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I was browsing Tim Kadlec’s website and I noticed he had added page load time metrics in the footer. If your browser supports the Paint Timing API you will see a couple of extra metrics: First Paint and First Contentful Paint. MORE
The cURL component timings are: performance api metrics curl api performance curl metricsMy previous post presented “A Graphical View of API Performance Based on Call Location.” In that post, we analyzed the performance of a week of calls to the World Bank Countries API (which is served from Washington DC) from four different locations around the globe: Washington DC, USA; Oregon, USA; Ireland; and Tokyo, Japan. The API performance across the week showed remarkable consistency. MORE
Using Grafana to Visualize Apica Monitoring Metrics By Sven Hammar, CPO at Apica Systems We have always provided Apica users Read More. The post Using Grafana to Visualize Apica Monitoring Metrics appeared first on Apica. MORE
Nines are not enough: meaningful metrics for clouds Mogul & Wilkes, HotOS’19. It’s hard to define good SLOs, especially when outcomes aren’t fully under the control of any single party. The authors of today’s paper should know a thing or two about that: Jeffrey Mogul and John Wilkes at Google 1 ! John Wilkes was also one of the co-authors of chapter 4 “Service Level Objectives” in the SRE book , which is good background reading for the discussion in this paper. MORE
"It is wrong to suppose that if you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it—a costly myth." " –W. Edwards Deming The Deming quote at the top of this post is often twisted into something worthy of Frederick Taylor: "if you can't measure it, you can't manage it." " Deming would disagree. You can—in fact, must—manage things… Agility MORE
86 With so many different metrics available to measure dozens of different aspects of a web page, it can be a struggle to know how best to quantify that page’s overall web performance. Metrics – Thick as Pea Soup. MORE
This preview allows for the collection of Prometheus metrics in Azure Monitor. This pod will pull in metrics from your cluster and nodes and make this available to you in Azure Monitor. Microsoft announced a new preview this week, which I think is a pretty big deal. MORE
However, understanding the performance of different application types requires an emphasis on different performance metrics, that is, key performance metrics. Key performance metrics provide tailored insights for each application type. Pick the best metrics for your application. MORE
Additionally, teams are measuring and tracking key business metrics – conversion rates, cart abandonment rates, customer lifetime value, revenue by traffic source, and so on. Why Are User-centric Metrics Essential for Ecommerce? Which Metrics Matter for Ecommerce? MORE
Visual Metrics Alone Paint Only Half The Picture. Existing metrics like DOM Content Loaded and Onload Time are giving way to user-centric metrics such as visual timings and user timings. The Importance of Engagement and Interactivity Metrics. MORE
If you are familiar with open source performance solutions such as Lighthouse and PageSpeed Insights, you probably understand the value in measuring user experience and paint metrics. Why are paint metrics important to your business? How are paint metrics different? MORE
If you have this responsibility, you know how difficult is gather all the metrics, show them in fancy dashboards, and properly send alerts to the ones who must react in case of some evidence of trouble. Maybe, more often than you would like to, you have to justify why some metric wasn’t considered, or wasn’t shown, or some alert wasn’t sent. Although we all have to deal with unexpected events, we also have tools to prevent them. MORE
Visual Metrics Alone Paint Only Half The Picture. Existing metrics like DOM Content Loaded and Onload Time are giving way to user-centric metrics such as visual timings and user timings. The Importance of Engagement and Interactivity Metrics. MORE
Using Grafana to Visualize Apica Monitoring Metrics By Sven Hammar, CPO at Apica Systems We have always provided Apica users Read More. The post Using Grafana to Visualize Apica Monitoring Metrics appeared first on Apica. MORE
Software engineering productivity or velocity metrics have always been a very debated topic. In this article, I want to list the different velocity metrics and see how and when you can use them, and sometimes perhaps not at all. MORE
You’ll typically want to find a way to make a connection between a performance metric (such as First Meaningful Paint) and a business metric (Conversion Rate). There are so many characters who live in the fictional city of Springfield, (state unknown), that you can always find one who shares a persona with a web performance metric or concept. The Simpsons Family = Performance Metrics. Springfield Citizens = Performance Concepts & Other Metrics. MORE
In an existing application landscape, however, it can be difficult to get to those metrics. A larger financial institution is using the analysis to report business metrics on dashboards and make them accessible via the Dynatrace API. Why are there no secondary metrics in the new MDA? MORE
In the past, the answer would be based on the load time of a page, but over the years, we have evolved our approach to site speed to incorporate new metrics, alone or in combination with existing metrics. The next evolution of performance brought in paint metrics. MORE
