The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 10, 2023

This platform has evolved from supporting studio applications to data science applications, machine-learning applications to discover the assets metadata, and build various data facts. Hence we built the data pipeline that can be used to extract the existing assets metadata and process it specifically to each new use case.

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Media Traffic Processing Design 237

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. Redis returns a big list of database metrics when you run the info command on the Redis shell. You can pick a smart selection of relevant metrics from these.

Metrics 130

Metrics Monitoring Latency Cache 130

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Dynatrace and the Dynatrace Intelligent Observability Platform have added support for the newly introduced Amazon VPC Flow Logs to Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose. This support enables customers to define specific endpoint delivery of real-time streaming data to platforms such as Dynatrace. What is VPC Flow Logs? Why Dynatrace?

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Traffic AWS Network Cloud 208

Dynatrace

MAY 17, 2023

That is, relying on metrics, logs, and traces to understand what software is doing and where it’s running into snags. OpenTelemetry, the open source observability tool, has emerged as an industry-standard solution for instrumenting application telemetry data to make it observable.

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Metrics Open Source Traffic Cache 174

The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 14, 2023

Testing Strategies: A Summary Two key factors determined our testing strategies: Functional vs. non-functional requirements Idempotency If we were testing functional requirements like data accuracy, and if the request was idempotent , we relied on Replay Testing. In such cases, we were not testing for response data but overall behavior.

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Traffic Latency Cache Metrics 353

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

How do you get more value from petabytes of exponentially exploding, increasingly heterogeneous data? The short answer: The three pillars of observability—logs, metrics, and traces—converging on a data lakehouse. To solve this problem, Dynatrace launched Grail, its causational data lakehouse , in 2022.

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Analytics Innovation Metrics Database 179

Dynatrace

APRIL 5, 2024

When the SLO status converges to an optimal value of 100%, and there’s substantial traffic (calls/min), BurnRate becomes more relevant for anomaly detection. SLOs must be evaluated at 100%, even when there is currently no traffic. Data Explorer “test your Metric Expression” for info result coming from the above metric.

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Efficiency Traffic Tuning Metrics 217

The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 1, 2023

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. New content or national events may drive brief spikes, but, by and large, traffic is usually smoothly increasing or decreasing.

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Traffic Best Practices Systems Testing 342

Dynatrace

MAY 17, 2023

Making applications observable—relying on metrics, logs, and traces to understand what software is doing and how it’s performing—has become increasingly important as workloads are shifting to multicloud environments. We also introduced our demo app and explained how to define the metrics and traces it uses.

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Metrics Monitoring Database Network 166

The Netflix TechBlog

JULY 26, 2021

This happens at an unprecedented scale and introduces many interesting challenges; one of the challenges is how to provide visibility of Studio data across multiple phases and systems to facilitate operational excellence and empower decision making. With the latest Data Mesh Platform, data movement in Netflix Studio reaches a new stage.

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Big Data Government Analytics Processing 253

Dynatrace

APRIL 13, 2023

The massive volumes of log data associated with a breach have made cybersecurity forensics a complicated, costly problem to solve. As organizations adopt more cloud-native technologies, observability data—telemetry from applications and infrastructure, including logs, metrics, and traces—and security data are converging.

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Analytics Java Infrastructure Cloud 178

The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 11, 2022

Here we describe the role of Experimentation and A/B testing within the larger Data Science and Engineering organization at Netflix, including how our platform investments support running tests at scale while enabling innovation. Curious to learn more about other Data Science and Engineering functions at Netflix?

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Innovation Metrics Engineering Testing 243

Dynatrace

AUGUST 16, 2022

The data locked in your log files can be a goldmine for your application developers, operations teams, and your enterprise as a whole. However, it can be complicated , expensive , or even impossible to set up robust observability that makes use of this data. Log format inconsistency makes it a challenge to access critical data.

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Processing Metrics Monitoring Java 181

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Automating quality gates is ideal, as it minimizes manually checking and validating key metrics throughout the SDLC. By actively monitoring metrics such as error rate, success rate, and CPU load, quality gates instill confidence in teams during software releases. Several tools can be used to collect metrics in load/performance testing.

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Speed Software Software Latency 200

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Welcome to the blog series where we give you a deeper dive into the latest awesomeness around Dynatrace : how we bring scale, zero configuration, automatic AI driven alerting, and root cause analysis to all your custom metrics, including open source observability frameworks like StatsD, Telegraf, and Prometheus.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 5, 2023

The F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) is an application delivery controller (ADC) that ensures the availability, security, and optimal performance of network traffic flows. Detect and respond to security threats like DDoS attacks or web application attacks by monitoring application traffic and logs.

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Traffic Virtualization Metrics Monitoring 187

Dynatrace

JUNE 25, 2020

Dynatrace Managed is intrinsically highly available as it stores three copies of all events, user sessions, and metrics across its cluster nodes. Near-zero RPO and RTO—monitoring continues seamlessly and without data loss in failover scenarios. Minimized cross-data center network traffic. Dynatrace news.

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Availability Hardware Latency Traffic 241

Scalegrid

AUGUST 30, 2019

Redis , short for Remote Dictionary Server, is a BSD-licensed, open-source in-memory key-value data structure store written in C language by Salvatore Sanfillipo and was first released on May 10, 2009. Instead, Redis stores data in data structures which makes it very flexible to use. Data Structures in Redis.

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Cache Ecommerce Social Media Database 232

Dynatrace

AUGUST 25, 2023

These signals ( latency, traffic, errors, and saturation ) provide a solid means of proactively monitoring operative systems via SLOs and tracking business success. While this connection might sound simple, finding the right metrics to measure the needed SLIs takes time and effort.

