The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 7, 2021

By Alok Tiagi , Hariharan Ananthakrishnan , Ivan Porto Carrero and Keerti Lakshminarayan Netflix has developed a network observability sidecar called Flow Exporter that uses eBPF tracepoints to capture TCP flows at near real time. Without having network visibility, it’s difficult to improve our reliability, security and capacity posture.

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DZone

JULY 12, 2023

In today's digital landscape, businesses heavily rely on content delivery networks (CDNs) to ensure efficient and reliable delivery of their web content to users across the globe. However, the extended infrastructure of CDNs requires diligent monitoring to ensure optimal performance and identify potential issues.

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Infrastructure Monitoring Website Performance Website 244

Dynatrace

JANUARY 11, 2023

In fact, according to a Dynatrace global survey of 1,300 CIOs , 99% of enterprises utilize a multicloud environment and seven cloud monitoring solutions on average. What is cloud monitoring? Cloud monitoring is a set of solutions and practices used to observe, measure, analyze, and manage the health of cloud-based IT infrastructure.

Cloud 224

Cloud Monitoring Best Practices Infrastructure 224

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Constantly monitoring infrastructure health state and making ongoing optimizations are essential for Ops teams, SREs (site-reliability engineers), and IT admins. Quick and easy network infrastructure monitoring. Tired of constantly switching between all your monitoring tools? Start monitoring in minutes.

Network 213

Network Infrastructure Virtualization Metrics 213

Dynatrace

MAY 8, 2023

With the world’s increased reliance on digital services and the organizational pressure on IT teams to innovate faster, the need for DevOps monitoring tools has grown exponentially. But when and how does DevOps monitoring fit into the process? And how do DevOps monitoring tools help teams achieve DevOps efficiency?

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Scalegrid

DECEMBER 21, 2023

In today’s data-driven world, the ability to effectively monitor and manage data is of paramount importance. With its widespread use in modern application architectures, understanding the ins and outs of Redis® monitoring is essential for any tech professional. Redis®, a powerful in-memory data store, is no exception.

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Strategy Monitoring Latency DevOps 130

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 1, 2020

The Dynatrace Software Intelligence Platform gives you a complete Infrastructure Monitoring solution for the monitoring of cloud platforms and virtual infrastructure, along with log monitoring and AIOps. Ensure high quality network traffic by tracking DNS requests out-of-the-box. What’s next.

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Traffic Network Infrastructure Artificial Intelligence 264

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

The nirvana state of system uptime at peak loads is known as “five-nines availability.” In its pursuit, IT teams hover over system performance dashboards hoping their preparations will deliver five nines—or even four nines—availability. But is five nines availability attainable? Downtime per year. 90% (one nine).

Infrastructure 185

Infrastructure Availability Systems Retail 185

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 18, 2023

To get a more granular look into telemetry data, many analysts rely on custom metrics using Prometheus. Named after the Greek god who brought fire down from Mount Olympus, Prometheus metrics have been transforming observability since the project’s inception in 2012.

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Metrics Engineering Energy Tuning 180

Dynatrace

JUNE 17, 2019

Juniper Network devices help enterprises connect and secure their applications, data, and services. These devices run on Juniper’s Junos OS, which doesn’t permit the installation of third-party monitoring solutions. This has made our OneAgent-based monitoring approach infeasible for these devices. Dynatrace news.

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Network Availability Metrics Monitoring 104

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

The emerging concepts of working with DevOps metrics and DevOps KPIs have really come a long way. DevOps metrics to help you meet your DevOps goals. Like any IT or business project, you’ll need to track critical key metrics. Here are nine key DevOps metrics and DevOps KPIs that will help you be successful.

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DevOps Metrics Traffic Efficiency 203

Scalegrid

JANUARY 11, 2024

Cloud security monitoring is key—identifying threats in real-time and mitigating risks before they escalate. The automatic nature also allows for quick response times in addressing any identified security concerns making it an ideal solution for effective cloud security monitoring.

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Best Practices Cloud Monitoring Strategy 130

Dynatrace

APRIL 26, 2022

Fast, consistent application delivery creates a positive user experience that can ultimately drive customer loyalty and improve business metrics like conversion rate and user retention. What is digital experience monitoring? Primary digital experience monitoring tools.

Monitoring 206

Monitoring Social Media IoT Metrics 206

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Dynatrace has recently extended its Kubernetes operator by adding a new feature, the Prometheus OpenMetrics Ingest , which enables you to import Prometheus metrics in Dynatrace and build SLO and anomaly detection dashboards with Prometheus data. Here we’ll explore how to collect Prometheus metrics and what you can achieve with them.

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Metrics Infrastructure Open Source Database 203

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? RUM gathers information on a variety of performance metrics.

Best Practices 177

Best Practices Monitoring Wireless Traffic 177

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 16, 2024

How To Monitor And Optimize Google Core Web Vitals How To Monitor And Optimize Google Core Web Vitals Matt Zeunert 2024-04-16T10:00:00+00:00 2024-04-16T12:05:36+00:00 This article is sponsored by DebugBear Google’s Core Web Vitals initiative has increased the attention website owners need to pay to user experience.

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Google Monitoring Website Speed 105

Dynatrace

JUNE 25, 2020

Dynatrace Managed is intrinsically highly available as it stores three copies of all events, user sessions, and metrics across its cluster nodes. The network latency between cluster nodes should be around 10 ms or less. Near-zero RPO and RTO—monitoring continues seamlessly and without data loss in failover scenarios.

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Availability Hardware Latency Traffic 249

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.

