DZone

DECEMBER 30, 2020

Below are some of the key metrics that need to be monitored during performance testing: CPU utilization. Server page faults/second. Cache hit ratio. Heap memory utilization. Number of active/daemon threads. Number of classes loaded. Active total sessions. SSL transactions/second. Active/total DB pool connections.

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Servers Performance Cache Performance Testing 133

The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 4, 2023

The second phase involves migrating the traffic over to the new systems in a manner that mitigates the risk of incidents while continually monitoring and confirming that we are meeting crucial metrics tracked at multiple levels. Also, since this logic resides on the server side, we can iterate on any required changes faster.

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Traffic Latency Tuning Systems 339

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.

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Performance Monitoring Traffic Database 108

Dynatrace

MAY 2, 2019

Many Dynatrace monitoring environments now include well beyond 10,000 monitored hosts—and the number of processes and services has multiplied to millions of monitored entities. Our REST APIs are widely used to enrich custom reports with performance and stability insights into monitored application environments.

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Best Practices Monitoring Cache Speed 128

Percona

DECEMBER 19, 2022

We are excited to announce the latest release of Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) – V2.33. include: Offline metric collection during PMM server outages or loss of PMM client-server network connectivity. Client-side caching minimizes potential for metrics loss. Stages of PMM HA.

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Metrics Monitoring Servers Open Source 52

Percona

DECEMBER 5, 2022

ProxySQL is a very useful tool for gaining high availability, load balancing, query routing, query caching, query rewriting, multiplexing, and data masking. There can be an instance of ProxySQL using a lot of memory on the server. This post is related to one of the causes that can use memory on the ProxySQL server and how we handle it.

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Servers Cache C++ Metrics 60

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. REDIS for caching. Dynatrace news. Full-stack observability. End-to-end code-level tracing. Service mash insights.

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AWS Monitoring Ecommerce Lambda 127

Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Reduced Resource Usage Optimizing resource-intensive queries and configurations can lead to a reduced burden on your server. An improperly configured server may not allocate sufficient resources or be optimized for the specific workload. Detecting and optimizing slow queries is an important step in enhancing database performance.

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Tuning Database Performance Hardware 52

Tim Kadlec

APRIL 10, 2023

There was a comment on Twitter today from Rafael Gonzaga expressing disappointment in what he sees as a tendency to focus on the frontend solely in performance discussions, while neglecting the server-side aspect. Performance conversations were dominated by discussions around the server-side aspects of performance.

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Performance Servers Mobile Metrics 111

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

With the increase in the adoption of cloud technologies, there’s now a huge demand for monitoring cloud-native applications, including monitoring both the cloud platform and the applications themselves. Hopefully, this blog will explain ‘why,’ and how Microsoft’s Azure Monitor is complementary to that of Dynatrace.

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Azure Artificial Intelligence Metrics Innovation 136

SQL Performance

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Many database administrators find themselves having to support instances of SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS), or at least the backend databases that are required for SSRS. These topics apply to both SQL Server Reporting Services as well as Power BI Report Server. Installation and support of SSRS can be confusing.

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Tuning Servers Database Best Practices 67

High Scalability

DECEMBER 18, 2018

Senior DevOps Engineer : Your engineering work will focus on using your deep knowledge of the web stack including firewalls, web applications, caches and data stores ­ to create innovative infrastructure architectures that are resilient, scalable, and blazingly fast. It's a tool (actually, multiple tools) that your entire team will love.

Healthcare 122

Healthcare Best Practices DevOps Cache 122

Scalegrid

DECEMBER 21, 2023

In today’s data-driven world, the ability to effectively monitor and manage data is of paramount importance. With its widespread use in modern application architectures, understanding the ins and outs of Redis® monitoring is essential for any tech professional. Redis®, a powerful in-memory data store, is no exception.

