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. Are you running containerized applications on IBM Z?

Operating System 211

Operating System Energy Infrastructure Architecture 211

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 133

Tuning Cache Servers Benchmarking 133

The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 14, 2023

This blog post will share broadly-applicable techniques (beyond GraphQL) we used to perform this migration. 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. To launch Phase 1 safely, we used AB Testing.

Traffic 353

Traffic Latency Cache Metrics 353

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 228

Tuning Cloud Open Source Network 228

Scalegrid

DECEMBER 19, 2019

It’s a very simple utility that does exactly one thing – it sits between the database and the clients and speaks the PostgreSQL protocol, emulating a PostgreSQL server. In this blog post, we’ll explain how PgBouncer works, the pros and cons of using it, and how to setup the connection pooler. How Does PgBouncer Work?

Cache 246

Cache Architecture Database Servers 246

Percona

AUGUST 31, 2018

Out of the box, the default PostgreSQL configuration is not tuned for any particular workload. It is primarily the responsibility of the database administrator or developer to tune PostgreSQL according to their system’s workload. Some applications perform better by tuning a parameter and some don’t. Conclusion.

Tuning 54

Tuning Database Performance Benchmarking 54

Percona

AUGUST 29, 2018

Poorly configured OS kernel parameters can cause degradation in database server performance. Therefore, it is imperative that these parameters are configured according to the database server and its workload. You can tune the difference between the two ratios depending on your disk IO load. SHMMAX / SHMALL. Summing up.

Tuning 53

Tuning Database Servers Processing 53

Percona

MARCH 23, 2023

This blog is in reference to our previous ones for ‘Innodb Performance Optimizations Basics’ 2007 and 2013. Although there have been many blogs about adjusting MySQL variables for better performance since then, I think this topic deserves a blog update since the last update was a decade ago, and MySQL 5.7

Performance 122

Performance Hardware Tuning Storage 122

Dynatrace

APRIL 25, 2023

However, serverless applications have unique characteristics that make observability more difficult than in traditional server-based applications. In this blog post, we will discuss some of these challenges and how to overcome them. What are serverless applications? Scale automatically based on the demand and traffic patterns.

Serverless 213

Serverless Lambda Azure AWS 213

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Multiple Prometheus servers might be required, creating significant maintenance efforts. Alternatively, if you’re already using a Prometheus Server to gather data from your distributed systems, you can now seamlessly make this data work for you in Dynatrace as well—use your Prometheus server as the endpoint for scraping metrics.

Technology 222

Technology Technology Metrics Infrastructure 222

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

More than 50% of the Synthetic-enabled ActiveGates used by our customers are deployed on Linux servers. Stay tuned for more upcoming improvements related to private synthetic monitoring. Here’s a sneak peek of what we’re working on: Support for Amazon Linux 2 and SUSE Enterprise Linux Server 15. What’s next.

Monitoring 197

Monitoring Tuning Network Operating System 197

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 87

Monitoring Tuning Metrics Servers 87

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. Connected_slaves provides information about replication status while Used_memory tracks utilized amount of server’s total capacity.

Metrics 130

Metrics Monitoring Latency Cache 130

Percona

JUNE 2, 2023

WordPress, the ubiquitous publishing platform that launched millions of blogs and websites, turned 20 on May 27th. WordPress arrived on the scene as blogging was becoming a mainstream trend and helped launch, literally, millions of blogs. And if your blog got Slashdotted or just a high level of traffic in general?

Open Source 91

Open Source Traffic Tuning Database 91

Dynatrace

MAY 17, 2023

Stay tuned for an upcoming blog post that shows how you can shift your DevOps and SRE practices even further left by declaring your standards in code—leveraging the Dynatrace configuration-as-code approach—and validating them via Site Reliability Guardian as part of your delivery process.

DevOps 192

DevOps Traffic Latency Best Practices 192

Dynatrace

MAY 12, 2022

To stay tuned, keep an eye on our release notes. Fixed an issue with “500 Internal Server Error” response of Anomaly detection – Disk events API. (APM-370270). The post Dynatrace SaaS release notes version 1.241 appeared first on Dynatrace blog. Classic user sessions page end-of-life. Application Security.

Tuning 198

Tuning Metrics Cloud Mobile 198

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. Stay tuned. Dynatrace unlocks over 200 new technology integrations.

Open Source 258

Open Source Metrics Analytics Tuning 258

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Dynatrace further extends functionality to easily customize observability, application security, and AIOps as code with the following upcoming enhancements: New API endpoints that provide granular observability customization for containers and processes, web and mobile applications, server-side services, and much more. How to get started.

Code 222

Code Software Software DevOps 222

Dynatrace

MAY 4, 2021

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. When selecting the cart-checkout service in PurePath view, you see that the service fails with an internal server error. Stay tuned for the general availability of trace ingest.

Cloud 264

Cloud Java Tuning Monitoring 264

Scalegrid

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

In this blog post, we discuss an approach to optimize the MySQL index creation process in such a way that your regular workload is not impacted. times higher when the index creation happened on the master server. Stay tuned for my follow-on blog post with more details! MySQL Rolling Index Creation.

Best Practices 239

Best Practices Latency Tuning Database 239

Dynatrace

JUNE 9, 2021

In this blog, I’ll first cover the basics, explaining what web application security is and why it’s important. A web application is any application that runs on a web server and is accessed by a user through a web browser. Positive filters are highly effective at blocking attacks but require constant tuning. Dynatrace news.

