The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 7, 2024

The Machine Learning Platform (MLP) team at Netflix provides an entire ecosystem of tools around Metaflow , an open source machine learning infrastructure framework we started, to empower data scientists and machine learning practitioners to build and manage a variety of ML systems. ETL workflows), as well as downstream (e.g.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Business events powered by our new Grail™ data lakehouse and by other Dynatrace platform technologies ensures the real-time precision that business and IT teams need to make data-driven decisions and improve business outcomes. Business events deliver the industry’s broadest, deepest, and easiest access to your critical business data.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 18, 2023

Business events are a special class of events, new to Business Analytics; together with Grail, our data lakehouse, they provide the precision and advanced analytics capabilities required by your most important business use cases. What are business events? This diagram shows a few examples of business events.

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DZone

MARCH 9, 2023

Monitoring is a small aspect of our operational needs; configuring, monitoring, and checking the configuration of tools such as Fluentd and Fluentbit can be a bit frustrating, particularly if we want to validate more advanced configuration that does more than simply lift log files and dump the content into a solution such as OpenSearch.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Monitoring business processes is one thing organizations can do to help improve the key business processes that enable them to provide great customer experiences. Business process monitoring refers to continuously tracking and analyzing key performance indicators (KPIs) from relevant process milestones.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

But are observability platforms—born from the collision between the demands of cloud computing and the limitations of APM and infrastructure monitoring—the best solution for managing business analytics? Observability fault lines The monitoring of complex and dynamic IT systems includes real-time analysis of baselines, trends, and anomalies.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 10, 2023

Dynatrace business events address these systemic problems, delivering real-time business observability to business and IT teams with the precision and context required to support data-driven decisions and improve business outcomes. Business data often lacks IT context, which prevents effective BizOps collaboration.

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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.

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Dynatrace

MAY 24, 2023

Dynatrace is proud to provide deep monitoring support for Azure Linux as a container host operating system (OS) platform for Azure Kubernetes Services (AKS) to enable customers to operate efficiently and innovate faster. Why monitor Azure Linux container host for AKS? How Can Dynatrace Monitor Azure Linux container host for AKS?

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SQL Shack

OCTOBER 20, 2020

In this 33rd article of SQL Server Always On Availability Group series, we will use extended events to monitor the availability group. Introduction Database professionals’ primary role is to do proactive monitoring for ensuring system availability. You can use […].

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 16, 2023

SLO monitoring and alerting on SLOs using error-budget burn rates are critical capabilities that can help organizations achieve that goal. SLOs are pivotal for development, DevOps, and SRE teams because they provide a common language for discussing system reliability. What is SLO monitoring?

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Visibility into system activity and behavior has become increasingly critical given organizations’ widespread use of Amazon Web Services (AWS) and other serverless platforms. These resources generate vast amounts of data in various locations, including containers, which can be virtual and ephemeral, thus more difficult to monitor.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 9, 2020

If you’re running SAP, you’re likely already familiar with the HANA relational database management system. However, if you’re an operations engineer who’s been tasked with migrating to HANA from a legacy database system, you’ll need to get up to speed quickly. Get up and running with no agent installation.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 1, 2023

In this blog post, we’ll discuss the methods we used to ensure a successful launch, including: How we tested the system Netflix technologies involved Best practices we developed Realistic Test Traffic Netflix traffic ebbs and flows throughout the day in a sinusoidal pattern. We used Elasticsearch dashboards to analyze results.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 5, 2023

What constitutes a “material event” for application security? The mandate provides some room for interpretation on what should be considered a “material” cybersecurity event. Do material incidents on “third-party systems” require disclosure? Continuously improve by monitoring application security feedback loops.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 18, 2022

Whether deployment of a new system, a new release, or a rolling patch update, I wanted it done consistently and successfully every time. The next phase of my amazement involves deep introspection into a monitoring and observability solution called Dynatrace. Back then, the concept of automation meant something different.

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Percona

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Setting up Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) alerts for multiple channels can significantly enhance your monitoring strategy. They are widely used in web development, APIs, and cloud services to create more dynamic and responsive systems. This could include alerts for system events, status changes, or important updates.

