The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 1, 2023

To do this, we devised a novel way to simulate the projected traffic weeks ahead of launch by building upon the traffic migration framework described here. New content or national events may drive brief spikes, but, by and large, traffic is usually smoothly increasing or decreasing.

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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. Our Premium High Availability comes with the following features: Active-active deployment model for optimum hardware utilization. Minimized cross-data center network traffic.

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Dynatrace

MAY 3, 2024

Log data—the most verbose form of observability data, complementing other standardized signals like metrics and traces—is especially critical. Take the example of Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) flow logs, which provide insights into the IP traffic of your network interfaces. Managing this change is difficult.

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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. It serves as a crucial component between applications and users.

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Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

To make data count and to ensure cloud computing is unabated, companies and organizations must have highly available databases. This guide provides an overview of what high availability means, the components involved, how to measure high availability, and how to achieve it. How does high availability work?

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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. That’s why good communication between SREs and DevOps teams is important.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 25, 2023

These signals ( latency, traffic, errors, and saturation ) provide a solid means of proactively monitoring operative systems via SLOs and tracking business success. While this connection might sound simple, finding the right metrics to measure the needed SLIs takes time and effort.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Welcome to the blog series where we give you a deeper dive into the latest awesomeness around Dynatrace : how we bring scale, zero configuration, automatic AI driven alerting, and root cause analysis to all your custom metrics, including open source observability frameworks like StatsD, Telegraf, and Prometheus.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Exploratory data analytics is an analysis method that uses visualizations, including graphs and charts, to help IT teams investigate emerging data trends and circumvent issues, such as unexpected traffic spikes or performance degradations. Start by asking yourself what’s there, whether it’s logs, metrics, or traces.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2023

Certain SLOs can help organizations get started on measuring and delivering metrics that matter. 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.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2023

Certain service-level objective examples can help organizations get started on measuring and delivering metrics that matter. These organizations rely heavily on performance, availability, and user satisfaction to drive sales and retain customers. Availability is typically expressed in 9’s, such as 99.9%. or 99.99% availability.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 10, 2023

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. Existing data got updated to be backward compatible without impacting the existing running production traffic. For asynchronous processing, events are sent to Apache Kafka topics to be processed.

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

What is 5 Nines Availability?In determining a business's value to its clients, the level of service it provides is often a key metric. However, consumers often prioritize availability in many systems. Within this range, Five Nines availability is often considered the gold standard for availability in critical systems.

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

What is 5 Nines Availability?In determining a business's value to its clients, the level of service it provides is often a key metric. However, consumers often prioritize availability in many systems. Within this range, Five Nines availability is often considered the gold standard for availability in critical systems.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 27, 2022

By implementing service-level objectives, teams can avoid collecting and checking a huge amount of metrics for each service. When organizations implement SLOs, they can improve software development processes and application performance. The performance SLO needs a custom SLI metric, which you can configure as follows.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

VPC Flow Logs is an Amazon service that enables IT pros to capture information about the IP traffic that traverses network interfaces in a virtual private cloud, or VPC. By default, each record captures a network internet protocol (IP), a destination, and the source of the traffic flow that occurs within your environment.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Streamline development and delivery processes Nowadays, digital transformation strategies are executed by almost every organization across all industries. SREs use Service-Level Indicators (SLI) to see the complete picture of service availability, latency, performance, and capacity across various systems, especially revenue-critical systems.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 16, 2019

We’re proud to announce the general availability of OneAgent full-stack monitoring for the AIX operating system. Monitoring IBM Power Systems isn’t a simple task, due to its specific architecture, there aren’t many tools available on the market. The ones that are available are old generation. Dynatrace news.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 11, 2023

With more organizations taking the multicloud plunge, monitoring cloud infrastructure is critical to ensure all components of the cloud computing stack are available, high-performing, and secure. These next-generation cloud monitoring tools present reports — including metrics, performance, and incident detection — visually via dashboards.

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Dynatrace

MAY 17, 2023

Making applications observable—relying on metrics, logs, and traces to understand what software is doing and how it’s performing—has become increasingly important as workloads are shifting to multicloud environments. We also introduced our demo app and explained how to define the metrics and traces it uses. What is OneAgent?

