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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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

It requires a state-of-the-art system that can track and process these impressions while maintaining a detailed history of each profiles exposure. In this multi-part blog series, we take you behind the scenes of our system that processes billions of impressions daily.

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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

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. A log is a detailed, timestamped record of an event generated by an operating system, computing environment, application, server, or network device.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

With almost 100 public locations worldwide, Dynatrace Synthetic Monitoring enables 24/7 measurement of the availability and performance of your applications as experienced by your customers and coworkers worldwide. With Dynatrace private Synthetic locations, we make the monitoring of internal applications easy! Try it out for yourself.

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O'Reilly

MARCH 25, 2025

The system is inconsistent, slow, hallucinatingand that amazing demo starts collecting digital dust. Weve seen this across dozens of companies, and the teams that break out of this trap all adopt some version of Evaluation-Driven Development (EDD), where testing, monitoring, and evaluation drive every decision from the start.

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Dynatrace

JULY 8, 2020

Kubernetes has taken over the container management world and beyond , to become what some say the operating system or the new Linux of the cloud. Monitoring Kubernetes is an important aspect of Day 2 o perations and is often perceived as a significant challenge. Monitoring in the Kubernetes world . Dynatrace news.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 19, 2020

In today’s dynamic environments, you can’t afford to manually bootstrap new monitoring environments. Automatic monitoring orchestration—the ability to automatically create, set up, and deprovision monitoring environments—can make or break your business. Dynatrace news. For more flexibility, use tags instead.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 2, 2025

However, you can simplify the process by automating guardians in the Site Reliability Guardian (SRG) to trigger whenever there are AWS tag changes, helping teams improve compliance and effectively manage system performance. Step 6: Validate and monitor the setup Perform end-to-end validation by changing an EC2 tag again.

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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

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

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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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. Clients can use this token to safely retry or hedge their requests.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 12, 2025

Every software development team grappling with Generative AI (GenAI) and LLM-based applications knows the challenge: how to observe, monitor, and secure production-level workloads at scale. Production performance monitoring: Service uptime, service health, CPU, GPU, memory, token usage, and real-time cost and performance metrics.

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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. With Dynatrace Log monitoring, you’re only one click away from investigating the log events that were captured during the problem time frame and beginning any required remediation efforts. Dynatrace news.

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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

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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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

APRIL 24, 2019

Dynatrace provides automated end to end monitoring of applications under a single platform. Even if this is true, in practise there is only so much the one Agent can Autodiscover and fine tuning might be required. Even when all the systems are mapped correctly by Dynatrace, identifying these systems is a real challenge.

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DZone

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Most performance engineers have spent years submitting RFPs, developing scripts, executions, analysis, monitoring and tuning, and researching their specific projects/product domains and have gained a very high level of expertise in it. and must have extensive experience in specialized skills.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

With an automatic observability platform, teams can receive alerts when the system has burned through the impact tolerance. The Dynatrace platform supports this effort by enabling teams to conduct synthetic monitoring and testing , which simulates the significant but plausible scenarios that financial services firms should be testing for.

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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.

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Dynatrace

JULY 6, 2022

Monitoring and logging are fundamental building blocks of observability. When monitoring tools release a stream of alerts, teams can easily identify which ones are false and assess whether an event requires human intervention. Similarly, digital experience monitoring is another ongoing process that lends itself to IT automation.

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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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Dynatrace

APRIL 16, 2019

The GA version of private synthetic HTTP monitoring was so well received that we expanded beyond Linux-based environment ActiveGates to now additionally support Windows-based environment ActiveGates. Why use synthetic HTTP monitors? Private HTTP monitors, being very lightweight, are great for: API testing (both internal and external).

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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. Do we have the right monitoring to understand the health and validation of architecture decisions and delivering on business expectations? through our AWS integrations and monitoring support.

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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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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. Now, shutting down systems daily helps the agency focus its cloud initiatives and save costs.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 13, 2023

This is where large-scale system migrations come into play. 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. Canaries and sticky canaries are valuable tools in the system migration process.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 11, 2021

I wanted to understand how I could tune Dynatrace’s problem detection, but to do that I needed to understand the situation first. This is what I wanted to optimize and avoid and many traditional (or homegrown) systems aren’t doing this. For example, invoking a webhook that creates a ticket in an ITSM system.

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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. A team looking for metrics, traces, and logs no longer needs to file a ticket to get their app monitored in their own environments. Monitoring such an application is easy.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 26, 2021

This includes custom, built-in-house apps designed for a single, specific purpose, API-driven connections that bridge the gap between legacy systems and new services, and innovative apps that leverage open-source code to streamline processes. Development teams create and iterate on new software applications.

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Scalegrid

MARCH 4, 2019

Get the latest insights on MySQL , MongoDB , PostgreSQL , Redis , and many others to see which database management systems are most favored this year. Based on our findings, SQL still holds 60% with rising demand for systems such as PostgreSQL: SQL Database Use: 60.48%. SQL vs. NoSQL. NoSQL Database Use: 39.52%. Most Popular Databases.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 5, 2023

This growth was spurred by mobile ecosystems with Android and iOS operating systems, where ARM has a unique advantage in energy efficiency while offering high performance. Initiatives like the Carbon Impact app can be used to measure the footprint of monitored ARM-based hosts compared to x86 hosts.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Think of containers as the packaging for microservices that separate the content from its environment – the underlying operating system and infrastructure. For a deeper look into how to gain end-to-end observability into Kubernetes environments, tune into the on-demand webinar Harness the Power of Kubernetes Observability. Kubernetes.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Among these, you can find essential elements of application and infrastructure stacks, from app gateways (like HAProxy), through app fabric (like RabbitMQ), to databases (like MongoDB) and storage systems (like NetApp, Consul, Memcached, and InfluxDB, just to name a few). Our monitoring coverage already includes ? and integration with?the?recently

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Dynatrace

MARCH 8, 2021

Do you keep an eye on the support of distributions and versions of operating systems within your environment? With this information, you can find answers to questions such as: Which operating systems and versions does Dynatrace support? Which operating systems and versions does Dynatrace support? What about ActiveGates?

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