The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 14, 2023

This blog post will share broadly-applicable techniques (beyond GraphQL) we used to perform this migration. In such cases, we were not testing for response data but overall behavior. So, we relied on higher-level metrics-based testing: AB Testing and Sticky Canaries. Let’s discuss the three testing strategies in further detail.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Dynatrace and the Dynatrace Intelligent Observability Platform have added support for the newly introduced Amazon VPC Flow Logs to Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose. This support enables customers to define specific endpoint delivery of real-time streaming data to platforms such as Dynatrace. What is VPC Flow Logs? Why Dynatrace?

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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

APRIL 5, 2024

This blog post is for both novice and seasoned audiences alike. The first part of this blog post briefly explores the integration of SLO events with AI. 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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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. Dynatrace news.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JULY 26, 2021

This happens at an unprecedented scale and introduces many interesting challenges; one of the challenges is how to provide visibility of Studio data across multiple phases and systems to facilitate operational excellence and empower decision making. With the latest Data Mesh Platform, data movement in Netflix Studio reaches a new stage.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 16, 2022

The data locked in your log files can be a goldmine for your application developers, operations teams, and your enterprise as a whole. However, it can be complicated , expensive , or even impossible to set up robust observability that makes use of this data. Log format inconsistency makes it a challenge to access critical data.

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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. Detect and respond to security threats like DDoS attacks or web application attacks by monitoring application traffic and logs.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 11, 2022

Here we describe the role of Experimentation and A/B testing within the larger Data Science and Engineering organization at Netflix, including how our platform investments support running tests at scale while enabling innovation. Curious to learn more about other Data Science and Engineering functions at Netflix?

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Dynatrace

JULY 1, 2020

In my last blog , I’ve provided an example of this happening, whereby the traffic spiked and quadrupled the usual incoming traffic. In my last blog , I’ve provided an example of this happening, whereby the traffic spiked and quadrupled the usual incoming traffic.

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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. Near-zero RPO and RTO—monitoring continues seamlessly and without data loss in failover scenarios. Minimized cross-data center network traffic. Dynatrace news.

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Scalegrid

AUGUST 30, 2019

Redis , short for Remote Dictionary Server, is a BSD-licensed, open-source in-memory key-value data structure store written in C language by Salvatore Sanfillipo and was first released on May 10, 2009. Instead, Redis stores data in data structures which makes it very flexible to use. Data Structures in Redis.

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CSS Wizardry

JULY 23, 2023

If you’re happy just to trust me, then this is all you need to know right now: Google takes URL-level Core Web Vitals data from CrUX into account when deciding where to rank you in a search results page. All Core Web Vitals data used to rank you is taken from actual Chrome-based traffic to your site.

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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. Flow log data can be published to Amazon CloudWatch Logs or Amazon S3 after which you can retrieve and view its data in the Dynatrace Intelligent Observability Platform. Log Metrics. Log Events.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 28, 2020

This blog post was co-authored with Shashiraj Jeripotula, Sr. Partner Solutions Architect at AWS and will also be published via the AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. This blog post explains how to do this. Easily integrate Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics data into Dynatrace.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 25, 2023

For example, to handle traffic spikes and pay only for what they use. In this blog post, we will discuss some of these challenges and how to overcome them. Scale automatically based on the demand and traffic patterns. Observability is typically achieved by collecting three types of data from a system, metrics, logs and traces.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 21, 2021

In February 2021, Dynatrace announced full support for Google’s Core Web Vitals metrics , which will help site owners as they start optimizing Core Web Vitals performance for SEO. To do this effectively, you need a big data processing approach. How do you clearly communicate this data to your marketing and business stakeholders?

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Dynatrace

MARCH 22, 2021

Such on-premises environments are usually large, typically consisting of thousands of hosts that are organized in physical data centers. Each SNMP-enabled device provides access to its state and performance metrics in a simple and robust way that allows Dynatrace to fetch the metrics and run them through Davis®, our AI causation engine.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Problems API v2 now includes event evidence data as part of the event details. This also affects the Service-level objectives tile in the dashboard where you can only see data for the Service-level objectives that belong to management zones you have access to. Local self-monitoring metrics. Metrics API: dimension keys.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

As noted in an earlier blog post , we began developing an HDR variant of VMAF; let’s call it HDR-VMAF. A vital aspect of such development is subjective testing with HDR encodes in order to generate training data. 1) depicts the migration of traffic from fixed bitrates to DO encodes. The graphic below (Fig.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 23, 2019

However, understanding the performance of different application types requires an emphasis on different performance metrics, that is, key performance metrics. For many traditional web applications , User action duration is considered the best metric available for web-performance optimization.

