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Building Netflix’s Distributed Tracing Infrastructure

The Netflix TechBlog

Now let’s look at how we designed the tracing infrastructure that powers Edgar. This insight led us to build Edgar: a distributed tracing infrastructure and user experience. Our distributed tracing infrastructure is grouped into three sections: tracer library instrumentation, stream processing, and storage.

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Dynatrace extends Synthetic Monitoring capabilities with Network Availability Monitors to validate the availability of infrastructure and services

Dynatrace

Why browser and HTTP monitors might not be sufficient In modern IT environments, which are complex and dynamically changing, you often need deeper insights into the Transport or Network layers. Is it a bug in the codebase, a malfunctioning backend service, an overloaded hosting infrastructure, or perhaps a misconfigured network?

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How Netflix uses eBPF flow logs at scale for network insight

The Netflix TechBlog

Challenges The cloud network infrastructure that Netflix utilizes today consists of AWS services such as VPC, DirectConnect, VPC Peering, Transit Gateways, NAT Gateways, etc and Netflix owned devices. The choice of transport protocols like GRPC, HTTPS & UDP is runtime dependent on characteristics of the instance placement.

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Protecting critical infrastructure and services: Ensure efficient, accurate information delivery this election year

Dynatrace

The importance of critical infrastructure and services While digital government is necessary, protecting critical infrastructure and services is equally important. Critical infrastructure and services refer to the systems, facilities, and assets vital for the functioning of society and the economy.

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Building and Scaling Data Lineage at Netflix to Improve Data Infrastructure Reliability, and…

The Netflix TechBlog

Building and Scaling Data Lineage at Netflix to Improve Data Infrastructure Reliability, and Efficiency By: Di Lin , Girish Lingappa , Jitender Aswani Imagine yourself in the role of a data-inspired decision maker staring at a metric on a dashboard about to make a critical business decision but pausing to ask a question?—?“Can

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What is? OpenTelemetry??An open-source standard for logs, metrics, and traces

Dynatrace

Loosely defined, observability is the ability to understand what’s happening inside a system from the knowledge of the external data it produces, which are usually logs, metrics, and traces. Capturing data is critical to understanding how your applications and infrastructure are performing at any given time.

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Extension management made simple with the new Dynatrace Extensions

Dynatrace

Calling it a console of transportation hubs seems reasonable, as the extension itself is only one way to get the data. Extensions bring you a load of metrics. Knowing what each metric means is crucial to selecting the most suitable ones. Monitoring configuration outages leading to metric gaps might let crucial errors slip away.