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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Traffic Best Practices Systems Testing 342

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

These resources generate vast amounts of data in various locations, including containers, which can be virtual and ephemeral, thus more difficult to monitor. These challenges make AWS observability a key practice for building and monitoring cloud-native applications. EC2 is ideally suited for large workloads with constant traffic.

Best Practices 211

Best Practices AWS Monitoring Serverless 211

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. Why monitor F5 BIG-IP load balancers? That’s why monitoring every BIG-IP instance is crucial to ensure smooth operation.

Traffic 194

Traffic Virtualization Metrics Monitoring 194

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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Metrics Open Source Monitoring Traffic 157

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. Monitoring with ?the The following day, a normally mundane Wednesday , traffic soared to 128,000 sessions.

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Website Monitoring Retail Media 215

Dynatrace

AUGUST 13, 2020

Throughout my career I’ve been asked several times by members of the ITOps teams, “Why end-user experience monitoring is critical”. So, I figured it’s about time I summarized the top reasons why you as an ITOps person need to look beyond your typical IT sources – logs, metrics and traces – which are these days known as Observability data.

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Monitoring Airlines Analytics Strategy 229

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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Serverless Lambda Azure AWS 207

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Custom events for alerting using the Build tab and advanced query mode now apply the same metric dimension limits that are applied to Code -tab-based configurations. Outage-handling settings of browser monitors and HTTP monitors can now be managed via the Settings API. You can override these at the monitor level.

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Metrics Monitoring Traffic Servers 205

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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Traffic Analytics Metrics Servers 264

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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AWS Transportation Network Traffic 218

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 10, 2023

Existing data got updated to be backward compatible without impacting the existing running production traffic. Data Sharding strategy in elasticsearch is updated to provide low search latency (as described in blog post) Design of new Cassandra reverse indices to support different sets of queries.

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Media Traffic Processing Design 237

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Metrics, logs , and traces make up three vital prongs of modern observability. Together with metrics, three sources of data help IT pros identify the presence and causes of performance problems, user experience issues, and potential security threats. Comparing log monitoring, log analytics, and log management.

Systems 185

Systems Cloud Analytics DevOps 185

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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Open Source Metrics Analytics Tuning 255

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 9, 2020

New extensions enable AI-powered monitoring of connection pool performance. 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.

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Traffic Performance Database Metrics 138

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

A monitoring tool like Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) is a popular choice among open source options for effectively monitoring MySQL performance. In this blog, we will explore various MySQL KPIs that are basic and essential to track using monitoring tools like PMM.

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Performance Monitoring Traffic Database 107

Dynatrace

APRIL 16, 2019

We’re proud to announce the general availability of OneAgent full-stack monitoring for the AIX operating system. We’ve already reached a percentage of monitored AIX hosts running OneAgent that is equivalent to AIX market share. For details on available metrics, see host performance measures. Installation.

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Availability Monitoring Metrics Operating System 103

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.

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Traffic Metrics Systems Strategy 279

Dynatrace

JANUARY 28, 2021

To effectively address such warning signs, organizations need to focus on putting observability data into context—mapping and visualizing relationships and dependencies within all collected telemetry data—not only traces, metrics, and logs. Such monitoring data is critical to providing satisfying digital experiences and services to customers.

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Traffic Open Source Servers Cloud 166

Dynatrace

MAY 17, 2023

We use monitored demo applications to deliver constant load and a defined set of business transactions. While the first guardian validates the traffic, the second guardian checks the business transactions generated during the observation period. The functionality is implemented via an automated workflow.

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DevOps Traffic Latency Best Practices 186

Dynatrace

MAY 19, 2022

Organizations have multiple stakeholders and almost always have different teams that set up monitoring, operate systems, and develop new functionality. The monitoring team set up the dashboard, so who owns violations? The metrics behind the four signals vary by row. A world of misunderstandings. Saturation.

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Automotive Latency Architecture Azure 270

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Unlike other monitoring tools on the market, which don’t provide AI-driven anomaly detection and alerting, Dynatrace delivers real-time data to track the performance of your deployed apps and the characteristics of your client traffic. Monitor and compare performance after slot swaps. What are Azure Deployment Slots? .

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Azure Cloud Traffic Metrics 132

Dynatrace

JUNE 8, 2020

Meeting the requirements of a tier-0 application demands the highest level of reliability and scalability, which Dynatrace enables through extensive self-monitoring and self-healing across the entire application stack down to the infrastructure level. Currently, only metrics for individual nodes are available. Enroll now. What’s next.

