The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 27, 2023

A few years ago, we were paged by our SRE team due to our Metrics Alerting System falling behind — critical application health alerts reached engineers 45 minutes late! Hence, we started down the path of alert evaluation via real-time streaming metrics. OK, Results?

Storage 288

Storage Cache Metrics Database 288

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 2, 2020

As more organizations transition to distributed services, IT teams are experiencing the limitations of traditional monitoring tools, which were designed for yesterday’s monolithic architectures. Where traditional monitoring falls flat. The architects and developers who create the software must design it to be observed.

DevOps 150

DevOps Monitoring Cloud Artificial Intelligence 150

Dynatrace

JANUARY 31, 2024

While off-the-shelf models assist many organizations in initiating their journeys with generative AI (GenAI), scaling AI for enterprise use presents formidable challenges. Figure 1: Sample RAG architecture While this approach significantly improves the response quality of GenAI applications, it also introduces new challenges.

Cache 201

Cache Azure Infrastructure Monitoring 201

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. The outcome of the presentation and the follow up discussions at Neotys PAC lead to Pitometer! Pitometer is a Node.js

Architecture 125

Architecture Open Source Azure Metrics 125

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

This has led to the recent release of our new Lambda monitoring extension supporting Node.js, Java, and Python. This extension was built from scratch to take into account all we’ve learned and the special requirements for monitoring ephemeral, auto-scaling, micro VMs like AWS Lambda. A look under the hood of AWS Lambda.

Lambda 215

Lambda AWS Monitoring Serverless 215

Percona

MAY 8, 2023

We are excited to announce the release of Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) V2.37 , which includes a revamped Inventory view, new experimental dashboards for Kubernetes monitoring, as well as many other improvements and new features. This is why we’ve added the Monitoring column. What’s next for the Inventory?

Monitoring 79

Monitoring Database Metrics Tuning 79

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Monitoring modern IT infrastructure is difficult, sometimes impossible, without advanced network monitoring tools. Since then, the extensions’ capabilities have been substantially improved, not just for data but also in the presentation layer and topological model. Device-centric SNMP Trap overview.

Network 221

Network Infrastructure Metrics Monitoring 221

Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Setting up and monitoring these systems was pretty easy compared to today’s standards. There were no dynamic web applications or complex user scenarios to have to monitor. Gone are the days of monolithic architecture. monitoring distributed systems becomes much more difficult to carry out and manage. Multi-Tier.

Systems 74

Systems Monitoring Hardware Network 74

Dynatrace

AUGUST 12, 2020

As companies strive to innovate and deliver faster, modern software architecture is evolving at near the speed of light. It allows for the breaking up of heavy monolithic architectures into multiple serverless “functions.” Understand and optimize your architecture. Monitor your serverless applications with just two clicks.

Serverless 140

Serverless Azure Monitoring Lambda 140

Dynatrace

JANUARY 23, 2024

At this year’s Perform, we are thrilled to have our three strategic cloud partners, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP), returning as both sponsors and presenters to share their expertise about cloud modernization and observability of generative AI models. What will the new architecture be?

Cloud 208

Cloud Artificial Intelligence Performance AWS 208

Dynatrace

APRIL 5, 2024

From my experience, a month of monitoring is the optimal duration to gain statistically significant insights into “how my entity behaves with the configured SLO.” Let’s assume we created a service-availability SLO, monitoring the request failure count against the overall request counts. What characterizes a weak SLO?

Efficiency 221

Efficiency Traffic Tuning Metrics 221

Dynatrace

JUNE 9, 2023

Data scale and silos present challenges to DevOps maturity DevOps teams often run into problems trying to drive better data-driven decisions with observability and security data. Research has found that 99% of organizations have embraced a multicloud architecture. What is DevOps maturity?

DevOps 180

DevOps Analytics Storage Metrics 180

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

The various presenters in this session aligned platform engineering use cases with the software development lifecycle. Using Dynatrace, teams can directly access their synthetic monitors and drill down into locations where, for example, execution failed because of local or global outages. Automatically analyze and debug releases.

