps and infrastructure teams to use data and performance expectations to make decisions, such as whether to release and where engineers should focus their time.

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

The first step is determining whether the problem originates from the application or the underlying infrastructure. Learn how Linux kernel instrumentation can improve your infrastructure observability with deeper insights and enhanced monitoring. One issue that often complicates this process is the "noisy neighbor" problem.

Latency 251

Latency Metrics Programming Monitoring 251

Dynatrace

APRIL 25, 2023

For example, to handle traffic spikes and pay only for what they use. These functions are executed by a serverless platform or provider (such as AWS Lambda, Azure Functions or Google Cloud Functions) that manages the underlying infrastructure, scaling and billing. Scale automatically based on the demand and traffic patterns.

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Dynatrace

MAY 3, 2024

Log data—the most verbose form of observability data, complementing other standardized signals like metrics and traces—is especially critical. Take the example of Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) flow logs, which provide insights into the IP traffic of your network interfaces. Managing this change is difficult.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

A unified platform approach to observability and security Dynatrace and its partners offer powerful solutions to complex business resiliency challenges through an observability and security platform that delivers a unified view of applications, infrastructure, and business processes.

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Infrastructure Innovation Monitoring Software Performance 259

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Like general observability , AWS observability is the capacity to measure the current state of your AWS environment based on the data it generates, including its logs, metrics, and traces. EC2 is Amazon’s Infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) compute platform designed to handle any workload at scale. AWS: A service for everything.

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Best Practices AWS Monitoring Serverless 224

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 17, 2024

The Challenge of Title Launch Observability As engineers, were wired to track system metrics like error rates, latencies, and CPU utilizationbut what about metrics that matter to a titlessuccess? This approach provides a few advantages: Low burden on existing systems: Log processing imposes minimal changes to existing infrastructure.

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The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 29, 2019

An easy, though imprecise, way of thinking about Netflix infrastructure is that everything that happens before you press Play on your remote control (e.g., Various software systems are needed to design, build, and operate this CDN infrastructure, and a significant number of them are written in Python. are you logged in?

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The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 10, 2020

264/AVC Main profile family still represents a substantial portion of the members viewing hours and an even larger portion of the traffic. These are summarized below: Instead of relying on other objective metrics, such as PSNR†, VMAF is employed to guide optimization decisions. Yet, given its wide support, our H.264/AVC

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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. Minimized cross-data center network traffic. Take your time to prepare hardware, network and other infrastructure adjustments so you are ready. Dynatrace news.

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The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 13, 2020

A metric crossed a threshold. Metrics are a key part of understanding application health. But sometimes you can have too many metrics, too many graphs, and too many dashboards. Telltale uses a variety of signals from multiple sources to assemble a constantly evolving model of the application’s health: Atlas time series metrics.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 30, 2020

Dynatrace captures and provides organizations with the precursors of intent; dependencies, performance metrics, and prioritization which helps solve each organizations’ spontaneous production workload puzzle. Performance Metrics. Dependencies.

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Retail Cloud Metrics Efficiency 225

The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

The big difference from the monolith, though, is that this is now a standalone service deployed as a separate “application” (service) in our cloud infrastructure. To prepare ourselves for a big change in the tech stack of our endpoint, we decided to track metrics around the time taken to respond to queries.

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Dynatrace

JULY 2, 2020

Unnecessary traffic between such data centers can result in wasted resources, unpredictable downtimes, and lost business. By minimizing bandwidth and preventing unrelated traffic between data centers, you can maintain healthy network infrastructure and save on costs. optimizing traffic routing.

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Network Traffic Infrastructure Tuning 172

Dynatrace

APRIL 26, 2022

Fast, consistent application delivery creates a positive user experience that can ultimately drive customer loyalty and improve business metrics like conversion rate and user retention. With DEM solutions, organizations can operate over on-premise network infrastructure or private or public cloud SaaS or IaaS offerings.

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Scalegrid

APRIL 16, 2020

Each of these models is suitable for production deployments and high traffic applications, and are available for all of our supported databases, including MySQL , PostgreSQL , Redis™ and MongoDB® database ( Greenplum® database coming soon). Are you comfortable setting up your own cloud infrastructure through AWS or Azure? Expert Tip.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 28, 2021

For today’s highly dynamic and exceedingly complex production environments, performance problems that are evident at the service level (for example, slow response times or failed requests) are often the result of underlying (cloud) infrastructure issues. Unlock extended end-to-end traceability for OpenTelemetry-instrumented Go applications.

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Traffic Open Source Servers Cloud 176

Dynatrace

MAY 8, 2023

DevOps monitoring is an observability practice that creates a real-time view of the status of applications, services, and infrastructure in pre-production and production environments. The process involves monitoring various components of the software delivery pipeline, including applications, infrastructure, networks, and databases.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 26, 2020

Dynatrace Synthetic Monitoring helps you quickly verify if your application is delivering the expected end user experience by offering an outside-in view of all your applications and services, independent of real traffic. HTTP monitor locations use the same set of IP addresses as the browser monitoring locations.

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