DZone

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Not another figure to look at when analyzing performance test results! Most performance tools already report a bunch of them (e.g., which we have to review for our report; why add a new metric to the list? average, min, max, percentiles.),

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DZone

AUGUST 29, 2021

In this blog post, we’ll examine one such case where we use the Sentry JavaScript SDK to instrument Jest (which runs our frontend test suite) and how we addressed the issues that we found. We have high-level metrics for how well (or not) our CI is performing.

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Abstracta

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Making sense of the average, standard deviation and percentiles in performance testing reports There are certain performance testing metrics that are essential to understand properly in order to.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

While an SLI is just a metric, an SLO just a threshold you expect your SLI to be in and SLA is just the business contract on top of an SLO. Thanks to its event-driven architecture, Keptn can pull SLIs (=metrics) from different data sources and validate them against the SLOs. class SRE implements DevOps) !

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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

APRIL 30, 2021

As organizations develop more applications and microservices, they are discovering they also need to run more performance tests in the same amount of time or less to meet service-level objectives (SLOs) that fulfill service-level agreements (SLAs). Current challenges with performance testing. Dynatrace news.

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DZone

JUNE 16, 2021

Application Performance Index. If, like me, you have some difficulties in making a Pass/Fail call for your performance tests when given the Summary Statistics of the performance test results, then the Apdex metric may come in handy.

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DZone

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

To ensure that users get high-performing software that works seamlessly under all load conditions, performance testing is necessary. This test helps to measure the speed, scalability, reliability, and stability of software under varying loads, thus it ensures stable performance. What Is Performance Testing?

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Dynatrace

MARCH 3, 2020

PayPal, a popular online payment systems organization, implemented a full performance as a self-service model for developers to get their code performance tests. Read more details about PayPal in this blog who is an early practitioner for performance as a self-service. #2 2 New roles and responsibilities at Panera Bread

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Dynatrace

JUNE 21, 2024

Define monitoring goals and user experience metrics Next, define what aspects of a digital experience you want to monitor and improve — such as website performance, application responsiveness, or user engagement — and prioritize what to measure for each application. The time it takes to begin the page’s load event.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 24, 2022

This post describes how the Netflix TVUI team implemented a robust strategy to quickly and easily detect performance anomalies before they are released?—?and What do we mean by Performance? Technically, “performance” metrics are those relating to the responsiveness or latency of the app, including start up time.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 5, 2022

It automatically sends JMeter metrics to the Dynatrace cluster via the Metrics Ingest API. These metrics can be used to validate the load test plan or target load and to correlate between different application metrics. The white box load testing project setup. response time (${local.apps[count.index].name})"

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Abstracta

JULY 23, 2024

Dive into the core of performance testing metrics and discover the importance of accurate analysis in ensuring optimal system performance. Through simple explanations, we will guide you toward making informed decisions in your testing endeavors and identifying performance bottlenecks.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

To prove this novel approach works have a look at some of the optimization results Akamas has achieved already: The automated performance optimization has resulted in great cost savings and performance improvements. Akamas also enables you to automate the analysis of the experiment metrics in powerful ways.

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Speed Curve

JANUARY 27, 2025

This is a potential cause for concern for anyone who cares about metrics like Largest Contentful Paint, which measures the largest visual element on a page – including videos. JavaScript – A page can have a relatively low JS weight but still suffer from JS-inflicted performance problems. Learn how to optimize images.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 27, 2022

Real user monitoring (RUM) is a performance monitoring process that collects detailed data about users’ interactions with an application. RUM gathers information on a variety of performance metrics. RUM is ideally suited to provide real metrics from real users navigating a site or application.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 10, 2020

All this complexity raises the bar for the end-user and application monitoring, and for many organizations, their existing tooling poses challenges such as: A disconnect from actual end-user experience and typical IT metric sources of logs, metrics, and traces. Different teams have their own siloed monitoring solution.

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Dynatrace

MAY 28, 2020

Let me walk you through how I have built my Dynatrace Performance Insights Dashboard showing SLIs split by Test Name as well as SLIs for the specific technology and infrastructure: Enriching your load testing scripts with meta data allows building test context specific SLI-dashboards in Dynatrace.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Environment interfaces include queries for topology, metrics, problems, and user sessions to name a few. These interfaces also allow toolchains to push problem comments, events, and metrics into Dynatrace for monitored entities. Performance test is run. Artifact is deployed into some environment.

