Dynatrace

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Welcome back to the blog series where we provide you with deep dives into the latest observability awesomeness from Dynatrace , demonstrating how we bring scale, zero configuration, automatic AI driven alerting, and root cause analysis to all your custom metrics, including open source observability frameworks like StatsD, Telegraf, and Prometheus.

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Scalegrid

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Performance Benchmarking of PostgreSQL on ScaleGrid vs. AWS RDS Using Sysbench This article evaluates PostgreSQL’s performance on ScaleGrid and AWS RDS, focusing on versions 13, 14, and 15. Key metrics include TPS and QPS. It also enhanced the management of large tables and indexes.

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DZone

MAY 15, 2020

Now that you’ve deployed your code, it’s time to monitor it, collect data, and analyze your metrics. Without application performance monitoring in place, you can’t accurately determine how well things are going. Is the app performant? Are people using your app? Do the pages load quickly? Are your users experiencing any errors?

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SQL Performance

APRIL 13, 2020

In my last post , I started to outline the process I go through when tuning queries – specifically when I discover that I need to add a new index, or modify an existing one. This is where index tuning becomes an art. If performance improves, you're good to go! Step 6: Testing. It's rarely that simple.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

As the application owner of an e-commerce application, for example, you can enrich the source code of your application with domain-specific knowledge by adding actionable semantics to collected performance or business metrics. New OpenTelemetry metrics exporters provide the broadest language support on the market.

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 7, 2020

VMAF is a video quality metric that Netflix jointly developed with a number of university collaborators and open-sourced on Github. VMAF has become a de facto standard for evaluating the performance of encoding systems and driving encoding optimizations. This tech blog highlights our recent progress toward this goal.

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Dynatrace

MAY 30, 2020

Dynatrace Visually complete is a point-in-time web performance metric that measures when the visual area of a page has finished loading. Dynatrace is the only solution that provides these user experience metrics consistently for real user monitoring as well as for synthetic monitors. More precisely, you can now: .

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 17, 2020

In an existing application landscape, however, it can be difficult to get to those metrics. A larger financial institution is using the analysis to report business metrics on dashboards and make them accessible via the Dynatrace API. Optimize your application and business performance by analyzing request- and service-based metrics.

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Dynatrace

MAY 23, 2024

Performance is usually a primary concern when using stream processing frameworks. See more about the performance of stream processing frameworks in our published paper. ShuffleBench i s a benchmarking tool for evaluating the performance of modern stream processing frameworks.

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DZone

MAY 1, 2023

The main purpose of this article and use case is to scrape AWS CloudWatch metrics into the Prometheus time series and to visualize the metrics data in Grafana. These tools give greater visibility other than collecting the metrics also, where we can set up critical alerts, live views, and custom dashboards.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 15, 2020

OpenTelemetry metrics are useful for augmenting the fully automatic observability that can be achieved with Dynatrace OneAgent. OpenTelemetry metrics add domain specific data such as business KPIs and license relevant consumption details. Enterprise-grade observability for custom OpenTelemetry metrics from AWS. Dynatrace news.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 23, 2019

Synthetic monitors provide a perfect means of continually monitoring the performance baselines of your web applications. However, understanding the performance of different application types requires an emphasis on different performance metrics, that is, key performance metrics.

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Dynatrace

JULY 23, 2020

With the advent and ingestion of thousands of custom metrics into Dynatrace, we’ve once again pushed the boundaries of automatic, AI-based root cause analysis with the introduction of auto-adaptive baselines as a foundational concept for Dynatrace topology-driven timeseries measurements. In many cases, metric behavior changes over time.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 4, 2023

Migrating Critical Traffic At Scale with No Downtime — Part 1 Shyam Gala , Javier Fernandez-Ivern , Anup Rokkam Pratap , Devang Shah Hundreds of millions of customers tune into Netflix every day, expecting an uninterrupted and immersive streaming experience. This approach has a handful of benefits.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

Welcome back to the second part of our blog series on how easy it is to get enterprise-grade observability at scale in Dynatrace for your OpenTelemetry custom metrics. In Part 1 , we announced our new OpenTelemetry custom-metric exporters that provide the broadest language coverage on the market, including Go , .NET record(value); }.

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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. Telemetry Telemetry involves collecting and analyzing data from distributed sources to provide insights into how a system is performing. There are three main types of telemetry data: Metrics.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 20, 2020

Issues that manifest themselves as performance degradation on a user’s device can often be traced back to underlying infrastructure issues. Monitor additional metrics. Additionally, we’re further extending our infrastructure mode with runtime metrics for: Java.NET. All of these metrics are now part of infrastructure mode.

