The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 7, 2021

Flow Exporter The Flow Exporter is a sidecar that uses eBPF tracepoints to capture TCP flows at near real time on instances that power the Netflix microservices architecture. The Flow Exporter also publishes various operational metrics to Atlas. These metrics are visualized using Lumen , a self-service dashboarding infrastructure.

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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. Streaming Pensive Streaming Pensive Architecture Apache Flink powers real-time stream processing jobs in the Netflix data platform.

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Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

In serverless architecture, when applications are developed, they are typically composed of many different services. Other benefits to serverless architecture include the following: Cost. There is plenty to like about moving to a serverless architecture, but there can be some disadvantages compared to the traditional, monolithic model.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

DevOps practices have been established in the last decade to accomplish this goal and deal with the dynamics of modern, cloud-native software architectures. Along the journey, monitored entities can be selected to provide the context to fetch the right data from Dynatrace Grail™.

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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. Kubernetes pod attributes.

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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.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 8, 2021

You’ll learn how to create production SLOs, to continuously improve the performance of services, and I’ll guide you on how to become a champion of your sport by: Creating calculated metrics with the help of multidimensional analysis. Metric 2: number of requests in error. Let’s start by creating a dashboard to follow our metrics.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 2, 2021

As organizations adopt microservices-based architecture , service-level objectives (SLOs) have become a vital way for teams to set specific, measurable targets that ensure users are receiving agreed-upon service levels. SLIs provide the actual metrics and measurements that indicate whether you are meeting your SLO. Dynatrace news.

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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

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Scalegrid

MARCH 22, 2024

They’re your roadmap to linking cloud moves with real business outcomes, helping you monitor progress. You manage cost optimization in a multi-cloud world by monitoring costs, using the right tools, and constantly adjusting. Setting up and tracking Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) is crucial.

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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.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Without observability, the benefits of ARM are lost Over the last decade and a half, a new wave of computer architecture has overtaken the world. ARM architecture, based on a processor type optimized for cloud and hyperscale computing, has become the most prevalent on the planet, with billions of ARM devices currently in use.

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Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

The Pantheon in Rome — Extremely sustainable architecture — photo by Adrian I wrote a medium post after AWS re:Invent 2022 summarizing the (lack of) news and all the talks related to Sustainability. Explore an implementation of this architecture with PVH, the parent company of Tommy Hilfiger and Calvin Klein.

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The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 30, 2021

System Setup Architecture The following diagram summarizes the architecture description: Figure 1: Event-sourcing architecture of the Device Management Platform. Thus, the implemented solution must integrate with Netflix Spring facilities for authentication and metrics support at the very minimum?—?the

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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. As with all other technologies monitored by Dynatrace, Smartscape auto-discovery delivers a quick and efficient overview of all the topological dependencies in your environment. Deployment and architecture.

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SQL Performance

APRIL 15, 2020

This capability is essential when performance tuning since query events include discrete CPU and IO metrics as well as runtime parameters, which are key for troubleshooting query performance problems such as parameter sniffing. SentryOne Monitor showing captured queries and plans from Azure SQL Database. An Updated XE Session.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 1, 2019

We’re proud to introduce a significant improvement to Dynatrace Log Monitoring that will empower all your teams. With Dynatrace Log monitoring, you’re only one click away from investigating the log events that were captured during the problem time frame and beginning any required remediation efforts. Dynatrace news.

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Percona

AUGUST 17, 2023

In another survey, using multiple metrics for overall popularity, PostgreSQL ranks as the fourth most popular database management system ( DB-Engines, March 2023 ). The widespread use and popularity have come on like gangbusters in recent years, but PostgreSQL wasn’t always the cool kid. Free from vendor lock-in.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 17, 2024

The challenge for hybrid cloud deployments is maintaining critical observability, which must include the full set of monitoring signals: logs, metrics, and traces. You can push a filtering change to filter out all unwanted logs from your central Dynatrace environment and apply the change automatically to all your monitored platforms.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Transforming an application from monolith to microservices-based architecture can be daunting, and knowing where to start can be difficult. Unsurprisingly, organizations are breaking away from monolithic architectures and moving toward event-driven microservices. Migration is time-consuming and involved. create a microservice; 2.

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The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 13, 2020

A metric crossed a threshold. You’re half awake and wondering, “Is there really a problem or is this just an alert that needs tuning? Over the years we’ve learned from on-call engineers about the pain points of application monitoring: too many alerts, too many dashboards to scroll through, and too much configuration and maintenance.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

To take full advantage of the scalability, flexibility, and resilience of cloud platforms, organizations need to build or rearchitect applications around a cloud-native architecture. So, what is cloud-native architecture, exactly? What is cloud-native architecture? The principles of cloud-native architecture.

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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. What is log monitoring? Log monitoring vs log analytics. Dynatrace news. billion in 2020 to $4.1 What are logs?

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

As Dynatrace is a leader in Cloud monitoring, we have architected our Software Intelligence Platform specifically to complement Kubernetes by providing extensive functionality to tame the complexities and prevent performance issues that can occur across the development and deployment cycles. Don’t underestimate complexity.

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Rigor

JANUARY 13, 2020

How to pioneer new metrics and create a culture of performance. Information Architecture. Web Performance Tuning. This book from 2002 is a brilliant must read: site architecture, security, reliability, and their impact on performance. Complete Web Monitoring. Time is Money. High Performance Websites.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 13, 2023

A small percentage of production traffic is redirected to the two new clusters, allowing us to monitor the new version’s performance and compare it against the current version. By tracking metrics only at the level of service being updated, we might miss capturing deviations in broader end-to-end system functionality.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

The short answer: The three pillars of observability—logs, metrics, and traces—converging on a data lakehouse. You’re getting all the architectural benefits of Grail—the petabytes, the cardinality—with this implementation,” including the three pillars of observability: logs, metrics, and traces in context.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 20, 2023

With more automated approaches to log monitoring and log analysis, however, organizations can gain visibility into their applications and infrastructure efficiently and with greater precision—even as cloud environments grow. Logs are automatically produced and time-stamped documentation of events relevant to cloud architectures.

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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.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

As organizations plan, migrate, transform, and operate their workloads on AWS, it’s vital that they follow a consistent approach to evaluating both the on-premises architecture and the upcoming design for cloud-based architecture. through our AWS integrations and monitoring support. Fully conceptualizing capacity requirements.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 20, 2022

To keep our customers happy, we are constantly monitoring and reacting to any situation that makes a hungry customer angry instead of satisfied. And not to forget – besides our orders we are also monitoring the kitchen itself such as whether a kitchen is currently open and operating or how the internet connectivity to the central servers is.

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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

MAY 1, 2020

We anticipate massive growth in the popularity of this architecture in the coming quarters, driven additionally by companies’ push for cost reductions. We’re therefore happy to announce the Early Adopter release of OneAgent full-stack monitoring for Linux on the ARM 64-bit AArch64 architecture with OneAgent version 1.191.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

As Dynatrace is a leader in Cloud monitoring, we have architected our Software Intelligence Platform specifically to complement Kubernetes by providing extensive functionality to tame the complexities and prevent performance issues that can occur across the development and deployment cycles. Don’t underestimate complexity.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 27, 2023

Logs complement metrics and enable automation Cloud practitioners agree that observability, security, and automation go hand in hand. The increasing complexity of cloud service architectures requires a rock-solid understanding of the activity, health status, and security of cloud services.

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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.

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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.

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