The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Now let’s look at how we designed the tracing infrastructure that powers Edgar. If we had an ID for each streaming session then distributed tracing could easily reconstruct session failure by providing service topology, retry and error tags, and latency measurements for all service calls.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 15, 2020

Therefore, it requires multidimensional and multidisciplinary monitoring: Infrastructure health —automatically monitor the compute, storage, and network resources available to the Citrix system to ensure a stable platform. OneAgent: Citrix infrastructure performance. OneAgent: SAP infrastructure performance.

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

The first step is determining whether the problem originates from the application or the underlying infrastructure. Learn how Linux kernel instrumentation can improve your infrastructure observability with deeper insights and enhanced monitoring. We then calculate the run queue latency by simply subtracting the timestamps.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 27, 2022

By implementing service-level objectives, teams can avoid collecting and checking a huge amount of metrics for each service. SLOs can be a great way for DevOps and infrastructure teams to use data and performance expectations to make decisions, such as whether to release and where engineers should focus their time. Reliability.

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 17, 2024

The Challenge of Title Launch Observability As engineers, were wired to track system metrics like error rates, latencies, and CPU utilizationbut what about metrics that matter to a titlessuccess? This allows us to focus on data analysis and problem-solving rather than managing complex systemchanges.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 14, 2023

So, we relied on higher-level metrics-based testing: AB Testing and Sticky Canaries. To determine customer impact, we could compare various metrics such as error rates, latencies, and time to render. Wins High-Level Health Metrics: AB Testing provided the assurance we needed in our overall client-side GraphQL implementation.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

The new Amazon capability enables customers to improve the startup latency of their functions from several seconds to as low as sub-second (up to 10 times faster) at P99 (the 99th latency percentile). This can cause latency outliers and may lead to a poor end-user experience for latency-sensitive applications.

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Dynatrace

JULY 22, 2024

Observability Observability is the ability to determine a system’s health by analyzing the data it generates, such as logs, metrics, and traces. There are three main types of telemetry data: Metrics. Metrics are typically aggregated and stored in time series databases for monitoring and alerting purposes.

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DZone

AUGUST 29, 2023

You can implement security and advance networking policies to all the communication across your infrastructure using Istio. You can use Istio to observe the performance and behavior of all your microservices in your infrastructure (see the image below). But another important feature of Istio is observability.

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Dynatrace

MAY 13, 2022

It also removes the need for developers and database administrators to manage infrastructure or update database versions. Once you deploy the Dynatrace extension, Dynatrace ingests your Cassandra metrics and analyzes them in context with the entire stack. Provide a foundation for calculating metrics in dashboard charts.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

To remain competitive in today’s fast-paced market, organizations must not only ensure that their digital infrastructure is functioning optimally but also that software deployments and updates are delivered rapidly and consistently. Continuous, informed improvement : Quality gates provide consistent feedback on key metrics.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 6, 2022

Endpoints include on-premises servers, Kubernetes infrastructure, cloud-hosted infrastructure and services, and open-source technologies. Observability across the full technology stack gives teams comprehensive, real-time insight into the behavior, performance, and health of applications and their underlying infrastructure.

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Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

While clustering across wide-area networks (WANs) is discouraged due to latency issues, leased links can mitigate some connectivity challenges. Keeping queues short minimizes latency and enhances the overall efficiency of message delivery in RabbitMQ. Keeping queues short maintains a responsive and efficient RabbitMQ setup.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 21, 2024

This approach enhances key DORA metrics and enables early detection of failures in the release process, allowing SREs more time for innovation. This blog post explores the Reliability metric , which measures modern operational practices. Why reliability?

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Dynatrace

MAY 31, 2023

As a result, site reliability has emerged as a critical success metric for many organizations. How site reliability engineering affects organizations’ bottom line SRE applies the disciplines of software engineering to infrastructure management, both on-premises and in the cloud. Service-level objectives (SLOs). availability.

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CSS Wizardry

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Plotted on the same horizontal axis of 1.6s, the waterfalls speak for themselves: 201ms of cumulative latency; 109ms of cumulative download. 4,362ms of cumulative latency; 240ms of cumulative download. When we talk about downloading files, we—generally speaking—have two things to consider: latency and bandwidth. It gets worse.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 7, 2023

Customers can use AWS Lambda Response Streaming to improve performance for latency-sensitive applications and return larger payload sizes. Despite being serverless, the function still requires infrastructure on which to run. What is a Lambda serverless function? Return larger payload sizes. How does Dynatrace help?

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Dynatrace

JUNE 7, 2023

One of the crucial success factors for delivering cost-efficient and high-quality AI-agent services, following the approach described above, is to closely observe their cost, latency, and reliability. With these latency, reliability, and cost measurements in place, your operations team can now define their own OpenAI dashboards and SLOs.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Get ready for Nutanix insights: Here’s how Dynatrace helps The extension comes with a comprehensive set of essential metrics that can quickly identify the root causes of performance issues, saving time and minimizing disruptions. With Dynatrace, Nutanix metrics can be leveraged for various use cases.

