The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 1, 2022

Data Mesh?—?A A Data Movement and Processing Platform @ Netflix By Bo Lei , Guilherme Pires , James Shao , Kasturi Chatterjee , Sujay Jain , Vlad Sydorenko Background Realtime processing technologies (A.K.A After evaluating the options , the team has decided to create Data Mesh as our next generation data pipeline solution.

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Processing Transportation Entertainment Tuning 272

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Dynatrace HTTP monitors help you to ensure that your APIs are available and performing well from all locations around the world in compliance with your SLAs. As we’re seeing an ever-increasing interest in HTTP monitor usage, we’ve also received quite a bit of feedback from our customers.

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Monitoring Mobile Availability Design 240

Dynatrace

AUGUST 3, 2020

A key part of monitoring your Windows hosts are Windows services (i.e., Windows-based infrastructure monitoring. There can be thousands of services depending on which technology you use and which aspects of monitoring you’re interested in. For example: To provide support, you need a remote desktop service to be available.

Infrastructure 153

Infrastructure Availability Monitoring Operating System 153

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

As an industry leader, Dynatrace promotes primarily using software and AI to deal with this complexity at scale instead of just putting data on dashboards. Does that mean that reactive and exploratory data analysis, often done manually and with the help of dashboards, are dead? Why today’s data analytics solutions still fail us.

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Metrics Analytics Monitoring Efficiency 217

Dynatrace

JANUARY 23, 2024

AI data analysis can help development teams release software faster and at higher quality. So how can organizations ensure data quality, reliability, and freshness for AI-driven answers and insights? And how can they take advantage of AI without incurring skyrocketing costs to store, manage, and query data?

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Performance DevOps Innovation Artificial Intelligence 176

Dynatrace

JUNE 27, 2022

As businesses compete for customer loyalty, it’s critical to understand the difference between real-user monitoring and synthetic user monitoring. However, not all user monitoring systems are created equal. What is real user monitoring? Real-time monitoring of user application and service interactions.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Modern applications—enterprise and consumer—increasingly depend on third-party services to create a fast, seamless, and highly available experience for the end-user. As a result, API monitoring has become a must for DevOps teams. So what is API monitoring? What is API Monitoring? The need for API monitoring.

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Monitoring Latency Metrics Availability 169

Dynatrace

MARCH 31, 2021

Amazon CloudWatch gathers metric data from various services that run on AWS. Dynatrace ingests this data to perform root-cause analysis using the Dynatrace Davis® AI engine. This allows for fast and direct push of metric data from the source to Dynatrace. Currently Dynatrace requests CloudWatch data every five minutes.

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AWS Metrics Availability Lambda 147

Scalegrid

JANUARY 25, 2024

You will need to know which monitoring metrics for Redis to watch and a tool to monitor these critical server metrics to ensure its health. This blog post lists the important database metrics to monitor. Effective monitoring of key performance indicators plays a crucial role in maintaining this optimal speed of operation.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

This trend is prompting advances in both observability and monitoring. But exactly what are the differences between observability vs. monitoring? Monitoring and observability provide a two-pronged approach. To get a better understanding of observability vs monitoring, we’ll explore the differences between the two.

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Monitoring Metrics DevOps Scalability 209

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Grail: Enterprise-ready data lakehouse Grail, the Dynatrace causational data lakehouse, was explicitly designed for observability and security data, with artificial intelligence integrated into its foundation. Tables are a physical data model, essentially the type of observability data that you can store.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Some time ago, at a restaurant near Boston, three Dynatrace colleagues dined and discussed the growing data challenge for enterprises. At its core, this challenge involves a rapid increase in the amount—and complexity—of data collected within a company. Work with different and independent data types. Thus, Grail was born.

