The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

By Abhinaya Shetty , Bharath Mummadisetty At Netflix, our Membership and Finance Data Engineering team harnesses diverse data related to plans, pricing, membership life cycle, and revenue to fuel analytics, power various dashboards, and make data-informed decisions. We expect complete and accurate data at the end of each run.

Data Engineering 264

Data Engineering Engineering Processing Games 264

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Dynatrace has recently extended its Kubernetes operator by adding a new feature, the Prometheus OpenMetrics Ingest , which enables you to import Prometheus metrics in Dynatrace and build SLO and anomaly detection dashboards with Prometheus data. Here we’ll explore how to collect Prometheus metrics and what you can achieve with them.

Metrics 193

Metrics Infrastructure Open Source Database 193

DZone

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Any service provider tries to reach several metrics in their activity. One group of these metrics is service quality. Quality metrics contain: The ratio of successfully processed requests. Distribution of processing time between requests. Number of requests dependent curves.

Network 246

Network Hardware Metrics Processing 246

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

The emerging concepts of working with DevOps metrics and DevOps KPIs have really come a long way. DevOps metrics to help you meet your DevOps goals. Your next challenge is ensuring your DevOps processes, pipelines, and tooling meet the intended goal. Lead time for changes helps teams understand how effective their processes are.

DevOps 192

DevOps Metrics Traffic Efficiency 192

Dynatrace

MAY 1, 2023

IT operations analytics is the process of unifying, storing, and contextually analyzing operational data to understand the health of applications, infrastructure, and environments and streamline everyday operations. ITOA automates repetitive cloud operations tasks and streamlines the flow of analytics into decision-making processes.

Analytics 181

Analytics Artificial Intelligence Big Data Open Source 181

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?

Traffic 208

Traffic AWS Network Cloud 208

Scalegrid

JANUARY 19, 2024

When a MongoDB rollback happens, it can cause trouble to your data integrity and system consistency. Understanding how to address a rollback is critical for minimizing potential data loss and maintaining seamless operations. With direct, actionable insights, prepare to navigate the complexities of rollbacks with confidence.

Database 130

Database Network Servers Monitoring 130

Dynatrace

MAY 17, 2023

Making applications observable—relying on metrics, logs, and traces to understand what software is doing and how it’s performing—has become increasingly important as workloads are shifting to multicloud environments. We also introduced our demo app and explained how to define the metrics and traces it uses.

Metrics 166

Metrics Monitoring Database Network 166

Dynatrace

APRIL 13, 2023

The massive volumes of log data associated with a breach have made cybersecurity forensics a complicated, costly problem to solve. As organizations adopt more cloud-native technologies, observability data—telemetry from applications and infrastructure, including logs, metrics, and traces—and security data are converging.

Analytics 178

Analytics Java Infrastructure Cloud 178

Dynatrace

MAY 17, 2023

That is, relying on metrics, logs, and traces to understand what software is doing and where it’s running into snags. OpenTelemetry, the open source observability tool, has emerged as an industry-standard solution for instrumenting application telemetry data to make it observable.

Metrics 174

Metrics Open Source Traffic Cache 174

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

To overcome these complex issues, teams must quickly find root causes among numerous alerts and metrics. Based on the topology model, detected dependencies, and thousands of events and metrics, Davis AI can pinpoint the origin of an issue. This allows you to pinpoint troubled data centers at a glance.

Infrastructure 175

Infrastructure Metrics Network Monitoring 175

Dynatrace

MARCH 5, 2021

In today’s complex IT environments, the sheer volume of data created makes it impossible for humans to monitor, comprehend, or troubleshoot problems before they impact the experience of your end users. Still, you might have use cases that rely on important custom data streams. Now you can: Alert on the outage of a custom data source.

Metrics 208

Metrics Network Monitoring Infrastructure 208

All Things Distributed

JANUARY 20, 2020

Amazon's worldwide financial operations team has the incredible task of tracking all of that data (think petabytes). At Amazon's scale, a miscalculated metric, like cost per unit, or delayed data can have a huge impact (think millions of dollars). The team is constantly looking for ways to get more accurate data, faster.

Big Data 209

Big Data Logistics Retail Government 209

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Additional benefits of Dynatrace SaaS on Azure include: No infrastructure investment : Dynatrace manages the infrastructure for you, including automatic visibility, problem detection, and smart alerting across virtual networks, virtual infrastructure, and container orchestration.

Azure 317

Azure Availability Hardware Innovation 317

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

The OMB memo states that agencies must meet specific goals based on the five pillars of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) Zero Trust Maturity Model : identity, devices, networks, applications/workloads, and data. A quick refresher: what is zero trust?

Government 173

Government Analytics Network Traffic 173

Dynatrace

MARCH 18, 2024

Following FinOps practices, engineering, finance, and business teams take responsibility for their cloud usage, making data-driven spending decisions in a scalable and sustainable manner. Empowering teams to manage their FinOps practices, however, requires teams to have access to reliable multicloud monitoring and analysis data.

Best Practices 225

Best Practices Strategy Cloud AWS 225

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. The network latency between cluster nodes should be around 10 ms or less. Near-zero RPO and RTO—monitoring continues seamlessly and without data loss in failover scenarios.

Availability 241

Availability Hardware Latency Traffic 241

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

I love data. I have spent virtually my entire career looking at data. Synthetic data, network data, system data, and the list goes on. As much as I love data, data is cold, it lacks emotion. As much as I love data, data is cold, it lacks emotion. Often, 4s is too slow.

Big Data 146

Big Data Metrics Virtualization Monitoring 146

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 204

Metrics Innovation Strategy Monitoring 204

Highly Scalable

AUGUST 20, 2013

The shortcomings and drawbacks of batch-oriented data processing were widely recognized by the Big Data community quite a long time ago. It became clear that real-time query processing and in-stream processing is the immediate need in many practical applications. Modularity and flexibility.

