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 339

Traffic Latency Tuning Systems 339

Dynatrace

AUGUST 5, 2020

Recently introduced improvements to Visually complete and new web performance metrics for Real User Monitoring are now available for Synthetic Monitoring as well. Ensure better user experience with paint-focused performance metrics. These metrics are tightly connected to the perceived load speed of your application.

Metrics 223

Metrics Monitoring Performance Benchmarking 223

SQL Performance

APRIL 13, 2020

In my last post , I started to outline the process I go through when tuning queries – specifically when I discover that I need to add a new index, or modify an existing one. This is where index tuning becomes an art. Then I roll through and force each index with a hint, capturing the plan and performance metrics for each execution.

Tuning 137

Tuning Cache Metrics Testing 137

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Building on its advanced analytics capabilities for Prometheus data , Dynatrace now enables you to create extensions based on Prometheus metrics. Without any coding, these extensions make it easy to ingest data from these technologies and provide tailor-made analysis views and zero-config alerting. Prometheus in Kubernetes ?and

Technology 225

Technology Technology Metrics Infrastructure 225

Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

While there is no magic bullet for MySQL performance tuning, there are a few areas that can be focused on upfront that can dramatically improve the performance of your MySQL installation. What are the Benefits of MySQL Performance Tuning? A finely tuned database processes queries more efficiently, leading to swifter results.

Tuning 52

Tuning Database Performance Hardware 52

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.

Open Source 260

Open Source Metrics Analytics Tuning 260

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Data analysis and machine learning techniques are great candidates to help secure large-scale streaming platforms. Although model-based anomaly detection approaches are more scalable and suitable for real-time analysis, they highly rely on the availability of (often labeled) context-specific data.

C++ 312

C++ Metrics Tuning Strategy 312

Dynatrace

APRIL 5, 2024

For instance, consider how fine-tuned failure rate detection can provide insights for comprehensive understanding. Please refer to How to fine-tune failure detection (dynatrace.com) for further information. Data Explorer “test your Metric Expression” for info result coming from the above metric.

Efficiency 235

Efficiency Traffic Tuning Metrics 235

Dynatrace

JUNE 8, 2021

You’ll learn how to create production SLOs, to continuously improve the performance of services, and I’ll guide you on how to become a champion of your sport by: Creating calculated metrics with the help of multidimensional analysis. Metric 2: number of requests in error. Creating a dashboard reporting your relevant KPI.

Metrics 173

Metrics Tuning Programming Systems 173

Dynatrace

JULY 10, 2023

Here is what a few of these customers say about Dynatrace: “ Dynatrace has been a game changer in our ability to respond to incidents, identify areas for performance tuning, and gain meaningful data from user behavior analysis.” Director of infrastructure, software sector “ Strong technology and stronger people.

Monitoring 228

Monitoring Retail Performance Government 228

Dynatrace

APRIL 25, 2023

Observability is typically achieved by collecting three types of data from a system, metrics, logs and traces. Some platforms provide built-in metrics, logs and traces for serverless functions, while others require additional configuration or integration with external services or agents.

Serverless 216

Serverless Lambda Azure AWS 216

Dynatrace

MAY 12, 2022

To stay tuned, keep an eye on our release notes. User action properties are now properly displayed on the mobile waterfall (user action analysis). (RUM-5423). Improved efficiency and response time of filter operators in metric selectors that both apply an entity selector and filter a dimension called `Container` or `Process`. (APM-368260).

Tuning 201

Tuning Metrics Cloud Mobile 201

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. The data is also used by security and other partner teams for insight and incident analysis. So how do we ingest and enrich these flows at scale ?

Network 325

Network Transportation AWS Cloud 325

Percona

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

In this blog post, we will discuss how to extend Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) to get PostgreSQL metrics on checkpointing activity, internal buffers, and WAL usage. With this data, we’ll be able to better understand and tune our Postgres servers. You can search the blog for more information on this if needed.

