The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 14, 2023

So, we relied on higher-level metrics-based testing: AB Testing and Sticky Canaries. To determine customer impact, we could compare various metrics such as error rates, latencies, and time to render. Wins High-Level Health Metrics: AB Testing provided the assurance we needed in our overall client-side GraphQL implementation.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 4, 2023

The second phase involves migrating the traffic over to the new systems in a manner that mitigates the risk of incidents while continually monitoring and confirming that we are meeting crucial metrics tracked at multiple levels. It provides a good read on the availability and latency ranges under different production conditions.

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 25, 2024

You will need to know which monitoring metrics for Redis to watch and a tool to monitor these critical server metrics to ensure its health. Redis returns a big list of database metrics when you run the info command on the Redis shell. You can pick a smart selection of relevant metrics from these.

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

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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. According to Google’s SRE handbook , best practices, there are “ Four Golden Signals ” we can convert into four SLOs for services: reliability, latency, availability, and saturation.

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DZone

NOVEMBER 25, 2023

We often dwell on the technical aspects of database selection, focusing on performance metrics , storage capacity, and querying capabilities. The New Decision Matrix: Beyond Performance Metrics Performance metrics are pivotal, no doubt. Factors like read and write speed, latency, and data distribution methods are essential.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Automating quality gates is ideal, as it minimizes manually checking and validating key metrics throughout the SDLC. By actively monitoring metrics such as error rate, success rate, and CPU load, quality gates instill confidence in teams during software releases. Several tools can be used to collect metrics in load/performance testing.

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Dynatrace

JULY 22, 2024

Observability Observability is the ability to determine a system’s health by analyzing the data it generates, such as logs, metrics, and traces. There are three main types of telemetry data: Metrics. Metrics are typically aggregated and stored in time series databases for monitoring and alerting purposes.

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DZone

JULY 2, 2024

This article takes a plunge into the comparative analysis of these two cult technologies, highlights the critical performance metrics concerning scalability considerations, and, through real-world use cases, gives you the clarity to confidently make an informed decision. However, the question arises of choosing the best one.

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CSS Wizardry

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Plotted on the same horizontal axis of 1.6s, the waterfalls speak for themselves: 201ms of cumulative latency; 109ms of cumulative download. 4,362ms of cumulative latency; 240ms of cumulative download. When we talk about downloading files, we—generally speaking—have two things to consider: latency and bandwidth. It gets worse.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

The new Amazon capability enables customers to improve the startup latency of their functions from several seconds to as low as sub-second (up to 10 times faster) at P99 (the 99th latency percentile). This can cause latency outliers and may lead to a poor end-user experience for latency-sensitive applications.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

For AWS Lambda, Dynatrace provides Lambda Layers for adding distributed tracing to your serverless functions and for capturing metrics and logs from Amazon CloudWatch. Deliver low latency platform metrics: The direct access to platform metrics within the Lambda layer reduces latency adding faster and improved alerting on metric anomalies.

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DZone

AUGUST 29, 2023

One of the primary responsibilities of Site reliability engineers (SREs) in large organizations is to monitor the golden metrics of their applications, such as CPU utilization, memory utilization, latency, and throughput.

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Dynatrace

MAY 13, 2022

Once you deploy the Dynatrace extension, Dynatrace ingests your Cassandra metrics and analyzes them in context with the entire stack. From there, you can dive deeper into infrastructure metrics (cluster, datacenter, racks, and nodes) and data metrics (keyspaces and tables). Seeing the value.

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CSS Wizardry

AUGUST 7, 2019

However, one metric I feel that front-end developers overlook all too quickly is Time to First Byte (TTFB). The first—and often most surprising for people to learn—thing that I want to draw your attention to is that TTFB counts one whole round trip of latency. can all provide valuable insights. But what else is TTFB?

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Dynatrace

APRIL 7, 2022

Micrometer is used for instrumenting both out-of-the-box and custom metrics from Spring Boot applications. Davis topology-aware anomaly detection and alerting for your Micrometer metrics. Topology-related custom metrics for seamless reports and alerts. Micrometer uses a registry to export metrics to monitoring systems.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 7, 2022

Micrometer is used for instrumenting both out-of-the-box and custom metrics from Spring Boot applications. Davis topology-aware anomaly detection and alerting for your Micrometer metrics. Topology-related custom metrics for seamless reports and alerts. Micrometer uses a registry to export metrics to monitoring systems.

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DZone

SEPTEMBER 4, 2022

Pixie offers monitoring, telemetry, metrics, and more with less than 5% CPU overhead and latency degradation during data collection. Taking this in the context of a cloud environment, where you're paying by the resources used, this can quickly become expensive.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

High latency or lack of responses. You receive an alert message from Dynatrace (your infrastructure observability hub) letting you know that the average response latency of all deployed APIs has tripled. Looking at the key metrics of the deployment does not reveal anything out of the ordinary. But where does the fault lie?

