The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 7, 2021

By Alok Tiagi , Hariharan Ananthakrishnan , Ivan Porto Carrero and Keerti Lakshminarayan Netflix has developed a network observability sidecar called Flow Exporter that uses eBPF tracepoints to capture TCP flows at near real time. Without having network visibility, it’s difficult to improve our reliability, security and capacity posture.

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Network Transportation AWS Cloud 325

Scalegrid

DECEMBER 21, 2023

In today’s data-driven world, the ability to effectively monitor and manage data is of paramount importance. With its widespread use in modern application architectures, understanding the ins and outs of Redis® monitoring is essential for any tech professional. Redis®, a powerful in-memory data store, is no exception.

Strategy 130

Strategy Monitoring Latency DevOps 130

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 18, 2023

To get a more granular look into telemetry data, many analysts rely on custom metrics using Prometheus. Named after the Greek god who brought fire down from Mount Olympus, Prometheus metrics have been transforming observability since the project’s inception in 2012.

Metrics 175

Metrics Engineering Energy Tuning 175

Dynatrace

JUNE 27, 2023

An hourly rate for Infrastructure Monitoring The Dynatrace Platform Subscription (DPS) offers a flat rate for Infrastructure Monitoring , providing observability for cloud platforms, containers, networks, and data center technologies with no limits on host memory and with AIOps included.

Infrastructure 182

Infrastructure Monitoring Metrics Network 182

Dynatrace

JANUARY 11, 2023

In fact, according to a Dynatrace global survey of 1,300 CIOs , 99% of enterprises utilize a multicloud environment and seven cloud monitoring solutions on average. What is cloud monitoring? Cloud monitoring is a set of solutions and practices used to observe, measure, analyze, and manage the health of cloud-based IT infrastructure.

Cloud 220

Cloud Monitoring Best Practices Infrastructure 220

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 4, 2022

The number and variety of applications, network devices, serverless functions, and ephemeral containers grows continuously. Still, it is critical to collect, store, and make easily accessible these massive amounts of log data for analysis. Current analytics tools are fragmented and lack context for meaningful analysis.

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Analytics Artificial Intelligence Storage Serverless 231

Dynatrace

JULY 31, 2020

We’re happy to announce that with Dynatrace version 1.198, we’ve dramatically improved CPU analysis, allowing you to easily understand CPU consumption over time, in the context of your workloads. All deeper analysis actions are performed across the entire timeframe. Fully automated code-level visibility.

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Monitoring Performance Java Processing 227

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

The emerging concepts of working with DevOps metrics and DevOps KPIs have really come a long way. DevOps metrics to help you meet your DevOps goals. Like any IT or business project, you’ll need to track critical key metrics. Here are nine key DevOps metrics and DevOps KPIs that will help you be successful.

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DevOps Metrics Traffic Efficiency 196

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Log monitoring, log analysis, and log analytics are more important than ever as organizations adopt more cloud-native technologies, containers, and microservices-based architectures. A log is a detailed, timestamped record of an event generated by an operating system, computing environment, application, server, or network device.

Analytics 205

Analytics Monitoring Artificial Intelligence DevOps 205

Scalegrid

JANUARY 11, 2024

Cloud security monitoring is key—identifying threats in real-time and mitigating risks before they escalate. The automatic nature also allows for quick response times in addressing any identified security concerns making it an ideal solution for effective cloud security monitoring.

Best Practices 130

Best Practices Cloud Monitoring Strategy 130

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

To overcome these complex issues, teams must quickly find root causes among numerous alerts and metrics. Based on the topology model, detected dependencies, and thousands of events and metrics, Davis AI can pinpoint the origin of an issue. Focusing on a particular data center reveals a detailed list of all the monitored hosts.

Infrastructure 178

Infrastructure Metrics Network Monitoring 178

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. What is digital experience monitoring? Primary digital experience monitoring tools.