Monitoring 180

Monitoring Latency Metrics Availability 180

Dynatrace

MAY 17, 2023

That is, relying on metrics, logs, and traces to understand what software is doing and where it’s running into snags. In addition to tracing, observability also defines two other key concepts, metrics and logs. When software runs in a monolithic stack on on-site servers, observability is manageable enough. What is OpenTelemetry?

Metrics 182

Metrics Open Source Traffic Cache 182

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. Dynatrace news.

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Infrastructure Monitoring Artificial Intelligence Open Source 180

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. Installation.

Availability 103

Availability Monitoring Metrics Operating System 103

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

To overcome these complex issues, teams must quickly find root causes among numerous alerts and metrics. Based on the topology model, detected dependencies, and thousands of events and metrics, Davis AI can pinpoint the origin of an issue. Focusing on a particular data center reveals a detailed list of all the monitored hosts.

Infrastructure 183

Infrastructure Metrics Network Monitoring 183

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Easily monitor your Nutanix clusters with Dynatrace The Dynatrace Nutanix Cluster Extension offers straightforward yet powerful features to help you streamline your monitoring with an easy one-click activation via Dynatrace Hub. However, this approach doesn’t provide seamless monitoring coverage.

Virtualization 195

Virtualization Storage Metrics Monitoring 195

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. A log is a detailed, timestamped record of an event generated by an operating system, computing environment, application, server, or network device.

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Analytics Monitoring Artificial Intelligence DevOps 211

Dynatrace

MAY 3, 2024

Log data—the most verbose form of observability data, complementing other standardized signals like metrics and traces—is especially critical. SREs and DevOps engineers need cloud logs in an integrated observability platform to monitor the whole software development lifecycle. Managing this change is difficult.

Cloud 205

Cloud Lambda AWS Analytics 205

Dynatrace

MARCH 18, 2024

Empowering teams to manage their FinOps practices, however, requires teams to have access to reliable multicloud monitoring and analysis data. Flexible pricing models that offer discounts based on commitment or availability can greatly reduce cloud waste. On-demand payment is the most expensive pricing option.

Best Practices 235

Best Practices Strategy Cloud AWS 235

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Don’t worry, when it comes to SAP monitoring, Dynatrace has you covered. Dynatrace ActiveGate extensions allow you to integrate Dynatrace monitoring with any remote technology that exposes an interface. Today we’re proud to announce that we’ve extended our SAP monitoring capabilities to support SAP HANA databases.

Infrastructure 203

Infrastructure Database Monitoring Metrics 203

CSS Wizardry

JUNE 30, 2023

I never thought I’d write an article in defence of DOMContentLoaded , but here it is… For many, many years now, performance engineers have been making a concerted effort to move away from technical metrics such as Load , and toward more user-facing, UX metrics such as Speed Index or Largest Contentful Paint. Or are they…?

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Metrics Google Monitoring Analytics 326

Dynatrace

APRIL 23, 2019

Synthetic monitors provide a perfect means of continually monitoring the performance baselines of your web applications. However, understanding the performance of different application types requires an emphasis on different performance metrics, that is, key performance metrics. Pick the best metrics for your application.

Metrics 102

Metrics Monitoring Performance Speed 102

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

Traffic 196

Traffic Virtualization Metrics Monitoring 196

Dynatrace

APRIL 20, 2020

With Dynatrace Infrastructure Monitoring you get a complete solution for the monitoring of cloud platforms and virtual infrastructure, along with log monitoring and AIOps. Monitor any infrastructure component and backing service that’s written in Java. Monitor additional metrics. How to get access.

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Infrastructure Metrics Java Virtualization 151

Dynatrace

JULY 23, 2020

With the advent and ingestion of thousands of custom metrics into Dynatrace, we’ve once again pushed the boundaries of automatic, AI-based root cause analysis with the introduction of auto-adaptive baselines as a foundational concept for Dynatrace topology-driven timeseries measurements. In many cases, metric behavior changes over time.

Metrics 213

Metrics Innovation Strategy Monitoring 213

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). Monitoring the enterprise cloud poses many challenges when it comes to scale. Dynatrace news.

Availability 180

Availability Best Practices Monitoring Network 180

Dynatrace

MARCH 14, 2023

Available directly from the AWS Marketplace , Dynatrace provides full-stack observability and AI to help IT teams optimize the resiliency of their cloud applications from the user experience down to the underlying operating system, infrastructure, and services. Auto-detection starts monitoring new virtual machines as they are deployed.

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AWS Lambda Serverless Virtualization 283

Dynatrace

APRIL 8, 2021

But this approach introduced new complexity and a need for more advanced cloud monitoring capabilities. Dynatrace’s cloud monitoring capabilities are helping Porsche Informatik to simplify complexity and drive improved digital experiences for customers. Simplifying complexity with cloud monitoring.

Cloud 229

Cloud Monitoring Automotive Infrastructure 229

Dynatrace

MAY 31, 2023

Keeping pace with modern digital transformation requires ensuring that applications are responsive, resilient, and always available amid increased complexity. As a result, site reliability has emerged as a critical success metric for many organizations. However, cloud complexity has made software delivery challenging.

Best Practices 225

Best Practices DevOps Latency Metrics 225

Dynatrace

MARCH 22, 2021

The monitoring challenges of on-premises environments. As a Network Engineer, you need to ensure the operational functionality, availability, efficiency, backup/recovery, and security of your company’s network. Our new extension framework now makes it a no-brainer to start monitoring your SNMP protocols.

Metrics 244

Metrics Network Infrastructure Traffic 244