Dynatrace

JULY 18, 2023

Configuration files allow for the automatic creation, update, and management of configurations for dashboards, synthetic monitors, alerts, SLOs, and security settings across multiple environments. Stay tuned for more examples and easy-to-adopt automations provided in our public Github project.

Best Practices 188

Best Practices Code Infrastructure Latency 188

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

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Stay tuned for an upcoming blog series where we’ll give you a more hands-on walkthrough of how to ingest any kind of data from StatsD, Telegraf, Prometheus, scripting languages, or our integrated REST API. Once you send metrics via the OneAgent REST API, the relevant hosts are automatically enriched with all available monitoring dimensions.

Open Source 254

Open Source Metrics Analytics Tuning 254

Brendan Gregg

DECEMBER 31, 2017

My last talk for 2017 was at AWS re:Invent, on "How Netflix Tunes EC2 Instances for Performance," an updated version of my [2014] talk. Our team looks after the BaseAMI, kernel tuning, OS performance tools and profilers, and self-service tools like Vector. Casey Rosenthal (traffic and chaos) Models of Availability.

Tuning 61

Tuning AWS Best Practices Network 61

Brendan Gregg

DECEMBER 30, 2017

My last talk for 2017 was at AWS re:Invent, on "How Netflix Tunes EC2 Instances for Performance," an updated version of my [2014] talk. Our team looks after the BaseAMI, kernel tuning, OS performance tools and profilers, and self-service tools like Vector. Casey Rosenthal (traffic and chaos) Models of Availability.

Tuning 52

Tuning AWS Best Practices Network 52

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 22, 2020

This will allow you to monitor your application based on business metrics and trigger an alert if those metrics deviate from what’s normal for you app. To solve this, we’ve made the same Metric API available for OneAgent. The interface rejects any traffic that doesn’t originate from localhost.

Metrics 167

Metrics Open Source Tuning Traffic 167

Percona

MARCH 6, 2023

Validate the formula output and compare it with the information you can get from Percona Management and Monitoring (PMM). If you want an answer based on detailed information about your database usage and patterns, it’s recommended to use Percona Management and Monitoring. So you won’t have downtime if you need to tune this.

Tuning 92

Tuning Open Source Database Engineering 92

Percona

DECEMBER 13, 2023

MySQL 8 introduces Error Log Filtering as a mechanism to fine-tune the error log, allowing administrators to focus on the most critical issues. This is particularly beneficial in high-traffic environments where minimizing log noise is crucial for efficient log analysis. Try Percona Distribution for MySQL today!

Database 97

Database Open Source Tuning Traffic 97

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.” As such, we can see that the traffic load on the Device Management Platform’s control plane is very dynamic over time. the former for access to the Kafka clusters and the latter for service monitoring and alerts.

Latency 213

Latency Traffic Transportation Cloud 213

The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 13, 2020

You’re half awake and wondering, “Is there really a problem or is this just an alert that needs tuning? 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. Regional traffic evacuations.

Monitoring 210

Monitoring Tuning Traffic Metrics 210

Dynatrace

JUNE 26, 2020

With today’s high expectations for the speed and availability of applications, you need a deep understanding of real user experiences to make the best business decisions. Dynatrace Synthetic Monitoring ensures that your application is available and performs well from anywhere in the world to meet your SLAs. Dynatrace news.

Monitoring 256

Monitoring Azure AWS Traffic 256

The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 14, 2023

The control group’s traffic utilized the legacy Falcor stack, while the experiment population leveraged the new GraphQL client and was directed to the GraphQL Shim. This helped us successfully migrate 100% of the traffic on the mobile homepage canvas to GraphQL in 6 months. How does it work?

Traffic 353

Traffic Latency Cache Metrics 353

KeyCDN

AUGUST 15, 2019

Before you begin tuning your website or application, you must first figure out which metrics matter most to your users and establish some achievable benchmarks. Just because everything works perfectly during production testing doesn’t mean that will be the case when your website is flooded with traffic.

