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.

Traffic 347

Traffic Latency Tuning Systems 347

Dynatrace

JULY 8, 2020

Monitoring Kubernetes is an important aspect of Day 2 o perations and is often perceived as a significant challenge. That’s another example where monitoring is of tremendous help as it provides the current resource consumption picture and help to continuously fine tune those settings. . Node and w orkload health .

Infrastructure 206

Infrastructure Monitoring Cloud Metrics 206

Dynatrace

AUGUST 16, 2019

With Dynatrace Synthetic you can easily create API tests with synthetic monitors. By definition RESTful APIs should be stateless, meaning that each request should be individually validated for authentication/authorization by the receiving server. How to monitor an OAuth protected API with Dynatrace Synthetic. What is OAuth?

Monitoring 158

Monitoring Tuning Google Testing 158

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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Lambda AWS Monitoring Serverless 231

Scalegrid

MARCH 23, 2020

While its use and importance has decreased as the inbuilt replication options improved on PostgreSQL server side, this still remains a valuable option for older versions of PostgreSQL. Follow these steps to set up Pgpool-II, enable the connection pool services you need, and connect to your PostgreSQL server. At a glance. How it works.

Cache 264

Cache Servers Architecture Processing 264

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. This blog post lists the important database metrics to monitor. Effective monitoring of key performance indicators plays a crucial role in maintaining this optimal speed of operation.

Metrics 130

Metrics Monitoring Latency Cache 130

Dynatrace

JULY 2, 2019

This is especially true when Dynatrace replaces an older generation of monitoring software. For instance, alert me when an error 999 is detected in application server logs or any HTTP 500 error from the web server access log. How to fine-tune failure detection. So, what does it means for you? So why is this important?

Tuning 116

Tuning Artificial Intelligence Code Java 116

SQL Shack

JUNE 16, 2020

When dealing with SQL Server performance tuning waits, we may see RESOURCE_SEMAPHORE waits along with other related monitoring that indicates memory as a possible pain point for our server (such as the below image that shows memory being one of the top waits overall).

Tuning 75

Tuning Servers Performance Monitoring 75

The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 14, 2023

Before GraphQL: Monolithic Falcor API implemented and maintained by the API Team Before moving to GraphQL, our API layer consisted of a monolithic server built with Falcor. A single API team maintained both the Java implementation of the Falcor framework and the API Server. To launch Phase 1 safely, we used AB Testing.

Traffic 358

Traffic Latency Cache Metrics 358

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Multiple Prometheus servers might be required, creating significant maintenance efforts. Our monitoring coverage already includes ? This extension enables you to monitor RabbitMQ outside of Kubernetes with data obtained either from a Prometheus server or directly from a RabbitMQ Prometheus exporter. and integration with?the?recently

Technology 229

Technology Technology Metrics Infrastructure 229

Dynatrace

JUNE 16, 2022

A centralized approach to WAF uses a single firewall to protect many application servers against large-scale distributed attacks. Conversely, a decentralized approach protects application servers using multiple firewalls to protect against attacks that may have penetrated the network. More time for vulnerability management.

Tuning 233

Tuning Cloud Open Source Network 233

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

A standard Docker container can run anywhere, on a personal computer (for example, PC, Mac, Linux), in the cloud, on local servers, and even on edge devices. Running containers : Docker Engine is a container runtime that runs in almost any environment: Mac and Windows PCs, Linux and Windows servers, the cloud, and on edge devices.

Open Source 313

Open Source DevOps Traffic Cloud 313

SQL Performance

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Many database administrators find themselves having to support instances of SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS), or at least the backend databases that are required for SSRS. 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 67

Tuning Servers Database Best Practices 67

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Stay tuned for an upcoming blog series where we’ll give you a more hands-on walkthrough of how to ingest any kind of data from StatsD, Telegraf, Prometheus, scripting languages, or our integrated REST API. Once you send metrics via the OneAgent REST API, the relevant hosts are automatically enriched with all available monitoring dimensions.

Open Source 261

Open Source Metrics Analytics Tuning 261

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.

Government 221

Government Storage Tuning Monitoring 221

Dynatrace

MAY 4, 2021

As such, we recently opened up our platform for metric ingestion and log monitoring and built integrations for key formats in those spaces. So, you start your investigation on the frontend server service which shows an increased failure rate with every second request failing for a couple of hours. Announcing OpenTelemetry trace ingest.

Cloud 264

Cloud Java Tuning Monitoring 264

SQL Shack

APRIL 19, 2021

In this article, we’ll show a process for SQL Server performance tuning, and several tools, tips and techniques you can use to monitor performance and take the necessary steps to improve it. SQL Server is a common platform for enterprise-grade database workloads.

Tuning 70

Tuning Servers Performance Database 70

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. Go to Settings > Log Monitoring > Log ingest rules and turn on Ingest all logs to start log collection. Next, set up log ingest.

Operating System 218

Operating System Energy Infrastructure Architecture 218

Dynatrace

AUGUST 29, 2023

Dynatrace has announced that it has successfully achieved the Google Cloud Ready – Cloud SQL designation for Cloud SQL, Google Cloud’s fully-managed, relational database service for MySQL, PostgreSQL, and SQL Server. This designation can also save time in evaluating Dynatrace solutions for organizations that are not already using them.

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Google Cloud Design Programming 216

Scalegrid

JANUARY 11, 2024

Cloud security monitoring is key—identifying threats in real-time and mitigating risks before they escalate. This includes servers, applications, software platforms, and websites. What does it take to secure your cloud assets effectively? Get ready for actionable insights that balance technical depth with practical advice.

