Dynatrace

MAY 6, 2020

Over the last two month s, w e’ve monito red key sites and applications across industries that have been receiving surges in traffic , including government, health insurance, retail, banking, and media. The following day, a normally mundane Wednesday , traffic soared to 128,000 sessions. seconds to 2.78

Website 217

Website Monitoring Retail Media 217

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. PMM monitors the MySQL uptime: show global status like 'uptime'; Indicates the amount of time (seconds) the MySQL server has been running since the last restart.

Performance 106

Performance Monitoring Traffic Database 106

HammerDB

OCTOBER 23, 2023

HammerDB uses stored procedures to achieve maximum throughput when benchmarking your database. However, there can be a lack of understanding of the benefits that stored procedures bring or if you have a benchmarking tool or database that doesn’t support stored procedures, then you have nothing to compare against.

Benchmarking 62

Benchmarking Database Network C++ 62

Percona

DECEMBER 21, 2023

The integration of those projects, plus the years of Percona expertise in the database space, makes PMM one of the best database monitoring solutions on the market. For this example, the PMM SERVER endpoint will be where the HAProxy frontend is listening, and that’s the one used when registering a new PMM CLIENT.

Availability 103

Availability Monitoring Open Source Traffic 103

Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

MySQL performance tuning offers several significant advantages for effective database management and optimization. Enhanced Database Efficiency By adjusting configuration settings, you can markedly enhance the overall efficiency of your MySQL database. Experiencing database performance issues?

Tuning 52

Tuning Database Performance Hardware 52

Percona

AUGUST 8, 2023

Or worse yet, sometimes I get questions about regaining normal operations after a traffic increase caused performance destabilization. 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.

Traffic 91

Traffic Cache Monitoring Database 91

Dynatrace

MAY 19, 2022

This greatly reduced the number of metrics to manage and provided a more comprehensive picture of what was behind their primary reliability service-level objective. This refers to the load on your network and servers. These four dimensions apply to any layer in the technical stack, such as front-end, databases, and external services.

Automotive 272

Automotive Latency Architecture Azure 272

Percona

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Identifying which resources you can trim to reduce your monthly bill can be difficult, but looking at the right metrics will help you understand the application’s actual requirements. Marked in red in Figure 1 is a server with less than 30% of CPU usage. Marked in red in Figure 1 is a server with less than 30% of CPU usage.

Cloud 121

Cloud Serverless AWS Storage 121

SQL Performance

APRIL 15, 2020

SQL Server has always provided the ability to capture actual queries in an easily-consumable rowset format – first with legacy SQL Server Profiler, later via Extended Events, and now with a combination of those two concepts in Azure SQL Database. Enter the New SQL Server Profiler.

Azure 96

Azure Database Tuning Network 96

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

A standard Docker container can run anywhere, on a personal computer (for example, PC, Mac, Linux), in the cloud, on local servers, and even on edge devices. This opens the door to auto-scalable applications, which effortlessly matches the demands of rapidly growing and varying user traffic. What is Docker? Networking. Observability.

Open Source 304

Open Source Traffic DevOps Cloud 304

Scalegrid

APRIL 16, 2020

Where you decide to host your cloud databases is a huge decision. But, if you’re considering leveraging a managed databases provider, you have another decision to make – are you able to host in your own cloud account or are you required to host through your managed service provider? Where to host your cloud database?

Cloud 242

Cloud Azure AWS Database 242

Dynatrace

MAY 8, 2023

The process involves monitoring various components of the software delivery pipeline, including applications, infrastructure, networks, and databases. Provide metrics for improved site reliability. The Dynatrace platform also enables teams to monitor logs generated by applications, servers, and infrastructure components.

DevOps 222

DevOps Efficiency Monitoring Infrastructure 222

The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 13, 2023

Migrating Critical Traffic At Scale with No Downtime — Part 2 Shyam Gala , Javier Fernandez-Ivern , Anup Rokkam Pratap , Devang Shah Picture yourself enthralled by the latest episode of your beloved Netflix series, delighting in an uninterrupted, high-definition streaming experience. This is where large-scale system migrations come into play.

