The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 13, 2022

Troubleshooting these problems is not a trivial task and requires collecting logs and metrics from several different systems and analyzing them to identify the root cause. This blog will explore these two systems and how they perform auto-diagnosis and remediation across our Big Data Platform and Real-time infrastructure.

Big Data 238

Big Data Infrastructure Metrics Hardware 238

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 2, 2021

SLOs, together with service-level indicators (SLIs), deliver the performance promised in service-level agreements (SLAs) and other business level objectives (BLOs) while staying within error budgets. In layman’s terms, SLOs represent the performance or health of a service. But what are SLOs? What are SLIs? Watch webinar now!

Metrics 189

Metrics Best Practices DevOps Infrastructure 189

Rigor

JANUARY 13, 2020

Reading time 1 min Why share the library of the web performance books while there’s a substantial collection of fantastic websites and articles on the net? High Performance Browser Networking. This book is about performance problems and the various technologies created to fight them. High Performance Websites.

Performance 75

Performance Social Media Website Website Performance 75

Percona

MAY 8, 2023

The new Status column on the Inventory page shows the status of your databases based on metrics coming directly from them. Quick access to other sections To simplify access to related sections under Monitoring, we’ve also added links to the Service Overview Dashboard and Query Analytics. Stay tuned!

Monitoring 81

Monitoring Database Metrics Tuning 81

Dynatrace

MAY 5, 2021

At Perform 2021 , Dynatrace’s Kristof Renders, Services Practice Manager for Autonomous Cloud Enablement, joined Sumit Nagal, Principal Engineer at Intuit, to demonstrate how service-level objectives (SLOs) and business-level objectives (BLOs) can “shift left.” Nearly 42% do not perform manual or automated checks.

Benchmarking 181

Benchmarking Latency Speed Software 181

Percona

AUGUST 17, 2023

It’s used for data management (shocker), application development, and data analytics. In another survey, using multiple metrics for overall popularity, PostgreSQL ranks as the fourth most popular database management system ( DB-Engines, March 2023 ). It’s reliable, robust, feature-rich, and performant.

Open Source 81

Open Source Healthcare Social Media Database 81

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

The short answer: The three pillars of observability—logs, metrics, and traces—converging on a data lakehouse. Grail combines the big-data storage of a data warehouse with the analytical flexibility of a data lake. With Grail, we have reinvented analytics for converged observability and security data,” Greifeneder says.

Analytics 184

Analytics Innovation Metrics Database 184

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 28, 2019

As a product owner, you might be interested to know how your latest release performs in a geographical region where your company has just started doing business. Easily compare and view trends on multiple metrics with the new visualization. Third-party content can include ads, analytics, widgets, and other scripts.

Website 103

Website Metrics Tuning Analytics 103

Dynatrace

JULY 22, 2019

Applications will always have errors, but these errors don’t always warrant alerts as its not impacting end users and performance. It doesn’t apply to infrastructure metrics such as CPU or memory. Unless you use our log analytics solution, Dynatrace doesn’t even look at log files to decide whether something is failing.

Best Practices 163

Best Practices Artificial Intelligence Monitoring Tuning 163

The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

Analytics at Netflix: Who We Are and What We Do An Introduction to Analytics and Visualization Engineering at Netflix by Molly Jackman & Meghana Reddy Explained: Season 1 (Photo Credit: Netflix) Across nearly every industry, there is recognition that data analytics is key to driving informed business decision-making.

Analytics 240

Analytics Engineering Data Engineering Tuning 240

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

A lenient trace data sampling policy generates a large number of traces in each service container and can lead to degraded performance of streaming services as more CPU, memory, and network resources are consumed by the tracer library. The next challenge was to stream large amounts of traces via a scalable data processing platform.

Infrastructure 233

Infrastructure Transportation Storage Open Source 233

Scalegrid

JANUARY 11, 2024

Sophisticated monitoring solutions like Exabeam Fusion SIEM and Fusion XDR provide thorough analysis, behavioral analytics, and automated features to improve the identification of advanced attacks and insider threats. These include real-time alerting features and a specialized dashboard that provides crucial database and OS metrics.