Best Practices 130

Best Practices Cloud Monitoring Strategy 130

Scalegrid

MARCH 4, 2019

from these database reporters, and CouchDB, Berkeley DB, Microsoft SQL Server, Redshift, Firebase, Elasticsearch, and InfluxDB users combined our Other category at 2.4%. DB-Engines Ranking – Trend Popularity report places these leaders in the top 5, but Oracle keeps hold at number one and Microsoft SQL Server at number 3.

Database 255

Database Metrics Systems Strategy 255

Dynatrace

APRIL 25, 2023

However, serverless applications have unique characteristics that make observability more difficult than in traditional server-based applications. Serverless applications have several benefits over server-based applications: Eliminate the need to provision, manage and maintain servers or containers.

Serverless 220

Serverless Lambda Azure AWS 220

Dynatrace

APRIL 8, 2021

This means that there is no need to provision or manage servers (or even containers). In consideration of this reality, The Dynatrace Lambda monitoring extension supports all well-known IaC technologies to deploy Dynatrace along with your function. These served as our benchmark when creating our Lambda monitoring extension.

Lambda 232

Lambda AWS Serverless Monitoring 232

Dynatrace

JANUARY 26, 2021

Within this paradigm, it is possible to run entire architectures without touching a traditional virtual server, either locally or in the cloud. Unlike on-premises machines, shared servers, or rented virtual machines, there is no cost for downtime. Monitoring serverless applications. Pay Per Use.

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Serverless Efficiency Lambda Azure 246

Dynatrace

AUGUST 12, 2020

Serverless computing is a computing model that “allows you to build and run applications and services without thinking about servers.”. If you’re building large applications based on Azure Functions architecture, then Azure Functions monitoring with Dynatrace helps you to: Optimize response-time hotspots. So stay tuned!

Serverless 145

Serverless Azure Monitoring Lambda 145

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. SQLite is convenient because it doesn’t require setting up a separate database server and is built into Python.

Monitoring 137

Monitoring Software Software Database 137

Percona

MARCH 1, 2023

EXPLAIN ANALYSE is a big boon to query tuning. EXPLAIN without the ANALYSE gives you the server’s estimated analysis of the performance of your query. But before going with the MySQL Community Edition, you should look at Percona Server for MySQL. Why Percona Server for MySQL? And Percona Server for MySQL is free.

Servers 124

Servers Open Source Tuning C++ 124

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 1, 2020

Such web resources have two things in common: Their requests never hit your data center, hence any failed requests don’t show up in your web server logs. In this two-part blog series you’ll learn how to easily handle the monitoring challenges posed by Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) and 3rd-party integrations.

Tuning 187

Tuning Monitoring Network Best Practices 187

Percona

APRIL 7, 2023

If we were to select the most important MySQL setting, if we were given a freshly installed MySQL or Percona Server for MySQL and could only tune a single MySQL variable, which one would it be? Sysbench ran on a third server, which I’ll refer to as the application server (APP).

Tuning 139

Tuning Cache Servers Benchmarking 139

Scalegrid

JULY 29, 2019

Managing a database is hard, as it needs continuous updating, tuning, and monitoring to ensure the performance of your website. Make sure your website doesn’t go down with a server or datacenter crash by configuring a master-slave setup for high availability. Monitoring & Alerts. High Availability. Scale On-Demand.

Database 166

Database Cloud Website Azure 166

Percona

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Why choose Percona Server for MongoDB? The difference between Percona Server for MongoDB and MongoDB CE is that we strive to provide a gap-closing set of features for users who want to use MongoDB in production. Why release Percona Server for MongoDB 7 now? which was released as Percona Server for MongoDB RC 7.0.2-1.

Servers 107

Servers Availability Database Open Source 107

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. What’s next?

Java 245

Java Traffic Architecture Strategy 245

Dynatrace

AUGUST 10, 2019

Having the ability to monitor the performance and availability of your organization’s internal applications—in addition to your organization’s customer-facing applications—from within your corporate network is an important benefit of synthetic monitoring. Browser monitors can now be executed from Windows-based ActiveGates.

Monitoring 105

Monitoring Hardware Tuning Mobile 105

Dynatrace

MARCH 15, 2024

Syslog is a protocol with clear specifications that require a dedicated syslog server. Start monitoring syslog using OpenTelemetry under the Dynatrace umbrella of support OpenTelemetry has been a rising star in the observability landscape and is often a preferred way to achieve end-to-end visibility with a vendor-agnostic footprint.

Open Source 213

Open Source Infrastructure Network Government 213

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Because of these issues, developers often still lack control over the behavior of their monitoring platform. Additional API endpoints that extend AIOps configuration, enabling DevOps teams to fine-tune anomaly detection and alerting based on management-zone permissions, which enable a secure approach to self-service.

Code 228

Code Software Software DevOps 228

Dynatrace

APRIL 8, 2021

This means that there is no need to provision or manage servers (or even containers). In consideration of this reality, The Dynatrace Lambda monitoring extension supports all well-known IaC technologies to deploy Dynatrace along with your function. These served as our benchmark when creating our Lambda monitoring extension.

Lambda 195

Lambda AWS Serverless Monitoring 195

Dynatrace

APRIL 21, 2022

To stay tuned, keep an eye on our release notes. Log Monitoring documentation. Starting with Dynatrace version 1.239, we have restructured and enhanced our Log Monitoring documentation to better focus on concepts and information that you, the user, look for and need. Log Monitoring. Legacy Log Monitoring v1 Documentation.

Azure 228

Azure Metrics AWS Monitoring 228