The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 1, 2023

To do this, we devised a novel way to simulate the projected traffic weeks ahead of launch by building upon the traffic migration framework described here. New content or national events may drive brief spikes, but, by and large, traffic is usually smoothly increasing or decreasing.

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Traffic Best Practices Systems Testing 342

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Even when the staging environment closely mirrors the production environment, achieving a complete replication of all potential scenarios, such as simulating extremely high traffic volumes to assess software performance, remains challenging. This can lead to a lack of insight into how the code will behave when exposed to heavy traffic.

Traffic 262

Traffic Best Practices Strategy Engineering 262

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 16, 2024

How To Monitor And Optimize Google Core Web Vitals How To Monitor And Optimize Google Core Web Vitals Matt Zeunert 2024-04-16T10:00:00+00:00 2024-04-16T12:05:36+00:00 This article is sponsored by DebugBear Google’s Core Web Vitals initiative has increased the attention website owners need to pay to user experience.

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Google Monitoring Website Speed 98

Dynatrace

JULY 21, 2020

Dynatrace OneAgent is great for monitoring the full stack. While this will give you a lot of information about the health of these components, sometimes a simple synthetic monitor is sufficient. Third-party synthetic monitors. Visualize your synthetic monitor data. Easy and flexible infrastructure monitoring.

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Infrastructure Monitoring Open Source Traffic 153

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

These resources generate vast amounts of data in various locations, including containers, which can be virtual and ephemeral, thus more difficult to monitor. These challenges make AWS observability a key practice for building and monitoring cloud-native applications. EC2 is ideally suited for large workloads with constant traffic.

Best Practices 211

Best Practices AWS Monitoring Serverless 211

Dynatrace

JUNE 26, 2020

Dynatrace Digital Experience Monitoring , as part of the Dynatrace Software Intelligence Platform, connects front-end monitoring and the outside-in user perspective with application performance to understand the impact of performance issues across your full stack on user experience and business outcomes. Virginia (Azure), N.

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Monitoring Azure AWS Traffic 256

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Rexed, Singh, and Stull outline the importance of metrics, traces, logs, events, and the role they play in achieving full–context Kubernetes observability and driving automated responses in hybrid and multi-cloud environments. To ensure everything runs smoothly, they employ the Dynatrace automated monitoring and observability solution.

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Google Cloud Infrastructure Metrics 225

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

What was once an onslaught of consumer traffic between Black Friday and Cyber Monday has turned into a weeklong event, with most retailers offering deals well ahead of Black Friday. Dynatrace RUM (Real User Monitoring) has a session replay capability that allows you to see what an end user would see during a session in real time.

Retail 220

Retail Social Media Performance Benchmarking 220

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 10, 2023

Existing data got updated to be backward compatible without impacting the existing running production traffic. After reading the asset ids using one of the ways, an event is created per asset id to be processed synchronously or asynchronously based on the use case. Generally, this flow is used for small datasets.

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Media Traffic Processing Design 237

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Developing, deploying, and monitoring the release of native mobile apps is not an easy process. To effectively and efficiently get mobile apps out the door, monitor their performance, and manage subsequent releases, mobile DevOps practitioners can play an integral role.

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Mobile DevOps Monitoring Traffic 130

Dynatrace

APRIL 25, 2023

For example, to handle traffic spikes and pay only for what they use. Serverless applications are composed of event-driven functions that run on demand in response to triggers from various sources, such as HTTP requests, messages, or timers. Scale automatically based on the demand and traffic patterns.