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Dynatrace

MAY 16, 2019

With this Dynatrace release, we’ve further improved the capabilities of your alerting profiles to allow you to define more fine-grained filtering options based on the event types within correlated problems. Custom event types include events that originate from plugins, APIs, or Log Analytics.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 29, 2024

“Closed loop” refers to the continuous feedback loop in which the system takes actions — based on monitoring and analysis — and verifies the results to ensure complete problem remediation. The goal is to either improve or restore the system to its optimally functioning state. Improved change failure and escalation rates.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 3, 2020

A key part of monitoring your Windows hosts are Windows services (i.e., These services are responsible for core components of the Windows operating system and third-party applications. Windows-based infrastructure monitoring. Go to Settings > Monitoring > Windows services availability and create a new configuration.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 22, 2024

While traditional AI relies on finding correlations in data, causal AI aims to determine the precise underlying mechanisms that drive events and outcomes. That’s why causal AI use cases abound for organizations looking to build more reliable and transparent AI systems. However, correlation does not imply causation.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Microsoft Hyper-V is a virtualization platform that manages virtual machines (VMs) on Windows-based systems. It enables multiple operating systems to run simultaneously on the same physical hardware and integrates closely with Windows-hosted services. This leads to a more efficient and streamlined experience for users.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 28, 2023

Let’s shift our focus to the backend systems and business processes, the behind-the-scenes heroes of end-to-end customer experience. Solutions such as inventory management, order management, and delivery optimization can introduce new challenges: System integration. Technology to the rescue? Multi-channel logistics.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 4, 2024

Traditional analytics and AI systems rely on statistical models to correlate events with possible causes. Causal AI is a different approach that goes beyond event correlations to understand the underlying reasons for trends and patterns. That’s where causal AI can help. Causal AI is particularly effective in observability.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 18, 2024

Observability of applications and infrastructure serves as a critical foundation for DevOps and platform engineering, offering a comprehensive view into system performance and behavior. For example, an observability solution can track and analyze usage data to help engineers understand how and when to scale resources based on system demand.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 13, 2024

The Network and Information Systems 2 (NIS2) Directive, which goes into effect in Oct 2024, aims to enhance the security of network and information systems throughout the EU. NIS2 is an evolution of the Network and Information Systems (NIS) Security Directive, which has been in effect since 2016.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 20, 2024

Numerous hurdles can hinder successful deployments, from resource constraints to external dependencies and monitoring inadequacies. Monitoring inadequacies Comprehensive monitoring is essential for detecting and resolving issues during deployment. Ensuring that your monitoring solution monitors your cluster.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 29, 2024

This year, Google’s event will take place from April 9 to 11 in Las Vegas. Visit Dynatrace booth #1141 during the event to explore how its real-time insights and optimization capabilities ensure seamless scalability and performance. Learn to boost system reliability through proactive issue detection.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Easily monitor your Nutanix clusters with Dynatrace The Dynatrace Nutanix Cluster Extension offers straightforward yet powerful features to help you streamline your monitoring with an easy one-click activation via Dynatrace Hub. However, this approach doesn’t provide seamless monitoring coverage.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 27, 2024

This is further exacerbated by the fact that a significant portion of their IT budgets are allocated to maintaining outdated legacy systems. By combining AI and observability, government agencies can create more intelligent and responsive systems that are better equipped to tackle the challenges of today and tomorrow.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 19, 2020

Having released this functionality in a Preview Release back in May 2019, we’re now happy to announce the General Availability of our SAP ABAP monitoring extension. Why SAP ABAP platform monitoring in Dynatrace? SAP estimates that 80% of all worldwide business transactions touch SAP systems in some form.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Running Databases efficiently is crucial for business success Monitoring databases is essential in large IT environments to prevent potential issues from becoming major problems that result in data loss or downtime. They enable you to monitor the performance of your database layer, even in complex environments.

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

By Jose Fernandez Today, we are thrilled to announce the release of bpftop , a command-line tool designed to streamline the performance optimization and monitoring of eBPF applications. Striking a balance between eBPF’s benefits and system load is crucial, ensuring it enhances rather than hinders our operational efficiency.

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DZone

JANUARY 31, 2024

SIEM stands for Security Information and Event Management. SIEM platforms offer centralized management of security operations, making it easier for organizations to monitor, manage, and secure their IT infrastructure. This helps in detecting threats and attacks in real time.

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Percona

APRIL 6, 2023

In this blog post, we’ll check how to integrate Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) with Loki to be able to get not only metrics and queries from our database servers but also text-based information like logs. file inside the PMM server, so they will persist in the event of a PMM upgrade and will continue to work properly.

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Dynatrace

MAY 31, 2019

We’re proud to announce the Early Access Program (EAP) for monitoring of SAP ABAP performance from the infrastructure and ABAP application platform perspective. Why SAP ABAP platform monitoring in Dynatrace? SAP estimates that 80% of all worldwide business transactions touch SAP systems in some form.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

The complex interconnections in cloud-based systems make it crucial to always have a topological overview to understand dependencies. 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.

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