The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

December 2 1pm-2pm CMP 326-R Capacity Management Made Easy with Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling Vadim Filanovsky , Senior Performance Engineer & Anoop Kapoor, AWS Abstract :Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling offers a hands-free capacity management experience to help customers maintain a healthy fleet, improve application availability, and reduce costs.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 16, 2021

Automatically collect and evaluate business, service, and architectural indicator metrics to promote or roll back deployments. Automating lifecycle orchestration including monitoring, remediation, and testing across the entire software development lifecycle (SDLC). Topics in this blog series. GitHub and GitHub Actions. Try it yourself.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 15, 2022

” Despite many challenges, when the project concluded in 2019, the team had the confidence and experience to migrate anything to the cloud. Today, VA uses Dynatrace to monitor over 150 different cloud instances — even hybrid instances of applications. “We used Dynatrace to monitor that large increase in servers.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Part one also provided an overview of Dynatrace’s Cloud Automation solution, Microsoft’s GitHub Actions , and open-source examples you can use and extend related to deployment and release monitoring. Example #3 – Automate Monitoring configuration as code. Monitoring as Code workflow example. Blog series use cases.

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Dynatrace

JULY 31, 2020

Loosely defined, Observability boils down to inferring the internal health and state of a system by looking at the external data it produces, which most commonly are logs, metrics, and traces. The answer is in the data collection, and more specifically, how the logs, metrics, traces are collected. What are the plans for the future?

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

December 2 1pm-2pm CMP 326-R Capacity Management Made Easy with Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling Vadim Filanovsky , Senior Performance Engineer & Anoop Kapoor, AWS Abstract :Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling offers a hands-free capacity management experience to help customers maintain a healthy fleet, improve application availability, and reduce costs.

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Dynatrace

MAY 6, 2019

However, for many organizations, back-end technology layers create blind spots in their current approach to monitoring. For IBM CICS and IMS SDK, avail of the SDK with our CICS and IMS code modules, which allows you to seamlessly integrate customized technologies (e.g., IMS MQ Trigger Monitor. CICS sockets). are supported.

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Percona

AUGUST 17, 2023

StackOverflow statistics show that 26% of developers preferred it in 2017, 34% in 2019, and 40% in 2021. 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.

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Open Source Healthcare Social Media Database 80

Dynatrace

JULY 31, 2020

Loosely defined, Observability boils down to inferring the internal health and state of a system by looking at the external data it produces, which most commonly are logs, metrics, and traces. The answer is in the data collection, and more specifically, how the logs, metrics, traces are collected.

Open Source 130

Open Source Metrics Google Java 130

Dynatrace

JULY 21, 2020

Metrics are an essential functionality provided by the Dynatrace Software Intelligence Platform. Dynatrace OneAgent and ActiveGate extensions provide you with a multitude of metrics. We also empower you with the ability to ingest your own custom metrics and leverage those metrics using a variety of Dynatrace features.

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O'Reilly

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Yes, there have been some small quantum computers available; IBM has quantum computers available in the cloud , including a 5-qubit machine that anyone can try for free. Architects, engineers, and developers are using new tools, metrics, and even new concepts, to observe, manage, and optimize performance. That is very big news.

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Dynatrace

JULY 8, 2020

Monitoring Kubernetes is an important aspect of Day 2 o perations and is often perceived as a significant challenge. A container (or a pod) running on a node may eat up all the available CPU or memory and affect all other pods on the node, degrading performance (or worse) and preventing any new workload to be scheduled on the node.

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Tim Kadlec

MARCH 7, 2019

My definition of a performance budget has evolved over the years, but here’s my current working draft: A performance budget is a clearly defined limit on one or more performance metrics that the team agrees not to exceed, and that is used to guide design and development. Meaningful. Maybe that’s conversion rate or bounce rate.

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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. We look forward to providing you with even better articles, news and information in 2019.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 28, 2019

As a full stack monitoring platform, 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 your individual hosts, the average number of metrics is about 500 per computational node. Dynatrace news.

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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.

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Dynatrace

JULY 31, 2020

We’re happy to announce the General Availability of cross-environment dashboarding capabilities (having released this functionality in an Early Adopter release with Dynatrace version 1.172 back in June 2019). Monitoring the enterprise cloud poses many challenges when it comes to scale. Dynatrace news.

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Scalegrid

APRIL 2, 2019

2019 PostgreSQL Trends Report: Private vs. Public Cloud, Migrations, Database Combos & Top Reasons Used Click To Tweet. Most Popular Databases in 2019. This was over 17% lower than what we found in our 2019 Database Trends Report where database users of all types reported an average of 3 databases used in combination.

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Database Cloud Open Source Azure 185

Dynatrace

AUGUST 28, 2019

Observability is divided into three major verticals—metrics, logs, and distributed traces—the so-called three pillars of observability. With Dynatrace, you just install a single agent per monitored host to collect all relevant data with high fidelity. 1) Metrics. Dynatrace news. 2) Distributed traces.

