The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 1, 2022

A Data Movement and Processing Platform @ Netflix By Bo Lei , Guilherme Pires , James Shao , Kasturi Chatterjee , Sujay Jain , Vlad Sydorenko Background Realtime processing technologies (A.K.A stream processing) is one of the key factors that enable Netflix to maintain its leading position in the competition of entertaining our users.

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DZone

JUNE 13, 2024

Relational Databases are the bedrock of any FinTech application, especially for OLTP (Online transaction Processing). So, it is imperative that all database activities are monitored closely in the production environment and issues like long-running queries are tracked and resolved.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 4, 2025

As a result, requests are uniformly handled, and responses are processed cohesively. Implement proactive monitoring for each of these endpoints. Key Features Proactive monitoring through scheduled collectors jobs Our Title Health microservice runs a scheduled collector job every 30 minutes for most of our personalization stack.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Log monitoring, log analysis, and log analytics are more important than ever as organizations adopt more cloud-native technologies, containers, and microservices-based architectures. Logs can include data about user inputs, system processes, and hardware states. What is log monitoring? Dynatrace news. billion in 2020 to $4.1

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The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 13, 2020

You’re half awake and wondering, “Is there really a problem or is this just an alert that needs tuning? 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. By Andrei U.,

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 17, 2023

Without adequate flexibility in the subscription model, your organization might fail to benefit from capabilities that could transform your observability and security processes. While if limits are set too high, you might pay for more monitoring than you need and exceed your budget. This allows you to plan and make changes accordingly.

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Dynatrace

JULY 8, 2020

Monitoring Kubernetes is an important aspect of Day 2 o perations and is often perceived as a significant challenge. Mentioned above, CPU is a compressible resource ; you can always allocate fewer or shorter CPU time slices to a process. Monitoring in the Kubernetes world . Node and w orkload health .

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The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 10, 2024

Future blogs will provide deeper dives into each service, sharing insights and lessons learned from this process. The Netflix video processing pipeline went live with the launch of our streaming service in 2007. The Netflix video processing pipeline went live with the launch of our streaming service in 2007.

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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

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

AUGUST 1, 2019

We’re proud to introduce a significant improvement to Dynatrace Log Monitoring that will empower all your teams. This leads to garbage collectors kicking in, causing process restarts. Davis, the Dynatrace AI-driven causation engine, detects those process restarts and shows you exactly which processes and services are affected.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

This has led to the recent release of our new Lambda monitoring extension supporting Node.js, Java, and Python. This extension was built from scratch to take into account all we’ve learned and the special requirements for monitoring ephemeral, auto-scaling, micro VMs like AWS Lambda. A look under the hood of AWS Lambda.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 16, 2019

As microservices and automation continue to drive API usage, most organizations have either already introduced, or plan to introduce, an API testing process. With Dynatrace Synthetic you can easily create API tests with synthetic monitors. How to monitor an OAuth protected API with Dynatrace Synthetic. What is OAuth?

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

As Dynatrace is a leader in Cloud monitoring, we have architected our Software Intelligence Platform specifically to complement Kubernetes by providing extensive functionality to tame the complexities and prevent performance issues that can occur across the development and deployment cycles. Don’t underestimate complexity.

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Dynatrace

JULY 3, 2019

Dynatrace improves AI-powered PHP monitoring. Dynatrace has long provided automatic code-level performance monitoring for PHP applications with OneAgent. We fully recognize the importance of PHP, so we’ve been working hard over recent months to introduce an improved next generation of Dynatrace PHP monitoring.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 12, 2020

Despite its benefits, serverless computing introduces additional monitoring challenges for developers and IT Operations, particularly in understanding dependencies and identifying issues in the end-to-end traces that flow through a complex mix of dynamic and hybrid on-premise/cloud environments. So stay tuned! Optimize timing hotspots.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 13, 2021

Configuring monitoring and observability is no stranger to that paradigm and it was also highlighted in the latest State of DevOps 2020 report. Defining what to monitor and what to be alerted on must be as easy for developers as checking in a monitoring configuration file into version control along with the applications source code.

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Dynatrace

JULY 16, 2019

Synthetic clickpath monitors are a great way to automatically monitor and benchmark business-critical workflows 24/7. Some common examples of such business-critical workflows include: Sign-up processes. This is why we introduced JavaScript events to our Synthetic monitor scripts a couple of months ago. Dynatrace news.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

by Jun He , Yingyi Zhang , and Pawan Dixit Incremental processing is an approach to process new or changed data in workflows. The key advantage is that it only incrementally processes data that are newly added or updated to a dataset, instead of re-processing the complete dataset.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 4, 2024

Today, development teams suffer from a lack of automation for time-consuming tasks, the absence of standardization due to an overabundance of tool options, and insufficiently mature DevSecOps processes. This process begins when the developer merges a code change and ends when it is running in a production environment.

