The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 13, 2020

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. Telltale combines a variety of data sources to create a holistic view of an application’s health.

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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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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 18, 2022

by Jun He , Akash Dwivedi , Natallia Dzenisenka , Snehal Chennuru , Praneeth Yenugutala , Pawan Dixit At Netflix, Data and Machine Learning (ML) pipelines are widely used and have become central for the business, representing diverse use cases that go beyond recommendations, predictions and data transformations.

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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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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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Dynatrace

MAY 17, 2023

OpenTelemetry , the open source observability tool, has become the go-to standard for instrumenting custom applications to collect observability telemetry data. However, this method limited us to instrumenting the code manually and collecting specific sets of data we defined upfront. What is OneAgent?

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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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Percona

MAY 1, 2023

Out of the box, the default PostgreSQL configuration is not tuned for any particular workload. It is primarily the responsibility of the database administrator or developer to tune PostgreSQL according to their system’s workload. What is PostgreSQL performance tuning?

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 7, 2020

At the same time, you can now simply flip a switch to begin ingesting observability data from these tools into the Dynatrace platform, all while retaining your investment and increasing the value you get from Dynatrace. Open-source metric sources automatically map to our Smartscape model for AI analytics.

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Percona

JULY 19, 2023

When adding a remote MySQL instance to Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM), there are a few options you can specify during the setup, but they are not editable once added. One way to do this is to remove the instance and add it back, but you’ll lose some stats/historical data. What if you want to change the value later on?

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 16, 2021

Part 1 of this series starts will cover the key ingredients needed for successful DevOps use to deliver better software faster, followed by a short overview of GitHub Actions and example use cases related to deployment and release monitoring. Key ingredients required to deliver better software faster. GitHub and GitHub Actions.

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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

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. Built-in monitoring. What is Kubernetes?

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 18, 2023

This challenge has given rise to the discipline of observability engineering, which concentrates on the details of telemetry data to fine-tune observability use cases. To get a more granular look into telemetry data, many analysts rely on custom metrics using Prometheus. What is Prometheus?

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Dynatrace

JUNE 27, 2023

Centralized log management for scalable ingestion into Grail As AWS S3 proves to be the preferred way of storing cloud logs, enterprise customers face mounting challenges in putting S3 log data to use. To date, some customers have used open source or community-backed components to forward logs from S3 to Dynatrace.

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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. Don’t underestimate complexity. Kubernetes is not monolithic. Stand-alone observability won’t cut it.

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Monitoring Cloud Metrics Code 219

Dynatrace

JANUARY 4, 2024

As a CNCF open source incubating project, OpenTelemetry provides a standardized set of APIs, libraries, agents, instrumentation, and specifications for logging, metrics, and tracing. A unified platform approach also makes OpenTelemetry data available to more teams across the organization for more diversified analysis.

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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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Percona

JANUARY 4, 2024

They provide flexibility in data organization and performance optimization compared to the default setup. Flexible location : Data files can reside within the MySQL data directory or an independent location, enabling finer control over storage management and performance tuning. sec) root@mysql8:/etc/mysql/mysql.conf.d#

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Percona

OCTOBER 11, 2023

In this blog post, we will discuss how we can migrate data from MongoDB Atlas to self-hosted MongoDB. There are a couple of third-party tools in the market to migrate data from Atlas to Pecona Server for MongoDB (PSMDB), like MongoPush, Hummingbird, and MongoShake. It will ask for load sample data. only copy the data).

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Dynatrace

JUNE 16, 2022

At the same time, open source software (OSS) libraries now account for more than 70% of most applications’ code base, increasing the risk of application vulnerabilities. An ideal RASP technology does not need training or fine-tuning to learn what bad application behavior looks like. The benefits of RASP.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 9, 2021

According to the 2019 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report, web application attacks were the number one type of attack. Data from Forrester Research provides more detail, finding that 39% of all attacks were designed to exploit vulnerabilities in web applications. And open-source software is rife with vulnerabilities.

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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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Percona

APRIL 13, 2023

PostgreSQL is a popular open source relational database management system that is widely used for storing and managing data. Replication lag is the delay between the time when data is written to the primary database and the time when it is replicated to the standby databases. for monitoring replication lag.

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Percona

APRIL 17, 2023

We’ll also go over some best practices for MongoDB security as well as MongoDB data modeling. The main objective of this post is to share my experience over the past years tuning MongoDB and centralize the diverse sources that I crossed in this journey in a unique place. Spoiler alert: This post focuses on MongoDB 3.6.X

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Percona

MARCH 23, 2023

PostgreSQL is a free and open source object-relational database management system (ORDBMS) that has existed since the mid-1990s. Open source and free PostgreSQL is an open source database, which means it is free to use, distribute, and modify.

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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.

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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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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.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 15, 2020

OpenTelemetry metrics add domain specific data such as business KPIs and license relevant consumption details. Consequently, we’ve partnered with AWS to be part of future versions of the new AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry, which provides a new way to analyze domain specific data from your AWS deployments and AWS services in Dynatrace.

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Dynatrace

JULY 23, 2019

Web development and data science are the two main types of Python development. The OneAgent SDK enables you to extend Dynatrace, including our AI-based root cause analysis , Smartscape , and service flow , to monitor Python-based applications. The application I want to monitor is called Flaskr. Dynatrace news. fetchone().

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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. They’re your roadmap to linking cloud moves with real business outcomes, helping you monitor progress. Setting up and tracking Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) is crucial.

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Percona

MARCH 1, 2023

So you get the Umaluts, Cedils, and C-J-K Language support in your data, plus emojis. EXPLAIN ANALYSE is a big boon to query tuning. Audit Plugin enables policy-based monitoring and connection and query activity logging. Data Masking to hide, mask, or obscure data like credit cards or identification numbers.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Open source has also become a fundamental building block of the entire cloud-native stack. While leveraging cloud-native platforms, open-source and third-party libraries accelerate time to value significantly, it also creates new challenges for application security. Is sensitive data affected?

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Percona

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Sure, database migration is complex, particularly when you’re looking to migrate from a proprietary database to an open source one. From upholding data integrity to ensuring no data is lost during the transition, there’s a lot to consider. Data preparation: How are you going to backup and cleanse your data?

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Dynatrace

JULY 6, 2022

Consider selecting platform-based solutions — whether open source or from a commercial vendor — that support open ecosystems. Design, implement, and tune effective SLOs. Enabling predictive monitoring to identify problems before causing a disruption. This number will likely increase as the SRE discipline matures.

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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. Don’t underestimate complexity. Kubernetes is not monolithic. Stand-alone observability won’t cut it.

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