Percona

MARCH 17, 2023

2022 was an exciting year for Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM). These updates are designed to keep databases running at peak performance and simplify database operations. PMM2 uses VictoriaMetrics (VM) as its metrics storage engine. We’ve added and improved many features, including Alerting and Backup Management.

Monitoring 103

Monitoring Scalability Cache Database 103

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

As a MySQL database administrator, keeping a close eye on the performance of your MySQL server is crucial to ensure optimal database operations. A monitoring tool like Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) is a popular choice among open source options for effectively monitoring MySQL performance.

Performance 108

Performance Monitoring Traffic Database 108

Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

I love conversations about performance, and I'm fortunate enough to have them a lot. I hope this post can serve that purpose and cover a few of the fundamental areas of web performance that I’ve found to be most useful while honing the craft of product management. How is performance measured? The audience varies.

Performance 143

Performance Benchmarking Metrics Monitoring 143

Percona

DECEMBER 26, 2023

This PoC demonstrates how to install and configure pg_stat_monitor in order to extract useful and actionable metrics from a PostgreSQL database and display them on a Grafana dashboard. Configuring Grafana For our purposes, the Grafana datasource used in this PoC is also the Postgres data cluster that is generating the data to be monitored.

Benchmarking 125

Benchmarking Metrics C++ Database 125

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

This has led to the recent release of our new Lambda monitoring extension supporting Node.js, Java, and Python. This extension was built from scratch to take into account all we’ve learned and the special requirements for monitoring ephemeral, auto-scaling, micro VMs like AWS Lambda. A look under the hood of AWS Lambda.

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Lambda AWS Monitoring Serverless 215

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

As IT infrastructure has become increasingly distributed and complex, organizations face the challenge of aligning business objectives and end-user experience with the availability and performance of the IT infrastructure. What is infrastructure monitoring? . Performance is mission-critical to these organizations.

Infrastructure 196

Infrastructure Monitoring Virtualization Serverless 196

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

These insights help organizations plan for cloud scalability, performance improvements, and business alignment. Vastly improved performance. Additionally, with an improved deployment model, applications can run faster and perform better. Application performance improvement reduces costs and deployment time.

Strategy 223

Strategy Benchmarking Serverless Infrastructure 223

Rigor

JUNE 14, 2019

It’s true that what might be considered the “most important” or “best” web performance metrics can vary by industry. These six metrics were not chosen at random – they work together to give you a snapshot of your site’s performance and overall user experience so you can set a baseline and improve speed and usability.

Metrics 101

Metrics Performance Speed Ecommerce 101

Dynatrace

JANUARY 4, 2024

In AIOps , this means providing the model with the full range of logs, events, metrics, and traces needed to understand the inner workings of a complex system. Additionally, teams should perform continuous audits to evaluate data against benchmarks and implement best practices for ensuring data quality.

Government 197

Government Analytics Benchmarking Storage 197

Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Performance budgets are one of those ideas that everyone gets behind conceptually, but then are challenged to put into practice – and for very good reason. Web pages are unbelievably complex, and there are hundreds of different metrics available to track. What is a performance budget? Which metrics should you focus on?

Performance 134

Performance Metrics Benchmarking Google 134

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Nonetheless, to help mitigate climate change, it’s critically important for organizations to measure, monitor, and reduce their IT carbon footprints. The Carbon Impact app assesses carbon emissions and energy consumption from all monitored hosts. These metrics include CPU, memory, disk, and network I/O.

Energy 230

Energy Cloud Airlines Strategy 230

HammerDB

OCTOBER 18, 2018

An essential part of database performance testing is viewing the statistics generated by the database during the test and in 2009 HammerDB introduced automatic AWR snapshot generation for Oracle for the TPC-C test. With this feature Oracle generates a wealth of performance data that can be reviewed once the test is complete.

Benchmarking 40

Benchmarking Monitoring Performance C++ 40

Speed Curve

MARCH 5, 2023

"I made my pages faster, but my business and user engagement metrics didn't change. How can I demonstrate the business value of performance to people in my organization?" If you've ever asked yourself any of these questions, then you could find the answers in identifying and understanding the performance poverty line for your site.