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Dynatrace

MAY 23, 2024

Failures can occur unpredictably across various levels, from physical infrastructure to software layers. Stream processing systems, designed for continuous, low-latency processing, demand swift recovery mechanisms to tolerate and mitigate failures effectively. This significantly increases event latency.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 31, 2024

Data dependencies and framework intricacies require observing the lifecycle of an AI-powered application end to end, from infrastructure and model performance to semantic caches and workflow orchestration. Estimates show that NVIDIA, a semiconductor manufacturer, could release 1.5 million AI server units annually by 2027, consuming 75.4+

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CSS Wizardry

AUGUST 7, 2019

However, one metric I feel that front-end developers overlook all too quickly is Time to First Byte (TTFB). The first—and often most surprising for people to learn—thing that I want to draw your attention to is that TTFB counts one whole round trip of latency. can all provide valuable insights. But what else is TTFB?

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Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2023

Certain SLOs can help organizations get started on measuring and delivering metrics that matter. With this objective, the app ensures that users experience real-time feedback and immediate updates when logging workouts, recording sets and reps, or tracking performance metrics. Latency primarily focuses on the time spent in transit.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 5, 2021

Organizations can offload much of the burden of managing app infrastructure and transition many functions to the cloud by going serverless with the help of Lambda. Real-time stream processing to perform live activity tracking, data cleansing, metrics generation, and more. AWS continues to improve how it handles latency issues.

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

The big difference from the monolith, though, is that this is now a standalone service deployed as a separate “application” (service) in our cloud infrastructure. To prepare ourselves for a big change in the tech stack of our endpoint, we decided to track metrics around the time taken to respond to queries.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 26, 2024

Observability analytics enables users to gain new insights into traditional telemetry data such as logs, metrics, and traces by allowing users to dynamically query any data captured and to deliver actionable insights. Metrics-based performance thresholds. What is observability analytics? Predictive analysis.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 25, 2020

Dynatrace Managed is intrinsically highly available as it stores three copies of all events, user sessions, and metrics across its cluster nodes. The network latency between cluster nodes should be around 10 ms or less. Take your time to prepare hardware, network and other infrastructure adjustments so you are ready.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 13, 2022

Real user monitoring collects data on a variety of metrics. For example, data collected on load actions can include navigation start, request start, and speed index metrics. Real user monitoring works by injecting code into an application to capture metrics while the application is in use. How real user monitoring works.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 8, 2020

As a software intelligence platform, Dynatrace is woven into the fabric of your business systems, actively managing and providing self-healing capabilities for all aspects of your applications and vital infrastructure. Metrics are provided for general host info like CPU usage and memory consumption, OneAgent traffic, and network latency.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 25, 2023

These functions are executed by a serverless platform or provider (such as AWS Lambda, Azure Functions or Google Cloud Functions) that manages the underlying infrastructure, scaling and billing. Enable faster development and deployment cycles by abstracting away the infrastructure complexity.

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Rajiv Shringi Vinay Chella Kaidan Fullerton Oleksii Tkachuk Joey Lynch Introduction As Netflix continues to expand and diversify into various sectors like Video on Demand and Gaming , the ability to ingest and store vast amounts of temporal data — often reaching petabytes — with millisecond access latency has become increasingly vital.

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DZone

JANUARY 31, 2024

This marked a significant improvement in its networking infrastructure. The aim was to enhance the user experience and improve critical business metrics by leveraging the capabilities of the modern HTTP/3 protocol. The Journey to HTTP/3 Network performance, such as low latency and high throughput, is critical to Pinners’ experience.

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

This is particularly important as we build out new functionality that relies on Pushy; a strong, stable infrastructure foundation allows our partners to continue to build on top of Pushy with confidence. In our case, we value low latency — the faster we can read from KeyValue, the faster these messages can get delivered.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Therefore, it requires multidimensional and multidisciplinary monitoring: Infrastructure health —automatically monitor the compute, storage, and network resources available to the Citrix system to ensure a stable platform. OneAgent: Citrix infrastructure performance. OneAgent: SAP infrastructure performance.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 26, 2021

When an application is triggered, it can cause latency as the application starts. Cloud-hosted managed services eliminate the minute day-to-day tasks associated with hosting IT infrastructure on-premises. This creates latency when they need to restart. The platform builds the trigger to initiate the app.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

The Site Reliability Guardian helps automate release validation based on SLOs and important signals that define the expected behavior of your applications in terms of availability, performance errors, throughput, latency, etc. SRG validates the status of the resiliency SLOs for the experiment period.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 26, 2022

Fast, consistent application delivery creates a positive user experience that can ultimately drive customer loyalty and improve business metrics like conversion rate and user retention. With DEM solutions, organizations can operate over on-premise network infrastructure or private or public cloud SaaS or IaaS offerings.

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