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Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

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. Monitoring the cluster nodes preemptively addresses potential issues, ensuring the system operates smoothly.

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Dynatrace

MAY 21, 2024

When using Dynatrace OneAgent ® , captured data doesn’t leave the monitored environment. This includes digging through each monitored data source and adding tags to the sensitive data points; this process is usually expensive, exhausting, error-prone, and unscalable. Read more about these options in Log Monitoring documentation.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Use Cases and Requirements At Netflix, our counting use cases include tracking millions of user interactions, monitoring how often specific features or experiences are shown to users, and counting multiple facets of data during A/B test experiments , among others. This process can also be used to track the provenance of increments.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 12, 2020

Despite its benefits, serverless computing introduces additional monitoring challenges for developers and IT Operations, particularly in understanding dependencies and identifying issues in the end-to-end traces that flow through a complex mix of dynamic and hybrid on-premise/cloud environments. So stay tuned! Optimize timing hotspots.

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Dynatrace

JULY 2, 2019

This is especially true when Dynatrace replaces an older generation of monitoring software. How to fine-tune failure detection. This is especially useful for backend processing services which may not be relying on HTTP for instance scheduled tasks. The post How to fine tune failure detection appeared first on Dynatrace blog.

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Dynatrace

JULY 6, 2022

At its most basic, automating IT processes works by executing scripts or procedures either on a schedule or in response to particular events, such as checking a file into a code repository. Monitoring and logging are fundamental building blocks of observability. Monitoring and logging are fundamental building blocks of observability.

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DZone

JUNE 17, 2020

To completely fine-tune the java performance bottlenecks for high performance my answer is YES. Java memory management is a significant challenge for every performance engineer and Java developer, and a skill that needs to be acquired to have Java applications properly tuned.

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Dynatrace

MAY 28, 2024

Logs provide answers, but monitoring is a challenge Manual tagging is error-prone Making sure your required logs are monitored is a task distributed between the data owner and the monitoring administrator. Often, it comes down to provisioning YAML configuration files and listing the files or log sources required for monitoring.

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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. The ultimate goal of each of these reviews is to identify gaps, quantify risk, and develop recommendations for improving the team, processes, and architecture with each of the five pillars.

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Dynatrace

MAY 9, 2019

While the classic EC2 launch type of ECS allows you to install Dynatrace OneAgent on the underlying EC2 instances, the AWS Fargate launch type doesn’t provide access to the underlying infrastructure and thus requires a different approach to monitoring. Automate white-box monitoring of AWS Fargate applications with Dynatrace.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 26, 2021

DevSecOps is a cross-team collaboration framework that integrates security into DevOps processes from the start rather than waiting to address security in a separate silo. DevOps has gained ground in recent years as a way to combine key operational principles with development cycles, recognizing that these two processes must coexist.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 28, 2022

To stay tuned, keep an eye on our release notes. The spinning radar screen on Application Security pages lets you know that Application Security is actively monitoring your environment. OS service monitoring page is now renamed to Classic Windows service monitoring. New features and enhancements. Application Security.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 13, 2019

Data analysis within large and highly dynamic microservices environments is the biggest challenge that Application Performance Monitoring (APM) vendors face today. Dynatrace provides the widest monitoring coverage of software frameworks that are used in modern enterprise applications. Why are we doing this?

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Dynatrace

APRIL 3, 2023

With the platform hosting more than 3,000 technical users and millions of end users, Dimitris sheds light on his experience with site reliability engineering (SRE), user experience, and service monitoring. In this episode, Dimitris discusses the many different tools and processes they use.

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Dynatrace

JULY 23, 2019

The OneAgent SDK enables you to extend Dynatrace, including our AI-based root cause analysis , Smartscape , and service flow , to monitor Python-based applications. The application I want to monitor is called Flaskr. I would like to monitor that functionality as a separate service. Defining custom request attributes. fetchone().

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Dynatrace

MAY 2, 2024

Across the globe, privacy laws grant individuals data subject rights, such as the right to access and delete personal data processed about them. 2] — Nader Henein, VP Analyst, Gartner The Privacy Rights app is designed to streamline this process in Dynatrace.

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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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