Performance 119

Performance C++ Metrics Ecommerce 119

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 2, 2023

However, it’s common that teams need to refactor an application to help with performance after the lift-and-shift operation. Components that are already loosely coupled and have few dependencies will be easier to migrate, with less chance of impacting application performance.

Architecture 228

Architecture Artificial Intelligence Cloud Open Source 228

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Application performance monitoring (APM) solutions have evolved in recent years, and organizations now have plenty of options to choose from when selecting the right tools for their needs. APM solutions track key software application performance metrics using monitoring software and telemetry data. Dynatrace news.

Artificial Intelligence 229

Artificial Intelligence Monitoring Infrastructure Cloud 229

Speed Curve

MAY 1, 2023

If you've invested countless hours in speeding up your pages, but you're not using performance budgets to prevent regressions, you could be at risk of wasting all your efforts. Background: How performance budgets work 1. What is a performance budget? What should a performance budget look like? Let's get started!

Performance 98

Performance Metrics Media Google 98

HammerDB

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Introducing the PostgreSQL performance metrics viewer. HammerDB included a graphical performance metrics view for the Oracle database only. HammerDB includes the same functionality for PostgreSQL enabling the user to drill down on database metrics in real time. PostgreSQL Graphical Metrics. Started Metrics.

Metrics 62

Metrics Benchmarking C++ Database 62

Dynatrace

MAY 3, 2022

65% of businesses report that 40% of their customers now engage with them through mobile devices , and 70% of digital businesses will require IT and Ops to report digital metrics by 2025. Peter Vinh (Solution Lead of Digital Experience at Dynatrace) during Perform 22 session. ” These answers are now critical for business success.

Mobile 164

Mobile Monitoring Benchmarking Best Practices 164

Speed Curve

OCTOBER 25, 2023

The best way to fight regressions is to create performance budgets on key metrics, and get alerted when they go out of bounds. You can even go one step further and integrate your performance budgets with your CI/CD process, so that you not only get alerts but even break the build if a new deploy would violate any of your budgets.

Benchmarking 62

Benchmarking Metrics Website Monitoring 62

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Service-level objectives (SLOs) are key to the SRE role; they are agreed-upon performance benchmarks that represent the health of an application or service. SREs need SLOs to measure and monitor performance, but many organizations lack the automation and intelligence to streamline data.

Artificial Intelligence 225

Artificial Intelligence Benchmarking DevOps Engineering 225

Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

While there is no magic bullet for MySQL performance tuning, there are a few areas that can be focused on upfront that can dramatically improve the performance of your MySQL installation. What are the Benefits of MySQL Performance Tuning? Experiencing database performance issues?

Tuning 52

Tuning Database Performance Hardware 52

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

FinOps helps engineering, development, finance, and business teams meet critical key performance indicators (KPIs) and fulfill service-level agreements. Additionally, include benchmarks for stakeholders and best practices that support the anticipated growth of the organization as a whole. FinOps company culture.

Cloud 192

Cloud Strategy Retail Energy 192

Dynatrace

MAY 5, 2021

At Perform 2021 , Dynatrace’s Kristof Renders, Services Practice Manager for Autonomous Cloud Enablement, joined Sumit Nagal, Principal Engineer at Intuit, to demonstrate how service-level objectives (SLOs) and business-level objectives (BLOs) can “shift left.” Nearly 42% do not perform manual or automated checks.

Benchmarking 179

Benchmarking Latency Speed Software 179

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

In its pursuit, IT teams hover over system performance dashboards hoping their preparations will deliver five nines—or even four nines—availability. Five-nines availability: The ultimate benchmark of system availability. SLOs define the performance margins you need to achieve, such as five-nines uptime. Automate IT operations.

Infrastructure 179

Infrastructure Availability Systems Retail 179

Rigor

JUNE 4, 2019

In the past, the answer would be based on the load time of a page, but over the years, we have evolved our approach to site speed to incorporate new metrics, alone or in combination with existing metrics. The Evolving View of Performance. The next evolution of performance brought in paint metrics.