Testing Tools 55

Testing Tools Best Practices Performance Testing Testing 55

KeyCDN

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Let’s take a look at some of the best error monitoring tools and strategies for 2018. Error monitoring can get increasingly complicated as you deal with bugs reported by users and your production team, which is why having an efficient error tracking workflow from the beginning is so important. What is Error Tracking?

Strategy 67

Strategy Monitoring Website Google 67

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

This opens the door to auto-scalable applications, which effortlessly matches the demands of rapidly growing and varying user traffic. For a deeper look into how to gain end-to-end observability into Kubernetes environments, tune into the on-demand webinar Harness the Power of Kubernetes Observability. Built-in monitoring.

Open Source 301

Open Source Traffic DevOps Cloud 301

Apica

MAY 10, 2019

The spread of where consumers want to consume content, at home, at the office, at the gym, on a plane, at any time where there is connectivity, puts significant pressure on the network and performance monitoring teams for streaming brands. Apica’s scale is enterprise-grade.

Testing 40

Testing Performance Social Media Wireless 40

Dynatrace

MAY 17, 2023

For that, we focused on OpenTelemetry as the underlying technology and showed how you can use the available SDKs and libraries to instrument applications across different languages and platforms. OneAgent is the native telemetry data collector and monitoring solution of Dynatrace.

Metrics 171

Metrics Monitoring Database Network 171

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

How viewers are able to watch their favorite show on Netflix while the infrastructure self-recovers from a system failure By Manuel Correa , Arthur Gonigberg , and Daniel West Getting stuck in traffic is one of the most frustrating experiences for drivers around the world. Logs and background requests are examples of this type of traffic.

Traffic 252

Traffic Metrics Infrastructure Architecture 252

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Let’s consider the business challenges of an online shop that is powered by a microservice architecture where several instances of each microservice run, including the shopping cart service, to ensure the highest possible availability. With Dynatrace OneAgent you also benefit from support for traffic routing and traffic control.

Java 232

Java Traffic Strategy Architecture 232

Dynatrace

MAY 1, 2020

Other distributions like Debian and Fedora are available as well, in addition to other software like VMware, NGINX, Docker, and, of course, Java. We’re therefore happy to announce the Early Adopter release of OneAgent full-stack monitoring for Linux on the ARM 64-bit AArch64 architecture with OneAgent version 1.191.

Java 133

Java Hardware Tuning Metrics 133

Percona

MARCH 23, 2023

When it comes to enterprise-level databases, there are several options available in the market, but PostgreSQL stands out as one of the most popular and reliable choices. PostgreSQL supports sharding, which allows data to be distributed across multiple servers, making it ideal for high-traffic websites and applications.

Database 119

Database Open Source Traffic Small Business 119

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Now, that same full-spectrum value is available at the massive scale of the Dynatrace Grail data lakehouse. For example, these include verifying app deployments, isolating faults coming from a single IP address, identifying root causes of traffic spikes, or investigating malicious user activity.

Analytics 185

Analytics Innovation Metrics Database 185

The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

We thus assigned a priority to each use case and sharded event traffic by routing to priority-specific queues and the corresponding event processing clusters. This separation allows us to tune system configuration and scaling policies independently for different event priorities and traffic patterns.

Systems 334

Systems Traffic Architecture Mobile 334

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 9, 2020

The flip side of speeding up delivery, however, is that each software release comes with the risk of impacting your goals of availability, performance, or any business KPIs. Typical Dynatrace use cases cover SLOs for service availability, web application performance, mobile application availability, and synthetic availability.

Metrics 151

Metrics Engineering Google Monitoring 151

Percona

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Resource allocation: Personnel, hardware, time, and money The migration to open source requires careful allocation (and knowledge) of the resources available to you. This is where you will fine-tune authentication mechanisms, storage paths, security policies, and memory allocation settings to optimize them for your specific use case(s).

Open Source 95

Open Source Database Hardware Strategy 95

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 18, 2022

We started seeing signs of scale issues, like: Slowness during peak traffic moments like 12 AM UTC, leading to increased operational burden. The scheduler on-call has to closely monitor the system during non-business hours. Meson was based on a single leader architecture with high availability.