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Serverless Lambda Azure AWS 207

Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2023

Traffic This SLO measures the amount of traffic or workload an application receives, either in terms of requests per second or data transfer rate. The traffic SLO targets the website’s ability to handle a high volume of transactional activity during periods of high demand. The Apdex score of 0.85 This means that 99.5%

Latency 176

Latency Website Traffic Virtualization 176

Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2023

Traffic The traffic SLO example measures the amount of traffic or workload an application receives, either in terms of requests per second or data transfer rate. The traffic SLO targets the website’s ability to handle a high volume of transactional activity during periods of high demand. The Apdex score of 0.85

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Traffic Latency Website Virtualization 173

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Exploratory data analytics is an analysis method that uses visualizations, including graphs and charts, to help IT teams investigate emerging data trends and circumvent issues, such as unexpected traffic spikes or performance degradations.

Analytics 209

Analytics Metrics Media Monitoring 209

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. Closing the loop (or not) : In the event of a successful solution, the platform informs the appropriate teams and closes the loop.

Best Practices 191

Best Practices DevOps Energy Innovation 191

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

This opens the door to auto-scalable applications, which effortlessly matches the demands of rapidly growing and varying user traffic. Containers can be replicated or deleted on the fly to meet varying end-user traffic. Built-in monitoring. Needs third party tools for monitoring. Needs third party tools for monitoring.

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Open Source Traffic DevOps Cloud 301

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Problems API v2 now includes event evidence data as part of the event details. Custom events for alerting using the Build tab and advanced query mode now apply the same metric dimension limits that are applied to Code -tab-based configurations. You can override these at the monitor level. Events API v2 has been updated.

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Metrics Monitoring Traffic Servers 204

Dynatrace

MARCH 22, 2021

The monitoring challenges of on-premises environments. Our new extension framework now makes it a no-brainer to start monitoring your SNMP protocols. SNMP extensions have their own dedicated dashboards that serve as an entry point and allow you to monitor the performance of your monitored environment. Events and alerts.

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Metrics Network Infrastructure Traffic 244

Dynatrace

AUGUST 28, 2023

IT teams spend months preparing for the peak traffic they anticipate will arrive with holiday shopping. How Dynatrace can help Recent platform innovations have made monitoring end-to-end business processes such as order fulfillment easier. (Though the three-second rule for page load time is often misinterpreted).

Retail 202

Retail Logistics Innovation Analytics 202

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

In cloud-native environments, there can also be dozens of additional services and functions all generating data from user-driven events. Event logging and software tracing help application developers and operations teams understand what’s happening throughout their application flow and system.

Systems 185

Systems Cloud Analytics DevOps 185

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. Dynatrace log monitoring also allows you to automate your cloud-related log tasks so you can accomplish the following: Automatically see precise root cause in real time to simplify cloud complexity. Log Events.

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AWS Transportation Network Traffic 217

Abhishek Tiwari

JULY 8, 2023

Traditional testing and monitoring practices have long been relied upon to achieve this goal. However, the line between testing and monitoring is becoming increasingly blurred with the emergence of synthetic monitoring. Synthetic Monitoring employs software-based agents to actively measure performance metrics.

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Monitoring Testing Artificial Intelligence Traffic 52

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

VPC Flow Logs is an Amazon service that enables IT pros to capture information about the IP traffic that traverses network interfaces in a virtual private cloud, or VPC. By default, each record captures a network internet protocol (IP), a destination, and the source of the traffic flow that occurs within your environment.

Traffic 215

Traffic AWS Network Cloud 215

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 9, 2020

New extensions enable AI-powered monitoring of connection pool performance. You can even integrate Dynatrace into your CI/CD pipeline using the Events API. This allows you to create a deployment event that contains all important details each time a new version is released. Automatically detect undersized connection pools.

Traffic 138

Traffic Performance Database Metrics 138

Dynatrace

JUNE 20, 2023

The organization needed to ensure the correlation of all events in a complete end-to-end trace. In this case, the bank group could not rely solely on Google Cloud Trace because they needed to collect traces and monitor the applications across all their systems. For this comprehensive monitoring in context, they had adopted Dynatrace.