Traffic 279

Traffic Metrics Systems Strategy 279

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.

Cache 232

Cache Ecommerce Social Media Database 232

Dynatrace

JULY 6, 2020

In addition to providing visibility for core Azure services like virtual machines, load balancers, databases, and application services, we’re happy to announce support for the following 10 new Azure services, with many more to come soon: Virtual Machines (classic ones). Azure Traffic Manager. Azure Batch. Azure DB for PostgreSQL.

Azure 148

Azure Cloud Big Data Virtualization 148

Scalegrid

DECEMBER 16, 2019

MongoDB is the #3 open source database and the #1 NoSQL database in the world. It’s a cross-platform document-oriented database that uses JSON-like documents with schema, and is leveraged broadly across startup apps up to enterprise-level businesses developing modern apps. minutes of downtime in one year. MongoDB Replica Sets.

Azure 187

Azure AWS Latency Database 187

Dynatrace

AUGUST 30, 2019

Infrastructure Optimization: 100% improvement in Database Connectivity. Impacting Server-Side Requests: Dynatrace allows you to drill into your server-side requests to understand why your business logic is executing slow or fails. Too much data requested from a database, e.g. Request all and filter in memory.

Cache 199

Cache Database Architecture Government 199

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

It increases our visibility and enables us to draw a steady stream of organic (or “free”) traffic to our site. While paid marketing strategies like Google Ads play a part in our approach as well, enhancing our organic traffic remains a major priority. The higher our organic traffic, the more profitable we become as a company.

Performance 74

Performance Cache Traffic Metrics 74

Percona

JULY 1, 2023

Now that Database-as-a-service (DBaaS) is in high demand, there are multiple questions regarding AWS services that cannot always be answered easily: When should I use Aurora and when should I use RDS MySQL ? What we should really compare is the MySQL and Aurora database engines provided by Amazon RDS. How do I choose which one to use?

AWS 52

AWS Database Serverless Storage 52

Dynatrace

MAY 28, 2020

If you have a distributed environment with multiple servers hosting your webservers, app servers, and database, I suggest you install the OneAgent on all these servers to get full end-to-end visibility. This will enable deep monitoring of those Java,NET, Node, processes as well as your web servers.

Engineering 193

Engineering Performance Metrics Best Practices 193

Dynatrace

JULY 21, 2020

Whether you need to make sure that your SQL database is listening on port 1433 even when there is no traffic, that your switch is responding to a ping or that your DNS server is up and running, the more devices you proactively monitor, the quicker you can react to unforeseen events. Platform extensions.

Infrastructure 153

Infrastructure Monitoring Open Source Traffic 153

High Scalability

JUNE 4, 2019

FlexBalancer makes it easy to manage traffic between multiple CDN providers, API’s, Databases or any custom endpoint helping you achieve better performance, ensure the availability of services and reduce vendor costs. InMemory.Net provides a Dot Net native in memory database for analysing large amounts of data.

Java 116

Java Metrics Software Engineering Traffic 116

Smashing Magazine

MAY 12, 2022

CrUX is a cloud-based database into which Real User Measurements (RUM) are collected from live Chrome browser sessions. In particular, the collected measurements include the three Core Web Vitals metrics measured for each session. Starting in June 2021, these metrics have become a ranking factor for Google search.

Google 127

Google Performance Website Mobile 127

Dotcom-Montior

MAY 12, 2020

Early web applications involved less on client-side behavior and more server-side for all its navigation, query handling, and updates. A request will be sent from the client-side and an HTTP check waits on the server port to get the message, process it, and then send back the response. Connection closed by the server.

Monitoring 63

Monitoring Entertainment Hardware Latency 63

Dynatrace

APRIL 16, 2019

Many of our customers also run their.NET, ASP.NET,NET Core, SQL Server, CRM, SharePoint … applications on AWS and have reached out to us in the past to ask about best practices around optimizing these workloads in order to run more efficiently and more cost effective. Are they receiving traffic? #3:

AWS 126

AWS Best Practices Database Traffic 126

Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Do you have a database? Do you have a web server? Was the database running? Is the web server running? The last item to check was if the web server was able to talk to the database? The last item to check was if the web server was able to talk to the database? Onto the next project.