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Metrics Monitoring Azure Code 185

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

The computation is done as a first step so that it is available for the rest of the request lifecycle. Service throttling Zuul can sense when a back-end service is in trouble by monitoring the error rates and concurrent requests to that service. Those two metrics are approximate indicators of failures and latency.

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Traffic Metrics Infrastructure Architecture 252

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

In 2019, Gartner reported that 30% of organizations worldwide were running containerized applications. Consider using one of the many good secrets management systems that are commercially available. Dynatrace news. Containers have become hugely popular. They predicted this figure would jump to 75% by 2022. Run source code tests.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 25, 2021

As a strong supporter of open source and open standards, I’m aware that the wide availability of standards, open-source tools, and some newly coined terms are causing a lot of confusion. How is monitoring different from observability? Observability vs. monitoring. What is distributed tracing? W3C Trace Context.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 6, 2019

In 2019, Containerd became the 5th project to reach CNCF’s highest maturity level, graduation. The CNCF introduced the dedicated category Observability and Analysis to their project landscape to cover all things related to the monitoring of cloud-native stacks. Automatic monitoring of applications running in Kubernetes pods.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 13, 2021

With Dynatrace, you only need to install a single OneAgent per host to collect all relevant metrics from 100% of your application-delivery chain. Also, thanks to the ease of deploying OneAgent, the time-to-value for monitoring complex enterprise environments is short. However, the OneAgent lifecycle doesn’t end with deployment.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

Having released this functionality in an Early Adopter Release with OneAgent version 1.173 and Dynatrace version 1.174 back in August 2019, we’re now happy to announce the General Availability of OneAgent full-stack monitoring for Linux on the IBM Z platform, sometimes informally referred to as Z/Linux.

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Scalegrid

AUGUST 15, 2019

Read on to find out which is the best MongoDB GUI for you, updated for 2019, that contain these key features: A good visual editor to write and edit queries faster. It’s further enhanced by an in-place code editor which is also available in all three views. NoSQL Manager paid plans are available for $98/version/user.

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 11, 2020

We had our first Studio applications consuming the federated graph, without any performance degradation, by the end of the 2019. As this architecture matures, we will continue to monitor schema health and develop new tooling, processes, and best practices where needed. We teamed up with experts from Netflix’s Telemetry team.

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Dynatrace

MAY 31, 2021

However, these highly dynamic and distributed environments require a new approach to monitoring Kubernetes infrastructure and applications. Horizontal Pod Autoscaler (HPA) adjusts the number of instances or replicas based on observed metrics. This simplifies orchestration in cloud-native environments. Resource optimization.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 8, 2019

We’re happy to announce the Early Adopter Release of OneAgent full-stack monitoring for Linux on the IBM Z platform, sometimes informally referred to as Z/Linux (available with OneAgent version 1.173 and Dynatrace version 1.174). Mainframe monitoring is an area of significant investment for Dynatrace. Dynatrace news.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 30, 2019

At Neotys PAC 2019 in Chamonix, France, I presented approaches on how to solve this problem by looking at examples from companies such as Intuit, Dynatrace, Google, Netflix, T-Systems and others. Introducing Pitometer: Metrics-based Deployment Validation in your CI/CD. Pitometer is a Node.js Pitometer is a Node.js

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Rigor

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

(They seem to have learned from their mistakes for Prime Day 2019.). And Nordstrom dealt with crashes and other issues at the beginning of its popular anniversary sale in 2019. How are you monitoring end-user performance today? STEP 2: Use Synthetic Monitoring to Baseline Your Current Performance. Chrome Developer tools.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 15, 2020

Having released this functionality in an Preview Release back in September 2019, we’re now happy to announce the General Availability of our Citrix monitoring extension. Synthetic monitoring: Citrix login availability and performance. OneAgent: Citrix StoreFront services discovered and monitored by Dynatrace.

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CSS - Tricks

MARCH 16, 2020

to run Google Lighthouse audits via the command line, save the reports they generate in JSON format and then compare them so web performance can be monitored as the website grows and develops. Google Lighthouse is one of the best-automated tools available on a web developer's utility belt. But first, for the uninitiated.

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The Morning Paper

JULY 9, 2019

Other experiment designs are available. Metrics for the experiment should include not only the direct metrics of the feature under test, but also data quality metrics, guardrail metrics, and business success metrics. While the experiment is executing it needs to be continuously monitored.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Even the best baseline approaches come with a tiny percentage of false-positive alerts, the number being directly proportional to the number of components you’re monitoring. Back during Perform 2019, we introduced the next generation of the Dynatrace AI causation engine , also known as Davis.

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The Morning Paper

JULY 4, 2019

In all cases we need to be able to carefully monitor the impact on the system, and back out if things start going badly wrong. Moreover, just like an A/B test, we’ll be collecting metrics while the experiment is underway and performing statistical analysis at the end to interpret the results. Defining and running experiments.

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SQL Performance

MARCH 8, 2021

They are run on SQL Server 2019 CU9 , on a laptop with 8 cores, and 16GB of memory allocated to the SQL Server 2019 instance. How row mode metrics are collected. The second part of the puzzle relates to the way row count and timing metrics are collected in row mode plans. Compatibility level 150 is used exclusively.

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