The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 4, 2023

Migrating Critical Traffic At Scale with No Downtime — Part 1 Shyam Gala , Javier Fernandez-Ivern , Anup Rokkam Pratap , Devang Shah Hundreds of millions of customers tune into Netflix every day, expecting an uninterrupted and immersive streaming experience. This technique facilitates validation on multiple fronts.

Traffic 339

Traffic Latency Tuning Systems 339

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Log monitoring, log analysis, and log analytics are more important than ever as organizations adopt more cloud-native technologies, containers, and microservices-based architectures. A log is a detailed, timestamped record of an event generated by an operating system, computing environment, application, server, or network device.

Analytics 211

Analytics Monitoring Artificial Intelligence DevOps 211

Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

While there is no magic bullet for MySQL performance tuning, there are a few areas that can be focused on upfront that can dramatically improve the performance of your MySQL installation. What are the Benefits of MySQL Performance Tuning? A finely tuned database processes queries more efficiently, leading to swifter results.

Tuning 52

Tuning Database Performance Hardware 52

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 213

Metrics Innovation Strategy Monitoring 213

Dynatrace

MARCH 29, 2024

As organizations continue to modernize their technology stacks, many turn to Kubernetes , an open source container orchestration system for automating software deployment, scaling, and management. ” First, Akamas collects metrics, then recommends configuration improvements and applies these recommendations. .

Engineering 228

Engineering DevOps Operating System Open Source 228

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

As Dynatrace is a leader in Cloud monitoring, we have architected our Software Intelligence Platform specifically to complement Kubernetes by providing extensive functionality to tame the complexities and prevent performance issues that can occur across the development and deployment cycles. Don’t underestimate complexity.

Monitoring 218

Monitoring Cloud Metrics Code 218

Dynatrace

APRIL 5, 2024

For instance, consider how fine-tuned failure rate detection can provide insights for comprehensive understanding. Please refer to How to fine-tune failure detection (dynatrace.com) for further information. Let’s assume we created a service-availability SLO, monitoring the request failure count against the overall request counts.

Efficiency 227

Efficiency Traffic Tuning Metrics 227

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 5, 2023

This growth was spurred by mobile ecosystems with Android and iOS operating systems, where ARM has a unique advantage in energy efficiency while offering high performance. Initiatives like the Carbon Impact app can be used to measure the footprint of monitored ARM-based hosts compared to x86 hosts.

Efficiency 268

Efficiency Architecture Energy Monitoring 268

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. Easily gain actionable insights with the Dynatrace Extension for Prometheus metrics. Prometheus in Kubernetes ?and

Technology 219

Technology Technology Metrics Infrastructure 219

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

This has led to the recent release of our new Lambda monitoring extension supporting Node.js, Java, and Python. This extension was built from scratch to take into account all we’ve learned and the special requirements for monitoring ephemeral, auto-scaling, micro VMs like AWS Lambda. A look under the hood of AWS Lambda.

Lambda 221

Lambda AWS Monitoring Serverless 221

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 22, 2019

At Dynatrace, we’re constantly improving our AWS monitoring capabilities. Monitor and understand additional AWS services. Supporting services include every service that isn’t available with out-of-the-box Dynatrace monitoring. Get up to 300 new AWS metrics out of the box. Amazon Elastic File System (EFS).

AWS 136

AWS Metrics IoT Storage 136

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 22, 2019

At Dynatrace, we’re constantly improving our AWS monitoring capabilities. Monitor and understand additional AWS services. Supporting services include every service that isn’t available with out-of-the-box Dynatrace monitoring. Get up to 300 new AWS metrics out of the box. Amazon Elastic File System (EFS).

AWS 133

AWS Metrics IoT Storage 133

Dynatrace

APRIL 3, 2023

With the platform hosting more than 3,000 technical users and millions of end users, Dimitris sheds light on his experience with site reliability engineering (SRE), user experience, and service monitoring. UK Home Office: Metrics meets service The UK Home Office is the lead government department for many essential, large-scale programs.