Learn more about publishing Spring boot actuator metrics! The metrics generated by the Spring Boot Actuator module of Spring Boot can be easily published to a Dynatrace cloud instance. java tutorial performance spring boot dynatrace micrometer spring actuator metrics monitoring MORE
The answer is Flow Metrics. Flow Metrics, as set out by the Flow Framework , expose big picture problems to help you make better business decisions. Even better, Flow Metrics use a language that business people can understand. At the DevOps Enterprise Summit in London last month, I presented five flow metrics that can help you focus on desired outcomes at the company level – most notably revenue generation and revenue protection. Identify one metric (e.g., MORE
We’ve introduced a new framework for metrics that provides (1) a logical tree structure, (2) globally unique metric keys that ease integration between multiple Dynatrace environments, and (3) more flexibility to extend Dynatrace so it better fits your specific business use cases. MORE
To reduce your CloudWatch costs and throttling, you can now select from additional services and metrics to monitor. Get up to 300 new AWS metrics out of the box. Dynatrace ingests AWS CloudWatch metrics for multiple preselected services. Select Add metric to save your settings. MORE
Yesterday, Chris Coyier pondered aloud the best metric to use for a performance budget : Re: performance budgets. It’s not surprising that I’ve found the most effective metrics to differ for each. Quantity based metrics. Rule based metrics. Quantity based metrics. MORE
In recent decades, what I call “metric fixation” has engulfed an ever-widening range of institutions: businesses, government, health care, K-12 education, colleges and universities, and nonprofit organizations. Metric fixation consists of a set of interconnected beliefs. The second is that making such metrics public (transparency) assures that institutions are actually carrying out their purposes (accountability). First, there are vanity metrics. MORE
Did you check the metrics? " is the most difficult question to be answered when not backed up by usability metrics. Before understanding the key metrics of usability, though, we need to understand what usability is in the first place. Is your app usable? Really? MORE
As a full stack monitoring platform, Dynatrace collects a huge number of metrics for each OneAgent monitored host in your environment. Depending on the types of technologies you’re running on your individual hosts, the average number of metrics is about 500 per computational node. MORE
Network metrics have been around for decades, but rendering metrics are newer. These are a few of the rendering metrics that currently exist. A brief history of performance metrics. Metrics quantify behavior. In the case of performance metrics, we're trying to capture the behavior of a website in terms of speed and construction. Often, construction metrics are useful for diagnosing the cause of changes in speed metrics. MORE
For customers who use LUX, it provides a place to create custom charts that combine metrics from synthetic and RUM. Bounce rate is a powerful metric for correlating performance metrics with business metrics. How to get started with these new metrics. MORE
To reduce your CloudWatch costs and throttling, you can now select from additional services and metrics to monitor. Get up to 300 new AWS metrics out of the box. Dynatrace ingests AWS CloudWatch metrics for multiple preselected services. Select Add metric to save your settings. MORE
Are you applying AI to the unique metrics and KPIs that matter most to the success of your digital business? Do you provide dashboards and analytics that combine technical and business metrics that are specific to your business? Alerting on request attribute-based metrics. MORE
It’s true that what might be considered the “most important” or “best” web performance metrics can vary by industry. Time to Interactive (TTI) is an interactive metric that measures the time until a page is first expected to be usable and to respond quickly to user input. MORE
Understanding software quality metrics, especially in automated testing, helps us identify what is working well and what needs improvement. performance automation testing software quality manual testing metrics. quality metricsLearn more about manual and automated testing! MORE
This gives us a relatively unique opportunity to analyse and aggregate performance metrics to gain some interesting insights. I'm also going to analyse First Meaningful Paint (defined in a draft spec and implemented as a Chromium trace metric). What are paint timing metrics? MORE
To facilitate the growth of Uber’s global operations, we need to be able to quickly store and access billions of metrics on our back-end systems at any given time. As part of our robust and scalable metrics infrastructure, we built … The post M3: Uber’s Open Source, Large-scale Metrics Platform for Prometheus appeared first on Uber Engineering Blog. MORE
The number of performance metrics is large and increases every year. It's important to understand what the different metrics represent and pick metrics that are important for your site. An analysis of Chromium's paint timing metrics. Evaluating rendering metrics MORE
In the past, the answer would be based on the load time of a page, but over the years, we have evolved our approach to site speed to incorporate new metrics, alone or in combination with existing metrics. The next evolution of performance brought in paint metrics. MORE
