The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 7, 2024

The Machine Learning Platform (MLP) team at Netflix provides an entire ecosystem of tools around Metaflow , an open source machine learning infrastructure framework we started, to empower data scientists and machine learning practitioners to build and manage a variety of ML systems. ETL workflows), as well as downstream (e.g.

Systems 226

Systems Media Cache Open Source 226

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.

Strategy 130

Strategy Monitoring Latency DevOps 130

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.

Monitoring 229

Monitoring Metrics DevOps Scalability 229

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

As we look at today’s applications, microservices, and DevOps teams, we see leaders are tasked with supporting complex distributed applications using new technologies spread across systems in multiple locations. The emerging concepts of working with DevOps metrics and DevOps KPIs have really come a long way. Deployment frequency.

DevOps 209

DevOps Metrics Traffic Efficiency 209

Dynatrace

APRIL 20, 2022

In October 2021, Dynatrace announced the availability of the Dynatrace Software Intelligence Platform on Google Cloud as a software as a service (SaaS) solution. Today, we are excited to announce this SaaS delivery model is now generally available (GA) to the public through Dynatrace sales channels. Dynatrace news.

Google 244

Google Availability Cloud Infrastructure 244

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?

DevOps 228

DevOps Efficiency Monitoring Infrastructure 228

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 18, 2023

For busy site reliability engineers, ensuring system reliability, scalability, and overall health is an imperative that’s getting harder to achieve in ever-expanding, cloud-native, container-based environments. To get a more granular look into telemetry data, many analysts rely on custom metrics using Prometheus.

Metrics 186

Metrics Engineering Energy Tuning 186

Dynatrace

MAY 17, 2022

For years, enterprises managed observability data on a team-by-team basis , using a combination of ticketing systems and configuration management tools. From a cost perspective, internal customers waste valuable time sending tickets to operations teams asking for metrics, logs, and traces to be enabled.

Availability 325

Availability Scalability Cloud Metrics 325

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 1, 2021

As dynamic systems architectures increase in complexity and scale, IT teams face mounting pressure to track and respond to conditions and issues across their multi-cloud environments. What is the difference between monitoring and observability? Is observability really monitoring by another name? Dynatrace news. In short, no.

Metrics 363

Metrics Open Source Monitoring Infrastructure 363

The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

To this end, we developed a Rapid Event Notification System (RENO) to support use cases that require server initiated communication with devices in a scalable and extensible manner. In this blog post, we will give an overview of the Rapid Event Notification System at Netflix and share some of the learnings we gained along the way.

Systems 334

Systems Traffic Architecture Mobile 334

Dynatrace

MAY 20, 2020

Dynatrace collects a huge number of metrics for each OneAgent-monitored host in your environment. Depending on the types of technologies you’re running on individual hosts, the average number of metrics is about 500 per computational node. Running metric queries on a subset of entities for live monitoring and system overviews.

Metrics 234

Metrics Operating System Tuning Monitoring 234

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.

Metrics 223

Metrics Lambda Infrastructure Monitoring 223

DZone

JUNE 16, 2023

This workshop is for you, designed to expand your knowledge and understanding of open-source observability tooling that is available to you today. Prometheus is an open-source systems monitoring and alerting tool kit that enables you to hit the ground running with discovering, collecting, and querying your observability today.

Metrics 177

Metrics Open Source Monitoring Design 177

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

The five key metrics to improve customer satisfaction To help turn this around, Dynatrace makes available its unified observability platform, which captures all CX interactions and transactions in an automated, intelligent manner – including user session replays. When combined, key metrics will generate an accurate CX index score.

Metrics 223

Metrics Government Website Monitoring 223

Dynatrace

JANUARY 12, 2022

Messaging systems can significantly improve the reliability, performance, and scalability of the communication processes between applications and services. In serverless and microservices architectures, messaging systems are often used to build asynchronous service-to-service communication. Dynatrace news. This is great!

Analytics 195

Analytics Systems DevOps Healthcare 195

Percona

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Percona Operators allow users to easily manage complex database systems in a Kubernetes environment. With Percona Operators , users can easily deploy, monitor, and manage databases orchestrated by Kubernetes, making it easier and more efficient to run databases at scale. Once captured, the metrics are exposed.

Metrics 70

Metrics Monitoring Database Cache 70

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Log management is an organization’s rules and policies for managing and enabling the creation, transmission, analysis, storage, and other tasks related to IT systems’ and applications’ log data. Metrics, logs , and traces make up three vital prongs of modern observability. Comparing log monitoring, log analytics, and log management.