Best Practices 130

Best Practices Cloud Monitoring Strategy 130

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. With the help of log monitoring software, teams can collect information and trigger alerts if something happens that affects system performance and health.

Analytics 207

Analytics Monitoring Artificial Intelligence DevOps 207

Dynatrace

MAY 20, 2020

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 individual hosts, the average number of metrics is about 500 per computational node. Running metric queries on a subset of entities for live monitoring and system overviews.

Metrics 225

Metrics Operating System Tuning Monitoring 225

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

As the application owner of an e-commerce application, for example, you can enrich the source code of your application with domain-specific knowledge by adding actionable semantics to collected performance or business metrics. New OpenTelemetry metrics exporters provide the broadest language support on the market.

Metrics 151

Metrics Open Source Tuning Analytics 151

Dynatrace

MAY 5, 2020

While Dynatrace provides software intelligence to accelerate your company’s digital transformation, web analytics tools like Adobe Analytics help you deeply understand your user journeys, segmentation, behavior, and strategic business metrics such as revenue, orders, and conversion goals. Google Analytics.

Analytics 146

Analytics Metrics Google Tuning 146

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 15, 2020

OpenTelemetry metrics are useful for augmenting the fully automatic observability that can be achieved with Dynatrace OneAgent. OpenTelemetry metrics add domain specific data such as business KPIs and license relevant consumption details. Enterprise-grade observability for custom OpenTelemetry metrics from AWS. Dynatrace news.

AWS 175

AWS Metrics Analytics Government 175

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

Welcome back to the second part of our blog series on how easy it is to get enterprise-grade observability at scale in Dynatrace for your OpenTelemetry custom metrics. In Part 1 , we announced our new OpenTelemetry custom-metric exporters that provide the broadest language coverage on the market, including Go , .NET record(value); }.

Metrics 140

Metrics Open Source Lambda Serverless 140

Dynatrace

AUGUST 18, 2020

Fine tune what Davis AI considers for alerting. If not already configured for Davis AI analysis, Edit any existing HTTP error rule and select Include error in Davis AI problem detection and analysis , as shown below: Watch our Performance Clinic video for more about the error rules page. What’s next.

Analytics 221

Analytics Tuning Monitoring Website 221

Dynatrace

AUGUST 18, 2020

Fine tune what Davis AI considers for alerting. If not already configured for Davis AI analysis, Edit any existing HTTP error rule and select Include error in Davis AI problem detection and analysis , as shown below: Watch our Performance Clinic video for more about the error rules page. What’s next.

Analytics 162

Analytics Tuning Monitoring Website 162

Dynatrace

APRIL 20, 2023

Causal AI—which brings AI-enabled actionable insights to IT operations—and a data lakehouse, such as Dynatrace Grail , can help break down silos among ITOps, DevSecOps, site reliability engineering, and business analytics teams. Business leaders can decide which logs they want to use and tune storage to their data needs.

Analytics 186

Analytics Infrastructure Storage Efficiency 186

Dynatrace

MAY 16, 2019

Are you applying AI to the unique metrics and KPIs that matter most to the success of your digital business? Do you provide dashboards and analytics that combine technical and business metrics that are specific to your business? Dynatrace out-of-the-box metrics generally focus on availability, failure rate, and performance.

Metrics 116

Metrics Analytics Programming Monitoring 116

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 170

Metrics Monitoring Database Network 170

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.

Metrics 166

Metrics Open Source Tuning Infrastructure 166

Dynatrace

APRIL 17, 2024

Mainframe is a strong choice for hybrid cloud, but it brings observability challenges IBM Z is a mainframe computing platform chosen by many organizations with a hybrid cloud strategy because of its security, resiliency, performance, scalability, and sustainability. Are you running containerized applications on IBM Z?

Operating System 203

Operating System Energy Infrastructure Architecture 203

Dynatrace

JULY 24, 2023

Observability data provides a treasure trove of performance, stability, and user experience metrics encompassing error rates, response times, and user engagement. With swift precision, an answer-driven automation solution that uses causal AI can transform these metrics into invaluable insights.