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Artificial Intelligence Analytics Storage Architecture 257

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 3, 2022

by Jasmine Omeke , Obi-Ike Nwoke , Olek Gorajek Intro This post is for all data practitioners, who are interested in learning about bootstrapping, standardization and automation of batch data pipelines at Netflix. You may remember Dataflow from the post we wrote last year titled Data pipeline asset management with Dataflow.

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Best Practices Code Testing Data Engineering 358

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Synthetic monitoring can help to confirm your applications are performing as intended and, in the event they’re not, help you quickly figure out what’s going on. Here’s a look at what synthetic monitoring is, how it’s different from real-user monitoring, and why it matters to your business.

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Monitoring Mobile Website Performance 217

Dynatrace

MARCH 15, 2024

As organizations strive for observability and data democratization, OpenTelemetry emerges as a key technology to create and transfer observability data. Understanding OpenTelemetry OpenTelemetry is an open, vendor-neutral standard for creating, collecting, and transferring telemetry data, like traces, metrics, and logs.

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Open Source Best Practices Infrastructure Tuning 130

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 10, 2023

This platform has evolved from supporting studio applications to data science applications, machine-learning applications to discover the assets metadata, and build various data facts. Hence we built the data pipeline that can be used to extract the existing assets metadata and process it specifically to each new use case.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JULY 26, 2021

From the moment a Netflix film or series is pitched and long before it becomes available on Netflix, it goes through many phases. Operational Reporting is a reporting paradigm specialized in covering high-resolution, low-latency data sets, serving detailed day-to-day activities¹ and processes of a business domain.

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Dynatrace

MAY 23, 2024

Dynatrace ® AppEngine features a no- and low-code toolset and leverages Davis AI to empower teams to easily create and share custom, intelligent, and secure apps that leverage insights from data generated by their clouds. The following figure shows the benefits of Azure Native Dynatrace Service.

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Azure Cloud Metrics Innovation 213

Percona

JUNE 9, 2023

Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) boasts many functionalities that support its extension, be it by using Custom Queries, Custom Scripts, or by collecting data from already available External Exporters. In this short blog post, we will see how to quickly (and easily) monitor a PostgreSQL cluster managed by Patroni.

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Monitoring Metrics Open Source Database 124

Dynatrace

APRIL 26, 2022

Digital experience monitoring (DEM) allows an organization to optimize customer experiences by taking into account the context surrounding digital experience metrics. What is digital experience monitoring? DEM can give organizations business observability—insight into the effects of user experience on the bottom line.

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Monitoring Social Media IoT Metrics 192

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Many of our customers—the world’s largest enterprises—have embraced the Dynatrace SaaS approach to monitoring, which provides critical business insights powered by AI and automation for globally-distributed, heterogeneous IT landscapes. New self-monitoring environment provides out-of-the-box insights and custom alerting.

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Monitoring Metrics Analytics Processing 184

The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 13, 2020

You’re not yet convinced there’s a real problem but you’re also aware that the clock is ticking as you dig through a mountain of data looking for clues. Our streaming teams need a monitoring system that enables them to quickly diagnose and remediate problems; seconds count! Mantis real-time streaming data. So we built Telltale.

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Monitoring Tuning Traffic Metrics 210

Dynatrace

MARCH 16, 2022

Over the last year, Dynatrace extended its AI-powered log monitoring capabilities by providing support for all log data sources. We added monitoring and analytics for log streams from Kubernetes and multicloud platforms like AWS, GCP, and Azure, as well as the most widely used open-source log data frameworks.

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Metrics Lambda Infrastructure Monitoring 203

Scalegrid

AUGUST 22, 2019

In our previous blog posts, we discussed the capabilities and functioning of PostgreSQL Automatic Failover (PAF) by Cluster Labs and Replication Manager (repmgr) by 2ndQuadrant. Managing High Availability in PostgreSQL – Part I: PostgreSQL Automatic Failover. Managing High Availability in PostgreSQL – Part II: Replication Manager.

