The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 10, 2023

This platform has evolved from supporting studio applications to data science applications, machine-learning applications to discover the assets metadata, and build various data facts. Hence we built the data pipeline that can be used to extract the existing assets metadata and process it specifically to each new use case.

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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?

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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.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 25, 2023

This article explores SLOs for service performance. According to the Google Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) handbook, monitoring the four golden signals is crucial in delivering high-performing software solutions. While this connection might sound simple, finding the right metrics to measure the needed SLIs takes time and effort.

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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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Analytics Innovation Metrics Database 182

DZone

MAY 31, 2022

As a result, it has an advantage over others in terms of visibility, brand image, and driving traffic. However, to tactically assess the website's performance , it needs to be measured in a well-thought-out manner. This article will learn about web performance testing and how Core Web Vitals plays a crucial and strategic part in it.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 5, 2024

For a more proactive approach and to gain further visibility, other SLOs focusing on performance can be implemented. When the SLO status converges to an optimal value of 100%, and there’s substantial traffic (calls/min), BurnRate becomes more relevant for anomaly detection. What characterizes a weak SLO?

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Automating quality gates is ideal, as it minimizes manually checking and validating key metrics throughout the SDLC. By actively monitoring metrics such as error rate, success rate, and CPU load, quality gates instill confidence in teams during software releases. Several tools can be used to collect metrics in load/performance testing.

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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

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.

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Analytics Java Infrastructure Cloud 182

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. Detect and respond to security threats like DDoS attacks or web application attacks by monitoring application traffic and logs.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 16, 2022

The data locked in your log files can be a goldmine for your application developers, operations teams, and your enterprise as a whole. However, it can be complicated , expensive , or even impossible to set up robust observability that makes use of this data. Log format inconsistency makes it a challenge to access critical data.

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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.

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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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Dynatrace

APRIL 23, 2019

Synthetic monitors provide a perfect means of continually monitoring the performance baselines of your web applications. However, understanding the performance of different application types requires an emphasis on different performance metrics, that is, key performance metrics.

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Metrics Monitoring Performance Speed 102

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. Near-zero RPO and RTO—monitoring continues seamlessly and without data loss in failover scenarios. Minimized cross-data center network traffic. Dynatrace news.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 13, 2023

However, with these benefits come complexities in terms of cloud management, Kubernetes observability, and automation, making it imperative for enterprises to address these intricacies to enhance reliability, performance, and resource usage. So many tools can result in data inconsistencies.

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Dynatrace

MAY 31, 2023

As a result, site reliability has emerged as a critical success metric for many organizations. With so many of their transactions occurring online, customers are becoming more demanding, expecting websites and applications to always perform perfectly. The volume of travel spending booked online is expected to reach nearly $1.5

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CSS Wizardry

JULY 23, 2023

If you’re happy just to trust me, then this is all you need to know right now: Google takes URL-level Core Web Vitals data from CrUX into account when deciding where to rank you in a search results page. All Core Web Vitals data used to rank you is taken from actual Chrome-based traffic to your site. You should get in touch.

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Engineering Google Speed Mobile 246

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. Flow log data can be published to Amazon CloudWatch Logs or Amazon S3 after which you can retrieve and view its data in the Dynatrace Intelligent Observability Platform. What is VPC Flow Logs.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 25, 2023

For example, to handle traffic spikes and pay only for what they use. It helps developers and operators identify and troubleshoot issues, optimize performance and improve user experience. Scale automatically based on the demand and traffic patterns. The elasticity of serverless services helps organizations scale as needed.

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

A Common Mistake Which Everyone does When it Comes to Measure Performance of Dynamic Content‍Monitoring the performance of your traffic is vital. IT experts frequently rely on the performance measurements of static content, as a strong indication of Edge platform functionality.

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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. Below is a step-by-step guide on how to do so, but if you’d prefer to watch the steps check out my Performance Clinic here. Step #1 Get to know UTM-parameters.