But sometimes you might have a scenario where simple access to log file content is not enough—you need to create a metric for log entries that contain “Error,” for instance, or something more complex like “Error and not Warning.” Improved monitoring insights with AI-powered custom log metrics. MORE
Defining a comprehensive user-experience metric gives rise to questions such as: How do we compare the user experience of one session to another? Which metric can be used for the purpose of reporting user experience and tracking it over a period of time? Error metrics. MORE
Over the winter holiday we added a bunch of new metrics to LUX: First Contentful Paint. You can see all these Long Task and CPU metrics in the LUX Performance dashboard. The Chrome team aggregates the Long Task data into a metric called First CPU Idle. MORE
Web performance metrics track the efficiency (or lack thereof) of any individual aspect of your website’s performance. Once you have started collecting some of these must-track web performance metrics for your website, inefficiencies will become clearer. MORE
Summary Database metrics can be collected, maintained, and used to help predict when processes go awry so problems can be resolved before they become severe. MORE
Also, you will find information about bug taxonomy fields, which can help you to calculate later various quality metrics that can be used to improve the QA process in the future. I will write a dedicated article about quality metrics and how to calculate and visualize them. performance data metrics bugs data collection blocking bug reportOne of the essential tasks every QA engineer should master is how to log bug reports properly. MORE
Metrics Related Topics Dynatrace
JANUARY 17, 2020
In an existing application landscape, however, it can be difficult to get to those metrics. A larger financial institution is using the analysis to report business metrics on dashboards and make them accessible via the Dynatrace API. Why are there no secondary metrics in the new MDA?
DZone
JANUARY 10, 2020
Understanding software quality metrics, especially in automated testing, helps us identify what is working well and what needs improvement. performance automation testing software quality manual testing metrics. quality metricsLearn more about manual and automated testing!
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Dynatrace
JUNE 28, 2019
We’ve introduced a new framework for metrics that provides (1) a logical tree structure, (2) globally unique metric keys that ease integration between multiple Dynatrace environments, and (3) more flexibility to extend Dynatrace so it better fits your specific business use cases.
SQL Shack
OCTOBER 2, 2019
Summary There is a multitude of database metrics that we can collect and use to help us understand database and server resource consumption, as well as overall usage.
DZone
DECEMBER 20, 2019
Learn more about publishing Spring boot actuator metrics! The metrics generated by the Spring Boot Actuator module of Spring Boot can be easily published to a Dynatrace cloud instance. java tutorial performance spring boot dynatrace micrometer spring actuator metrics monitoring
Dynatrace
JUNE 28, 2019
As a full stack monitoring platform, Dynatrace collects a huge number of metrics for each OneAgent monitored host in your environment. Depending on the types of technologies you’re running on your individual hosts, the average number of metrics is about 500 per computational node.
DZone
AUGUST 21, 2019
Software engineering productivity or velocity metrics have always been a very debated topic. In this article, I want to list the different velocity metrics and see how and when you can use them, and sometimes perhaps not at all.
Rigor
JUNE 4, 2019
In the past, the answer would be based on the load time of a page, but over the years, we have evolved our approach to site speed to incorporate new metrics, alone or in combination with existing metrics. The next evolution of performance brought in paint metrics.
Dynatrace
OCTOBER 14, 2019
But sometimes you might have a scenario where simple access to log file content is not enough—you need to create a metric for log entries that contain “Error,” for instance, or something more complex like “Error and not Warning.” Improved monitoring insights with AI-powered custom log metrics.
Rigor
JUNE 4, 2019
With so many different metrics available to measure dozens of different aspects of a web page, it can be a struggle to know how best to quantify that page’s overall web performance. Metrics – Thick as Pea Soup.
Rigor
JULY 11, 2019
Additionally, teams are measuring and tracking key business metrics – conversion rates, cart abandonment rates, customer lifetime value, revenue by traffic source, and so on. Why Are User-centric Metrics Essential for Ecommerce? Which Metrics Matter for Ecommerce?
Speed Curve
DECEMBER 3, 2018
The number of performance metrics is large and increases every year. It's important to understand what the different metrics represent and pick metrics that are important for your site. An analysis of Chromium's paint timing metrics. Evaluating rendering metrics
DZone
AUGUST 5, 2019
This preview allows for the collection of Prometheus metrics in Azure Monitor. This pod will pull in metrics from your cluster and nodes and make this available to you in Azure Monitor. Microsoft announced a new preview this week, which I think is a pretty big deal.
