The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 4, 2023

Migrating Critical Traffic At Scale with No Downtime — Part 1 Shyam Gala , Javier Fernandez-Ivern , Anup Rokkam Pratap , Devang Shah Hundreds of millions of customers tune into Netflix every day, expecting an uninterrupted and immersive streaming experience. This technique facilitates validation on multiple fronts.

Traffic 339

Traffic Latency Tuning Systems 339

Dynatrace

JULY 23, 2020

With the advent and ingestion of thousands of custom metrics into Dynatrace, we’ve once again pushed the boundaries of automatic, AI-based root cause analysis with the introduction of auto-adaptive baselines as a foundational concept for Dynatrace topology-driven timeseries measurements. In many cases, metric behavior changes over time.

Metrics 213

Metrics Innovation Strategy Monitoring 213

Dynatrace

APRIL 20, 2020

To provide you with more value when monitoring hosts in infrastructure mode, we’re extending our infrastructure mode with a range of metrics that have until now only been available in full-stack mode. Monitor additional metrics. All of these metrics are now part of infrastructure mode. How to get access. initiative.

Infrastructure 151

Infrastructure Metrics Java Virtualization 151

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. For instance, consider how fine-tuned failure rate detection can provide insights for comprehensive understanding.

Efficiency 227

Efficiency Traffic Tuning Metrics 227

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.

Open Source 256

Open Source Metrics Analytics Tuning 256

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Building on its advanced analytics capabilities for Prometheus data , Dynatrace now enables you to create extensions based on Prometheus metrics. Many technologies expose their metrics in the Prometheus data format. Easily gain actionable insights with the Dynatrace Extension for Prometheus metrics. Prometheus in Kubernetes ?and

Technology 219

Technology Technology Metrics Infrastructure 219

Percona

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Let’s look at some of the most popular Percona Database Performance Blog posts in 2018. With the Percona Database Performance Blog, Percona staff and leadership work hard to provide the open source community with insights, technical support, predictions and metrics around multiple open source database software technologies.

Database 40

Database Tuning Performance AWS 40

Percona

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

In this blog post, we will discuss how to extend Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) to get PostgreSQL metrics on checkpointing activity, internal buffers, and WAL usage. With this data, we’ll be able to better understand and tune our Postgres servers. You can search the blog for more information on this if needed.

Monitoring 90

Monitoring Tuning Metrics Servers 90

Dynatrace

APRIL 25, 2023

In this blog post, we will discuss some of these challenges and how to overcome them. Observability is typically achieved by collecting three types of data from a system, metrics, logs and traces. Understanding cold-start behavior is essential to tune your cloud applications cost or performance to meet your operational needs.

Serverless 210

Serverless Lambda Azure AWS 210

Dynatrace

MAY 12, 2022

To stay tuned, keep an eye on our release notes. Improved efficiency and response time of filter operators in metric selectors that both apply an entity selector and filter a dimension called `Container` or `Process`. (APM-368260). So the migrator checks for dashboards with SLO tiles and changes LABELS -> METRICS.

Tuning 195

Tuning Metrics Cloud Mobile 195

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Every service and component exposes observability data (metrics, logs, and traces) that contains crucial information to drive digital businesses. The “three pillars of observability,” metrics, logs, and traces, still don’t tell the whole story. Track log metrics and receive alerts without manually setting thresholds.

Cloud 260

Cloud Azure Analytics Open Source 260

Dynatrace

JUNE 8, 2021

Recently inspired by a colleague of mine, who helped a Dynatrace customer define objectives for their organization by optimizing the system until reaching those objectives, this blog will guide you through those same steps. Metric 1: number of requests > X seconds (Let’s start with X=3 seconds – we will adjust the threshold later).

Metrics 168

Metrics Tuning Programming Systems 168

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

I’ll make some assumptions, read multiple blog posts, and I need to run it myself a couple of times. If you’re going to have an SLO, you should have a story in mind of why you’re setting up all these alerts and collecting all these metrics. As a developer, I can say these are the metrics I care about and just give them to you.