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Traffic Analytics Metrics Servers 264

Dynatrace

MARCH 16, 2023

In the 2023 Perform session “SLOs done right: A practitioners guide,” Michael Cabrera, SRE lead at Vivint, and Andreas Grabner, DevSecOps activist at Dynatrace, break down the state of SLOs and discuss how teams can adopt successful SLOs, avoid less-than-ideal objectives, and ultimately build better SLOs. The result?

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DevOps Latency Metrics Traffic 211

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

How We Optimized Performance To Serve A Global Audience How We Optimized Performance To Serve A Global Audience Liran Cohen 2023-08-03T10:00:00+00:00 2023-08-03T13:06:00+00:00 I work for Bookaway , a digital travel brand. It increases our visibility and enables us to draw a steady stream of organic (or “free”) traffic to our site.

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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. Instead, Redis stores data in data structures which makes it very flexible to use. Data Structures in Redis.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 22, 2021

Such on-premises environments are usually large, typically consisting of thousands of hosts that are organized in physical data centers. Each SNMP-enabled device provides access to its state and performance metrics in a simple and robust way that allows Dynatrace to fetch the metrics and run them through Davis®, our AI causation engine.

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Dynatrace

MAY 28, 2020

In this blog, I will be going through a step-by-step guide on how to automate SRE-driven performance engineering. Step-by-step guide: SRE-driven performance analysis with Dynatrace. Once Dynatrace sees the incoming traffic it will also show up in Dynatrace, under Transaction & Services. Dynatrace news.

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Engineering Performance Metrics Best Practices 189

Dynatrace

JANUARY 11, 2023

With more organizations taking the multicloud plunge, monitoring cloud infrastructure is critical to ensure all components of the cloud computing stack are available, high-performing, and secure. These next-generation cloud monitoring tools present reports — including metrics, performance, and incident detection — visually via dashboards.

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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. Revisiting the golden rule Way back in 2006, Tenni Theurer first wrote about the 80 / 20 rule as it applied web performance.

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Performance Servers Mobile Metrics 111

Smashing Magazine

MAY 12, 2022

How To Use Google CrUX To Analyze And Compare The Performance Of JS Frameworks. How To Use Google CrUX To Analyze And Compare The Performance Of JS Frameworks. In particular, the increase in the amount of downloaded JavaScript can have a direct impact on website performance. Dan Shappir. 2022-05-12T09:30:00+00:00.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2023

Service level objectives (SLOs) provide a powerful framework for measuring and maintaining software performance, reliability, and user satisfaction. Certain SLOs can help organizations get started on measuring and delivering metrics that matter. But how do you get started, and what are some service level objective examples?

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Latency Website Traffic Virtualization 174

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 27, 2022

By implementing service-level objectives, teams can avoid collecting and checking a huge amount of metrics for each service. When organizations implement SLOs, they can improve software development processes and application performance. This telemetry data serves as the basis for establishing meaningful SLOs.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2023

Service level objectives (SLOs) provide a powerful framework for measuring and maintaining software performance, reliability, and user satisfaction. Certain service-level objective examples can help organizations get started on measuring and delivering metrics that matter. Fitness apps : During the pandemic, fitness apps boomed.

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Traffic Latency Website Virtualization 173

Speed Curve

MARCH 5, 2023

"I made my pages faster, but my business and user engagement metrics didn't change. How can I demonstrate the business value of performance to people in my organization?" If you've ever asked yourself any of these questions, then you could find the answers in identifying and understanding the performance poverty line for your site.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 21, 2021

In February 2021, Dynatrace announced full support for Google’s Core Web Vitals metrics , which will help site owners as they start optimizing Core Web Vitals performance for SEO. Not everyone has expertise in performance optimization and how it can impact SEO. To do this effectively, you need a big data processing approach.

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Traffic Metrics Mobile Analytics 262

Speed Curve

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Earlier this year, Google announced that Interaction to Next Paint (INP) is no longer an experimental metric. Now that INP has arrived to dethrone FID as the responsiveness metric in Core Web Vitals, we've turned our eye to scrutinizing its effectiveness. When it comes to new performance metrics, it's easy to jump on bandwagons.

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