Dynatrace
AUGUST 6, 2019
Defining a comprehensive user-experience metric gives rise to questions such as: How do we compare the user experience of one session to another? Which metric can be used for the purpose of reporting user experience and tracking it over a period of time? Error metrics.
Dynatrace
DECEMBER 22, 2019
To reduce your CloudWatch costs and throttling, you can now select from additional services and metrics to monitor. Get up to 300 new AWS metrics out of the box. Dynatrace ingests AWS CloudWatch metrics for multiple preselected services. Select Add metric to save your settings.
José M. Pérez
MARCH 30, 2018
I was browsing Tim Kadlec’s website and I noticed he had added page load time metrics in the footer. If your browser supports the Paint Timing API you will see a couple of extra metrics: First Paint and First Contentful Paint.
Rigor
JULY 9, 2019
In the past, the answer would be based on the load time of a page, but over the years, we have evolved our approach to site speed to incorporate new metrics, alone or in combination with existing metrics. The next evolution of performance brought in paint metrics.
Rigor
JULY 25, 2019
You’ll typically want to find a way to make a connection between a performance metric (such as First Meaningful Paint) and a business metric (Conversion Rate). There are so many characters who live in the fictional city of Springfield, (state unknown), that you can always find one who shares a persona with a web performance metric or concept. The Simpsons Family = Performance Metrics. Springfield Citizens = Performance Concepts & Other Metrics.
Rigor
JULY 26, 2018
If you are familiar with open source performance solutions such as Lighthouse and PageSpeed Insights, you probably understand the value in measuring user experience and paint metrics. Why are paint metrics important to your business? How are paint metrics different?
Speed Curve
JANUARY 22, 2019
Over the winter holiday we added a bunch of new metrics to LUX: First Contentful Paint. You can see all these Long Task and CPU metrics in the LUX Performance dashboard. The Chrome team aggregates the Long Task data into a metric called First CPU Idle.
DZone
APRIL 24, 2019
The cURL component timings are: performance api metrics curl api performance curl metricsMy previous post presented “A Graphical View of API Performance Based on Call Location.” In that post, we analyzed the performance of a week of calls to the World Bank Countries API (which is served from Washington DC) from four different locations around the globe: Washington DC, USA; Oregon, USA; Ireland; and Tokyo, Japan. The API performance across the week showed remarkable consistency.
SQL Shack
SEPTEMBER 27, 2019
Summary Database metrics can be collected, maintained, and used to help predict when processes go awry so problems can be resolved before they become severe.
Dynatrace
DECEMBER 22, 2019
To reduce your CloudWatch costs and throttling, you can now select from additional services and metrics to monitor. Get up to 300 new AWS metrics out of the box. Dynatrace ingests AWS CloudWatch metrics for multiple preselected services. Select Add metric to save your settings.
MachMetrics
MARCH 21, 2019
Web performance metrics track the efficiency (or lack thereof) of any individual aspect of your website’s performance. Once you have started collecting some of these must-track web performance metrics for your website, inefficiencies will become clearer.
DZone
MAY 31, 2019
Did you check the metrics? " is the most difficult question to be answered when not backed up by usability metrics. Before understanding the key metrics of usability, though, we need to understand what usability is in the first place. Is your app usable? Really?
Speed Curve
DECEMBER 10, 2017
Network metrics have been around for decades, but rendering metrics are newer. These are a few of the rendering metrics that currently exist. A brief history of performance metrics. Metrics quantify behavior. In the case of performance metrics, we're trying to capture the behavior of a website in terms of speed and construction. Often, construction metrics are useful for diagnosing the cause of changes in speed metrics.
DZone
APRIL 23, 2019
Also, you will find information about bug taxonomy fields, which can help you to calculate later various quality metrics that can be used to improve the QA process in the future. I will write a dedicated article about quality metrics and how to calculate and visualize them. performance data metrics bugs data collection blocking bug reportOne of the essential tasks every QA engineer should master is how to log bug reports properly.
Dynatrace
MAY 16, 2019
Are you applying AI to the unique metrics and KPIs that matter most to the success of your digital business? Do you provide dashboards and analytics that combine technical and business metrics that are specific to your business? Alerting on request attribute-based metrics.