Efficiency 195

Efficiency Social Media Artificial Intelligence Cloud 195

Dynatrace

APRIL 25, 2023

Observability is essential to ensure the reliability, security and quality of any software system. Observability is typically achieved by collecting three types of data from a system, metrics, logs and traces. It helps developers and operators identify and troubleshoot issues, optimize performance and improve user experience.

Serverless 210

Serverless Lambda Azure AWS 210

Dynatrace

JULY 8, 2020

Kubernetes has taken over the container management world and beyond , to become what some say the operating system or the new Linux of the cloud. Monitoring Kubernetes is an important aspect of Day 2 o perations and is often perceived as a significant challenge. Monitoring in the Kubernetes world . Dynatrace news.

Infrastructure 199

Infrastructure Monitoring Cloud Metrics 199

Dynatrace

MAY 17, 2023

Making applications observable—relying on metrics, logs, and traces to understand what software is doing and how it’s performing—has become increasingly important as workloads are shifting to multicloud environments. We also introduced our demo app and explained how to define the metrics and traces it uses.

Metrics 173

Metrics Monitoring Database Network 173

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Open-source metric sources automatically map to our Smartscape model for AI analytics. We’ve just enhanced Dynatrace OneAgent with an open metric API. Here’s a quick overview of what you can achieve now that the Dynatrace Software Intelligence Platform has been extended to ingest third-party metrics. Dynatrace news.

Open Source 256

Open Source Metrics Analytics Tuning 256

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 2, 2023

However, the distributed system of a microservices architecture comes with its own cost: increased application complexity and convoluted testing. In fact, it can be difficult to make code changes that won’t disrupt the entire system. Migration is time-consuming and involved.

Architecture 234

Architecture Artificial Intelligence Cloud Open Source 234

Dynatrace

MAY 17, 2022

For years, enterprises managed observability data on a team-by-team basis , using a combination of ticketing systems and configuration management tools. From a cost perspective, internal customers waste valuable time sending tickets to operations teams asking for metrics, logs, and traces to be enabled.

Availability 319

Availability Scalability Cloud Metrics 319

SQL Performance

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

This article will cover many areas that database administrators need to be aware of in order to properly license, recover, and tune a Reporting Services installation. Unlike the system database tempdb, ReportServerTempDB is not recreated at startup. Tuning Options. Tuning SSRS is much like any other application.

Tuning 67

Tuning Servers Database Best Practices 67

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Every service and component exposes observability data (metrics, logs, and traces) that contains crucial information to drive digital businesses. They are required to understand the full story of what happened in a system. Organizations struggle to effectively use logs for monitoring business-critical data and troubleshooting.

Cloud 260

Cloud Azure Analytics AWS 260

Dynatrace

AUGUST 1, 2022

Unfortunately, you did not have any monitoring or alerting in place, and you stopped checking the system daily because you have lost faith in your idea. Now that you know how Dynatrace helps you to ensure your PVCs are functional, you might be interested in how to monitor the storage providing these volume claims. Stay tuned.

Storage 190

Storage Database Network Tuning 190

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Modern infrastructure needs to be elastic and GitOps approaches are used to automate the provisioning of infrastructure and applications using Git, an open-source control system that provides the change processes including reviews and approvals. Key components of GitOps are declarative infrastructure as code, orchestration, and observability.

Code 219

Code Software Software DevOps 219

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

As Dynatrace is a leader in Cloud monitoring, we have architected our Software Intelligence Platform specifically to complement Kubernetes by providing extensive functionality to tame the complexities and prevent performance issues that can occur across the development and deployment cycles. Don’t underestimate complexity.

Monitoring 100

Monitoring Cloud Metrics Code 100

The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 13, 2022

The data platform is built on top of several distributed systems, and due to the inherent nature of these systems, it is inevitable that these workloads run into failures periodically. We have been working on an auto-diagnosis and remediation system called Pensive in the data platform to address these concerns.

Big Data 238

Big Data Infrastructure Metrics Hardware 238

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Tracking changes to automated processes, including auditing impacts to the system, and reverting to the previous environment states seamlessly. Do we have the right monitoring to understand the health and validation of architecture decisions and delivering on business expectations? through our AWS integrations and monitoring support.