Monitoring 91

Monitoring Tuning Metrics Servers 91

Speed Curve

DECEMBER 3, 2018

The number of performance metrics is large and increases every year. It's important to understand what the different metrics represent and pick metrics that are important for your site. Our Evaluating rendering metrics post was a popular (and fun) way to compare and choose rendering metrics.

Metrics 58

Metrics Mobile Tuning Network 58

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

In talking to customers internally and externally, we recognized that some of our analysis views, like the CPU analysis , are in fact ultimately what our users need, however they remain overlooked capabilities of our platform. The defined metrics will show the success of this test. A Dynatracer’s approach to renaming.

Java 246

Java Testing Tuning DevOps 246

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

The Encoding Technologies team took a first stab at this problem by fine-tuning the encoding recipe. Having a suite of tools that can provide summarized metrics for these streaming sessions is critical to the success of Netflix AV1 streaming. Stay tuned! Another exciting direction we are exploring is AV1 with HDR.

Media 246

Media Open Source Efficiency Software Engineering 246

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Every service and component exposes observability data (metrics, logs, and traces) that contains crucial information to drive digital businesses. The “three pillars of observability,” metrics, logs, and traces, still don’t tell the whole story. Track log metrics and receive alerts without manually setting thresholds.

Cloud 263

Cloud Azure Analytics AWS 263

Dynatrace

APRIL 26, 2022

Fast, consistent application delivery creates a positive user experience that can ultimately drive customer loyalty and improve business metrics like conversion rate and user retention. Expanding on the traditional observability pillars of metrics, logs, and traces, DEM collects user experience data to complete the end-to-end picture.

Monitoring 213

Monitoring Social Media IoT Metrics 213

Dynatrace

JULY 16, 2021

The Dynatrace Software Intelligence Platform already comes with release analysis, version awareness , and Service Level Objective (SLO) support as part of the Dynatrace Cloud Automation solution , helping DevOps and SRE teams automate the delivery and operational decisions. Stay tuned, stay connected, stay healthy! Dynatrace news.

DevOps 246

DevOps Open Source Cloud Azure 246

The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 10, 2020

These are summarized below: Instead of relying on other objective metrics, such as PSNR†, VMAF is employed to guide optimization decisions. Improving the bitrate ladder that is generated after complexity analysis to choose points with greater intelligence than before. Further tuning of pre-defined encoding parameters.

Innovation 239

Innovation Traffic Network Efficiency 239

Dynatrace

JUNE 2, 2020

Impact analysis of problems from multiple business perspectives. The Dynatrace v2 Environment APIs such as the Metrics API v2 or the Monitored entites API v2 provide you with new capabilities and features, such as: RESTful, generic resources that you can use in a wide range of integration scenarios. Example: GET /metric?fields=+aggregationTypes,-description.

Metrics 188

Metrics Scalability Tuning Monitoring 188

Dynatrace

JULY 21, 2020

The service flow example below shows how incoming service requests executed on z/OS WebSphere Liberty are processed by different IBM technologies and is enriched with various metrics (such as the request count distribution). Metrics for WebSphere Application Server and WebSphere Liberty. Stay tuned! JDBC database connections.

Java 185

Java Government Database Programming 185

Dynatrace

AUGUST 16, 2021

inventory and analysi s? Automatically collect and evaluate business, service, and architectural indicator metrics to promote or roll back deployments. Below is an example of the Dynatrace release inventory screen that shows: Release and version analysis by component using filters. SLO validation – ?Automatically

Software 246

Software Software Open Source Azure 246

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. OpenTelemetry trace data emitted by this third-party service is ingested into Dynatrace and combined with OneAgent data for PurePath analysis. Announcing OpenTelemetry trace ingest. What’s next.

