Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Even when the staging environment closely mirrors the production environment, achieving a complete replication of all potential scenarios, such as simulating extremely high traffic volumes to assess software performance, remains challenging. This can lead to a lack of insight into how the code will behave when exposed to heavy traffic.

Traffic 261

Traffic Best Practices Strategy Engineering 261

Dynatrace

APRIL 5, 2024

For a more proactive approach and to gain further visibility, other SLOs focusing on performance can be implemented. When the SLO status converges to an optimal value of 100%, and there’s substantial traffic (calls/min), BurnRate becomes more relevant for anomaly detection. What characterizes a weak SLO?

Efficiency 223

Efficiency Traffic Tuning Metrics 223

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. Business-critical applications typically rely on F5 for availability and success. Why monitor F5 BIG-IP load balancers?

Traffic 192

Traffic Virtualization Metrics Monitoring 192

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

As a MySQL database administrator, keeping a close eye on the performance of your MySQL server is crucial to ensure optimal database operations. A monitoring tool like Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) is a popular choice among open source options for effectively monitoring MySQL performance.

Performance 107

Performance Monitoring Traffic Database 107

Dynatrace

APRIL 13, 2023

The massive volumes of log data associated with a breach have made cybersecurity forensics a complicated, costly problem to solve. As organizations adopt more cloud-native technologies, observability data—telemetry from applications and infrastructure, including logs, metrics, and traces—and security data are converging.

Analytics 183

Analytics Java Infrastructure Cloud 183

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Benefits of quality gates Quality gates provide several advantages to organizations, including the following: Optimized software performance : Quality gates assess code at different SDLC stages and ensure that only high-quality code progresses. Several tools can be used to collect metrics in load/performance testing.

Speed 205

Speed Software Software Latency 205

Dynatrace

MAY 31, 2023

Keeping pace with modern digital transformation requires ensuring that applications are responsive, resilient, and always available amid increased complexity. With so many of their transactions occurring online, customers are becoming more demanding, expecting websites and applications to always perform perfectly.

Best Practices 221

Best Practices DevOps Latency Metrics 221

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Security analytics is a discipline within IT security that focuses on proactive threat prevention using data analysis. A proactive approach to application security is essential: by constantly collecting and analyzing data, security analytics enables teams to catch problems before they escalate.

Analytics 180

Analytics Engineering Cloud Traffic 180

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 7, 2024

Berg , Romain Cledat , Kayla Seeley , Shashank Srikanth , Chaoying Wang , Darin Yu Netflix uses data science and machine learning across all facets of the company, powering a wide range of business applications from our internal infrastructure and content demand modeling to media understanding.

Systems 226

Systems Media Cache Open Source 226

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 5, 2024

Each of these errors is a canceled request resulting in a retry so this reduction further reduces overall service traffic by this rate: Errors rates per second. We have several frameworks that periodically refresh large amounts of on-heap data to avoid external service calls for efficiency. There is no best garbage collector.

Latency 228

Latency Java Tuning Efficiency 228

Dynatrace

JULY 1, 2020

In my last blog , I’ve provided an example of this happening, whereby the traffic spiked and quadrupled the usual incoming traffic. Below is a step-by-step guide on how to do so, but if you’d prefer to watch the steps check out my Performance Clinic here. Step #1 Get to know UTM-parameters.

Traffic 264

Traffic Analytics Metrics Servers 264

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Part I: Overview Andreas Andreakis , Falguni Jhaveri , Ioannis Papapanagiotou , Mark Cho , Poorna Reddy , Tongliang Liu Overview It is a commonly observed pattern for applications to utilize multiple datastores where each is used to serve a specific need such as storing the canonical form of data (MySQL etc.), caching (Memcached etc.),

Transportation 192

Transportation Architecture Processing Storage 192

Dynatrace

APRIL 16, 2019

We’re proud to announce the general availability of OneAgent full-stack monitoring for the AIX operating system. While cloud-native applications often grab the lion’s share of headlines in the tech world, the data-center-native applications that many modern applications rely on still play an important role in nearly every industry.