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Software Software Programming Metrics 165

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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Metrics Traffic Efficiency Design 52

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. .” How DEM helps drive end user experiences for better business outcomes. ” These answers are now critical for business success. DEM in action.

Mobile 166

Mobile Monitoring Benchmarking Best Practices 166

Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

The primary challenge being not able to access the underlying infrastructure metrics. Monitoring. In serverless environments, monitoring can be harder to accomplish, as you lose the visibility and control of the back-end performance metrics of your applications. Monitoring Serverless Applications.

Serverless 57

Serverless Monitoring Lambda Latency 57

Dynatrace

MAY 6, 2021

Starting with version 1.216, for fresh-installed Dynatrace Managed, the private Synthetic browser monitor screenshots are stored on the Cluster, and not uploaded to the S3 bucket. To improve management of node capabilities , we added Enable/disable Web UI traffic operation for cluster node in Cluster Mission Control UI. APM-295508).

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Operating System AWS Metrics Storage 230

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Kubernetes (k8s) provides basic monitoring through the Kubernetes API and you can find instructions like Top 9 Open Source Tools for Monitoring Kubernetes as a “do it yourself guide”. End-user monitoring. Dynatrace news. For EKS – Amazon’s Kubernetes Service – you can get a preview of CloudWatch Container Insights.

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AWS Monitoring Ecommerce Lambda 127

Dynatrace

MAY 14, 2020

Turnkey cluster overload protection with adaptive traffic management and control. This can occur especially when: There are temporary load spikes due to peak loads from monitored applications that are being load tested, or from cluster nodes that are taking over load from others that are under maintenance or being upgraded.

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Processing Hardware Traffic Storage 154

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 7, 2021

The goal of this blog post is to highlight the investment areas for this vision and the challenges we are facing today. In contrast, a server application runs on servers which are typically identical and a routing abstraction can serve sampled traffic to new versions.

Metrics 197

Metrics Mobile Testing Strategy 197

Dynatrace

JUNE 16, 2020

One key requirement of a microservices architecture is the ability to make information of all kinds available wherever and whenever it’s needed, without putting undue traffic on corporate and public networks. However, so far it didn’t provide technology-specific metrics such as queue depth or number of consumers. Dynatrace news.

Storage 133

Storage Metrics Java Architecture 133

Dynatrace

JULY 6, 2020

In addition to providing AI-powered full-stack monitoring capabilities , Dynatrace has long featured broad support for Azure Services and intuitive, native integration with extensions for using OneAgent on Azure. Azure Traffic Manager. Database-service views provide all the metrics you need to set up high-performance database services.

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Azure Cloud Big Data Virtualization 147

Percona

OCTOBER 19, 2023

They not only contributed code but also reported issues, helped users on the forum, and wrote blog posts on the Community website. Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) Naresh Chandra is very active on the forum, providing a piece of advice to other users. Today, we want to personally thank the most active contributors.

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Open Source Traffic Virtualization Metrics 106

Rigor

JULY 11, 2019

It’s a given that you’re monitoring your site so it’s up and running and that you’re swiftly addressing issues when they arise. Additionally, teams are measuring and tracking key business metrics – conversion rates, cart abandonment rates, customer lifetime value, revenue by traffic source, and so on.

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Ecommerce Metrics Website Mobile 87

The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 30, 2021

In this blog post, we will focus on the latter feature set. 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. In particular, the Kafka integration is the most relevant for this blog post.

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Latency Traffic Transportation Hardware 213

Adrian Cockcroft

APRIL 18, 2018

Juvenal Photo taken in Lisbon Portugal by Adrian Cockcroft The documentation for most monitoring tools describes how to use that tool in isolation, often as if no other tools exist, but sometimes with ways to import or export some of the data to other tools. When auto-scaling is used monitoring is also part of a critical feedback loop.

Monitoring 40

Monitoring Systems Virtualization Metrics 40

Dynatrace

AUGUST 9, 2023

In this blog post, we’ll use Dynatrace Security Analytics to go threat hunting, bringing together logs, traces, metrics, and, crucially, threat alerts. Likewise, operation specialists can prioritize their efforts on monitoring the highest-risk tactics, and executives can better communicate the business risk.

Analytics 195

Analytics AWS Strategy Infrastructure 195

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 9, 2020

In such circumstances, it’s challenging to investigate the reasons for unexpected behavior or traffic between pods. Dynatrace is the only Kubernetes monitoring solution that provides continuous automation and full-stack automated observability without changing code, container images, or deployments. Seeing is believing.

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Design Google Architecture Traffic 101