Systems 192

Systems Cloud Analytics DevOps 192

Dynatrace

APRIL 7, 2022

Micrometer is used for instrumenting both out-of-the-box and custom metrics from Spring Boot applications. Davis topology-aware anomaly detection and alerting for your Micrometer metrics. Topology-related custom metrics for seamless reports and alerts. Micrometer uses a registry to export metrics to monitoring systems.

Metrics 216

Metrics Latency Java Cache 216

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 183

Best Practices Monitoring Wireless Traffic 183

Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Web developers or administrators did not have to worry or even consider the complexity of distributed systems of today. Great, your system was ready to be deployed. Once the system was deployed, to ensure everything was running smoothly, it only took a couple of simple checks to verify. What is a Distributed System?

Systems 74

Systems Monitoring Hardware Network 74

Dynatrace

MARCH 29, 2023

Besides establishing a secure and reliable environment, keeping up with system updates, implementing backup and recovery procedures, and setting up an adequate communication infrastructure with ticketing systems and other systems for tracking and managing changes and tasks, IT administrators must also monitor and maintain system performance.

Efficiency 130

Efficiency Monitoring Metrics Virtualization 130

Dynatrace

MAY 17, 2023

Anyone who’s concerned with developing, delivering, and operating software knows the importance of making software and the systems it runs on observable. That is, relying on metrics, logs, and traces to understand what software is doing and where it’s running into snags. OpenTelemetry is a free and open source take on observability.

Metrics 189

Metrics Open Source Traffic Cache 189

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.

Best Practices 130

Best Practices Cloud Monitoring Strategy 130

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. SLOs are specifically processed metrics that help businesses balance breakthroughs with reliability. What is SLO monitoring? But just establishing SLOs isn’t enough.

Monitoring 194

Monitoring DevOps Metrics Innovation 194

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 186

Monitoring Latency Metrics Availability 186

Dynatrace

MAY 24, 2023

Dynatrace is proud to provide deep monitoring support for Azure Linux as a container host operating system (OS) platform for Azure Kubernetes Services (AKS) to enable customers to operate efficiently and innovate faster. Today, it’s a generally available container host for AKS and AKS-HCI. Resource utilization management.

Azure 233

Azure Monitoring Operating System Virtualization 233

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 213

Monitoring Social Media IoT Metrics 213

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. Deploying your critical applications on additional host operating systems increases the dependencies for observability.

Operating System 214

Operating System Energy Infrastructure Architecture 214

Dynatrace

JANUARY 12, 2021

In Part 1 we explored how you can use the Davis AI to analyze your StatsD metrics. In Part 2 we showed how you can run multidimensional analysis for external metrics that are ingested via the OneAgent Metric API. In Part 3 we discussed how the Davis AI can analyze your metrics from scripting languages like Bash or PowerShell.

Metrics 185

Metrics Open Source Monitoring Analytics 185

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 9, 2020

If you’re running SAP, you’re likely already familiar with the HANA relational database management system. However, if you’re an operations engineer who’s been tasked with migrating to HANA from a legacy database system, you’ll need to get up to speed quickly. Avoid false positives with auto-adaptive baselining.

Infrastructure 209

Infrastructure Database Monitoring Metrics 209

The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 13, 2020

A metric crossed a threshold. 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. Our Node team needs a system that empowers a small group to operate a large fleet. By Andrei U.,

Monitoring 210

Monitoring Tuning Traffic Metrics 210

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

JUNE 28, 2022

Organizations can now accelerate innovation and reduce the risk of failed software releases by incorporating on-demand synthetic monitoring as a metrics provider for automatic, continuous release-validation processes. This metric indicates how quickly software can be released to production. Dynatrace news.

Monitoring 210

Monitoring Software Software DevOps 210

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Prometheus is an open-source monitoring and alerting toolkit for services and applications that run in containers. Prometheus collects metrics from a number endpoints that expose metrics in the OpenMetrics format. The Dynatrace AMP extension enables you to easily ingest Prometheus metrics into Dynatrace. Dynatrace news.

Technology 219

Technology Technology Monitoring AWS 219

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.

Infrastructure 185

Infrastructure Monitoring Artificial Intelligence Open Source 185

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.

Analytics 218

Analytics Monitoring Artificial Intelligence DevOps 218

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

In Part 1 we explored how you can use the Davis AI to analyze your StatsD metrics. Part 2 showed how to run multidimensional analysis for external metrics that are ingested via the OneAgent Metric API. In Part 3 we discussed how the Davis AI can analyze your metrics from scripting languages like Bash or PowerShell.

Metrics 169

Metrics Open Source Monitoring Technology 169