Availability 103

Availability Monitoring Metrics Operating System 103

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Enhanced customer confidence through excellent service availability. Unified observability is the ability to know how systems and infrastructure are performing based on the data they generate, such as logs, metrics, and traces. Availability Observability helps banks meet availability SLAs for mission-critical services.

Cloud 220

Cloud Infrastructure Strategy Hardware 220

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 5, 2019

As a micro-service owner, a Netflix engineer is responsible for its innovation as well as its operation, which includes making sure the service is reliable, secure, efficient and performant. In the Reliability space, our data teams focus on two main approaches. Canaries ), detection and improved KPIs.

Infrastructure 182

Infrastructure Cloud Scalability AWS 182

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Cloud migration is the process of transferring some or all your data, software, and operations to a cloud-based computing environment that offers unlimited scale and high availability. With an on-prem data center, the organization bears the burden of securing the physical infrastructure and its digital assets.

Cloud 164

Cloud Traffic Best Practices Strategy 164

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 16, 2023

How do we make the data accessible beyond the use cases that Dynatrace gives you, beyond observability and security?” For Dynatrace customers, identifying root cause comes via Davis AI , the Grail data lakehouse , which unifies data silos, and Smartscape , which topologically maps all cloud entities and relationships.

Innovation 196

Innovation DevOps Cloud Efficiency 196

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

.” Through six years of research, the DORA team identified these four key metrics as those that indicate the performance of a DevOps team, ranking them from “low” to “elite,” where elite teams are twice as likely to meet or exceed their organizational performance goals. Deployment frequency.

DevOps 198

DevOps Metrics Traffic Efficiency 198

Dynatrace

MAY 6, 2020

Over the last two month s, w e’ve monito red key sites and applications across industries that have been receiving surges in traffic , including government, health insurance, retail, banking, and media. Readers who share our privacy concerns, please note, all the data we monitor is publicly available. .

Website 213

Website Monitoring Retail Media 213

The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 13, 2023

Migrating Critical Traffic At Scale with No Downtime — Part 2 Shyam Gala , Javier Fernandez-Ivern , Anup Rokkam Pratap , Devang Shah Picture yourself enthralled by the latest episode of your beloved Netflix series, delighting in an uninterrupted, high-definition streaming experience. This is where large-scale system migrations come into play.

Traffic 279

Traffic Metrics Systems Strategy 279

Dynatrace

JULY 25, 2022

VPC Flow Logs is a feature that gives you the capability to capture more robust IP traffic data that traverses your VPCs. Flow log data can be published to Amazon CloudWatch Logs or Amazon S3 after which you can retrieve and view its data in the Dynatrace Intelligent Observability Platform. What is VPC Flow Logs.

AWS 216

AWS Transportation Network Traffic 216

Dynatrace

MAY 17, 2023

OpenTelemetry, the open source observability tool, has emerged as an industry-standard solution for instrumenting application telemetry data to make it observable. Traditionally, organizations have relied solely on logging to monitor how applications perform, and that – generally – works fine in many cases.

Metrics 179

Metrics Open Source Traffic Cache 179

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 27, 2022

When organizations implement SLOs, they can improve software development processes and application performance. SLOs can be a great way for DevOps and infrastructure teams to use data and performance expectations to make decisions, such as whether to release and where engineers should focus their time. SLOs aid decision making.

Software 262

Software Software Benchmarking Latency 262

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

CDNs cache content on edge servers distributed globally, reducing the distance between users and the content they want.‍CDNs use load-balancing techniques to distribute incoming traffic across multiple servers called Points of Presence (PoPs) which distribute content closer to end-users and improve overall performance.

Architecture 52

Architecture Cache Performance Latency 52

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

CDNs use load-balancing techniques to distribute incoming traffic across multiple servers called Points of Presence (PoPs) which distribute content closer to end-users and improve overall performance. Five Nines availability or 99.999%, also referred to as "the gold standard" significantly reduces downtime (5.26

Architecture 52

Architecture Cache Performance Latency 52

Dotcom-Montior

MARCH 27, 2022

This project implements multiple techniques and tactics to censor China’s internet and controls the internet gateways to analyze, filter, and manipulate the internet traffic between inside and outside of China. It is the world’s most advanced and extensive Internet censorship program. The How and What of The Great Firewall of China.

