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AWS observability: AWS monitoring best practices for resiliency

Dynatrace

Visibility into system activity and behavior has become increasingly critical given organizations’ widespread use of Amazon Web Services (AWS) and other serverless platforms. These challenges make AWS observability a key practice for building and monitoring cloud-native applications. What is AWS observability? AWS Lambda.

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Stream logs to Dynatrace with Amazon Data Firehose to boost your cloud-native journey

Dynatrace

Without the ability to see the logs that are relevant to your service, infrastructure, or cloud function—at exactly the right time and in exactly the right format—your cloud or DevOps engineers lose the ability to find the root causes of the issues they troubleshoot. These already provide a common integration with AWS log sources.

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Building Netflix’s Distributed Tracing Infrastructure

The Netflix TechBlog

Now let’s look at how we designed the tracing infrastructure that powers Edgar. This insight led us to build Edgar: a distributed tracing infrastructure and user experience. Our distributed tracing infrastructure is grouped into three sections: tracer library instrumentation, stream processing, and storage.

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Dynatrace adds support for AWS Transit Gateway with VPC Flow Logs

Dynatrace

Dynatrace has added support for the newly introduced Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) Flow Logs for AWS Transit Gateway. What is AWS Transit Gateway? AWS Transit Gateway is a service offering from Amazon Web Services that connects network resources via a centralized hub. What is VPC Flow Logs.

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Five-nines availability: Always-on infrastructure delivers system availability during the holidays’ peak loads

Dynatrace

For retail organizations, peak traffic can be a mixed blessing. While high-volume traffic often boosts sales, it can also compromise uptimes. For organizations running their own on-premises infrastructure, these costs can be prohibitive. What is always-on infrastructure?

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Ensuring the Successful Launch of Ads on Netflix

The Netflix TechBlog

This tier extended existing infrastructure by adding new backend components and a new remote call to our ads partner on the playback path. To do this, we devised a novel way to simulate the projected traffic weeks ahead of launch by building upon the traffic migration framework described here.

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Build and operate multicloud FaaS with enhanced, intelligent end-to-end observability

Dynatrace

For example, to handle traffic spikes and pay only for what they use. These functions are executed by a serverless platform or provider (such as AWS Lambda, Azure Functions or Google Cloud Functions) that manages the underlying infrastructure, scaling and billing. Scale automatically based on the demand and traffic patterns.