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Availability Servers Network Open Source 277

Dynatrace

APRIL 16, 2019

We’re proud to announce the general availability of OneAgent full-stack monitoring for the AIX operating system. We’ve already reached a percentage of monitored AIX hosts running OneAgent that is equivalent to AIX market share. The ones that are available are old generation. Fear no more! Installation.

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Availability Monitoring Metrics Operating System 102

Dynatrace

JUNE 15, 2021

The path to “Architected for Resiliency” is long, but it clearly pays off in the long run, especially when outages occur, as I want to show you in this blog post. The subject line said: “Success Story: Major Issue in single AWS Frankfurt Availability Zone!” Ready to learn more? Then read on! Fact #1: AWS EC2 outage properly documented.

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AWS Traffic Architecture Azure 179

Dynatrace

JULY 21, 2020

Dynatrace OneAgent is great for monitoring the full stack. You could of course create a custom device in Dynatrace and send data to it using our API or an ActiveGate extension. While this will give you a lot of information about the health of these components, sometimes a simple synthetic monitor is sufficient. Dynatrace news.

Infrastructure 151

Infrastructure Monitoring Open Source Traffic 151

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). Visualize data from multiple environments on a single dashboard.

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Availability Best Practices Monitoring Network 172

Dynatrace

AUGUST 16, 2022

The data locked in your log files can be a goldmine for your application developers, operations teams, and your enterprise as a whole. However, it can be complicated , expensive , or even impossible to set up robust observability that makes use of this data. Log format inconsistency makes it a challenge to access critical data.

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Processing Metrics Monitoring Java 178

Dynatrace

APRIL 17, 2024

With the availability of Linux on IBM Z and LinuxONE, the IBM Z platform brings a familiar host operating system and sustainability that could yield up to 75% energy reduction compared to x86 servers. It’s also easy to minimize the risk of violating data access policies or regulations by masking sensitive data in logs.

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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.

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Infrastructure Monitoring Artificial Intelligence Open Source 172

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Dynatrace and the Dynatrace Intelligent Observability Platform have added support for the newly introduced Amazon VPC Flow Logs to Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose. This support enables customers to define specific endpoint delivery of real-time streaming data to platforms such as Dynatrace. What is VPC Flow Logs? Why Dynatrace?

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Dynatrace

JUNE 26, 2020

With today’s high expectations for the speed and availability of applications, you need a deep understanding of real user experiences to make the best business decisions. Dynatrace Synthetic Monitoring ensures that your application is available and performs well from anywhere in the world to meet your SLAs. Dynatrace news.

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Monitoring Azure AWS Traffic 249

Dynatrace

AUGUST 5, 2020

Dynatrace Synthetic Monitoring allows you to proactively monitor the availability of your public as well as your internal web applications and API endpoints from locations around the globe or important internal locations such as branch offices. Synthetic monitors help you find issues before they affect your customers.

Metrics 203

Metrics Monitoring Performance Benchmarking 203

Dynatrace

AUGUST 16, 2023

SLO monitoring and alerting on SLOs using error-budget burn rates are critical capabilities that can help organizations achieve that goal. Without implementing robust SLO monitoring, anomaly detection, and alerting on SLOs, teams can miss issues that breach defined quality targets. What is SLO monitoring?

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Monitoring DevOps Metrics Innovation 175

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Streamline privacy requirements with flexible retention periods Data retention is a critical aspect of data handling, and it’s not just about privacy compliance—it’s about having the flexibility to optimize data storage times in Grail for your Dynatrace use cases. Grail buckets function like folders in a file system.

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Storage Healthcare Best Practices Speed 159

Dynatrace

MARCH 16, 2021

We’re excited to announce our verified HashiCorp Terraform integration is now available for Dynatrace customers. With this integration, Dynatrace customers can now leverage Terraform to manage their monitoring infrastructure as code,” said Asad Ali, Senior Director of Sales Engineering at Dynatrace. What is monitoring as code?

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