DevOps 219

DevOps Traffic Efficiency Servers 219

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 5, 2023

This growth was spurred by mobile ecosystems with Android and iOS operating systems, where ARM has a unique advantage in energy efficiency while offering high performance. Huge performance leaps in recent years The top priority is often performance, where ARM resources have improved significantly.

Efficiency 264

Efficiency Architecture Energy Monitoring 264

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

For a deeper look into how to gain end-to-end observability into Kubernetes environments, tune into the on-demand webinar Harness the Power of Kubernetes Observability. These mechanisms are often compared to a conductor directing an orchestra to perform elaborate symphonies and juicy operas for our enjoyment. Watch webinar now!

Open Source 300

Open Source Traffic DevOps Cloud 300

Dynatrace

AUGUST 6, 2019

Defining a comprehensive user-experience metric gives rise to questions such as: How do we compare the user experience of one session to another? Which metric can be used for the purpose of reporting user experience and tracking it over a period of time? A single metric for user experience segmentation. Error metrics.

Metrics 117

Metrics Tuning Monitoring Analytics 117

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Dynatrace provides advanced observability across on-premises systems and cloud providers in a single platform, providing application performance monitoring, infrastructure monitoring, Artificial Intelligence-driven operations (AIOps), code-level execution, digital experience monitoring (DEM), and digital business analytics. Stay tuned.

AWS 143

AWS Artificial Intelligence Best Practices Lambda 143

The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 29, 2019

The service that orchestrates failover uses numpy and scipy to perform numerical analysis, boto3 to make changes to our AWS infrastructure, rq to run asynchronous workloads and we wrap it all up in a thin layer of Flask APIs. CORE The CORE team uses Python in our alerting and statistical analytical work.

Open Source 279

Open Source Network Infrastructure Big Data 279

CSS Wizardry

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

A couple of years ago, my first few days on a new web performance project were always slow going. Unless a client hires you to specifically improve the performance of one page, you’ll need a broad view of the whole site or application. Any time you run a test with WebPageTest, you’ll get this table of different milestones and metrics.

Speed 292

Speed Ecommerce Metrics Analytics 292

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 9, 2020

The flip side of speeding up delivery, however, is that each software release comes with the risk of impacting your goals of availability, performance, or any business KPIs. Which metrics are relevant for your business, anyway? Modern observability tools provide many metrics, but which ones are really important for your business?

Metrics 151

Metrics Engineering Google Monitoring 151

The Netflix TechBlog

JULY 26, 2021

Such a paradigm aspires to assist front-line operations personnel and stakeholders in “running the business”²; performing their tasks through means such as ad hoc analysis, decision-support, and tracking (of tasks, assets, schedules, etc). Data Mesh leverages Iceberg tables as data warehouse sinks for downstream analytics use cases.

Big Data 253

Big Data Government Analytics Processing 253

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

With Davis Assistant and Microsoft Teams, you can: Receive proactive and actionable IT health and performance alerts in dynamically updated smart cards displayed in a Teams channel. View Dynatrace performance charts directly in Teams for quick impact assessment. What our customers are saying about Davis Assistant.

Airlines 213

Airlines Metrics Tuning Analytics 213

Dynatrace

AUGUST 12, 2020

This gives you deep visibility into your code running in Azure Functions, and, as a result, an understanding of its impact on overall application performance and user experience. Simplify error analytics. Whether your data source is the API or OneAgent, you get the same visibility into the most critical performance metrics.

Serverless 235

Serverless Azure Monitoring Lambda 235

Dynatrace

JUNE 6, 2019

This category hosts many single-purpose projects and solutions that focus either on metrics, traces, or logs. Through Davis, the Dynatrace AI engine, you get actionable insights into the performance and health of your applications and the underlying Kubernetes platform. So stay tuned. Enable containerd monitoring for Kubernetes.

Monitoring 165

Monitoring Tuning Metrics Analytics 165