Technology 212

Technology Technology Cloud Infrastructure 212

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

By Abhinaya Shetty , Bharath Mummadisetty This blog post will cover how Psyberg helps automate the end-to-end catchup of different pipelines, including dimension tables. Stay tuned for a new post on this! Now, let’s explore the state of our pipelines after incorporating Psyberg.

Tuning 244

Tuning Processing C++ Efficiency 244

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. Expanding on the traditional observability pillars of metrics, logs, and traces, DEM collects user experience data to complete the end-to-end picture.

Monitoring 206

Monitoring Social Media IoT Metrics 206

The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 10, 2020

In this blog post, we introduce recently implemented changes to our per-title encodes that are expected to lower the bitrate streamed by over 20%, on average, while maintaining a similar level of perceived quality. Further tuning of pre-defined encoding parameters. 264/AVC Main profile per-title encodes.

Innovation 239

Innovation Traffic Network Efficiency 239

The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 13, 2022

Troubleshooting these problems is not a trivial task and requires collecting logs and metrics from several different systems and analyzing them to identify the root cause. This blog will explore these two systems and how they perform auto-diagnosis and remediation across our Big Data Platform and Real-time infrastructure.

Big Data 238

Big Data Infrastructure Metrics Hardware 238

Dynatrace

MAY 17, 2023

In this case, the four golden signals (latency, traffic, errors, and saturation) are derived from span attributes and DQL metric queries via Dynatrace Grail™. Based on those insights, they implemented automated validation tasks, and shifted left in their software delivery pipeline.

DevOps 189

DevOps Traffic Latency Best Practices 189

Dynatrace

JUNE 2, 2020

The Dynatrace v2 Environment APIs such as the Metrics API v2 or the Monitored entites API v2 provide you with new capabilities and features, such as: RESTful, generic resources that you can use in a wide range of integration scenarios. Example: GET /metric?fields=+aggregationTypes,-description. Example: GET /metric?fields=transformations,dimensionDefinitions.

Metrics 186

Metrics Scalability Tuning Monitoring 186

Dynatrace

AUGUST 16, 2021

These problems are the drivers behind Dynatrace’s solution offering called Cloud Automation and this two-part blog series shows how to tackle these problems using GitHub Actions. Automatically collect and evaluate business, service, and architectural indicator metrics to promote or roll back deployments. Topics in this blog series.

Software 246

Software Software Open Source Azure 246

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

If you want to see a more hands-on approach, I encourage you to watch the recording as Stefano did a live demo of Akamas’s integration with Dynatrace, showing how to minimize the footprint of a Java application with automated JVM tuning. Akamas also enables you to automate the analysis of the experiment metrics in powerful ways.

Performance 187

Performance Java Metrics Cloud 187

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 2, 2021

These can include business metrics, such as conversion rates, uptime, and availability; service metrics, such as application performance; or technical metrics, such as dependencies to third-party services, underlying CPU, and the cost of running a service. What are SLIs? For example, if your SLO is to deliver 99.5%

Metrics 193

Metrics Best Practices DevOps Infrastructure 193

Dynatrace

MAY 4, 2021

As such, we recently opened up our platform for metric ingestion and log monitoring and built integrations for key formats in those spaces. Stay tuned for the general availability of trace ingest. The post Dynatrace adds OpenTelemetry trace ingest for open, automatic, and intelligent observability appeared first on Dynatrace blog.

Cloud 264

Cloud Java Tuning Monitoring 264

Dynatrace

JULY 2, 2020

It also enables OneAgents to deliver their metrics to the cluster much faster and avoid sending cross data center traffic. We’ll make more network zone functionalities available soon, so please stay tuned. This enables you to group large scale deployments based on the setup of your data centers and geographic regions.

Network 165

Network Traffic Tuning Infrastructure 165

HammerDB

APRIL 19, 2023

In this blog, we aim to call out some key considerations when trying to assess MySQL performance for your application. Since we are posting this blog on the HammerDB blog site, we will not describe the HammerDB workload in this blog. MySQL has thousands of other settings and is beyond the scope of this blog.