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Dynatrace

MAY 17, 2023

Validation tasks are then extended left to cover performance testing and release validation in a pre-production environment. While this team uses Fault Injection Simulator (FIS) to run their chaos testing experiments, the Site Reliability Guardian is not limited to this testing practice.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 11, 2019

Ideally, QA teams use production data for better test definitions (based on real use cases) and better workload modeling for load testing (based on real-world load behavior). Organizations that don’t look at production data may test the wrong things and simulate the wrong performance tests. Automate processes.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 5, 2020

The challenge with ASP.NET Web Service Observability, Diagnostics and Performance Optimization is that most monitoring & diagnostic tools only provide global Service Level Indicators metrics (SLIs) such as response time, failure rate, and throughput, but not metrics for each individual service endpoint.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Observability is the ability to measure a system’s current state based on the data it generates, such as logs, metrics, and traces. This process includes the following functionalities: The Dynatrace dashboard tile defines any metric along with its target or SLO. The collected set of metrics are queries for some timeframe.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 23, 2020

Metrics: Numeric representation of data measured over a set period. Analyze how end-users experience the system in terms of average response times, error rates, and other digital experience metrics. Monitor key performance metrics that can be with interactive visual dashboards.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Availability testing Availability testing helps organizations confirm that a site or application is responding to user requests. Web-performance testing Web-performance testing evaluates metrics including page loading speed, the performance of specific page elements, and the occurrence rate of site errors.

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DZone

DECEMBER 30, 2020

Below are some of the key metrics that need to be monitored during performance testing: CPU utilization. Let's take a look at some of the causes of negative impacts on performance testing and some quick resolutions that will help smooth everything out. Heap memory utilization. Number of active/daemon threads.

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Dynatrace

JULY 16, 2021

Many of our users are performance engineers using Cloud Automation Quality Gates to automate the analysis of their performance and load tests – saving hours of analysis time for each test they run. Automatically configure Dynatrace, e.g., dashboards, management zones, metrics.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 23, 2020

Metrics: Numeric representation of data measured over a set period. Analyze how end-users experience the system in terms of average response times, error rates, and other digital experience metrics. Monitor key performance metrics that can be with interactive visual dashboards.

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Abstracta

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Performance testing aims to enhance software application’s effectiveness and readiness. At the heart of this process is a metric called ‘throughput’ Let’s delve deeper into the nuances of throughput and its undeniable importance. In the vast realm of performance testing, if there’s one metric that.

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KeyCDN

AUGUST 15, 2019

Web performance is a broad subject, and you’ll find no shortage of performance testing tips and tutorials all over the web. Before you begin tuning your website or application, you must first figure out which metrics matter most to your users and establish some achievable benchmarks. What is Performance Testing?

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Dynatrace

JULY 9, 2020

Gone are the days for Christian manually looking at dashboards and metrics after a new build got deployed into a testing or acceptance environment: Integrating Keptn into your existing DevOps tools such as GitLab is just a matter of an API call. A popular use case of Keptn is the SLI/SLO-based Quality Gate capability.

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Abstracta

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Navigate web application performance testing with our comprehensive step-by-step approach. From selecting the right tools to grasping essential metrics, we illuminate the path to a high-performing website. As we discussed in this article, performance testing is a critical part of the software testing process.

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Scalegrid

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

AWS RDS Using Sysbench This article evaluates PostgreSQL’s performance on ScaleGrid and AWS RDS, focusing on versions 13, 14, and 15. We use Sysbench to benchmark key performance metrics under different workloads and thread configurations, including Transactions Per Second (TPS) and Queries Per Second (QPS).

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Dynatrace

MARCH 9, 2022

This was a great example on how powerful the data of Dynatrace is when it comes to detecting performance or scalability issues and their root cause. The metrics are great for anyone in operations and capacity planning.

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Speed Curve

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Scanning the metrics table, I see that Last Painted Hero is 7.3s, aligning with what I see in the filmstrip. On the mobile agent I tested with, the size of the text element above the image is larger than my image. Always test on different form factors – desktop and mobile at a minimum.

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Dynatrace

MAY 27, 2021

Here are a few common metrics teams should track for every CD pipeline to help you evaluate its efficacy. Organizations can deliver higher-quality releases faster once SLOs are established and continuously tested at every stage of the development lifecycle. Automate SLO evaluation with quality gates.

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Speed Curve

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

This gives us a relatively unique opportunity to analyse and aggregate performance metrics to gain some interesting insights. In this post, I'm going to analyse some browser-based paint timing metrics: First Paint & First Contentful Paint (defined in the Paint Timing spec and implemented in Chromium). Doing the analysis.

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