Website 82

Website Internet Internet Performance 82

Dynatrace

MARCH 16, 2023

In the 2023 Perform session “SLOs done right: A practitioners guide,” Michael Cabrera, SRE lead at Vivint, and Andreas Grabner, DevSecOps activist at Dynatrace, break down the state of SLOs and discuss how teams can adopt successful SLOs, avoid less-than-ideal objectives, and ultimately build better SLOs.

DevOps 213

DevOps Latency Metrics Traffic 213

Dynatrace

MARCH 9, 2022

Therefore, it was unsurprising to see a huge spike in traffic for Family Visa enrollment via Metrash. Let’s start with the spike in load: The high demand on family visa enrollments resulted in a huge traffic and CPU spike. But where does all this data allocation come from? Now – this is not the end of the blog.

Java 221

Java Traffic Government Code 221

Dynatrace

APRIL 26, 2022

Understanding why a user is experiencing transactional or performance issues enables organizations to achieve greater observability that goes beyond metrics, traces and logs. It is proactive monitoring that simulates traffic with established test variables, including location, browser, network, and device type.

Monitoring 202

Monitoring Social Media IoT Metrics 202

Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

While there is no magic bullet for MySQL performance tuning, there are a few areas that can be focused on upfront that can dramatically improve the performance of your MySQL installation. What are the Benefits of MySQL Performance Tuning? Experiencing database performance issues?

Tuning 52

Tuning Database Performance Hardware 52

Percona

JANUARY 3, 2024

ProxySQL is a high-performance SQL proxy that runs as a daemon watched by a monitoring process. The daemon accepts incoming traffic from MySQL clients and forwards it to backend MySQL servers. These include runtime parameters, server grouping, and traffic-related settings. sec) File /var/lib/proxysql/proxybkp.cnf is saved.

Traffic 111

Traffic Hardware Cache Servers 111

Speed Curve

JULY 10, 2023

Demonstrating the impact of performance on your users – and on your business – is one of the best ways to get your company to care about the speed of your site. In 2010, the Performance and Reliability team I was fortunate enough to lead at Walmartlabs shared our findings around the impact of front-end times on conversion rates.

Performance 52

Performance Metrics Traffic Speed 52

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

In the worst case, you have to inform customers and the public about security breaches and stolen data. WAFs protect the network perimeter and monitor, filter, or block HTTP traffic. Compared to intrusion detection systems (IDS/IPS), WAFs are focused on the application traffic. How to get started.

Traffic 233

Traffic Benchmarking Innovation Java 233

Scalegrid

JANUARY 8, 2024

By analyzing real-time data, AI-based models can: Adjust the allocation of resources in response to demand Boost business performance Reduce unnecessary expenditures Lead to significant cost savings Improve scalability Operational Efficiency through Automation Automation is a significant way AI enhances cloud operations.

Artificial Intelligence 147

Artificial Intelligence Cloud Scalability Analytics 147

Scalegrid

APRIL 16, 2020

Each of these models is suitable for production deployments and high traffic applications, and are available for all of our supported databases, including MySQL , PostgreSQL , Redis™ and MongoDB® database ( Greenplum® database coming soon). Here are the databases and cloud providers supported through each model: Supported Databases.

Cloud 242

Cloud Azure AWS Database 242

Dynatrace

APRIL 22, 2020

While most government agencies and commercial enterprises have digital services in place, the current volume of usage — including traffic to critical employment, health and retail/eCommerce services — has reached levels that many organizations have never seen before or tested against.

Traffic 205

Traffic Ecommerce Retail Government 205

Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 25, 2020

This project implements multiple techniques and tactics to censor China’s internet and controls the internet gateways to analyze, filter, and manipulate the internet traffic between inside and outside of China. It is the world’s most advanced and extensive Internet censorship program. The How and What of The Great Firewall of China.

Website 97

Website Internet Internet Performance 97