The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Now let’s look at how we designed the tracing infrastructure that powers Edgar. Reconstructing a streaming session was a tedious and time consuming process that involved tracing all interactions (requests) between the Netflix app, our Content Delivery Network (CDN), and backend microservices.

Infrastructure 233

Infrastructure Transportation Storage Open Source 233

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

The emerging concepts of working with DevOps metrics and DevOps KPIs have really come a long way. DevOps metrics to help you meet your DevOps goals. Your next challenge is ensuring your DevOps processes, pipelines, and tooling meet the intended goal. Lead time for changes helps teams understand how effective their processes are.

DevOps 196

DevOps Metrics Traffic Efficiency 196

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. What is AWS observability? And why it matters. Amazon EC2.

Best Practices 208

Best Practices AWS Monitoring Serverless 208

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

Sure, cloud infrastructure requires comprehensive performance visibility, as Dynatrace provides , but the services that leverage cloud infrastructures also require close attention. Extend infrastructure observability to WSO2 API Manager. Save hours of bug hunting with out-of-the-box WSO2 API Manager monitoring.

Infrastructure 190

Infrastructure Latency Metrics Analytics 190

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. What is digital experience monitoring? Primary digital experience monitoring tools.

Monitoring 200

Monitoring Social Media IoT Metrics 200

Dynatrace

JULY 7, 2020

Dynatrace is the only Kubernetes monitoring solution that provides continuous automation and full-stack advanced observability without changing code, container images, or deployments. In addition to the existing Kubernetes metrics we’ve introduced a number of new metrics you might want to use in your dashboards.

Infrastructure 195

Infrastructure Metrics Monitoring Cloud 195

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Many of our customers—the world’s largest enterprises—have embraced the Dynatrace SaaS approach to monitoring, which provides critical business insights powered by AI and automation for globally-distributed, heterogeneous IT landscapes. New self-monitoring environment provides out-of-the-box insights and custom alerting.

Monitoring 191

Monitoring Metrics Analytics Processing 191

Dynatrace

MARCH 20, 2024

Deploying software in Kubernetes is often viewed as a straightforward process—just use kubectl or a GitOps solution like ArgoCD to deploy a YAML file, and you’re all set, right? Numerous hurdles can hinder successful deployments, from resource constraints to external dependencies and monitoring inadequacies.

Open Source 264

Open Source Hardware DevOps Infrastructure 264

Dynatrace

MARCH 18, 2024

Empowering teams to manage their FinOps practices, however, requires teams to have access to reliable multicloud monitoring and analysis data. Resource utilization monitoring A FinOps observability approach involves monitoring cloud resource utilization to identify inefficiencies and optimization opportunities.

Best Practices 228

Best Practices Strategy Cloud AWS 228

Dynatrace

APRIL 8, 2024

Optimize the IT infrastructure supporting risk management processes and controls for maximum performance and resilience. The IT infrastructure, services, and applications that enable processes for risk management must perform optimally. If system failures occur, teams must resolve them quickly and resolutely.

Analytics 197

Analytics Infrastructure Efficiency Technology 197

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. Without this level of context, datasets become exponentially difficult to analyze and use for any effective or efficient DevSecOps processes.

DevOps 187

DevOps Engineering Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure 187

Dynatrace

APRIL 8, 2021

But this approach introduced new complexity and a need for more advanced cloud monitoring capabilities. At Perform 2021, we were joined by Peter Friedwagner, Head of Infrastructure and Cloud Services at Porsche Informatik. We needed integrated monitoring of every component of our estate across the full stack,” he explained.

Cloud 224

Cloud Monitoring Automotive Infrastructure 224

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Loosely defined, observability is the ability to understand what’s happening inside a system from the knowledge of the external data it produces, which are usually logs, metrics, and traces. Capturing data is critical to understanding how your applications and infrastructure are performing at any given time.

Open Source 216

Open Source Metrics Cloud Transportation 216

Dynatrace

JULY 23, 2020

With the advent and ingestion of thousands of custom metrics into Dynatrace, we’ve once again pushed the boundaries of automatic, AI-based root cause analysis with the introduction of auto-adaptive baselines as a foundational concept for Dynatrace topology-driven timeseries measurements. In many cases, metric behavior changes over time.

Metrics 207

Metrics Innovation Strategy Monitoring 207

Dynatrace

MAY 3, 2024

Log data—the most verbose form of observability data, complementing other standardized signals like metrics and traces—is especially critical. SREs and DevOps engineers need cloud logs in an integrated observability platform to monitor the whole software development lifecycle. Managing this change is difficult.

Cloud 214

Cloud Lambda AWS Analytics 214

Dynatrace

JANUARY 31, 2024

The RAG process begins by summarizing and converting user prompts into queries that are sent to a search platform that uses semantic similarities to find relevant data in vector databases, semantic caches, or other online data sources. RAG augments user prompts with relevant data retrieved from outside the LLM.

Cache 201

Cache Azure Infrastructure Monitoring 201

Dynatrace

MAY 17, 2023

That is, relying on metrics, logs, and traces to understand what software is doing and where it’s running into snags. In addition to tracing, observability also defines two other key concepts, metrics and logs. When software runs in a monolithic stack on on-site servers, observability is manageable enough. What is OpenTelemetry?

Metrics 177

Metrics Open Source Traffic Cache 177

Dynatrace

MAY 12, 2021

According to InfoQ , Kubernetes monitoring offers substantial benefits for container management, but it’s not a complete platform in and of itself. Kubernetes monitoring from Dynatrace offers a way to bridge the observability gap. In practice, the Dynatrace solution improves Kubernetes monitoring across three key areas: 1.