Metrics 71

Metrics Speed Benchmarking Website 71

Speed Curve

MARCH 5, 2023

"I made my pages faster, but my business and user engagement metrics didn't change. How can I demonstrate the business value of performance to people in my organization?" If you've ever asked yourself any of these questions, then you could find the answers in identifying and understanding the performance plateau for your site.

Performance 52

Performance C++ Metrics Ecommerce 52

Speed Curve

MARCH 7, 2022

If you've been working in the performance space for a while and you hear me start to talk about page growth, I'd forgive you if you started running away. ;). How does page bloat affect other metrics, such as Google's Core Web Vitals? These numbers should not be taken as a benchmark for your own site.

Mobile 145

Mobile Benchmarking Google Metrics 145

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Many good security tools provide that function, and benchmarks from the Center for Internet Security (CIS) are clear and prescriptive. The agent watches as each process loads a file or makes a call to a certain function that is performed by an open-source library. Use scripts to configure hosts properly based on the CIS benchmarks.

Open Source 247

Open Source Benchmarking Best Practices Network 247

Alex Russell

MAY 9, 2022

Despite advances in browser tooling , automated evaluation , lab tools , guidance , and runtimes , however, teams struggle to deliver even decent performance with today's popular frameworks. What is Performance? It may seem a silly question, but what is performance, exactly?

Performance 86

Performance Latency Metrics Engineering 86

Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Synthetic performance testing comes in two forms: Scheduled testing Baselining. Benchmarking. Continuous performance testing. Tried-and-true performance monitoring goes by many names. This is a highly sought after arrow in your web performance quiver. What are the two types of tests within SpeedCurve?

Testing 74

Testing Benchmarking Performance Testing Metrics 74

Speed Curve

DECEMBER 21, 2022

we also: Launched a series of new and improved dashboards to help you identify and fix your performance issues more quickly and efficiently (More on those below.). Your Home dashboard brings together your Synthetic and RUM data to provide an easy-to-digest – and easy-to-share – snapshot of how your site is performing.

Benchmarking 52

Benchmarking Retail Traffic Metrics 52

Scalegrid

MARCH 22, 2024

It focuses on aligning organizational needs with cloud services, balancing performance and cost, and ensuring compliance, security, and effective cost management. Pick combinations that are not just affordable but also high-performing. Find that sweet spot where the costs and performance balance out just right.

Strategy 130

Strategy Cloud Government Innovation 130

Dynatrace

JANUARY 21, 2021

And we know as well as anyone: the need for fast transformations drives amazing flexibility and innovation, which is why we took Perform Hands-on Training (HOT) virtual for 2021. This year, we’re offering a special Perform 2021 discounted rate. You can register for Perform 2021 HOT sessions within our Dynatrace University portal. *

Virtualization 179

Virtualization Benchmarking Best Practices Cloud 179

Percona

APRIL 7, 2023

To illustrate this, I ran the Sysbench-TPCC synthetic benchmark against two different GCP instances running a freshly installed Percona Server for MySQL version 8.0.31 on CentOS 7, both of them spec’d with four vCPUs but with the second one (server B) having a tad over twice as much memory than the reference one (server A). Why is that?

Tuning 138

Tuning Cache Servers Benchmarking 138

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Front-End Performance Checklist 2021. Front-End Performance Checklist 2021. This guide has been kindly supported by our friends at LogRocket , a service that combines frontend performance monitoring , session replay, and product analytics to help you build better customer experiences. LogRocket tracks key metrics, incl.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

Speed Curve

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Labeling your pages in your synthetic and real user monitoring (RUM) tools is a crucial step in your performance monitoring setup. There are so many benefits to labeling your pages in both your synthetic and real user monitoring (RUM) tools. Create more meaningful performance budgets in RUM.

Benchmarking 57

Benchmarking Best Practices Monitoring Traffic 57

Rigor

JULY 9, 2019

In the past, the answer would be based on the load time of a page, but over the years, we have evolved our approach to site speed to incorporate new metrics, alone or in combination with existing metrics. The Evolving View of Performance. The next evolution of performance brought in paint metrics.

Metrics 40

Metrics Speed Benchmarking Website 40