DZone
JULY 23, 2019
If you have this responsibility, you know how difficult is gather all the metrics, show them in fancy dashboards, and properly send alerts to the ones who must react in case of some evidence of trouble. Maybe, more often than you would like to, you have to justify why some metric wasn’t considered, or wasn’t shown, or some alert wasn’t sent. Although we all have to deal with unexpected events, we also have tools to prevent them.
Apica
FEBRUARY 25, 2019
Using Grafana to Visualize Apica Monitoring Metrics By Sven Hammar, CPO at Apica Systems We have always provided Apica users Read More. The post Using Grafana to Visualize Apica Monitoring Metrics appeared first on Apica.
Apica
FEBRUARY 25, 2019
Using Grafana to Visualize Apica Monitoring Metrics By Sven Hammar, CPO at Apica Systems We have always provided Apica users Read More. The post Using Grafana to Visualize Apica Monitoring Metrics appeared first on Apica.
Tasktop
JULY 17, 2019
The answer is Flow Metrics. Flow Metrics, as set out by the Flow Framework , expose big picture problems to help you make better business decisions. Even better, Flow Metrics use a language that business people can understand. At the DevOps Enterprise Summit in London last month, I presented five flow metrics that can help you focus on desired outcomes at the company level – most notably revenue generation and revenue protection. Identify one metric (e.g.,
The Morning Paper
JUNE 18, 2019
Nines are not enough: meaningful metrics for clouds Mogul & Wilkes, HotOS’19. It’s hard to define good SLOs, especially when outcomes aren’t fully under the control of any single party. The authors of today’s paper should know a thing or two about that: Jeffrey Mogul and John Wilkes at Google 1 ! John Wilkes was also one of the co-authors of chapter 4 “Service Level Objectives” in the SRE book , which is good background reading for the discussion in this paper.
Allen Holub
JANUARY 30, 2018
"It is wrong to suppose that if you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it—a costly myth." " –W. Edwards Deming The Deming quote at the top of this post is often twisted into something worthy of Frederick Taylor: "if you can't measure it, you can't manage it." " Deming would disagree. You can—in fact, must—manage things… Agility
Speed Curve
SEPTEMBER 25, 2018
This gives us a relatively unique opportunity to analyse and aggregate performance metrics to gain some interesting insights. I'm also going to analyse First Meaningful Paint (defined in a draft spec and implemented as a Chromium trace metric). What are paint timing metrics?
Dynatrace
APRIL 23, 2019
However, understanding the performance of different application types requires an emphasis on different performance metrics, that is, key performance metrics. Key performance metrics provide tailored insights for each application type. Pick the best metrics for your application.
Rigor
NOVEMBER 1, 2018
Visual Metrics Alone Paint Only Half The Picture. Existing metrics like DOM Content Loaded and Onload Time are giving way to user-centric metrics such as visual timings and user timings. The Importance of Engagement and Interactivity Metrics.
Rigor
NOVEMBER 1, 2018
Visual Metrics Alone Paint Only Half The Picture. Existing metrics like DOM Content Loaded and Onload Time are giving way to user-centric metrics such as visual timings and user timings. The Importance of Engagement and Interactivity Metrics.
Uber Engineering
AUGUST 7, 2018
To facilitate the growth of Uber’s global operations, we need to be able to quickly store and access billions of metrics on our back-end systems at any given time. As part of our robust and scalable metrics infrastructure, we built … The post M3: Uber’s Open Source, Large-scale Metrics Platform for Prometheus appeared first on Uber Engineering Blog.
Tim Kadlec
NOVEMBER 17, 2014
Yesterday, Chris Coyier pondered aloud the best metric to use for a performance budget : Re: performance budgets. It’s not surprising that I’ve found the most effective metrics to differ for each. Quantity based metrics. Rule based metrics. Quantity based metrics.
The Agile Manager
FEBRUARY 28, 2019
In recent decades, what I call “metric fixation” has engulfed an ever-widening range of institutions: businesses, government, health care, K-12 education, colleges and universities, and nonprofit organizations. Metric fixation consists of a set of interconnected beliefs. The second is that making such metrics public (transparency) assures that institutions are actually carrying out their purposes (accountability). First, there are vanity metrics.
Speed Curve
MARCH 13, 2018
For customers who use LUX, it provides a place to create custom charts that combine metrics from synthetic and RUM. Bounce rate is a powerful metric for correlating performance metrics with business metrics. How to get started with these new metrics.
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