Open Source 183

Open Source Entertainment Tuning Internet 183

Dynatrace

APRIL 8, 2021

In a previous blog post , we covered how Lambda functions work under the hood. This means that there is no need to provision or manage servers (or even containers). See our previous blog post for more information on that.). So, stay tuned for more blog posts and announcements. Auto scaling. Failure retries.

Lambda 226

Lambda AWS Serverless Monitoring 226

Percona

MAY 15, 2023

version or Percona Server for MongoDB one, your database will no longer receive bug fixes, patches, or minor releases. Our MongoDB Server follows the upstream EOL dates. Also, with the Percona Server for MongoDB 4.2 In her recent blog post, MongoDB V4.2 What does that mean for me? If you are a user of MongoDB 4.2,

Servers 105

Servers Open Source Tuning Software 105

Dynatrace

JULY 24, 2023

In this blog, we will dive into the transformative power of answer-driven automation. It enables them to adapt to user feedback swiftly, fine-tune feature releases, and deliver exceptional user experiences, all while maintaining control and minimizing disruption.

DevOps 225

DevOps Traffic Efficiency Servers 225

SQL Performance

JUNE 21, 2019

I've been teaching and writing about common SQL Server mistakes for many years. I wrote a blog about it years ago too, however as time has marched on, guidance has changed a bit. This article will expand on my previous article and point out how these apply to SQL Server , Azure SQL Database , and Azure SQL Managed Instance.

Servers 49

Servers Azure Hardware Database 49

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

This meant sacrificing all the benefits of your enterprise LDAP server (for example, a single authentication point or central point for password management that provides additional services, such as password policies and expiration). With this approach, you can easily adjust your code to apply new possibilities.

Games 261

Games Tuning Innovation Servers 261

Scalegrid

JULY 29, 2019

In this blog post, we’ll show you how to create your MySQL deployment at ScaleGrid while setting up your new WordPress site, and how to migrate to a ScaleGrid MySQL deployment for your existing WordPress deployment. Test Connectivity Between Your WordPress Site & MySQL Server. High Availability. Replication. Firewall Rules.

Database 166

Database Cloud Website Azure 166

SQL Server According to Bob

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

Please check out a new blog post I created detailing how SQL Server 2017 is Fast, Built-In. How we keep you fast and tuned with Adaptive Query Processing and Automatic Tuning. Look for more details on my blog post and the SQL Server Blog about some of these concepts and new features for performance for SQL Server 2017.

Servers 40

Servers Tuning Database Cloud 40

Dynatrace

APRIL 8, 2021

In a previous blog post , we covered how Lambda functions work under the hood. This means that there is no need to provision or manage servers (or even containers). See our previous blog post for more information on that.). So, stay tuned for more blog posts and announcements. Auto scaling. Failure retries.

Lambda 188

Lambda AWS Serverless Monitoring 188

The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 22, 2019

In this blog post, we describe how we improved the methodology, which technologies we leveraged, and how this has improved service deployment and consistency. We can easily test server tuning changes, software upgrades, and other modifications to the runtime environment.

DevOps 207

DevOps AWS Tuning Infrastructure 207

Percona

APRIL 13, 2023

In this blog, we will discuss what replication lag is, why it occurs, and how to mitigate it in PostgreSQL. Sometimes the server recycles old WAL segments before the backup can finish and cannot find the WAL segment from the primary. One of the common issues that can be encountered in PostgreSQL is replication lag.

Latency 78

Latency Tuning Open Source Network 78

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 186

Tuning Monitoring Network Best Practices 186

SQL Server According to Bob

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

Scott Guthrie and Rohan Kumar officially made the announcement today at Ignite that SQL Server 2017 will be generally available on October 2nd, 2017. Check out ScottGu’s blog post at: [link]. Rohan’s Blog post at: Microsoft for the Modern Data Estate. Read his article at: [link].

Servers 40

Servers Availability Tuning Database 40

The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 13, 2023

Our previous blog post presented replay traffic testing — a crucial instrument in our toolkit that allows us to implement these transformations with precision and reliability. This blog post will delve into the techniques leveraged at Netflix to introduce these changes to production.

Traffic 279

Traffic Metrics Systems Strategy 279

Dynatrace

AUGUST 16, 2019

By definition RESTful APIs should be stateless, meaning that each request should be individually validated for authentication/authorization by the receiving server. Stay tuned for more Synthetic news including: Synthetic credentials store. protected APIs with Dynatrace Synthetic appeared first on Dynatrace blog.

Monitoring 157

Monitoring Tuning Google Cloud 157

The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

To this end, we developed a Rapid Event Notification System (RENO) to support use cases that require server initiated communication with devices in a scalable and extensible manner. In this blog post, we will give an overview of the Rapid Event Notification System at Netflix and share some of the learnings we gained along the way.

Systems 334

Systems Traffic Architecture Mobile 334

Dynatrace

JULY 3, 2019

Anything you want to do on a web server, you can do with PHP. Here are some statistics: PHP now accounts for about 79% of the server-side programming used on the Internet. So, stay tuned for news about: MongoDB sensors for PHP monitoring. appeared first on Dynatrace blog. Dynatrace news. MsSQL sensors for PHP monitoring.

Monitoring 171

Monitoring Ecommerce Internet Internet 171