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Real user monitoring vs. synthetic monitoring: Understanding best practices

Dynatrace

As businesses compete for customer loyalty, it’s critical to understand the difference between real-user monitoring and synthetic user monitoring. However, not all user monitoring systems are created equal. What is real user monitoring? Real-time monitoring of user application and service interactions.

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Ensuring the Successful Launch of Ads on Netflix

The Netflix TechBlog

We informed our engineering and business partners, including customer support, about the experiment and ramped up traffic incrementally while monitoring the success and error metrics through Lumen dashboards. We also constructed and checked our ad monitoring and alerting system during this period.

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Panel Recap: How is your performance and reliability strategy aligned with your customer experience?

Dynatrace

I recently joined two industry veterans and Dynatrace partners, Syed Husain of Orasi and Paul Bruce of Neotys as panelists to discuss how performance engineering and test strategies have evolved as it pertains to customer experience. Different teams have their own siloed monitoring solution. What trends are you seeing in the industry?

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What the SEC cybersecurity disclosure mandate means for application security

Dynatrace

The mandate also requires that organizations disclose overall cybersecurity risk management, strategy, and governance. Teams must continuously monitor runtime environments for leaked vulnerabilities and assess their scope and potential impact on their organization. Continuously improve by monitoring application security feedback loops.

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Seven benefits of AIOps to transform your business operations

Dynatrace

Once products and services are live, IT teams must continuously monitor and manage them. And 56% say traditional monitoring solutions are no longer fit for purpose. For many organizations, adopting new technologies can add to management and monitoring challenges, which can slow the pace of transformation.

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Migrating Critical Traffic At Scale with No Downtime?—?Part 1

The Netflix TechBlog

This blog series will examine the tools, techniques, and strategies we have utilized to achieve this goal. The second phase involves migrating the traffic over to the new systems in a manner that mitigates the risk of incidents while continually monitoring and confirming that we are meeting crucial metrics tracked at multiple levels.

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Efficient SLO event integration powers successful AIOps

Dynatrace

From my experience, a month of monitoring is the optimal duration to gain statistically significant insights into “how my entity behaves with the configured SLO.” However, it’s essential to exercise caution: Limit the quantity of SLOs while ensuring they are well-defined and aligned with business and functional objectives.