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Monitoring Social Media IoT Metrics 200

Dynatrace

JUNE 28, 2021

Infrastructure monitoring is the process of collecting critical data about your IT environment, including information about availability, performance and resource efficiency. Many organizations respond by adding a proliferation of infrastructure monitoring tools, which in many cases, just adds to the noise. Stage 2: Service monitoring.

Infrastructure 176

Infrastructure Monitoring Artificial Intelligence Open Source 176

Dynatrace

JULY 23, 2020

With the advent and ingestion of thousands of custom metrics into Dynatrace, we’ve once again pushed the boundaries of automatic, AI-based root cause analysis with the introduction of auto-adaptive baselines as a foundational concept for Dynatrace topology-driven timeseries measurements. Dynatrace news.

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Metrics Innovation Strategy Monitoring 207

Dynatrace

APRIL 3, 2024

A security operations center plays a crucial role in protecting a state agency by focusing on threat detection, analysis, and response. Telemetry data — such as metrics, logs, and traces — gives IT teams crucial context to understand how all entities are connected. What is a security operations center?

Government 156

Government Social Media Metrics Infrastructure 156

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. In addition to tracing, observability also defines two other key concepts, metrics and logs. When software runs in a monolithic stack on on-site servers, observability is manageable enough. What is OpenTelemetry?

Metrics 177

Metrics Open Source Traffic Cache 177

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 4, 2021

As a result, API monitoring has become a must for DevOps teams. So what is API monitoring? What is API Monitoring? API monitoring is the process of collecting and analyzing data about the performance of an API in order to identify problems that impact users. The need for API monitoring. Ways to monitor APIs.

Monitoring 175

Monitoring Latency Metrics Availability 175

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Exploratory data analytics is an analysis method that uses visualizations, including graphs and charts, to help IT teams investigate emerging data trends and circumvent issues, such as unexpected traffic spikes or performance degradations. Start by asking yourself what’s there, whether it’s logs, metrics, or traces.

Analytics 206

Analytics Metrics Media Monitoring 206

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

These resources generate vast amounts of data in various locations, including containers, which can be virtual and ephemeral, thus more difficult to monitor. These challenges make AWS observability a key practice for building and monitoring cloud-native applications. AWS monitoring best practices. What is AWS observability?

Best Practices 208

Best Practices AWS Monitoring Serverless 208

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Don’t worry, when it comes to SAP monitoring, Dynatrace has you covered. Dynatrace ActiveGate extensions allow you to integrate Dynatrace monitoring with any remote technology that exposes an interface. Today we’re proud to announce that we’ve extended our SAP monitoring capabilities to support SAP HANA databases.

Infrastructure 196

Infrastructure Database Monitoring Metrics 196

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

But there’s more than just a need for minimizing resource (CPU, memory, storage) and network (bandwidth) consumption for observability at the edge. Moreover, edge environments can be highly dynamic, with devices frequently joining and leaving the network. Data is integrated seamlessly with Kubernetes topology.

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Retail Analytics Storage Cloud 255

Dynatrace

MARCH 22, 2021

The monitoring challenges of on-premises environments. As a Network Engineer, you need to ensure the operational functionality, availability, efficiency, backup/recovery, and security of your company’s network. Our new extension framework now makes it a no-brainer to start monitoring your SNMP protocols.

Metrics 243

Metrics Network Infrastructure Traffic 243

Dynatrace

JANUARY 31, 2024

Monitoring SAP products can present challenges Monitoring SAP systems can be challenging due to the inherent complexity of using different technologies—such as ABAP, Java, and cloud offerings—and the sheer amount of generated data. SAP HANA server infrastructure monitored with OneAgent.

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Java Analytics Best Practices Monitoring 185

Dynatrace

JANUARY 31, 2024

Identify and remove blind spots and monitoring gaps with the new Discovery & Coverage app to mitigate risks The first step to enhance system reliability is identifying and removing blind spots by eliminating monitoring gaps. The new Discovery & Coverage app helps achieve these full monitoring coverage goals.

