Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

How do you get more value from petabytes of exponentially exploding, increasingly heterogeneous data? The short answer: The three pillars of observability—logs, metrics, and traces—converging on a data lakehouse. To solve this problem, Dynatrace launched Grail, its causational data lakehouse , in 2022.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

Welcome back to the second part of our blog series on how easy it is to get enterprise-grade observability at scale in Dynatrace for your OpenTelemetry custom metrics. In Part 1 , we announced our new OpenTelemetry custom-metric exporters that provide the broadest language coverage on the market, including Go , .NET record(value); }.

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 7, 2020

VMAF is a video quality metric that Netflix jointly developed with a number of university collaborators and open-sourced on Github. Since its open-sourcing, we have started seeing VMAF being applied in a wider scope within the open-source community. animation vs. documentary).

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 15, 2020

OpenTelemetry metrics are useful for augmenting the fully automatic observability that can be achieved with Dynatrace OneAgent. OpenTelemetry metrics add domain specific data such as business KPIs and license relevant consumption details. Enterprise-grade observability for custom OpenTelemetry metrics from AWS.

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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

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Dynatrace has recently enhanced its Metrics APIs, allowing everyone to send any type of metric with any set of data dimension to Davis, Dynatrace’s AI engine. For some of these tests, he’s using the open source tool Apache JMeter. There are many use cases for using this API.

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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

MARCH 29, 2024

As organizations continue to modernize their technology stacks, many turn to Kubernetes , an open source container orchestration system for automating software deployment, scaling, and management. Providing at-a-glance data makes it possible for teams to quickly identify high-level issues and then drill down into the details.

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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.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 4, 2024

Great news: OpenTelemetry endpoint detection, analyzing OpenTelemetry services, and visualizing Istio service mesh metrics just got easier. As a CNCF open source incubating project, OpenTelemetry provides a standardized set of APIs, libraries, agents, instrumentation, and specifications for logging, metrics, and tracing.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 6, 2022

OpenTelemetry is an exciting open source observability standard that provides a common collection of tools, APIs, and SDKs to help collect observability signals. Jaeger and Prometheus backends for displaying the collected traces and metrics, but you can easily configure alternative backends. Dynatrace metrics exporter ?

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Dynatrace

JUNE 27, 2023

Logs complement metrics and enable automation Cloud practitioners agree that observability, security, and automation go hand in hand. Logs complement out-of-the-box metrics and enable automated actions for responding to availability, security, and other service events.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Also, these modern, cloud-native architectures produce an immense volume, velocity, and variety of data. Every service and component exposes observability data (metrics, logs, and traces) that contains crucial information to drive digital businesses. Collecting data requires massive and ongoing configuration efforts.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Docker Engine is built on top containerd , the leading open-source container runtime, a project of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (DNCF). Kubernetes is an open-source container orchestration platform for managing, automating, and scaling containerized applications. Here the overlap with Kubernetes begins.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Teams can gain this understanding through topology mapping , with telemetry data from request traces, and understanding how the frontend ties to backend functions. Many organizations also find it useful to use an open source observability tool, such as OpenTelemetry.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 16, 2021

Automatically collect and evaluate business, service, and architectural indicator metrics to promote or roll back deployments. Microsoft’s GitHub is the largest open-source software community in the world with millions of open-source projects. SLO validation – ?Automatically Topics in this blog series.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

The Android launch leveraged the open-source software decoder dav1d built by the VideoLAN, VLC, and FFmpeg communities and sponsored by AOMedia. Netflix has also partnered with YouTube to develop an open-source solution for an AV1 decoder on game consoles that utilizes the additional power of GPUs. Some titles (e.g.,

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The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 13, 2020

A metric crossed a threshold. You’re half awake and wondering, “Is there really a problem or is this just an alert that needs tuning? This is a critical application so you drag yourself out of bed, open your laptop, and start poring through dashboards for more info. Metrics are a key part of understanding application health.

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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. We at Dynatrace understand the importance of contributing our expertise in enterprise-grade intelligent observability to the open source community.

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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.

