The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 8, 2025

By Cheng Xie , Bryan Shultz , and Christine Xu In a previous blog post , we described how Netflix uses eBPF to capture TCP flow logs at scale for enhanced network insights. It uses eBPF and TCP tracepoints to monitor TCP socket state changes. A BriefRecap FlowExporter is a sidecar that runs alongside all Netflix workloads.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Constantly monitoring infrastructure health state and making ongoing optimizations are essential for Ops teams, SREs (site-reliability engineers), and IT admins. Quick and easy network infrastructure monitoring. Tired of constantly switching between all your monitoring tools? Start monitoring in minutes.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 20, 2024

With the pace of digital transformation continuing to accelerate, organizations are realizing the growing imperative to have a robust application security monitoring process in place. What are the goals of continuous application security monitoring and why is it important?

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 11, 2023

In fact, according to a Dynatrace global survey of 1,300 CIOs , 99% of enterprises utilize a multicloud environment and seven cloud monitoring solutions on average. What is cloud monitoring? Cloud monitoring is a set of solutions and practices used to observe, measure, analyze, and manage the health of cloud-based IT infrastructure.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 27, 2022

As businesses compete for customer loyalty, it’s critical to understand the difference between real-user monitoring and synthetic user monitoring. However, not all user monitoring systems are created equal. What is real user monitoring? Real-time monitoring of user application and service interactions.

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Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Scaling RabbitMQ ensures your system can handle growing traffic and maintain high performance. Optimizing RabbitMQ performance through strategies such as keeping queues short, enabling lazy queues, and monitoring health checks is essential for maintaining system efficiency and effectively managing high traffic loads.

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Dynatrace

MAY 6, 2020

Over the last two month s, w e’ve monito red key sites and applications across industries that have been receiving surges in traffic , including government, health insurance, retail, banking, and media. Monitoring with ?the The following day, a normally mundane Wednesday , traffic soared to 128,000 sessions.

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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.

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Dynatrace

MAY 8, 2023

With the world’s increased reliance on digital services and the organizational pressure on IT teams to innovate faster, the need for DevOps monitoring tools has grown exponentially. But when and how does DevOps monitoring fit into the process? And how do DevOps monitoring tools help teams achieve DevOps efficiency?

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Dynatrace

APRIL 22, 2025

Lateral movement across the cluster With host access established, the attacker discovers that the cluster has no network policies defined. Missing network policies + inadequate namespace isolation Attack technique. All pods can communicate with each other across namespaces without restrictions. Misconfiguration.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 26, 2020

Dynatrace Digital Experience Monitoring , as part of the Dynatrace Software Intelligence Platform, connects front-end monitoring and the outside-in user perspective with application performance to understand the impact of performance issues across your full stack on user experience and business outcomes. Virginia (Azure), N.

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Dynatrace

JULY 21, 2020

Dynatrace OneAgent is great for monitoring the full stack. There are certain situations when an agent based approach isn’t possible, such as with network or storage devices, or a very old OS. While this will give you a lot of information about the health of these components, sometimes a simple synthetic monitor is sufficient.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 22, 2025

Picture this: A notification appears on a monitoring dashboard indicating the production Kubernetes cluster has been compromised. When communications aren’t properly encrypted, attackers who gain network access can intercept traffic between components. Real-world impact. Common misconfiguration.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 13, 2020

Throughout my career I’ve been asked several times by members of the ITOps teams, “Why end-user experience monitoring is critical”. If you take a customer focused monitoring approach you can figure out what the journey of this customer comes across, what the digital touchpoints are, and help solve their issues. Dynatrace news.

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DZone

APRIL 4, 2023

Service meshes are becoming increasingly popular in cloud-native applications as they provide a way to manage network traffic between microservices. It offers several features, including: Prioritized load shedding: Drops traffic that is deemed less important to ensure that the most critical traffic is served.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

These resources generate vast amounts of data in various locations, including containers, which can be virtual and ephemeral, thus more difficult to monitor. These challenges make AWS observability a key practice for building and monitoring cloud-native applications. EC2 is ideally suited for large workloads with constant traffic.

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Dynatrace

JULY 15, 2024

Complex syslog ecosystems can be challenging Monitoring devices and applications that provide output via the syslog protocol is a must-have for many organizations. These include traditional on-premises network devices and servers for infrastructure applications like databases, websites, or email.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 31, 2025

Our enhanced host monitoring dashboard that highlights disk usage includes AI forecasting for CPU usage. In our Dynatrace Dashboard tutorial, we want to add a chart that shows the bytes in and out per host over time to enhance visibility into network traffic. Enable the Show icon option and select Network icon.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

This opens the door to auto-scalable applications, which effortlessly matches the demands of rapidly growing and varying user traffic. Containers can be replicated or deleted on the fly to meet varying end-user traffic. Networking. Built-in monitoring. Needs third party tools for monitoring. What is Docker?

