The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 7, 2021

Challenges The cloud network infrastructure that Netflix utilizes today consists of AWS services such as VPC, DirectConnect, VPC Peering, Transit Gateways, NAT Gateways, etc and Netflix owned devices. The Flow Exporter also publishes various operational metrics to Atlas. So how do we ingest and enrich these flows at scale ?

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Dynatrace

MAY 12, 2022

To stay tuned, keep an eye on our release notes. General Availability (Build 1.241.153). General Availability (Build 1.241.153). Cloud Automation. Autonomous Cloud. Cloud Automation. So the migrator checks for dashboards with SLO tiles and changes LABELS -> METRICS. Autonomous Cloud.

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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.

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Dynatrace

JULY 10, 2023

The growing need for observability in digital transformation Digital transformation and the ubiquitous adoption of multicloud and cloud-native technologies have made observability mandatory. Dynatrace has a well-earned heritage of reducing complexity and cutting through the noise in large-scale multicloud and cloud-native environments.

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Dynatrace

MAY 4, 2021

cloud service providers are now starting to add OpenTelemetry instrumentation as an out-of-the-box feature. As such, we recently opened up our platform for metric ingestion and log monitoring and built integrations for key formats in those spaces. Announcing OpenTelemetry trace ingest. TL;DR summary. Detailed use case.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

DevOps practices have been established in the last decade to accomplish this goal and deal with the dynamics of modern, cloud-native software architectures. The Cloud Native Computing Foundation defines a Golden Path as a “templated composition of well-integrated code and capabilities for rapid project development.”

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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. With DEM solutions, organizations can operate over on-premise network infrastructure or private or public cloud SaaS or IaaS offerings.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 16, 2021

Many software delivery teams share the same pain points as they’re asked to support cloud adoption and modernization initiatives. These problems are the drivers behind Dynatrace’s solution offering called Cloud Automation and this two-part blog series shows how to tackle these problems using GitHub Actions. awareness ? Try it yourself.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 6, 2022

The demo application is a cloud-native e-commerce application made up of multiple microservices. Jaeger and Prometheus backends for displaying the collected traces and metrics, but you can easily configure alternative backends. is the custom metrics ingest endpoint that is used by the collector to export metrics.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 8, 2021

Observability is a topic at the top of mind for all architects, Site Reliability Engineers (SREs), and more – each wanting to use observability to proactively detect issues and guarantee the best experience and availability to users. Metric 2: number of requests in error. Let’s start by creating a dashboard to follow our metrics.

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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. availability of a website over a year, your error budget is.05%.

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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. 05:00 – Quick Start – Connect Cloud Automation.

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The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 30, 2021

Complementing the hardware is the software on the RAE and in the cloud, and bridging the software on both ends is a bi-directional control plane. For example, when running tests, the state of the device will change from “available for testing” to “in test.”

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

To achieve this goal, the Encoding Technologies team made the following design decisions about AV1 encoding recipes: We always encode at the highest available source resolution and frame rate. The Encoding Technologies team took a first stab at this problem by fine-tuning the encoding recipe. Stay tuned!

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Dynatrace

JUNE 2, 2020

Autonomous Cloud Programmability. 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.

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Dynatrace

JULY 21, 2020

Hiring mainframe programmers with COBOL skills is challenging nowadays as most of them have retired, whereas Java expertise is widely available. Transforming mainframe applications into new business services possibly linked to distributed systems or to an enterprise cloud increases the complexity of hybrid mainframe environments.

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Dynatrace

MAY 17, 2022

Dynatrace Cloud Native Full Stack injection for Kubernetes, now officially released, provides unparalleled flexibility and scale for onboarding teams to AI-powered observability. From a cost perspective, internal customers waste valuable time sending tickets to operations teams asking for metrics, logs, and traces to be enabled.

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Adrian Cockcroft

AUGUST 1, 2022

photo by Adrian I gave a talk at Monitorama in Portland Oregon in June, which set out the idea that carbon is just another metric to monitor, and that in a few years most of the monitoring and performance tuning tools are going to be reporting and optimizing for carbon alongside latency, throughput, availability and cost.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

With the arrival of this release candidate (RC), the community’s focus now shifts to providing tracing RC component releases, as well as producing a metrics specification RC. With these release candidate APIs available, instrumentation for web frameworks, storage clients, and much more can be built. Stay tuned, there’s more to come!

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Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure released Scope 3 data in 2021. The last number I saw was “over 20GW”, and Amazon has much better global PPA coverage, including India and China, than Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure, who have very few PPAs in Asia. This session revisits the pillar and its best practices.