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Strategy Monitoring Latency DevOps 130

Dotcom-Montior

AUGUST 5, 2020

Page speed has been a key factor in Google’s ranking algorithm since 2010 , so it is essential to understand the various ways you can optimize your pages and why implementing synthetic monitoring can ensure your pages perform flawlessly and revenue isn’t lost. Browser Caching: Although it may seem commonplace, caching is sometimes overlooked.

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Website Speed Cache Traffic 92

KeyCDN

JANUARY 23, 2020

These acronyms, which stand for real user monitoring and application performance monitoring, are software monitoring processes essential to measuring and evaluating applications in many different areas. What is real user monitoring (RUM)? What is application performance monitoring (APM)?

Strategy 72

Strategy Metrics Monitoring Servers 72

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Windows: Windows Server 1903. Resolved issue with deep monitoring of Go process because of incompatible ABI (added support for monitoring Go applications containing C code that uses TLS). Resolved IIS crash on RUM activity interactions (user caching is now disabled if UEM is enabled). x86 (64bit-only). x86 (64bit-only).

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Operating System Java Mobile Cache 107

MachMetrics

DECEMBER 14, 2019

Similar to our article Average Page Load Times for 2018 , we’ll go over the averages for metrics and help you determine if your site is faster or slower than average. As you know, there are many metrics that determine a website’s page speed, and we can’t look at just one of them to determine how performant our site is.

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Best Practices Speed Mobile Google 105

Percona

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

With Percona Operators , users can easily deploy, monitor, and manage databases orchestrated by Kubernetes, making it easier and more efficient to run databases at scale. Our Operators come with Custom Resources that have their own statuses and fields to ease monitoring and troubleshooting. Once captured, the metrics are exposed.

Metrics 73

Metrics Monitoring Database Cache 73

Dynatrace

APRIL 8, 2020

To see why, navigate to the Suspension chart on the JVM metrics tab. . You should also be careful when adding any sort of cache or object reuse strategy. You can enable the memory profiler by going into Settings > Server-side service monitoring > Deep monitoring > New OneAgent features.

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Speed Code Java Lambda 165

Scalegrid

APRIL 16, 2020

All DBaaS management, monitoring, and maintenance tools are included in both plans, along with 24/7 support. This becomes really important for cache solutions like Redis™. AWS Security Groups and Azure Network Security Groups allow you to lock down access to your servers through advanced virtual firewalls. Security Groups.

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Cloud Azure AWS Database 242

Smashing Magazine

MAY 16, 2022

Rethinking Server-Timing As A Critical Monitoring Tool. Rethinking Server-Timing As A Critical Monitoring Tool. In the world of HTTP Headers, there is one header that I believe deserves more air-time and that is the Server-Timing header. Setting Server-Timing. Sean Roberts. 2022-05-16T10:00:00+00:00.

Servers 92

Servers Monitoring Cache Network 92

Jos

JUNE 2, 2018

One could argue this is a metric-driven decision. How would you architecture a non-trivial size web project (client, server, databases, caching layer)? There is a lot research on how performance optimization improves key metrics and sites like WPO Stats are a good source of case studies. Well, not so fast. Aim for that.

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Performance Speed Google Media 237

The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 14, 2023

Before GraphQL: Monolithic Falcor API implemented and maintained by the API Team Before moving to GraphQL, our API layer consisted of a monolithic server built with Falcor. A single API team maintained both the Java implementation of the Falcor framework and the API Server. To launch Phase 1 safely, we used AB Testing.

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Traffic Latency Cache Metrics 353

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

This trend is prompting advances in both observability and monitoring. But exactly what are the differences between observability vs. monitoring? Monitoring and observability provide a two-pronged approach. To get a better understanding of observability vs monitoring, we’ll explore the differences between the two.

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Monitoring Metrics DevOps Scalability 216

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 26, 2013

It traditionally involved the expense and headaches associated with procuring new co-location space, negotiating pricing with a new vendor, adding racks, setting up network links and encryption, taking backups, initiating a transfer and monitoring it until the operation complete.

