Dynatrace

DECEMBER 18, 2023

For busy site reliability engineers, ensuring system reliability, scalability, and overall health is an imperative that’s getting harder to achieve in ever-expanding, cloud-native, container-based environments. To get a more granular look into telemetry data, many analysts rely on custom metrics using Prometheus.

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 17, 2024

To achieve this, we are committed to building robust systems that deliver comprehensive observability, enabling us to take full accountability for every title on ourservice. Each title represents countless hours of effort and creativity, and our systems need to honor that uniqueness. Yet, these pages couldnt be more different.

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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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Dynatrace

MARCH 12, 2025

Amazon Bedrock , equipped with Dynatrace Davis AI and LLM observability , gives you end-to-end insight into the Generative AI stack, from code-level visibility and performance metrics to GenAI-specific guardrails. Send unified data to Dynatrace for analysis alongside your logs, metrics, and traces.

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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 technique facilitates validation on multiple fronts.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Today’s highly dynamic, heterogeneous, and complex software systems require organizations to establish observability for all provided cloud-native services. New OpenTelemetry metrics exporters provide the broadest language support on the market. Seamlessly export your OpenTelemetry custom metrics to Dynatrace. Dynatrace news.

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O'Reilly

MARCH 25, 2025

The system is inconsistent, slow, hallucinatingand that amazing demo starts collecting digital dust. Two big things: They bring the messiness of the real world into your system through unstructured data. When your system is both ingesting messy real-world data AND producing nondeterministic outputs, you need a different approach.

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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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Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Introduction to Message Brokers Message brokers enable applications, services, and systems to communicate by acting as intermediaries between senders and receivers. This decoupling simplifies system architecture and supports scalability in distributed environments.

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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. Amazon Elastic File System (EFS). Select Add metric to save your settings.

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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. The AB experiment results hinted that GraphQL’s correctness was not up to par with the legacy system.

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Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Scaling RabbitMQ ensures your system can handle growing traffic and maintain high performance. Key Takeaways RabbitMQ improves scalability and fault tolerance in distributed systems by decoupling applications, enabling reliable message exchanges.

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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. Amazon Elastic File System (EFS). Select Add metric to save your settings.

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Dynatrace

MAY 23, 2024

Stream processing One approach to such a challenging scenario is stream processing, a computing paradigm and software architectural style for data-intensive software systems that emerged to cope with requirements for near real-time processing of massive amounts of data. Recovery time of the throughput metric.

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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

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

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

JUNE 13, 2023

This is where large-scale system migrations come into play. 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. But what happens when this machinery needs a transformation?

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Dynatrace

JULY 22, 2024

Using OpenTelemetry, developers can collect and process telemetry data from applications, services, and systems. 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.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Streaming Platforms Commercial streaming platforms shown in Figure 1 mainly rely on Digital Rights Management (DRM) systems. DRM systems provide continuous content protection against unauthorized actions on digital content and restrict it to streaming and in-time consumption.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 8, 2021

In software we use the concept of Service Level Objectives (SLOs) to enable us to keep track of our system versus our goals, often shown in a dashboard – like below –, to help us to reach an objective or provide an excellent service for users. Usual exceptions raised by our system that is now considered to be normal by Davis.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 7, 2021

The Flow Exporter also publishes various operational metrics to Atlas. These metrics are visualized using Lumen , a self-service dashboarding infrastructure. After several iterations of the architecture and some tuning, the solution has proven to be able to scale. So how do we ingest and enrich these flows at scale ?

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The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 13, 2020

A metric crossed a threshold. You’re half awake and wondering, “Is there really a problem or is this just an alert that needs tuning? Our streaming teams need a monitoring system that enables them to quickly diagnose and remediate problems; seconds count! Metrics are a key part of understanding application health.

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Scalegrid

MARCH 4, 2019

We asked hundreds of developers, engineers, software architects, dev teams, and IT leaders at DeveloperWeek to discover the current NoSQL vs. SQL usage, most popular databases, important metrics to track, and their most time-consuming database management tasks. SQL vs. NoSQL. NoSQL Database Use: 39.52%. Most Popular Databases.

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Dynatrace

MAY 17, 2022

For years, enterprises managed observability data on a team-by-team basis , using a combination of ticketing systems and configuration management tools. From a cost perspective, internal customers waste valuable time sending tickets to operations teams asking for metrics, logs, and traces to be enabled.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 17, 2024

With the availability of Linux on IBM Z and LinuxONE, the IBM Z platform brings a familiar host operating system and sustainability that could yield up to 75% energy reduction compared to x86 servers. Deploying your critical applications on additional host operating systems increases the dependencies for observability.

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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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Dynatrace

APRIL 3, 2023

UK Home Office: Metrics meets service The UK Home Office is the lead government department for many essential, large-scale programs. Now, shutting down systems daily helps the agency focus its cloud initiatives and save costs. Make sure to stay connected with our social media pages. It also helps reduce the agency’s carbon footprint.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

Typically, these shops run the z/OS operating system, but more recently, it’s not uncommon to see the Z hardware running special versions of Linux distributions. Our goal is to provide automatic answers including root-cause analysis of performance degradation across all these systems and environments.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Tracking changes to automated processes, including auditing impacts to the system, and reverting to the previous environment states seamlessly. Easy deployment of Dynatrace OneAgent with AWS Systems Manager Distributor , AWS Elastic Beanstalk , and AWS CloudFormation. Stay tuned. Fully conceptualizing capacity requirements.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

If you want to see a more hands-on approach, I encourage you to watch the recording as Stefano did a live demo of Akamas’s integration with Dynatrace, showing how to minimize the footprint of a Java application with automated JVM tuning. Akamas also enables you to automate the analysis of the experiment metrics in powerful ways.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 1, 2022

Unfortunately, you did not have any monitoring or alerting in place, and you stopped checking the system daily because you have lost faith in your idea. Looking at the cloud-native landscape part for Kubernetes storage solutions , we see that most of these solutions natively expose relevant metrics in Prometheus format. Stay tuned.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Modern infrastructure needs to be elastic and GitOps approaches are used to automate the provisioning of infrastructure and applications using Git, an open-source control system that provides the change processes including reviews and approvals. Key components of GitOps are declarative infrastructure as code, orchestration, and observability.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Every service and component exposes observability data (metrics, logs, and traces) that contains crucial information to drive digital businesses. They are required to understand the full story of what happened in a system. The “three pillars of observability,” metrics, logs, and traces, still don’t tell the whole story.

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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. Those two metrics are approximate indicators of failures and latency.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 29, 2024

As organizations continue to modernize their technology stacks, many turn to Kubernetes , an open source container orchestration system for automating software deployment, scaling, and management. ” First, Akamas collects metrics, then recommends configuration improvements and applies these recommendations.

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DZone

MAY 1, 2020

Observability is the ability to understand the internal state of your system by looking at what is happening externally. In a software system, in order to acquire observability, we mainly implement the following aspects: logging, metrics, and tracing. Observability tools allow us to do this.

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