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The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 29, 2019

We use and contribute to many open-source Python packages, some of which are mentioned below. The configuration of these devices is controlled by several other systems including source of truth, application of configurations to devices, and back up. If any of this interests you, check out the jobs site or find us at PyCon.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Grabner notes that Kubernetes already provides some data of its own. And if you have other tools, like the open-source systems monitoring toolkit, Prometheus , you need a solution to make sense of all the data in context. Infrastructure as code vs infrastructure as data. The post Kubernetes made simple?

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Dynatrace

APRIL 20, 2022

We wanted to expand and provide business process metrics (# of total orders per restaurant, orders canceled ratios, time per order, ingredients in or out of stock …) to quickly react to any issues and also get automatically alerted on anomalies. To do that our developers use frameworks such as Micrometer to expose their own metrics (e.g.:

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Percona

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Key highlights of PMM 2.35: Access Control (Tech Preview): Limit access to metrics Disclaimer: Please note that PMM Access Control is currently in technical preview and is subject to change. PMM Dashboards offer valuable insights for monitoring database metrics and troubleshooting. Stay tuned!

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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? To be fair, that is also true with PostgreSQL; it hasn’t been tuned either, and it, too, can also perform much better.

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Dynatrace

JULY 6, 2022

Organizations that have achieved SRE maturity have a better handle on the state of their infrastructure, the ability to tie reliability metrics more tightly to business objectives, and the means to ensure a consistent and responsive customer experience. Design, implement, and tune effective SLOs.

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Dynatrace

JULY 16, 2021

The innovative technology powering these recent and future use cases comes from Keptn , our recognized CNCF open-source project. If you want more information on Keptn, then I suggest joining the Keptn Open Source community and help us drive innovation that benefits both the open-source project and Dynatrace Cloud Automation Solution.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

In particular, the VMAF metric lies at the core of improving the Netflix member’s streaming video quality. It has become a de facto standard for perceptual quality measurements within Netflix and, thanks to its open-source nature , throughout the video industry. As before, the start time for each metric’s assembly can vary.

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Scalegrid

MARCH 22, 2024

This covers everything from tech specs and what you expect from the service to security, how you’ll handle data, and how services will be managed. Hosting either on-premises or with third-party data center providers and deciding whether management services should be conducted internally or outsourced.

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Percona

AUGUST 17, 2023

PostgreSQL is open source relational database management software. It’s used for data management (shocker), application development, and data analytics. In another survey, using multiple metrics for overall popularity, PostgreSQL ranks as the fourth most popular database management system ( DB-Engines, March 2023 ).

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Troubleshooting a session in Edgar When we started building Edgar four years ago, there were very few open-source distributed tracing systems that satisfied our needs. Our tactical approach was to use Netflix-specific libraries for collecting traces from Java-based streaming services until open source tracer libraries matured.

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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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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

For digital enterprises, all-in-one data platforms are an essential enabler and accelerator, transforming the way businesses work. The devil is in the detail, though because of the sheer number, breadth, and volatility of technologies used in modern architectures and the immense volume, velocity, and variety of data they produce.

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Software Software Technology Technology 146

Dynatrace

MAY 27, 2021

Here are a few common metrics teams should track for every CD pipeline to help you evaluate its efficacy. To shorten MTTR, developers need data to troubleshoot problems. CD can reduce the time it takes to restore service by providing data about your build quickly, creating the fast feedback loops DevOps teams need to recover quickly.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Stretched tools used outside of their key use-cases and beyond their core capabilities result in unreliable data leading to wrong decisions or a misplaced sense of safety. Lots of data intended to help and aid, but instead results in too much noise and unnecessary alerts due to the lack of intelligent root-cause analysis and transparency.

Cloud 171

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O'Reilly

JANUARY 17, 2023

Given that, what would you say is the job of a data scientist (or ML engineer, or any other such title)? A common task for a data scientist is to build a predictive model. You know the drill: pull some data, carve it up into features, feed it into one of scikit-learn’s various algorithms. .”) Building Models.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

In order to accomplish this, one of the key strategies many organizations utilize is an open source Kubernetes environment, which helps build, deliver, and scale containerized Cloud Native applications. Today, most thought-leaders break down Observability into three pillars; metrics, distributed traces and logs.

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