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Dynatrace

JUNE 5, 2023

The F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) is an application delivery controller (ADC) that ensures the availability, security, and optimal performance of network traffic flows. Why monitor F5 BIG-IP load balancers? That’s why monitoring every BIG-IP instance is crucial to ensure smooth operation.

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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.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 2, 2020

For two decades, Dynatrace NAM—Network Application Monitoring, formerly known as DC RUM—has been successfully monitoring the user experience of our customers’ enterprise applications. SNMP managed the costs of network links well, but not the sources of those costs (i.e., Dynatrace news. the data flows).

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 8, 2024

They may stem from software bugs, cyberattacks, surges in demand, issues with backup processes, network problems, or human errors. Possible scenarios A Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack overwhelms servers with traffic, making a website or service unavailable.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 22, 2021

The monitoring challenges of on-premises environments. As a Network Engineer, you need to ensure the operational functionality, availability, efficiency, backup/recovery, and security of your company’s network. Our new extension framework now makes it a no-brainer to start monitoring your SNMP protocols.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 16, 2020

Because of Dynatrace’s Real User Monitoring (RUM) capability, and insights from our AI engine, Davis, they were able to quickly prioritize and fix the issues to ensure their employees had an optimal remote work experience. Facilitating an understanding of traffic patterns and potential traffic spikes helps maintain customer experience.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Since “hope is not a strategy” when it comes to running software services, you need to eliminate bad monitoring and instead establish an observability strategy for your services, as well as for involved third-party libraries and frameworks, that provides actionable answers instead of just more data.

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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. This helped us successfully migrate 100% of the traffic on the mobile homepage canvas to GraphQL in 6 months. After validating performance, we slowly built up scope.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

VPC Flow Logs is an Amazon service that enables IT pros to capture information about the IP traffic that traverses network interfaces in a virtual private cloud, or VPC. By default, each record captures a network internet protocol (IP), a destination, and the source of the traffic flow that occurs within your environment.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 13, 2019

Dynatrace Synthetic monitors APIs with client certificate authentication. This allows you to monitor APIs that use mutual authentication based on X.509 They are, of course, not a complete solution, as they can be intercepted like any other network traffic. 509 certificate validation. How to get started. What’s next?

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DZone

OCTOBER 27, 2023

This dedicated infrastructure layer is designed to cater to service-to-service communication, offering essential features like load balancing, security, monitoring, and resilience. It comprises a suite of capabilities, such as managing traffic, enabling service discovery, enhancing security, ensuring observability, and fortifying resilience.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Software performance can be compromised in many ways, including software bugs, cyberattacks, overwhelming demand, backup failures, network issues, and human error. Using Dynatrace synthetic monitoring capabilities, organizations can simulate user behavior and identify performance bottlenecks under load.

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Dynatrace

JULY 25, 2022

This new service enhances the user visibility of network details with direct delivery of Flow Logs for Transit Gateway to your desired endpoint via Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) bucket or Amazon CloudWatch Logs. AWS Transit Gateway is a service offering from Amazon Web Services that connects network resources via a centralized hub.

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Dynatrace

MAY 21, 2021

This becomes even more challenging when the application receives heavy traffic, because a single microservice might become overwhelmed if it receives too many requests too quickly. A service mesh enables DevOps teams to manage their networking and security policies through code. Why do you need a service mesh?

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Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

RabbitMQ can be deployed in distributed environments and includes monitoring tools through a built-in dashboard and CLI. However, performance can decline under high traffic conditions. Several factors impact RabbitMQs responsiveness, including hardware specifications, network speed, available memory, and queue configurations.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 28, 2021

Such monitoring data is critical to providing satisfying digital experiences and services to customers. OpenTelemetry complements OneAgent by enabling you to: Enrich local monitoring data with project-specific additions (for example, using custom instrumentation to add business data or capture developer-specific diagnostics points).

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Dynatrace

JUNE 10, 2024

They can also develop proactive security measures capable of stopping threats before they breach network defenses. For example, an organization might use security analytics tools to monitor user behavior and network traffic. But, observability doesn’t stop at simply discovering data across your network.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

We’re excited to announce several log management innovations, including native support for Syslog messages, seamless integration with AWS Firehose, an agentless approach using Kubernetes Platform Monitoring solution with Fluent Bit, a new out-of-the-box ingest dashboard, and OpenPipeline ingest improvements.

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