Big Data 154

Big Data Processing Lambda Database 154

Dynatrace

MAY 31, 2023

As a result, site reliability has emerged as a critical success metric for many organizations. Maintaining reliable uptime and consistent service quality has become more complex as organizations expand their computing footprints across multiple data centers and in the cloud. More than one in seven outages cost more than $1 million.

Best Practices 216

Best Practices DevOps Latency Metrics 216

Dynatrace

MARCH 22, 2021

Such on-premises environments are usually large, typically consisting of thousands of hosts that are organized in physical data centers. As a Network Engineer, you need to ensure the operational functionality, availability, efficiency, backup/recovery, and security of your company’s network. Events and alerts.

Metrics 241

Metrics Network Infrastructure Traffic 241

Dynatrace

JANUARY 11, 2023

As cloud and big data complexity scales beyond the ability of traditional monitoring tools to handle, next-generation cloud monitoring and observability are becoming necessities for IT teams. These next-generation cloud monitoring tools present reports — including metrics, performance, and incident detection — visually via dashboards.

Cloud 217

Cloud Monitoring Best Practices Infrastructure 217

Dynatrace

JULY 25, 2022

This new service enhances the user visibility of network details with direct delivery of Flow Logs for Transit Gateway to your desired endpoint via Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) bucket or Amazon CloudWatch Logs. AWS Transit Gateway is a service offering from Amazon Web Services that connects network resources via a centralized hub.

AWS 210

AWS Transportation Network Traffic 210

Dynatrace

MAY 8, 2023

But when and how does DevOps monitoring fit into the process? DevOps monitoring tools enable teams to collect, analyze, and visualize data to ensure the smooth operation of software applications and infrastructure in a DevOps environment. The result is faster and more data-driven decision making. What is DevOps monitoring?

DevOps 212

DevOps Efficiency Monitoring Infrastructure 212

Dynatrace

APRIL 3, 2024

Full-stack observability is the ability to determine the state of every endpoint in a distributed IT environment based on its telemetry data. Telemetry data — such as metrics, logs, and traces — gives IT teams crucial context to understand how all entities are connected. Successful observability is actionable.

Government 154

Government Social Media Metrics Infrastructure 154

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. Manage and optimize the deployment and configuration of F5 BIG-IP appliances or virtual instances across multiple data centers or cloud environments.

Traffic 187

Traffic Virtualization Metrics Monitoring 187

Dynatrace

APRIL 8, 2024

Optimize the IT infrastructure supporting risk management processes and controls for maximum performance and resilience. The IT infrastructure, services, and applications that enable processes for risk management must perform optimally. Deploy risk-based estimates and models with confidence, accuracy, transparency, and speed.

Analytics 193

Analytics Infrastructure Efficiency Technology 193

Dynatrace

MARCH 18, 2024

OpenTelemetry standardizes how organizations instrument, generate, and collect telemetry data for analysis and provides community-based support. Because of its flexibility, this open source approach to instrumenting and collecting telemetry data is becoming increasingly important in large-size organizations.

Scalability 255

Scalability Open Source Analytics Innovation 255

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.

Systems 180

Systems Cloud Analytics DevOps 180

Dynatrace

JULY 25, 2023

Davis CoPilot empowers users to effortlessly create queries, data dashboards, and data notebooks using natural language and provides coding suggestions for workflow automation, reflecting the unique attributes of each customer’s hybrid and multicloud ecosystem. When a user asks a question, generative AIs create an answer word by word.

Best Practices 228

Best Practices Analytics Metrics Code 228

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

These workflows also utilize Davis® , the Dynatrace causal AI engine, and all your observability and security data across all platforms, in context, at scale, and in real-time. This process enables you to continuously evaluate software against predefined quality criteria and service level objectives (SLOs) in pre-production environments.

AWS 240

AWS Efficiency Azure Cloud 240

Scalegrid

DECEMBER 21, 2023

In today’s data-driven world, the ability to effectively monitor and manage data is of paramount importance. Redis®, a powerful in-memory data store, is no exception. Identifying key Redis® metrics such as latency, CPU usage, and memory metrics is crucial for effective Redis monitoring.

Strategy 130

Strategy Monitoring Latency DevOps 130

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Complex cloud computing environments are increasingly replacing traditional data centers. In fact, Gartner estimates that 80% of enterprises will shut down their on-premises data centers by 2025. So, what is ITOps? The primary goal of ITOps is to provide a high-performing, consistent IT environment. Why is IT operations important?

Artificial Intelligence 195

Artificial Intelligence DevOps Hardware Virtualization 195

Dynatrace

JUNE 28, 2019

As a full stack monitoring platform, 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 your individual hosts, the average number of metrics is about 500 per computational node. New metric identifiers and structure.

Metrics 102

Metrics Efficiency Monitoring Azure 102

Dynatrace

APRIL 15, 2024

While the benefits of multicloud environments are crucial to agency success, they introduce complexity and overwhelming data volumes that are impossible for humans to manage alone. In contrast, observability enables teams to understand a system’s internal state by analyzing the data it generates, including logs, metrics, and traces.

Infrastructure 201

Infrastructure Efficiency Government Transportation 201

Dynatrace

JANUARY 31, 2024

Monitoring SAP products can present challenges Monitoring SAP systems can be challenging due to the inherent complexity of using different technologies—such as ABAP, Java, and cloud offerings—and the sheer amount of generated data. SAP Basis teams have established best practices for managing their SAP systems.

Java 182

Java Analytics Best Practices Monitoring 182