The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 13, 2020

Over the years we’ve learned from on-call engineers about the pain points of application monitoring: too many alerts, too many dashboards to scroll through, and too much configuration and maintenance. Our streaming teams need a monitoring system that enables them to quickly diagnose and remediate problems; seconds count!

Monitoring 219

Monitoring Tuning Traffic Metrics 219

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. To determine customer impact, we could compare various metrics such as error rates, latencies, and time to render. After validating performance, we slowly built up scope.

Traffic 357

Traffic Latency Metrics Cache 357

Dynatrace

APRIL 26, 2022

Digital experience monitoring (DEM) allows an organization to optimize customer experiences by taking into account the context surrounding digital experience metrics. What is digital experience monitoring? Primary digital experience monitoring tools.

Monitoring 246

Monitoring Social Media IoT Metrics 246

The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Highlighting NewReleases For new content, impression history helps us monitor initial user interactions and adjust our merchandising efforts accordingly. This ensures users arent repeatedly shown identical options, keeping the viewing experience vibrant and reducing the risk of frustration or disengagement.

Tuning 166

Tuning Latency Efficiency Storage 166

Dynatrace

AUGUST 25, 2023

SLOs cover a wide range of monitoring options for different applications. According to the Google Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) handbook, monitoring the four golden signals is crucial in delivering high-performing software solutions. Service-performance template Latency is often described as the time a request takes to be served.

Performance 244

Performance Latency Traffic Metrics 244

Dynatrace

JUNE 25, 2020

The network latency between cluster nodes should be around 10 ms or less. Near-zero RPO and RTO—monitoring continues seamlessly and without data loss in failover scenarios. Minimized cross-data center network traffic. Achieve high SLOs with seamless monitoring when entire data centers experience outages.

Availability 264

Availability Hardware Latency Traffic 264

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 27, 2022

In what follows, we explore some of these best practices and guidance for implementing service-level objectives in your monitored environment. First, it helps to understand that applications and all the services and infrastructure that support them generate telemetry data based on traffic from real users. Define SLOs for each service.

Software 306

Software Software Benchmarking Latency 306

The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

In this blog post, we'll reveal how we leveraged eBPF to achieve continuous, low-overhead instrumentation of the Linux scheduler, enabling effective self-serve monitoring of noisy neighbor issues. Learn how Linux kernel instrumentation can improve your infrastructure observability with deeper insights and enhanced monitoring.

Latency 262

Latency Metrics Programming Monitoring 262

Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2023

Note : you might hear the term latency used instead of response time. Both latency and response time are critical to ensure reliability. Latency typically refers to the time it takes for a single request to travel from its source to its destination. Latency primarily focuses on the time spent in transit.

Latency 245

Latency Website Traffic Virtualization 245

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

By actively monitoring metrics such as error rate, success rate, and CPU load, quality gates instill confidence in teams during software releases. These metrics are latency, traffic, errors, and saturation, all of which must be key considerations when curating user experience. Fewer expensive fixes.

Speed 264

Speed Software Software Latency 264

The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

We thus assigned a priority to each use case and sharded event traffic by routing to priority-specific queues and the corresponding event processing clusters. This separation allows us to tune system configuration and scaling policies independently for different event priorities and traffic patterns.

Systems 334

Systems Traffic Architecture Mobile 334

Dynatrace

MARCH 16, 2023

Monitors signals The first attribute of a good SLO is the ability to monitor the four “golden signals”: latency, traffic, error rates, and resource saturation. Dynatrace OneAgent provided information about failure rates, latency, and throughput, along with iOS data for users, crashes, and error rates.

DevOps 264

DevOps Latency Metrics Traffic 264

Dynatrace

MAY 31, 2023

The practice uses continuous monitoring and high levels of automation in close collaboration with agile development teams to ensure applications are highly available and perform without friction. At the lowest level, SLIs provide a view of service availability, latency, performance, and capacity across systems.

Best Practices 246

Best Practices DevOps Latency Metrics 246

Dynatrace

MAY 17, 2023

We use monitored demo applications to deliver constant load and a defined set of business transactions. While the first guardian validates the traffic, the second guardian checks the business transactions generated during the observation period. The functionality is implemented via an automated workflow.

DevOps 246

DevOps Traffic Latency Best Practices 246

Dynatrace

MAY 19, 2022

Organizations have multiple stakeholders and almost always have different teams that set up monitoring, operate systems, and develop new functionality. The monitoring team set up the dashboard, so who owns violations? In their new dashboard, they added dimensions for load, latency, and open problems for each component.

Automotive 290

Automotive Latency Architecture Mobile 290

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

After the jobs are created, it monitors their execution progress. In that scenario, the system would need to deal with the data propagation latency directly, for example, by use of timeouts or client-originated update tracking mechanisms. The cache is kept in sync with the current leader process.

Cache 233

Cache Latency Traffic Systems 233

Dynatrace

APRIL 25, 2023

For example, to handle traffic spikes and pay only for what they use. Scale automatically based on the demand and traffic patterns. Higher latency and cold start issues due to the initialization time of the functions. The elasticity of serverless services helps organizations scale as needed.

Serverless 246

Serverless Lambda Azure AWS 246

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. Logs and background requests are examples of this type of traffic.

Traffic 261

Traffic Metrics Infrastructure Architecture 261

Dynatrace

AUGUST 27, 2024

Effectively assessing and mitigating these external risks requires robust vendor due diligence and continuous monitoring of their cybersecurity posture. By combining technical best practices with DORA technical specifications, Dynatrace creates technical checks to monitor your organization’s security posture.