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Performance Latency Traffic Metrics 168

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Rexed, Singh, and Stull outline the importance of metrics, traces, logs, events, and the role they play in achieving full–context Kubernetes observability and driving automated responses in hybrid and multi-cloud environments. So many tools can result in data inconsistencies.

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Google Cloud Infrastructure Metrics 218

Dynatrace

JULY 1, 2020

In my last blog , I’ve provided an example of this happening, whereby the traffic spiked and quadrupled the usual incoming traffic. These are all interesting metrics from marketing point of view, and also highly interesting to you as they allow you to engage with the teams that are driving the traffic against your IT-system.

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Traffic Analytics Metrics Servers 264

Dynatrace

MAY 31, 2023

As a result, site reliability has emerged as a critical success metric for many organizations. Maintaining reliable uptime and consistent service quality has become more complex as organizations expand their computing footprints across multiple data centers and in the cloud. More than one in seven outages cost more than $1 million.

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Best Practices DevOps Latency Metrics 216

Dynatrace

JULY 25, 2022

VPC Flow Logs is a feature that gives you the capability to capture more robust IP traffic data that traverses your VPCs. Flow log data can be published to Amazon CloudWatch Logs or Amazon S3 after which you can retrieve and view its data in the Dynatrace Intelligent Observability Platform. Log Metrics. Log Events.

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AWS Transportation Network Traffic 210

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

The OMB memo states that agencies must meet specific goals based on the five pillars of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) Zero Trust Maturity Model : identity, devices, networks, applications/workloads, and data. A quick refresher: what is zero trust? Discover more in the latest ebook.

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Government Analytics Network Traffic 173

CSS Wizardry

JULY 23, 2023

If you’re happy just to trust me, then this is all you need to know right now: Google takes URL-level Core Web Vitals data from CrUX into account when deciding where to rank you in a search results page. All Core Web Vitals data used to rank you is taken from actual Chrome-based traffic to your site.

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Engineering Google Speed Mobile 246

Dynatrace

APRIL 25, 2023

For example, to handle traffic spikes and pay only for what they use. Scale automatically based on the demand and traffic patterns. Observability is typically achieved by collecting three types of data from a system, metrics, logs and traces. The elasticity of serverless services helps organizations scale as needed.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 28, 2020

Dynatrace automatically detects and connects monitored services and web applications, considers synthetic data in AI-powered answers by Davis, and even lets you drill down from a synthetic transaction to code-level if necessary. Easily integrate Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics data into Dynatrace. This blog post explains how to do this.

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AWS Monitoring Traffic Website 133

Dynatrace

MARCH 22, 2021

Such on-premises environments are usually large, typically consisting of thousands of hosts that are organized in physical data centers. Each SNMP-enabled device provides access to its state and performance metrics in a simple and robust way that allows Dynatrace to fetch the metrics and run them through Davis®, our AI causation engine.

Metrics 241

Metrics Network Infrastructure Traffic 241

DZone

MAY 31, 2022

As a result, it has an advantage over others in terms of visibility, brand image, and driving traffic. Core Web Vitals is a key performance metric that analyzes the website's performance by investigating the data and provides a strategic platform to scale up the website's user experience.

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Performance Testing Testing Performance Website Performance 244

Dynatrace

MARCH 16, 2023

Enterprises now have access to myriad metrics they can track and measure, but an abundance of choice doesn’t equal actionable insight. Indeed, 54% of SREs say they handle too many metrics, making it increasingly difficult to find the most relevant ones for a particular service, according to the Dynatrace State of SRE Report.

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DevOps Latency Metrics Traffic 207

Dynatrace

APRIL 23, 2019

However, understanding the performance of different application types requires an emphasis on different performance metrics, that is, key performance metrics. For many traditional web applications , User action duration is considered the best metric available for web-performance optimization.

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Metrics Monitoring Performance Speed 102

Dynatrace

APRIL 21, 2021

In February 2021, Dynatrace announced full support for Google’s Core Web Vitals metrics , which will help site owners as they start optimizing Core Web Vitals performance for SEO. To do this effectively, you need a big data processing approach. How do you clearly communicate this data to your marketing and business stakeholders?

Traffic 261

Traffic Metrics Mobile Analytics 261

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 27, 2022

By implementing service-level objectives, teams can avoid collecting and checking a huge amount of metrics for each service. SLOs can be a great way for DevOps and infrastructure teams to use data and performance expectations to make decisions, such as whether to release and where engineers should focus their time.

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Software Software Benchmarking Latency 256

Speed Curve

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Earlier this year, Google announced that Interaction to Next Paint (INP) is no longer an experimental metric. Now that INP has arrived to dethrone FID as the responsiveness metric in Core Web Vitals, we've turned our eye to scrutinizing its effectiveness. When it comes to new performance metrics, it's easy to jump on bandwagons.

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Google Traffic Ecommerce Metrics 110

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Dynatrace is fully committed to the OpenTelemetry community and to the seamless integration of OpenTelemetry data , including ingestion of custom metrics , into the Dynatrace open analytics platform. Announcing seamless integration of OpenTracing data into Dynatrace PurePath 4.

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Java Traffic Strategy Architecture 226

The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 16, 2023

That’s a significant amount and certainly more than is necessary relative to the traffic on most clusters. More acutely, if a traffic spike occurs and Zuul instances scale up, it exponentially increases connections open to origins. There is effectively no churn of connections, even at peak traffic.

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Traffic Servers Google Metrics 170

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

A quick canary test was free of errors and showed lower latency, which is expected given that our standard canary setup routes an equal amount of traffic to both the baseline running on 4xl and the canary on 12xl. a contiguous chunk of data (typically 64 bytes on x86 systems) transferred to and from the cache.

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Hardware Cache Performance Latency 363