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Dynatrace

JULY 10, 2023

These environments are marked by continuous delivery of microservice updates into production, the abstractions inherent in Kubernetes environments, and challenges associated with applications distributed across multicloud environments—often with performance and security risks. Dynatrace was recognized as Compuware from 2010-2014.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

In my recent Performance Clinic with Stefano Doni , CTO & Co-Founder of Akamas , I made the statement, “Application development and release cycles today are measured in days, instead of months. Increase in environment complexity and increased frequency in delivery requires a novel approach to performance optimization.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Select a Metric and Aggregation to get started. You can choose any standard Dynatrace metric and any request attribute. Simply switch the metric to Failure rate to find out if there was an error that might have impacted your platinum customers. You might guess that the relatively long booking time is caused by a failure.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 4, 2024

While receiving no feedback on the quality or security of new features leaves developers uncertain about feature performance, delayed feedback also increases a developer’s cognitive load. For example, the team must establish specific thresholds for desired service performance behavior.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 14, 2023

This blog post will share broadly-applicable techniques (beyond GraphQL) we used to perform this migration. 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.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 29, 2024

During a breakout session at Dynatrace Perform 2024 , Alois Mayr, principal product manager at Dynatrace, and Stefano Doni, CTO at Akamas, broke down how Dynatrace and Akamas can help organizations enhance Kubernetes cluster management. Consider a sudden drop in performance. “Additionally, we are full-stack and goal-oriented.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 6, 2019

Defining a comprehensive user-experience metric gives rise to questions such as: How do we compare the user experience of one session to another? Which metric can be used for the purpose of reporting user experience and tracking it over a period of time? A single metric for user experience segmentation. Error metrics.

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SQL Performance

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

This article will cover many areas that database administrators need to be aware of in order to properly license, recover, and tune a Reporting Services installation. Tuning Options. Tuning SSRS is much like any other application. General Tuning. Installation and support of SSRS can be confusing.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 4, 2024

Great news: OpenTelemetry endpoint detection, analyzing OpenTelemetry services, and visualizing Istio service mesh metrics just got easier. As a CNCF open source incubating project, OpenTelemetry provides a standardized set of APIs, libraries, agents, instrumentation, and specifications for logging, metrics, and tracing.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 17, 2024

Mainframe is a strong choice for hybrid cloud, but it brings observability challenges IBM Z is a mainframe computing platform chosen by many organizations with a hybrid cloud strategy because of its security, resiliency, performance, scalability, and sustainability. Are you running containerized applications on IBM Z?

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

The short answer: The three pillars of observability—logs, metrics, and traces—converging on a data lakehouse. And without the encumbrances of traditional databases, Grail performs fast. “In Simply put, metrics are the counts and measures that are often calculated or aggregated over time.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Building on its advanced analytics capabilities for Prometheus data , Dynatrace now enables you to create extensions based on Prometheus metrics. Many technologies expose their metrics in the Prometheus data format. Easily gain actionable insights with the Dynatrace Extension for Prometheus metrics. Prometheus in Kubernetes ?and

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Synthetic Minority Over-sampling Technique Evaluation Metrics For evaluating the performance of the anomaly detection models we consider a set of evaluation metrics and report their values. For the one-class as well as binary anomaly detection task, such metrics are accuracy, precision, recall, f0.5,

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Dynatrace

APRIL 5, 2024

For a more proactive approach and to gain further visibility, other SLOs focusing on performance can be implemented. For instance, consider how fine-tuned failure rate detection can provide insights for comprehensive understanding. Please refer to How to fine-tune failure detection (dynatrace.com) for further information.

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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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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 13, 2023

A small percentage of production traffic is redirected to the two new clusters, allowing us to monitor the new version’s performance and compare it against the current version. By tracking metrics only at the level of service being updated, we might miss capturing deviations in broader end-to-end system functionality.

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Dynatrace

MAY 28, 2024

What about correlated trace data, host metrics, real-time vulnerability scanning results, or log messages captured just before an incident occurs? Databases offers comprehensive database monitoring capabilities, providing organizations with real-time visibility into the performance and health of their database environments.

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Dynatrace

MAY 16, 2019

Are you applying AI to the unique metrics and KPIs that matter most to the success of your digital business? Do you provide dashboards and analytics that combine technical and business metrics that are specific to your business? Dynatrace out-of-the-box metrics generally focus on availability, failure rate, and performance.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 25, 2023

It helps developers and operators identify and troubleshoot issues, optimize performance and improve user experience. Observability is typically achieved by collecting three types of data from a system, metrics, logs and traces. Observability is essential to ensure the reliability, security and quality of any software system.

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 8, 2024

We do not use it for metrics, histograms, timers, or any such near-real time analytics use case. DistinctAggregation) , this endpoint performs the given aggregation within a given time interval. It also allows Netflix to archive, compress, or delete older data efficiently, optimizing both storage and query performance.

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