AWS 145

AWS Artificial Intelligence Best Practices Lambda 145

The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 7, 2021

The Flow Exporter also publishes various operational metrics to Atlas. These metrics are visualized using Lumen , a self-service dashboarding infrastructure. After several iterations of the architecture and some tuning, the solution has proven to be able to scale. So how do we ingest and enrich these flows at scale ?

Network 325

Network Transportation AWS Cloud 325

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

And if you have other tools, like the open-source systems monitoring toolkit, Prometheus , you need a solution to make sense of all the data in context. Grabner cited one Dynatrace customer that’s deployed 200,000 OneAgents to monitor their environment across four hyperscalers and their own datacenter.

Technology 212

Technology Technology Cloud Infrastructure 212

Dynatrace

JANUARY 26, 2021

Traditional computing models rely on virtual or physical machines, where each instance includes a complete operating system, CPU cycles, and memory. There is no need to plan for extra resources, update operating systems, or install frameworks. The provider is essentially your system administrator. What is serverless computing?

Serverless 244

Serverless Efficiency Lambda Azure 244

Dynatrace

APRIL 20, 2022

To keep our customers happy, we are constantly monitoring and reacting to any situation that makes a hungry customer angry instead of satisfied. And not to forget – besides our orders we are also monitoring the kitchen itself such as whether a kitchen is currently open and operating or how the internet connectivity to the central servers is.

Metrics 202

Metrics Mobile Internet Internet 202

Scalegrid

MARCH 4, 2019

We asked hundreds of developers, engineers, software architects, dev teams, and IT leaders at DeveloperWeek to discover the current NoSQL vs. SQL usage, most popular databases, important metrics to track, and their most time-consuming database management tasks. SQL vs. NoSQL. NoSQL Database Use: 39.52%. Most Popular Databases.

Database 255

Database Metrics Systems Strategy 255

Dynatrace

JUNE 8, 2021

In software we use the concept of Service Level Objectives (SLOs) to enable us to keep track of our system versus our goals, often shown in a dashboard – like below –, to help us to reach an objective or provide an excellent service for users. Usual exceptions raised by our system that is now considered to be normal by Davis.

Metrics 168

Metrics Tuning Programming Systems 168

Percona

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Today, we are excited to announce the release of Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) V2.35 , including a tech preview of label-based access control, the general availability of Helm Chart, and a range of enhancements to our Database as a Service (DBaaS) offerings, among other improvements and features. Stay tuned!

Availability 97

Availability Metrics Monitoring Open Source 97

Percona

APRIL 7, 2023

If we were to select the most important MySQL setting, if we were given a freshly installed MySQL or Percona Server for MySQL and could only tune a single MySQL variable, which one would it be? To be fair, that is also true with PostgreSQL; it hasn’t been tuned either, and it, too, can also perform much better.

Tuning 139

Tuning Cache Servers Benchmarking 139

Dynatrace

JULY 6, 2022

Organizations that have achieved SRE maturity have a better handle on the state of their infrastructure, the ability to tie reliability metrics more tightly to business objectives, and the means to ensure a consistent and responsive customer experience. This can reduce labor costs and enhance reliability by enabling systems to self-heal.

Best Practices 190

Best Practices Open Source Tuning Infrastructure 190

Dynatrace

APRIL 22, 2022

For example, OpenTelemetry for instrumenting microservices, Fluentd for collecting logs, and Prometheus for collecting metrics. To close the gap between disparate systems, organizations need context for observability. This context comes from a common topology of the monitored environment based on data from metrics, logs, and traces.

Open Source 175

Open Source Metrics Cloud Tuning 175

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

The Encoding Technologies team took a first stab at this problem by fine-tuning the encoding recipe. Challenge 4: How do we continuously monitor AV1 streaming? Having a suite of tools that can provide summarized metrics for these streaming sessions is critical to the success of Netflix AV1 streaming. Stay tuned!

Media 246

Media Open Source Efficiency Software Engineering 246