Best Practices 290

Best Practices Government DevOps Analytics 290

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Rajiv Shringi Vinay Chella Kaidan Fullerton Oleksii Tkachuk Joey Lynch Introduction As Netflix continues to expand and diversify into various sectors like Video on Demand and Gaming , the ability to ingest and store vast amounts of temporal data — often reaching petabytes — with millisecond access latency has become increasingly vital.

Latency 239

Latency Storage Traffic Tuning 239

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. This blog post lists the important database metrics to monitor. Effective monitoring of key performance indicators plays a crucial role in maintaining this optimal speed of operation.

Metrics 130

Metrics Monitoring Latency Cache 130

Dynatrace

JUNE 8, 2020

Meeting the requirements of a tier-0 application demands the highest level of reliability and scalability, which Dynatrace enables through extensive self-monitoring and self-healing across the entire application stack down to the infrastructure level. Access your cluster health data in Dynatrace Managed.

Software 214

Software Software Programming Metrics 214

Dynatrace

JULY 6, 2020

In addition to providing AI-powered full-stack monitoring capabilities , Dynatrace has long featured broad support for Azure Services and intuitive, native integration with extensions for using OneAgent on Azure. Azure Traffic Manager. Add the new services you’d like to monitor and you’re good to go! Azure Batch.

Azure 227

Azure Cloud Big Data Virtualization 227

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

In case of a spike in traffic, you can automatically spin up more resources, often in a matter of seconds. Likewise, you can scale down when your application experiences decreased traffic. For example, as traffic increases, costs will too. This can dramatically decrease network latency and its effect on the end-user experience.

Cloud 241

Cloud Traffic Best Practices Hardware 241

Dynatrace

MAY 17, 2023

With that, we could make use of the full set of OpenTelemetry’s features to instrument and monitor our applications in the Dynatrace back end, including traces with spans and metrics. OneAgent is the native telemetry data collector and monitoring solution of Dynatrace.

Metrics 243

Metrics Database Monitoring Network 243

Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2023

Note : you might hear the term latency used instead of response time. Both latency and response time are critical to ensure reliability. Latency typically refers to the time it takes for a single request to travel from its source to its destination. Latency primarily focuses on the time spent in transit.

Traffic 173

Traffic Website Latency Virtualization 173

Scalegrid

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Azure and found that DigitalOcean performance was in line with, if not better, on both high throughput and low latency in the deployment. While adequate for low-traffic applications, small databases, and dev/test environments, we recommend against leveraging shared clusters for your MongoDB production deployments.

Azure 187

Azure AWS Database Latency 187

Dynatrace

JULY 18, 2023

Configuration files allow for the automatic creation, update, and management of configurations for dashboards, synthetic monitors, alerts, SLOs, and security settings across multiple environments. Proper notifications or escalations are automated based on ownership information.

Best Practices 246

Best Practices Code Infrastructure Latency 246

The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 30, 2021

Canary Test Workloads In addition to serving the regular message traffic between users and DUTs, the control plane itself is stress-tested at roughly 3-hour intervals, where nearly 3000 ephemeral MQTT clients are created to connect to and generate flash traffic on the MQTT brokers. million elements.

Latency 222

Latency Traffic Transportation Cloud 222

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

If we had an ID for each streaming session then distributed tracing could easily reconstruct session failure by providing service topology, retry and error tags, and latency measurements for all service calls. Additionally, it became easy to provide deep links to different monitoring and deployment systems in Edgar due to consistent tagging.

Infrastructure 238

Infrastructure Transportation Storage Open Source 238

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). This can result in significant cost savings for high traffic applications.

Cloud 242

Cloud Azure AWS Database 242

Adrian Cockcroft

MAY 6, 2023

Then they tried to scale it to cope with high traffic and discovered that some of the state transitions in their step functions were too frequent, and they had some overly chatty calls between AWS lambda functions and S3. They state in the blog that this was quick to build, which is the point.

Serverless 145

Serverless Lambda Best Practices Traffic 145

The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 10, 2024

This architecture shift greatly reduced the processing latency and increased system resiliency. We expanded pipeline support to serve our studio/content-development use cases, which had different latency and resiliency requirements as compared to the traditional streaming use case. divide the input video into small chunks 2.

Processing 238

Processing Media Latency Innovation 238

Dynatrace

AUGUST 5, 2019

Resource consumption & traffic analysis. What is the network traffic going to be between services we migrate and those that have to stay in the current data center? How much traffic is sent between two processes hosting a certain service? Step 3: Detailed Traffic Dependency Analysis. What’s in your stack?”.

Cloud 38

Cloud Traffic Database Network 38

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Netflix shares how Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling allows its infrastructure to automatically adapt to changing traffic patterns in order to keep its audience entertained and its costs on target. Netflix runs dozens of stateful services on AWS under strict sub-millisecond tail-latency requirements, which brings unique challenges. Wednesday?—?December

AWS 38

AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 38

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

A monitoring tool like Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) is a popular choice among open source options for effectively monitoring MySQL performance. In this blog, we will explore various MySQL KPIs that are basic and essential to track using monitoring tools like PMM.

Performance 135

Performance Monitoring Traffic Database 135

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

The website went online in less than one month and was able to support a 250 percent increase in traffic around the launch of the Aventador J. To meet such large traffic numbers, they need a technology infrastructure that is secure, reliable, and flexible. ENEL is one of the leading energy operators in the world. million unique visits.

AWS 164

AWS Energy Automotive Traffic 164