Cloud 265

Cloud Java Tuning Monitoring 265

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 2, 2021

These can include business metrics, such as conversion rates, uptime, and availability; service metrics, such as application performance; or technical metrics, such as dependencies to third-party services, underlying CPU, and the cost of running a service. What are SLIs? For example, if your SLO is to deliver 99.5%

Metrics 200

Metrics Best Practices DevOps Infrastructure 200

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Accelerate problem resolution and troubleshooting with our automatic root cause analysis. Improve cloud platform management with deeper insights into platform metrics. Automatically monitor all important Go metrics. A drill down into CPU analysis reveals the origins of these goroutines. So stay tuned! Do much more.

Transportation 187

Transportation Monitoring Metrics Code 187

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.

Performance 193

Performance Java Metrics Cloud 193

Dynatrace

APRIL 20, 2023

Modern organizations ingest petabytes of data daily, but legacy approaches to log analysis and management cannot accommodate this volume of data. Traditional log analysis evaluates logs and enables organizations to mitigate myriad risks and meet compliance regulations. Grail enables 100% precision insights into all stored data.

Analytics 196

Analytics Infrastructure Storage Efficiency 196

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 5, 2021

Problem Statement The microservice was for metrics ingestion and had recently updated their base OS image (BaseAMI). Monitoring I started with the cloud-wide monitoring tool, [Atlas], to check high-level CPU metrics. The default size is 128 Kbytes, and people shouldn't be tuning below 8 Kbytes. contending for the same locks).

Cache 145

Cache Cloud Java Tuning 145

Dynatrace

JANUARY 17, 2020

In an existing application landscape, however, it can be difficult to get to those metrics. Dynatrace customers have the ability to leverage PurePath distributed tracing functionality in driving adhoc multidimensional analysis (MDA) on any kind of data available within their microservices. Here’s how Dynatrace customers do it.

Metrics 163

Metrics Code Tuning Programming 163

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

In Part 1 of this blog series , we presented a few Dynatrace customer use cases for multidimensional analysis. To start your analysis, select Diagnostic tools from the navigation menu and select Multidimensional analysis. Select a Metric and Aggregation to get started. Dynatrace news.

Metrics 168

Metrics Code Tuning Monitoring 168

Dynatrace

JANUARY 4, 2024

Great news: OpenTelemetry endpoint detection, analyzing OpenTelemetry services, and visualizing Istio service mesh metrics just got easier. As a CNCF open source incubating project, OpenTelemetry provides a standardized set of APIs, libraries, agents, instrumentation, and specifications for logging, metrics, and tracing.

Metrics 174

Metrics Open Source Tuning Infrastructure 174

Scalegrid

JANUARY 11, 2024

Advanced cloud security monitoring tools, like Exabeam Fusion SIEM and Sumo Logic, provide extensive analysis, integrate with existing infrastructure, and aid organizations in responding to threats while maintaining regulatory compliance and managing potential challenges in integration and functionality.

Best Practices 130

Best Practices Cloud Monitoring Strategy 130

Dynatrace

MAY 5, 2021

Keptn closes the loop of planning, testing, deployment, and analysis in Agile-like environments with the help of quality gates defined by service- and business-level indicators. Fine-tuning the service-level indicators that make up quality gates will improve with the help of upcoming features. How Intuit puts Dynatrace to work.

Benchmarking 191

Benchmarking Latency Speed Software 191

Dynatrace

MAY 6, 2019

Beyond just providing code visibility (for DB2 and DL/I as well), our Dynatrace z/OS modules leverage the Dynatrace Davis AI and automated root-cause analysis with zero configuration required. In-depth analysis at the source-code level. IBM mainframe agents don’t provide host metrics. Who’s calling? Limitations.

Java 118

Java Programming Technology Technology 118

Dynatrace

JULY 22, 2019

More information can be found here: /support/help/how-to-use-dynatrace/problem-detection-and-analysis/problem-detection/detection-of-frequent-issues/. It doesn’t apply to infrastructure metrics such as CPU or memory. If you want to understand how Dynatrace detects errors, read my other blog on how to fine-tune it !

Best Practices 165

Best Practices Artificial Intelligence Monitoring Tuning 165