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Dynatrace

MAY 5, 2021

At Perform 2021 , Dynatrace’s Kristof Renders, Services Practice Manager for Autonomous Cloud Enablement, joined Sumit Nagal, Principal Engineer at Intuit, to demonstrate how service-level objectives (SLOs) and business-level objectives (BLOs) can “shift left.” For example, improving latency by as little as 0.1

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Percona

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Label-based access control is a security mechanism that allows companies to control who can access specific metrics based on their labels. To simplify access management : Label-based access control can simplify access management by allowing companies to assign labels to metrics. Which approach should I use when assigning roles?

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Dynatrace

MAY 6, 2019

And while those enterprises are moving applications to modern cloud stacks for agility and competitive advantage, these applications often still depend on critical transactions and ‘crown jewels’ customer data residing on IBM Z mainframes. This is available 24×7 for all transactions in your production environments. Dynatrace news.

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Percona

OCTOBER 12, 2023

That said, your application may not be in the list of supported languages, but if it’s compatible with any of the available profilers, you can still produce flame graphs. The first step is to identify the UID from the pod we want to collect system metrics and the underlying Worker node where it’s running.

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Percona

AUGUST 17, 2023

In another survey, using multiple metrics for overall popularity, PostgreSQL ranks as the fourth most popular database management system ( DB-Engines, March 2023 ). How-to documentation is readily available. It’s well-suited for organizations that require mission-critical applications with high availability.

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Dynatrace

MAY 20, 2020

Dynatrace collects a huge number of metrics for each OneAgent-monitored host in your environment. Depending on the types of technologies you’re running on individual hosts, the average number of metrics is about 500 per computational node. Running metric queries on a subset of entities for live monitoring and system overviews.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 27, 2023

Logs complement metrics and enable automation Cloud practitioners agree that observability, security, and automation go hand in hand. The increasing complexity of cloud service architectures requires a rock-solid understanding of the activity, health status, and security of cloud services.

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Percona

DECEMBER 20, 2018

With the Percona Database Performance Blog, Percona staff and leadership work hard to provide the open source community with insights, technical support, predictions and metrics around multiple open source database software technologies. Linux OS Tuning for MySQL Database Performance. Tuning InnoDB Primary Keys.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Today’s highly dynamic, heterogeneous, and complex software systems require organizations to establish observability for all provided cloud-native services. New OpenTelemetry metrics exporters provide the broadest language support on the market. Seamlessly export your OpenTelemetry custom metrics to Dynatrace. Dynatrace news.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 17, 2024

Mainframe is a strong choice for hybrid cloud, but it brings observability challenges IBM Z is a mainframe computing platform chosen by many organizations with a hybrid cloud strategy because of its security, resiliency, performance, scalability, and sustainability. You can now install OneAgent on Linux with s390 architecture.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 15, 2020

OpenTelemetry metrics are useful for augmenting the fully automatic observability that can be achieved with Dynatrace OneAgent. OpenTelemetry metrics add domain specific data such as business KPIs and license relevant consumption details. Enterprise-grade observability for custom OpenTelemetry metrics from AWS. Dynatrace news.

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Dynatrace

MAY 28, 2024

What about correlated trace data, host metrics, real-time vulnerability scanning results, or log messages captured just before an incident occurs? Depending on which app is in use, one glance at a histogram provides invaluable insight into managing clouds, databases, Kubernetes environments, and infrastructure.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Lifting and shifting applications from the data center to the cloud delivers only marginal benefits. Because cloud computing breaks application functions into many microservices, porting monolithic applications to the cloud unchanged can slow them down. So, what is cloud-native architecture, exactly? Declarative APIs.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

Welcome back to the second part of our blog series on how easy it is to get enterprise-grade observability at scale in Dynatrace for your OpenTelemetry custom metrics. In Part 1 , we announced our new OpenTelemetry custom-metric exporters that provide the broadest language coverage on the market, including Go , .NET record(value); }.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 22, 2019

AWS offers a broad set of global, cloud-based services including computing, storage, networking, Internet of Things (IoT), and many others. Therefore, the ability to view a real-time map of your applications, services, and cloud resources is key to your success. Get up to 300 new AWS metrics out of the box. Dynatrace news.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 22, 2019

AWS offers a broad set of global, cloud-based services including computing, storage, networking, Internet of Things (IoT), and many others. Therefore, the ability to view a real-time map of your applications, services, and cloud resources is key to your success. Get up to 300 new AWS metrics out of the box. Dynatrace news.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

The short answer: The three pillars of observability—logs, metrics, and traces—converging on a data lakehouse. Grail data lakehouse delivers massively parallel processing for answers at scale Modern cloud-native computing is constantly upping the ante on data volume, variety, and velocity.

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