Performance 54

Performance Benchmarking Cache Storage 54

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Improve cloud platform management with deeper insights into platform metrics. Automatically monitor all important Go metrics. Read our blog post on process-group monitoring rules for more details, or check out the showcase described below. So stay tuned! Get always-on 24/7 code-level CPU profiling. Do much more.

Transportation 185

Transportation Monitoring Metrics Code 185

Dynatrace

JULY 16, 2021

In this blog, I want to guide you through the steps of implementing release quality gates in your delivery automation or as we often call it “ Shift-Left SLOs with Quality Gates ”. Whether it’s used to automate your test analysis or fully integrated into your delivery pipeline, this blog will guide you through it!

DevOps 245

DevOps Open Source Cloud Azure 245

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

The defined metrics will show the success of this test. Stay tuned for even more improvements to diagnostic workflows in Dynatrace. The post Terminology matters: how to enhance user experience by aligning names with expectations appeared first on Dynatrace blog. Your feedback is highly appreciated. What’s next?

Java 246

Java Tuning Testing DevOps 246

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

With the arrival of this release candidate (RC), the community’s focus now shifts to providing tracing RC component releases, as well as producing a metrics specification RC. Stay tuned, there’s more to come! With these release candidate APIs available, instrumentation for web frameworks, storage clients, and much more can be built.

Open Source 152

Open Source Software Engineering Government Java 152

Dynatrace

JULY 21, 2020

The service flow example below shows how incoming service requests executed on z/OS WebSphere Liberty are processed by different IBM technologies and is enriched with various metrics (such as the request count distribution). Metrics for WebSphere Application Server and WebSphere Liberty. Stay tuned! JDBC database connections.

Java 180

Java Government Database Programming 180

Adrian Cockcroft

AUGUST 1, 2022

photo by Adrian I gave a talk at Monitorama in Portland Oregon in June, which set out the idea that carbon is just another metric to monitor, and that in a few years most of the monitoring and performance tuning tools are going to be reporting and optimizing for carbon alongside latency, throughput, availability and cost.

AWS 52

AWS Virtualization DevOps Latency 52

Percona

OCTOBER 12, 2023

In this blog post, we’ll review how to run Linux profilers such as perf and produce flame graphs on Kubernetes environments. Manual flame graphs collection Although the tool is excellent and automatically provides flame graphs, we don’t have much control over tuning the selected profiler.

Code 109

Code Tuning C++ Benchmarking 109

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.

Latency 213

Latency Traffic Transportation Hardware 213

Tasktop

MARCH 30, 2021

This allowed the interviewees’ organizations to seamlessly integrate their toolchains across departments and teams, generating a consistent set of Flow Metrics. hours per week by no longer needing to manually develop and report their own metrics. Make sure you stay tuned for future product announcements by subscribing to Mik’s list. .

Transportation 90

Transportation Tuning Metrics Analytics 90

Dynatrace

JULY 22, 2019

There are many more factors which influence what has been highlighted and what won’t and cannot be described in this short blog so just trust the AI!!!! It doesn’t apply to infrastructure metrics such as CPU or memory. If you want to understand how Dynatrace detects errors, read my other blog on how to fine-tune it !

Best Practices 164

Best Practices Artificial Intelligence Monitoring Tuning 164

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Easily compare and view trends on multiple metrics with the new visualization. Easily compare and view trends across multiple metrics. With the newly enhanced user sessions queries, you can query and display multiple metrics side-by-side in a bar or line chart. Stay tuned!

Website 103

Website Metrics Tuning Analytics 103

Dynatrace

MAY 20, 2020

Dynatrace collects a huge number of metrics for each OneAgent-monitored host in your environment. Depending on the types of technologies you’re running on individual hosts, the average number of metrics is about 500 per computational node. Running metric queries on a subset of entities for live monitoring and system overviews.

Metrics 229

Metrics Operating System Tuning Monitoring 229