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Part I: Overview Andreas Andreakis , Falguni Jhaveri , Ioannis Papapanagiotou , Mark Cho , Poorna Reddy , Tongliang Liu Overview It is a commonly observed pattern for applications to utilize multiple datastores where each is used to serve a specific need such as storing the canonical form of data (MySQL etc.), caching (Memcached etc.),

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 7, 2020

We’re happy to announce that by opening up Dynatrace OneAgent for integration of custom metrics, Dynatrace has automated alerting on crucial metrics and removes the need to maintain local configurations for StatsD, Telegraf, and Prometheus—even in the largest of environments, which can include hundreds of thousands of instances and containers.

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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. Announcing seamless integration of OpenTracing data into Dynatrace PurePath 4.

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Java Traffic Strategy Architecture 222

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Would you like to access all your monitoring data on a single platform? Dynatrace has you covered—Dynatrace extensions collect the necessary data and offer improved visibility wherever you need a single platform for IM and APM purposes. Simplified data analysis presented in topological context. Advanced load balancer analysis.

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The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 13, 2020

A metric crossed a threshold. You’re not yet convinced there’s a real problem but you’re also aware that the clock is ticking as you dig through a mountain of data looking for clues. Telltale combines a variety of data sources to create a holistic view of an application’s health. Regional traffic evacuations. By Andrei U.,

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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. DEM can give organizations business observability—insight into the effects of user experience on the bottom line. What is digital experience monitoring?

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Dynatrace

JULY 2, 2020

Large enterprise environments are often distributed across multiple data centers around the world. Unnecessary traffic between such data centers can result in wasted resources, unpredictable downtimes, and lost business. optimizing traffic routing. preventing unrelated traffic between data centers and regions.

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Network Traffic Tuning Infrastructure 156

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. It controls the delivery of service requests to other services, performs load balancing, encrypts data, and discovers other services.

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Tasktop

JUNE 28, 2022

Nowadays, frameworks like SAFe ® recommend that you use Flow Metrics to measure and improve efficiency, velocity, and predictability. If you like story points and want to keep story points around, the question becomes, “when is it appropriate to rely on story points, and when should we use Flow Metrics?” What are Flow Metrics?

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Dynatrace

JUNE 27, 2022

Real user monitoring (RUM) is a performance monitoring process that collects detailed data about users’ interactions with an application. RUM gathers information on a variety of performance metrics. Benefits of RUM include the following: Access to data from real end users across various applications, services, and environments.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 28, 2021

OpenTelemetry for Go provides developers with an observability framework for cloud-native software, allowing them to instrument, generate, collect, and export telemetry data for relevant services. Such additional telemetry data includes user-behavior analytics, code-level visibility, and metadata (including open-source data).

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

This opens the door to auto-scalable applications, which effortlessly matches the demands of rapidly growing and varying user traffic. Containers can be replicated or deleted on the fly to meet varying end-user traffic. Application teams and Kubernetes/Swarm platform operators alike depend on detailed monitoring data.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

SREs face ever more challenging situations as environment complexity increases, applications scale up, and organizations grow: Growing dependency graphs result in blind spots and the inability to correlate performance metrics with user experience. Additionally, you can easily use any previously defined metrics and SLOs from your environments.

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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. In cloud-native environments, there can also be dozens of additional services and functions all generating data from user-driven events.

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Dynatrace

MAY 6, 2020

Over the last two month s, w e’ve monito red key sites and applications across industries that have been receiving surges in traffic , including government, health insurance, retail, banking, and media. Readers who share our privacy concerns, please note, all the data we monitor is publicly available. . Monitoring with ?the

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Dynatrace

MAY 17, 2023

While the first guardian validates the traffic, the second guardian checks the business transactions generated during the observation period. In this case, the four golden signals (latency, traffic, errors, and saturation) are derived from span attributes and DQL metric queries via Dynatrace Grail™.

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