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Real user monitoring vs. synthetic monitoring: Understanding best practices

Dynatrace

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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Manage your monitoring as code with Dynatrace’s HashiCorp Terraform integration

Dynatrace

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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Ensuring the Successful Launch of Ads on Netflix

The Netflix TechBlog

We informed our engineering and business partners, including customer support, about the experiment and ramped up traffic incrementally while monitoring the success and error metrics through Lumen dashboards. We also constructed and checked our ad monitoring and alerting system during this period.

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Service level objectives: 5 SLOs to get started

Dynatrace

These organizations rely heavily on performance, availability, and user satisfaction to drive sales and retain customers. Availability Availability SLO quantifies the expected level of service availability over a specific time period. Availability is typically expressed in 9’s, such as 99.9%. or 99.99% of the time.

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Service level objective examples: 5 SLO examples for faster, more reliable apps

Dynatrace

These organizations rely heavily on performance, availability, and user satisfaction to drive sales and retain customers. Availability Availability SLO quantifies the expected level of service availability over a specific time period. Availability is typically expressed in 9’s, such as 99.9%. or 99.99% of the time.

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Migrating Critical Traffic At Scale with No Downtime?—?Part 1

The Netflix TechBlog

The second phase involves migrating the traffic over to the new systems in a manner that mitigates the risk of incidents while continually monitoring and confirming that we are meeting crucial metrics tracked at multiple levels. It provides a good read on the availability and latency ranges under different production conditions.

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Efficient SLO event integration powers successful AIOps

Dynatrace

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.” However, it’s essential to exercise caution: Limit the quantity of SLOs while ensuring they are well-defined and aligned with business and functional objectives.