Systems 74

Systems Monitoring Hardware Network 74

Apica

JANUARY 18, 2023

You may have thousands of spreadsheets moving data between databases that are virtually invisible to the “latest” monitoring technology. You also need full visibility into desktop applications, web apps, server performance, and every other step on the path to transaction completion wherever the user may be in the world. It just works.

Monitoring 52

Monitoring Network Architecture Traffic 52

Dynatrace

AUGUST 9, 2023

In this blog post, we’ll use Dynatrace Security Analytics to go threat hunting, bringing together logs, traces, metrics, and, crucially, threat alerts. To keep it real, we have a load generator that creates benign traffic. It also generates  OpenTelemetry  traces. Therefore, we filtered them out with DQL. htaccess", "/.ssh",

Analytics 198

Analytics AWS Strategy Infrastructure 198

The Netflix TechBlog

JULY 30, 2019

The Netflix Media Database (NMDB) is one such example. Below is a snapshot of our Kibana dashboard which shows the workflow execution metrics over a typical 7-day period. Developer Labs, Logging and Metrics We have been continually improving logging and metrics, and revamped the documentation to reflect the latest state of Conductor.

Lambda 189

Lambda Media Open Source Metrics 189

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 26, 2013

and enable you to maintain a nearly up-to-date copy of your master database in a different AWS Region. Cross Region Read Replicas also enable you to serve read traffic for your global customer base from regions that are nearest to them. Amazon RDS offers a monthly uptime percentage SLA of 99.95% per Multi-AZ database instance.

Cloud 145

Cloud AWS Traffic Latency 145

O'Reilly Software

APRIL 30, 2018

Harnessing DNS for traffic steering, load balancing, and intelligent response. As applications have moved from local data centers to the public cloud, the role of DNS has expanded to the current role of a sophisticated director, controlling global and site load balancing, traffic steering, and providing intelligent response to user requests.

Cloud 68

Cloud Traffic Internet Internet 68

Jos

JUNE 2, 2018

One could argue this is a metric-driven decision. When they dug into the data, they found that the reason load times had increased was that they got a lot more traffic from Africa after doing the optimizations. How would you architecture a non-trivial size web project (client, server, databases, caching layer)?

Performance 237

Performance Speed Google Media 237

SQL Performance

JANUARY 22, 2020

Table-valued parameters have been around since SQL Server 2008 and provide a useful mechanism for sending multiple rows of data to SQL Server, brought together as a single parameterized call. } ; We now have correct lengths for the column definitions, and we won't be passing them as LOBs over TDS to SQL Server.

Servers 55

Servers Azure Hardware Network 55

Percona

MARCH 7, 2019

The customer had noticed a linear high CPU usage in one of their MySQL instances and was not able to figure out why as there was no much traffic hitting the app. The server is a small instance: Models | 6xIntel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2430 0 @ 2.20GHz 10GB RAM This symptom can be caused by various different reasons. Increase QPS by 2x.

C++ 102

C++ Traffic Servers Monitoring 102

Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

It helps assess how a site, web application, or API will respond to various traffic, without adding any additional infrastructure. Executing an internal test can tell you how well your application or site handles an increase in traffic, but it will never reflect real-world conditions. Identifying performance bottlenecks.

Performance Testing 40

Performance Testing Strategy Testing Performance 40

Dynatrace

AUGUST 5, 2019

Resource consumption & traffic analysis. Database & functional migration. What is the network traffic going to be between services we migrate and those that have to stay in the current data center? How much traffic is sent between two processes hosting a certain service? What’s in your stack?”.

Cloud 31

Cloud Traffic Database Network 31

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

The scale of the effect can be deeply situational or hard to suss out without solid metrics. Since then, the metrics conversation has moved forward significantly, culminating in Core Web Vitals , reported via the Chrome User Experience Report to reflect the real-world experiences of users. Baselines And Budgets Remain Vital.

Performance 124

Performance Network Cache Metrics 124