Engineering 179

Engineering Development Infrastructure Cloud 179

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 4, 2022

But on their own, logs present just another data silo as IT professionals attempt to troubleshoot and remediate problems. These traditional approaches to log monitoring and log analytics thwart IT teams’ goal to address infrastructure performance problems, security threats, and user experience issues.

Analytics 217

Analytics Storage Infrastructure Metrics 217

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Now we’re adding Smartscape to DQL and two new data sources to Grail: Metrics on Grail and Traces on Grail. Introducing Metrics on Grail Despite their many advantages, modern cloud-native architectures can result in scalability and fragmentation challenges. Grail solves this scalability issue!

Analytics 226

Analytics Social Media Metrics Efficiency 226

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Monitoring digital experiences has become increasingly critical for organizations to maintain their competitive edge. One advantage of digital experience over physical interaction is the tooling and technologies that are available to monitor and potentially improve the experience for your users. What is digital experience monitoring?

Mobile 213

Mobile Social Media Monitoring Metrics 213

Scalegrid

MARCH 14, 2024

The architecture usually integrates several private, public, and on-premises infrastructures. Key Components of Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure A hybrid cloud architecture usually merges a public Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) platform with private computing assets and incorporates tools to manage these combined environments.

Strategy 130

Strategy Cloud Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure 130

Dynatrace

MAY 6, 2021

Increasingly, organizations are turning to observability solutions to get visibility into their dynamic container-based architectures and hybrid-cloud environments. For predictive AIOps, Dynatrace detects anomalies using high-dimensional data derived from metrics in context. “If

Games 169

Games Metrics Monitoring Cloud 169

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Observability is made up of three key pillars: metrics, logs, and traces. Metrics are measures of critical system values, such as CPU utilization or average write latency to persistent storage. They are particularly important in distributed systems, such as microservices architectures.

Artificial Intelligence 175

Artificial Intelligence Metrics Architecture DevOps 175

Dynatrace

AUGUST 21, 2023

Traditional monitoring approaches worked fine when an operator was tasked with tracking a simple, static system,” wrote Ali Siddiqui in “ How to harness the power of observability, AIOps and automation.” ” But, he continues, ” Today’s environments present a completely different picture. during 2021–2026.

Analytics 144

Analytics Innovation Infrastructure Scalability 144

Dynatrace

APRIL 18, 2022

One particular use case for Austrian banking software developer Raiffeisen involves using Keptn to automate the production release and readiness validation of all its products using scoring metrics. Bringing SLOs back into development also gives developers production-stage feedback on critical metrics that may later impact business SLOs.

Open Source 184

Open Source DevOps Cloud Metrics 184

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Kubernetes (k8s) provides basic monitoring through the Kubernetes API and you can find instructions like Top 9 Open Source Tools for Monitoring Kubernetes as a “do it yourself guide”. End-user monitoring. MaaSS for Cloud Architects: Deployment and Architecture Validations. Dynatrace news. Full-stack observability.

AWS 127

AWS Monitoring Ecommerce Lambda 127

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

This is a mouthful of buzzwords” is how I started my recent presentations at the Online Kubernetes Meetup as well as the DevOps Fusion 2020 Online Conference when explaining the three big challenges we are trying to solve with Keptn – our CNCF Open Source project: Automate build validation through SLI/SLO-based Quality Gates. Dynatrace news.

DevOps 245

DevOps Metrics Innovation Azure 245

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 5, 2020

The challenge with ASP.NET Web Service Observability, Diagnostics and Performance Optimization is that most monitoring & diagnostic tools only provide global Service Level Indicators metrics (SLIs) such as response time, failure rate, and throughput, but not metrics for each individual service endpoint.

Performance 151

Performance Best Practices Architecture Monitoring 151

Dynatrace

MAY 4, 2022

This complexity makes it difficult for teams to monitor services and applications, which often leads to compliance and security concerns. Because cloud-native technologies are flexible and scale automatically, teams can replace manual application monitoring and testing methods to keep pace with innovation.