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Cloud AWS Traffic Latency 145

Jos

JUNE 2, 2018

One could argue this is a metric-driven decision. Again, it’s easy to fake performance optimization by leaving out the bad metrics, blocking users who spoil the stats. How would you architecture a non-trivial size web project (client, server, databases, caching layer)? How do you scale it through different servers?

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Performance Speed Google Media 130

Percona

AUGUST 8, 2023

Unfortunately, this topic is more of an art than a science, given that there is really no foolproof algorithm or approach that can tell you exactly where you might hit a bottleneck with server performance. Global memory caches are static in size as they are defined solely by the configuration of the database itself.

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Traffic Cache Monitoring Database 92

Scalegrid

JULY 8, 2020

If the script has already performed writes to the server and must still be killed, use the SHUTDOWN NOSAVE to shutdown the server completely. Behavior on Sentinel-Monitored High Availability Systems. Later when the ‘lua-time-limit’ has passed, the server will start responding with BUSY errors. Demonstration. Learn more.

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Servers Database Availability Monitoring 239

MachMetrics

JULY 15, 2020

We highly recommend continuous monitoring of your site, however, which you can do with our service – MachMetrics. If you’re using WordPress or any other content management system, many caching plugins will also combine your CSS files with the click of a button. Did your test reveal some issues?

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Speed Website Cache Google 78

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

Google’s Core Web Vitals is a set of performance metrics that site owners can use to evaluate performance and diagnose performance issues. These metrics provide a different perspective on user experience: Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) Measures the time it takes for the main content on a webpage to load.

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Performance Cache Traffic Metrics 74

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 31, 2023

But do you know how Lighthouse calculates performance metrics like First Contentful Paint (FCP), Total Blocking Time (TBT), and Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS)? Still, there’s nothing in there to tell us about the data Lighthouse is using to evaluate metrics. But it comes with caveats. Does Lighthouse Use RUM Data, Too?

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Speed Google Website Metrics 97

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

A website’s performance can make or break its success, yet in August 2020, despite many improvements we had previously made, such as implementing Server-Side Rendering (SSR), the ratio of Wix websites with good Google Core Web Vitals (CWV) scores was only 4%. Better tooling and metrics standardization. Measuring And Monitoring.

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Website Performance Google Media 126

Percona

APRIL 7, 2023

If we were to select the most important MySQL setting, if we were given a freshly installed MySQL or Percona Server for MySQL and could only tune a single MySQL variable, which one would it be? Sysbench ran on a third server, which I’ll refer to as the application server (APP). Are these results good enough?

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Tuning Cache Servers Benchmarking 138

MachMetrics

MARCH 21, 2019

Web performance metrics track the efficiency (or lack thereof) of any individual aspect of your website’s performance. Once you have started collecting some of these must-track web performance metrics for your website, inefficiencies will become clearer. Top 10 Web Perf Metrics to Track. Time to First Byte.

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Metrics Social Media Performance Speed 74

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. Depending on how it is configured, Redis can act like a database, a cache or a message broker. Redis Strings Use Cases. Redis Sets.

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Cache Ecommerce Social Media Database 232

Dynatrace

AUGUST 30, 2019

She was speaking about how her team is providing Visibility as a Service (VaaS) in order to continuously monitor and optimize their systems running across private and public cloud environments. Missing Cache Settings – Make sure you cache resources that don’t change often on the browser or use a CDN.

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Cache Architecture Database Government 195

Dynatrace

APRIL 21, 2022

Most monitoring tools for migrations, development, and operations focus on collecting and aggregating the three pillars of observability— metrics, traces, and logs. Continuously monitor cost and optimize your capacity needs. But managing these three data types at a scale becomes unsustainable for even the most experienced teams.

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Azure Monitoring Virtualization Metrics 184