Java 202

Java Scalability Traffic Architecture 202

The Netflix TechBlog

JULY 26, 2021

From the moment a Netflix film or series is pitched and long before it becomes available on Netflix, it goes through many phases. Data connectivity across Netflix Studio and availability of Operational Reporting tools also incentivizes studio users to avoid forming data silos. Please stay tuned! Endnotes ¹ Inmon, Bill.

Big Data 253

Big Data Government Analytics Processing 253

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

‍Just as a well-coordinated airport directs flights to multiple runways based on traffic and weather conditions, a CDN with Multiple Origins Load Balancing ensures that web traffic is distributed across various data centers, optimizing performance and reliability. ‍But how does it decide where to send this traffic?

Traffic 52

Traffic Cache Servers Latency 52

Dynatrace

JUNE 17, 2019

based microservice app we had available in 4 different builds on Docker hub through a two-stage Kubernetes environment. Automated Operations by integrating with full stack monitoring such as Dynatrace. Technically, uniforms are already available with keptn 0.2.x In our performance clinic, we pushed a simple node.js

Cloud 195

Cloud Open Source Traffic Architecture 195

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

Having released this functionality in an Early Adopter Release with OneAgent version 1.173 and Dynatrace version 1.174 back in August 2019, we’re now happy to announce the General Availability of OneAgent full-stack monitoring for Linux on the IBM Z platform, sometimes informally referred to as Z/Linux. What’s included.

Availability 31

Availability Hardware Java Tuning 31

Percona

APRIL 17, 2023

The main objective of this post is to share my experience over the past years tuning MongoDB and centralize the diverse sources that I crossed in this journey in a unique place. There is an issue with this, which causes the OS to swap even with memory available. Spoiler alert: This post focuses on MongoDB 3.6.X 25.84 - Total 21.04

Best Practices 52

Best Practices Design Tuning Database 52

IO River

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

In technical terms, network-level firewalls regulate access by blocking or permitting traffic based on predefined rules. ‍At its core, WAF operates by adhering to a rulebook—a comprehensive list of conditions that dictate how to handle incoming web traffic. Let's dive deep into these challenges.‍1.

Traffic 52

Traffic Network Logistics Architecture 52

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Methods include the observability capabilities of the platforms their applications run on; monitoring tools, OpenTelemetry, OpenTracing, OpenMonitor, OpenCensus, Jaeger, Zipkin, Log, CloudWatch, and more. Just one command instruments your entire application environment for monitoring. Automatic topology analysis.

Analytics 156

Analytics Technology Technology Cloud 156

Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

CPUs consume power at idle, and due to various monitoring agents, operating daemons, application background task overhead etc. Load peaks can be caused by inefficient initialization code at startup, cron jobs, traffic spikes, or retry storms. I’ve written before about how to tune out retry storms. they are never really idle.

Energy 52

Energy Cloud Traffic Transportation 52

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Just as a well-coordinated airport directs flights to multiple runways based on traffic and weather conditions, a CDN with Multiple Origins Load Balancing ensures that web traffic is distributed across various data centers, optimizing performance and reliability. But how does it decide where to send this traffic?

Traffic 40

Traffic Cache Network Servers 40

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

It’s about ensuring that your front-end is also working perfectly, that your site can deliver a delightful experience to your users or customers, and that it is functional – even when it’s experiencing up to seven or more times the typical traffic load. How are you monitoring end-user performance today?

Website 74

Website Cache Ecommerce Traffic 74

Dynatrace

AUGUST 8, 2019

We’re happy to announce the Early Adopter Release of OneAgent full-stack monitoring for Linux on the IBM Z platform, sometimes informally referred to as Z/Linux (available with OneAgent version 1.173 and Dynatrace version 1.174). Mainframe monitoring is an area of significant investment for Dynatrace. Dynatrace news.

Availability 25

Availability Hardware Java Tuning 25