Open Source 193

Open Source Google Serverless Azure 193

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Each tenant gets its own e-commerce site deployed on a shared Kubernetes cluster, isolated through separate namespaces and additional traffic isolation. There was not much traffic during the weekend, but as Monday came along, Dynatrace started sending alerts about a high HTTP failure rate across almost every tenant on the backend service.

Java 190

Java Traffic Education Storage 190

Dynatrace

APRIL 23, 2019

Synthetic monitors provide a perfect means of continually monitoring the performance baselines of your web applications. To provide our customers with the flexibility they need, we introduced the concept of key performance metrics in Real User Monitoring last year. Dynatrace news. Pick the best metrics for your application.

Metrics 102

Metrics Monitoring Performance Speed 102

Dynatrace

APRIL 26, 2023

If there’s an urgent need for Application Security or Real User Monitoring, you can get started right away. Modern application instances don’t run all the time, so we’re introducing hourly pricing for Full-stack Monitoring and Application Security capabilities. You have access to Dynatrace capabilities when and where you need them.

Cloud 201

Cloud Best Practices Traffic Infrastructure 201

Dynatrace

MARCH 26, 2020

What do stock markets and monitoring alerts have in common? While stock market decisions are based on market observation, alerts and decisions in software monitoring are mostly based on learned baselines. Both in stock markets and in software monitoring, the observation period and the point at which decisions are made are crucial.

Traffic 177

Traffic Monitoring Efficiency Strategy 177

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 9, 2020

To address potentially high numbers of requests during online shopping events like Singles Day or Black Friday, it’s crucial that this online shop have a memory storage strategy that allows for speed, scaling, and resilience of all microservices, especially the shopping cart service.

Java 233

Java Traffic Strategy Architecture 233

Dynatrace

AUGUST 16, 2022

Even worse, if your service logs record critical events such as errors in a non-standard way, those errors might go unnoticed by your observability team. Whether a web server, mobile app, backend service, or other custom application, log data can provide you with deep insights into your software’s operations and events.

Processing 187

Processing Metrics Monitoring Java 187

Dynatrace

APRIL 28, 2021

Deployed versions, release events, and release information are all correlated and displayed on a single page. The release inventory highlights releases that include detected problems and shows the throughput of those versions so that you see how much traffic is routed to each release. Events ingestion. Kubernetes metadata.

Software 238

Software Software Strategy Metrics 238

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Unlike other monitoring tools on the market, which don’t provide AI-driven anomaly detection and alerting, Dynatrace delivers real-time data to track the performance of your deployed apps and the characteristics of your client traffic. Monitor and compare performance after slot swaps. What are Azure Deployment Slots? .

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Azure Cloud Traffic Metrics 132

Dynatrace

JULY 18, 2023

Configuration files allow for the automatic creation, update, and management of configurations for dashboards, synthetic monitors, alerts, SLOs, and security settings across multiple environments. The screenshot below displays a workflow that listens for a deployment event of the easytrade service in the production stage.

Best Practices 189

Best Practices Code Infrastructure Latency 189

Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Setting up and monitoring these systems was pretty easy compared to today’s standards. There were no dynamic web applications or complex user scenarios to have to monitor. monitoring distributed systems becomes much more difficult to carry out and manage. Onto the next project. Gone are the days of monolithic architecture.

Systems 74

Systems Monitoring Hardware Network 74

Dynatrace

MAY 17, 2023

We use monitored demo applications to deliver constant load and a defined set of business transactions. While the first guardian validates the traffic, the second guardian checks the business transactions generated during the observation period. The functionality is implemented via an automated workflow.

DevOps 186

DevOps Traffic Latency Best Practices 186

Adrian Cockcroft

MAY 6, 2023

Then they tried to scale it to cope with high traffic and discovered that some of the state transitions in their step functions were too frequent, and they had some overly chatty calls between AWS lambda functions and S3. They state in the blog that this was quick to build, which is the point.

Serverless 145

Serverless Lambda Best Practices Traffic 145