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DZone

JUNE 15, 2023

In order to gain insight into these problems, we gather a range of metrics and logs to monitor the utilization of system resources such as CPU, memory, and application-specific latencies. It is worth noting that this data collection process does not impact the performance of the application.

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Dynatrace

MAY 31, 2023

As a result, site reliability has emerged as a critical success metric for many organizations. The following three metrics are commonly used to measure success: Service-level agreements (SLAs). These metrics are the factors and service levels that must be achieved for each activity, function, and process to deliver on the SLA.

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Today we are excited to announce latency heatmaps and improved container support for our on-host monitoring solution?—?Vector?—?to Remotely view real-time process scheduler latency and tcp throughput with Vector and eBPF What is Vector? to the broader community. Vector is open source and in use by multiple companies.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 16, 2023

Enterprises now have access to myriad metrics they can track and measure, but an abundance of choice doesn’t equal actionable insight. Indeed, 54% of SREs say they handle too many metrics, making it increasingly difficult to find the most relevant ones for a particular service, according to the Dynatrace State of SRE Report.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 13, 2023

By collecting and analyzing key performance metrics of the service over time, we can assess the impact of the new changes and determine if they meet the availability, latency, and performance requirements. The results are then evaluated using specific metrics to determine whether the hypothesis is valid.

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Dynatrace

MAY 19, 2022

In their new dashboard, they added dimensions for load, latency, and open problems for each component. This greatly reduced the number of metrics to manage and provided a more comprehensive picture of what was behind their primary reliability service-level objective. The “Four Golden Signals” include the following: Latency.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 25, 2023

These signals ( latency, traffic, errors, and saturation ) provide a solid means of proactively monitoring operative systems via SLOs and tracking business success. While this connection might sound simple, finding the right metrics to measure the needed SLIs takes time and effort. This is what Dynatrace captures as response time.

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The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 27, 2023

A few years ago, we were paged by our SRE team due to our Metrics Alerting System falling behind — critical application health alerts reached engineers 45 minutes late! Hence, we started down the path of alert evaluation via real-time streaming metrics. This has proven to be valuable towards reducing Mean Time to Recover (MTTR).

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 15, 2020

Citrix platform performance—optimize your Citrix landscape with insights into user load and screen latency per server. As a part of the Citrix monitoring extension for Dynatrace, we deliver a OneAgent plugin that adds several Citrix-specific WMI counters to the set of metrics reported by OneAgent.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 7, 2023

Customers can use AWS Lambda Response Streaming to improve performance for latency-sensitive applications and return larger payload sizes. Customers can use response streaming to achieve the following: Improve Time to First Byte (TTFB) performance for latency-sensitive applications. Return larger payload sizes. How does Dynatrace help?

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

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. After some consultation with our backend teams, we determined the most effective way to group these metrics were by UI screen.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 22, 2019

To reduce your CloudWatch costs and throttling, you can now select from additional services and metrics to monitor. Get up to 300 new AWS metrics out of the box. Dynatrace ingests AWS CloudWatch metrics for multiple preselected services. Select Add service to pick the service that has the metric you want to add.

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DZone

JANUARY 31, 2024

The aim was to enhance the user experience and improve critical business metrics by leveraging the capabilities of the modern HTTP/3 protocol. The Journey to HTTP/3 Network performance, such as low latency and high throughput, is critical to Pinners’ experience. This marked a significant improvement in its networking infrastructure.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Monitoring focuses on watching specific metrics. Observability is the ability to understand a system’s internal state by analyzing the data it generates, such as logs, metrics, and traces. For example, we can actively watch a single metric for changes that indicate a problem — this is monitoring.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 4, 2023

OpenTelemetry has become a standard for collecting traces, metrics, and logs. Given the prevalence of Python in AI model development, OpenTelemetry serves as a robust standard for collecting observability data, including traces, metrics, and logs. Maintained under the Apache 2.0 However, Python models are trickier.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 22, 2019

To reduce your CloudWatch costs and throttling, you can now select from additional services and metrics to monitor. Get up to 300 new AWS metrics out of the box. Dynatrace ingests AWS CloudWatch metrics for multiple preselected services. Select Add service to pick the service that has the metric you want to add.

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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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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Dynomite is a Netflix open source wrapper around Redis that provides a few additional features like auto-sharding and cross-region replication, and it provided Pushy with low latency and easy record expiry, both of which are critical for Pushy’s workload. As Pushy’s portfolio grew, we experienced some pain points with Dynomite.

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