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Real user monitoring vs. synthetic monitoring: Understanding best practices

Dynatrace

RUM, however, has some limitations, including the following: RUM requires traffic to be useful. RUM works best only when people actively visit the application, website, or services. Because RUM relies on user-generated traffic, it’s hard to indicate persistent issues across the board. Real user monitoring limitations.

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Ensuring the Successful Launch of Ads on Netflix

The Netflix TechBlog

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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Efficient SLO event integration powers successful AIOps

Dynatrace

However, it’s essential to exercise caution: Limit the quantity of SLOs while ensuring they are well-defined and aligned with business and functional objectives. When the SLO status converges to an optimal value of 100%, and there’s substantial traffic (calls/min), BurnRate becomes more relevant for anomaly detection.

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Service level objectives: 5 SLOs to get started

Dynatrace

Fitness app : The fitness app should offer a response time of less than 500 milliseconds for exercise tracking and data recording. This SLO enables a smooth and uninterrupted exercise-tracking experience. The traffic SLO targets the website’s ability to handle a high volume of transactional activity during periods of high demand.

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Service level objective examples: 5 SLO examples for faster, more reliable apps

Dynatrace

Fitness app : The fitness app should offer a response time of less than 500 milliseconds for exercise tracking and data recording. This SLO enables a smooth and uninterrupted exercise-tracking experience. The traffic SLO targets the website’s ability to handle a high volume of transactional activity during periods of high demand.

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Tutorial: Guide to automated SRE-driven performance engineering

Dynatrace

Once Dynatrace sees the incoming traffic it will also show up in Dynatrace, under Transaction & Services. The best practices describes how testing tool can add an additional HTTP Header called x-dynatrace-test to each simulated request. SimpleNodeJsService. The following shows the screenshot of a rule for TSN.

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Fundamentals of table expressions, Part 3 – Derived tables, optimization considerations

SQL Performance

Even if you don’t end up with bugs, you could end up generating unnecessary network traffic by returning columns that the application doesn’t really need. As mentioned earlier, to me, the best practice is to be explicit about the column list in the outermost query. The application could end up with bugs.

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