Analytics 170

Analytics Infrastructure Monitoring Cloud 170

Dynatrace

MARCH 18, 2024

Empowering teams to manage their FinOps practices, however, requires teams to have access to reliable multicloud monitoring and analysis data. Resource utilization monitoring A FinOps observability approach involves monitoring cloud resource utilization to identify inefficiencies and optimization opportunities.

Best Practices 228

Best Practices Strategy Cloud AWS 228

Dynatrace

APRIL 23, 2019

Synthetic monitors provide a perfect means of continually monitoring the performance baselines of your web applications. However, understanding the performance of different application types requires an emphasis on different performance metrics, that is, key performance metrics. Pick the best metrics for your application.

Metrics 102

Metrics Monitoring Performance Speed 102

Dynatrace

JUNE 17, 2019

Juniper Network devices help enterprises connect and secure their applications, data, and services. These devices run on Juniper’s Junos OS, which doesn’t permit the installation of third-party monitoring solutions. This has made our OneAgent-based monitoring approach infeasible for these devices. Dynatrace news.

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Network Availability Metrics Monitoring 103

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.

Metrics 168

Metrics Monitoring Database Network 168

Dynatrace

MAY 31, 2023

As a result, site reliability has emerged as a critical success metric for many organizations. The practice uses continuous monitoring and high levels of automation in close collaboration with agile development teams to ensure applications are highly available and perform without friction. Service-level objectives (SLOs). availability.

Best Practices 219

Best Practices DevOps Latency Metrics 219

Dynatrace

JULY 25, 2022

This new service enhances the user visibility of network details with direct delivery of Flow Logs for Transit Gateway to your desired endpoint via Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) bucket or Amazon CloudWatch Logs. AWS Transit Gateway is a service offering from Amazon Web Services that connects network resources via a centralized hub.

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AWS Transportation Network Traffic 214

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. Why monitor F5 BIG-IP load balancers? That’s why monitoring every BIG-IP instance is crucial to ensure smooth operation.

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Traffic Virtualization Metrics Monitoring 190

Dynatrace

MAY 3, 2024

Log data—the most verbose form of observability data, complementing other standardized signals like metrics and traces—is especially critical. SREs and DevOps engineers need cloud logs in an integrated observability platform to monitor the whole software development lifecycle. Managing this change is difficult.

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Cloud Lambda AWS Analytics 214

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Log management is an organization’s rules and policies for managing and enabling the creation, transmission, analysis, storage, and other tasks related to IT systems’ and applications’ log data. Metrics, logs , and traces make up three vital prongs of modern observability. Comparing log monitoring, log analytics, and log management.

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Systems Cloud Analytics DevOps 183

Dynatrace

JUNE 6, 2023

Comprehensive platform solutions that provide full-stack monitoring with AI at their core can automatically detect anomalies and provide root-cause analysis to prevent future issues. Networking. Large-scale, multicloud deployments can introduce challenges related to network visibility and interoperability. Observability.

Open Source 189

Open Source Storage Analytics Innovation 189

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

IT infrastructure is the heart of your digital business and connects every area – physical and virtual servers, storage, databases, networks, cloud services. This shift requires infrastructure monitoring to ensure all your components work together across applications, operating systems, storage, servers, virtualization, and more.

Infrastructure 196

Infrastructure Monitoring Virtualization Serverless 196

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

VPC Flow Logs is an Amazon service that enables IT pros to capture information about the IP traffic that traverses network interfaces in a virtual private cloud, or VPC. By default, each record captures a network internet protocol (IP), a destination, and the source of the traffic flow that occurs within your environment.

Traffic 212

Traffic AWS Network Cloud 212

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

DevOps and ITOps teams rely on incident management metrics such as mean time to repair (MTTR). These metrics help to keep a network system up and running?, Other such metrics include uptime, downtime, number of incidents, time between incidents, and time to respond to and resolve an issue. So, what is MTTR?

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DevOps Artificial Intelligence Metrics Network 204