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Dynatrace

MARCH 16, 2023

Enterprises now have access to myriad metrics they can track and measure, but an abundance of choice doesn’t equal actionable insight. Indeed, 54% of SREs say they handle too many metrics, making it increasingly difficult to find the most relevant ones for a particular service, according to the Dynatrace State of SRE Report.

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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. A full list of metrics can be found here and include dimensions such as the following: Packets. Log Metrics. What is VPC Flow Logs. The number of packets transferred during the flow. Resource type.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 22, 2021

As a Network Engineer, you need to ensure the operational functionality, availability, efficiency, backup/recovery, and security of your company’s network. As you might know, we recently simplified observability for all custom metrics by making it possible to ingest hundreds of custom data sources into Dynatrace. Events and alerts.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Furthermore, with this update you can: Get insights into connection pool metrics in context with the applications and services that use them. Get insights into connection pool metrics in context with the applications and services that use them. On the overview page you’ll find the metrics aggregated across all detected pools.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

The short answer: The three pillars of observability—logs, metrics, and traces—converging on a data lakehouse. The goal is to turn more data into insights so the whole organization can make data-driven decisions and automate processes. Grail can store and process 1,000 petabytes per day,” Greifeneder explains.

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Dynatrace

MAY 8, 2023

But when and how does DevOps monitoring fit into the process? The process involves monitoring various components of the software delivery pipeline, including applications, infrastructure, networks, and databases. In addition, monitoring DevOps processes provide the following benefits: Improve system performance.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Open-source metric sources automatically map to our Smartscape model for AI analytics. We’ve just enhanced Dynatrace OneAgent with an open metric API. Here’s a quick overview of what you can achieve now that the Dynatrace Software Intelligence Platform has been extended to ingest third-party metrics. Dynatrace news.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Setting aside APRA’s mandate and the heavy fines and penalties of non-compliance – it’s in companies’ best interests to undergo the process of identifying, assessing, and mitigating operational risk within the business. Enhanced customer confidence through excellent service availability.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Synthetic testing is an IT process that uses software to discover and diagnose performance issues with user journeys by simulating real-user activity. Types of synthetic testing There are three broad types of synthetic testing: availability, web performance, and transaction. HTTP monitors.

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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.

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Dynatrace

MAY 6, 2021

Self-service update packages management is now available. You can safe your disk space and have more control over what’s available to your cluster . To improve management of node capabilities , we added Enable/disable Web UI traffic operation for cluster node in Cluster Mission Control UI. APM-294723). APM-290958).

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Dynatrace is fully committed to the OpenTelemetry community and to the seamless integration of OpenTelemetry data , including ingestion of custom metrics , into the Dynatrace open analytics platform. With Dynatrace OneAgent you also benefit from support for traffic routing and traffic control.

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Dynatrace

MAY 19, 2022

Every organization’s goal is to keep its systems available and resilient to support business demands. However, many teams struggle with knowing which ones to use and how to incorporate them into the processes. They knew a different team supported each step in the process. What are SLOs? Initial SLO management dashboard.

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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. It is proactive monitoring that simulates traffic with established test variables, including location, browser, network, and device type.

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Dynatrace

MAY 21, 2021

This becomes even more challenging when the application receives heavy traffic, because a single microservice might become overwhelmed if it receives too many requests too quickly. Management processes make up the control plane, which coordinates the proxies’ behavior. Why do you need a service mesh?

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The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 30, 2021

For example, when running tests, the state of the device will change from “available for testing” to “in test.” The challenge, then, is to be able to ingest and process these events in a scalable manner, i.e., scaling with the number of devices, which will be the focus of this blog post.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

HDR was launched at Netflix in 2016 and the number of titles available in HDR has been growing ever since. 1) depicts the migration of traffic from fixed bitrates to DO encodes. 1: Migration of traffic from fixed-ladder encodes to DO encodes. We started backfilling HDR-DO encodes for existing titles from Q2 2022.

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