Cloud 179

Cloud DevOps Strategy Monitoring 179

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Here, we’ll discuss the AIOps landscape as it stands today and present an alternative approach that truly integrates artificial intelligence into the DevOps process. AIOps is often presented as a way to reduce the noise of countless alerts, but it can and should be more than that. Two approaches to AIOps.

Artificial Intelligence 208

Artificial Intelligence DevOps Innovation Metrics 208

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

I wanted to present as much information as possible. This is where the consolidated API, which I presented in my last post , comes into play. Lightweight architecture. Real-time problem visualization of lots of environments. Everybody should be able to understand what’s going on without a long introduction or user manual.

Storage 203

Storage Architecture Tuning Efficiency 203

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Further, it presents data in intuitive, user-friendly ways to enable data gathering, analysis, and collaboration among far-flung teams. Why teams struggle with the volume and variety of cloud data Modern cloud-native environments can present compound problems that often hamper teams across the organization in meeting business objectives.

Analytics 130

Analytics Storage Cloud DevOps 130

Percona

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

To achieve this in a secure and efficient manner, a key requirement for any database monitoring and management software is to have robust access management features. Label-based access control is a security mechanism that allows companies to control who can access specific metrics based on their labels. to monitor and diagnose. +50

Metrics 108

Metrics Monitoring Database Engineering 108

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 24, 2020

As organizations update their IT environments with the latest cloud-native technologies and architectures, teams need to weigh the effectiveness of traditional monitoring vs. modern, observability-based solutions to decide how to solve their existing challenges amid the growing complexity of their dynamic, multi-cloud environments.

DevOps 240

DevOps Infrastructure Cloud Monitoring 240

Dynatrace

MAY 26, 2021

In the keynote by Christina Yakomin and Steve Prazenica from Vanguard, the presenters recounted their journey from a monolith with alert-based incident reporting and no positive health signals to an observable microservice architecture. This is what sets Dynatrace apart as a Leader in application performance monitoring.

AWS 208

AWS Strategy Storage Metrics 208

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 15, 2020

The Dynatrace Software Intelligence Platform has long provided the industry’s first auto-instrumenting monitoring solution for Go. With no required recompilation or code changes, you can: Monitor web-scale and highly dynamic microservice architectures including statically as well as dynamically linked Go applications and platform components.

Transportation 183

Transportation Monitoring Metrics Code 183

Dynatrace

MAY 31, 2021

Although Kubernetes simplifies application development while increasing resource utilization, it is a complex system that presents its own challenges. What challenges does it present, and how can you overcome them? Containers and microservices: A revolution in the architecture of distributed systems. Where does it come from?

Virtualization 132

Virtualization DevOps Infrastructure Cloud 132

O'Reilly Software

OCTOBER 23, 2018

I should start by saying this section does not offer a treatise on how to do architecture. Vitruvius and the principles of architecture. Architecture begins when someone has a nontrivial problem to be solved. Everyone who goes to architecture school learns his work. It must be beautiful, like Venus, inspiring love.

Strategy 100

Strategy Architecture Technology Technology 100

Dynatrace

JULY 9, 2020

Gone are the days for Christian manually looking at dashboards and metrics after a new build got deployed into a testing or acceptance environment: Integrating Keptn into your existing DevOps tools such as GitLab is just a matter of an API call. Monitoring Configuration as Code. Incident Notification and Auto-Remediation.

Cloud 185

Cloud DevOps Azure Architecture 185

Dynatrace

MAY 26, 2021

In the keynote by Christina Yakomin and Steve Prazenica from Vanguard, the presenters recounted their journey from a monolith with alert-based incident reporting and no positive health signals to an observable microservice architecture. This is what sets Dynatrace apart as a Leader in application performance monitoring.

AWS 147

AWS Strategy Storage Metrics 147

Adrian Cockcroft

AUGUST 1, 2022

photo by Adrian I gave a talk at Monitorama in Portland Oregon in June, which set out the idea that carbon is just another metric to monitor, and that in a few years most of the monitoring and performance tuning tools are going to be reporting and optimizing for carbon alongside latency, throughput, availability and cost.

AWS 52

AWS Virtualization DevOps Latency 52