Monitoring 181

Monitoring Infrastructure Open Source Metrics 181

Dynatrace

JUNE 7, 2023

Advanced AI applications using OpenAI services don’t just forward user input to OpenAI models; they also require client-side pre- and post-processing. It shows critical SLOs for latency and availability, as well as the most important OpenAI generative AI service metrics, such as response time, error count, and the overall number of requests.

Monitoring 162

Monitoring Latency Metrics Azure 162

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

To establish the necessary monitoring, the observability team typically must be granted new setup permissions. For example, to monitor non-compute resources in Azure, many solutions require special components configured separately or even hosted by the customer. This process is often slow because component setup takes time.

Azure 222

Azure Cloud Monitoring Metrics 222

Dynatrace

MARCH 29, 2024

In today’s rapidly evolving landscape, incorporating AI innovation into business strategies is vital, enabling organizations to optimize operations, enhance decision-making processes, and stay competitive. The annual Google Cloud Next conference explores the latest innovations for cloud technology and Google Cloud. Learn more.

Google 258

Google Innovation Cloud Analytics 258

Dynatrace

APRIL 8, 2021

But this approach introduced new complexity and a need for more advanced cloud monitoring capabilities. At Perform 2021, we were joined by Peter Friedwagner, Head of Infrastructure and Cloud Services at Porsche Informatik. We needed integrated monitoring of every component of our estate across the full stack,” he explained.

Cloud 154

Cloud Monitoring Automotive Infrastructure 154

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

With this solution, customers will be able to use Dynatrace’s deep observability , advanced AIOps capabilities , and application security to all applications, services, and infrastructure, out-of-the-box. This means you no longer have to procure new hardware, which can be a time-consuming and expensive process.

Azure 319

Azure Availability Hardware Innovation 319

Dynatrace

MARCH 14, 2023

Available directly from the AWS Marketplace , Dynatrace provides full-stack observability and AI to help IT teams optimize the resiliency of their cloud applications from the user experience down to the underlying operating system, infrastructure, and services. Auto-detection starts monitoring new virtual machines as they are deployed.

AWS 278

AWS Lambda Serverless Virtualization 278

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.

Speed 203

Speed Software Software Latency 203

Dynatrace

APRIL 10, 2023

According to the Dynatrace “2022 Global CIO Report,” 79% of large organizations use multicloud infrastructure. Moreover, organizations have to balance maintaining security, retaining cloud management expertise, and managing infrastructure performance. Rural lifestyle retail giant Tractor Supply Co.

Cloud 168

Cloud Ecommerce Performance Retail 168

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. This extends Dynatrace visibility into SAP ABAP performance from the infrastructure and ABAP application platform perspective. What is ABAP platform monitoring?

Monitoring 153

Monitoring Best Practices Infrastructure Servers 153

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.

Best Practices 219

Best Practices DevOps Latency Metrics 219

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? What is ABAP platform monitoring? What you get from Dynatrace SAP ABAP platform monitoring.

Monitoring 160

Monitoring Best Practices Infrastructure Programming 160

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Properly monitoring a Kubernetes cluster or any related environment can be difficult. Service-level objectives (SLOs) are often used to monitor business-critical services and applications for customers. However, they can also be used to monitor optimization processes effectively.

Efficiency 270

Efficiency Monitoring Best Practices Open Source 270

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Building on its advanced analytics capabilities for Prometheus data , Dynatrace now enables you to create extensions based on Prometheus metrics. Many technologies expose their metrics in the Prometheus data format. Many technologies expose their metrics in the Prometheus data format. Our monitoring coverage already includes ?

Technology 213

Technology Technology Metrics Infrastructure 213

Dynatrace

JUNE 5, 2023

Why monitor F5 BIG-IP load balancers? That’s why monitoring every BIG-IP instance is crucial to ensure smooth operation. Monitoring also enables you to: Track application usage patterns and user behavior, leading to optimized application delivery and an enhanced customer experience.

Traffic 190

Traffic Virtualization Metrics Monitoring 190

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 27, 2022

By implementing service-level objectives, teams can avoid collecting and checking a huge amount of metrics for each service. When organizations implement SLOs, they can improve software development processes and application performance. The performance SLO needs a custom SLI metric, which you can configure as follows.

Software 259

Software Software Benchmarking Latency 259

Dynatrace

JULY 31, 2020

Apart from its best-in-class observability capabilities like distributed traces, metrics, and logs, Dynatrace OneAgent additionally provides automatic deep code-level insights for Java,NET, Node.js, PHP, and Golang, without the need to change any application code or configuration. Split analyzed workload by processes.

Monitoring 227

Monitoring Performance Java Processing 227

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.

Serverless 203

Serverless Lambda Azure AWS 203

Dynatrace

JULY 11, 2023

Many global enterprises have instrumented their code to emit traces, metrics, and logs in a standardized and vendor-neutral way using OpenTelemetry. While ingestion of OpenTelemetry traces and metrics into Dynatrace is supported, companies often prefer to collect logs in the OpenTelemetry format.

Open Source 211

Open Source Analytics Metrics Cloud 211

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Based on IDC’s research, 83% of enterprises are rationalizing, or optimizing, their technology infrastructure. According to IBM , application modernization takes existing legacy applications and modernizes their platform infrastructure, internal architecture, or features. Monitor and measure progress during the migration.

Strategy 223

Strategy Benchmarking Serverless Infrastructure 223