The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

While we understand it’s virtually impossible to achieve a linear increase in throughput as the number of vCPUs grow, a near-linear increase is attainable. In both bands, performance characteristics remain consistent for the entire uptime of the JVM on the node, i.e. nodes never jumped the bands.

Hardware 363

Hardware Cache Performance Latency 363

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Extensions can monitor virtually any type of technology in your environment. Declarative extensions—written in a human-readable YAML format—require no coding skills and are inherently scalable and secure, thanks to the high-performance data sources that underpin them. Comprehensive metrics support Extensions 2.0 Extensions 2.0

Technology 251

Technology Technology Scalability Availability 251

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Citrix is critical infrastructure For businesses operating in industries with strict regulations, such as healthcare, banking, or government, Citrix virtual apps and virtual desktops are essential for simplified infrastructure management, secure application delivery, and compliance requirements.

Monitoring 225

Monitoring Healthcare Infrastructure Metrics 225

Dynatrace

JUNE 5, 2023

The F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) is an application delivery controller (ADC) that ensures the availability, security, and optimal performance of network traffic flows. Manage and optimize the deployment and configuration of F5 BIG-IP appliances or virtual instances across multiple data centers or cloud environments.

Traffic 200

Traffic Virtualization Metrics Monitoring 200

Dynatrace

MARCH 14, 2023

Amazon’s new general-purpose Linux for AWS is designed to provide a secure, stable, and high-performance execution environment to develop and run cloud applications. This is done by detecting availability and performance problems in real time across an entire technology stack while presenting teams with answers — not alert storms.

AWS 286

AWS Lambda Serverless Virtualization 286

Dynatrace

JANUARY 11, 2023

With more organizations taking the multicloud plunge, monitoring cloud infrastructure is critical to ensure all components of the cloud computing stack are available, high-performing, and secure. These next-generation cloud monitoring tools present reports — including metrics, performance, and incident detection — visually via dashboards.

Cloud 227

Cloud Monitoring Best Practices Infrastructure 227

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

In my recent Performance Clinic with Stefano Doni , CTO & Co-Founder of Akamas , I made the statement, “Application development and release cycles today are measured in days, instead of months. Increase in environment complexity and increased frequency in delivery requires a novel approach to performance optimization.

Performance 189

Performance Java Metrics Cloud 189

Dynatrace

MAY 28, 2024

What about correlated trace data, host metrics, real-time vulnerability scanning results, or log messages captured just before an incident occurs? Databases offers comprehensive database monitoring capabilities, providing organizations with real-time visibility into the performance and health of their database environments.

Analytics 176

Analytics Infrastructure Database Monitoring 176

Dynatrace

MAY 28, 2020

In this blog, I will be going through a step-by-step guide on how to automate SRE-driven performance engineering. Step-by-step guide: SRE-driven performance analysis with Dynatrace. Dynatrace news. Keptn uses SLO definitions to automatically configure Dynatrace or Prometheus alerting rules. This is what this blog is all about.

Engineering 195

Engineering Performance Metrics Best Practices 195

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

framework , the SNMP extensions are a bundle of everything that’s needed (DataSource configuration, a dashboard template, a unified analysis page template, topology definition, entity extraction rules, relevant metric definitions and more) to get going with monitoring. Virtual servers. Pool nodes. Interfaces.

Network 216

Network Infrastructure Virtualization Metrics 216

Dynatrace

MAY 3, 2024

Log data—the most verbose form of observability data, complementing other standardized signals like metrics and traces—is especially critical. Take the example of Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) flow logs, which provide insights into the IP traffic of your network interfaces. Managing this change is difficult.

Cloud 257

Cloud Lambda AWS Analytics 257

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Monitoring the health and performance of your workloads—whether based in Azure or other cloud providers—is established in minutes with just a few clicks. This improves security and compliance and creates a single source for troubleshooting, performance optimization, and cross-team collaboration. Dynatrace OneAgent deployment.

Azure 235

Azure Cloud Virtualization Metrics 235

Dynatrace

MARCH 3, 2020

For software engineering teams, this demand means not only delivering new features faster but ensuring quality, performance, and scalability too. One way to apply improvements is transforming the way application performance engineering and testing is done. Performance-as-a-self-service . Try it today using Keptn .

Performance 246

Performance Education Innovation Software Architecture 246

Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2023

Service level objectives (SLOs) provide a powerful framework for measuring and maintaining software performance, reliability, and user satisfaction. Certain SLOs can help organizations get started on measuring and delivering metrics that matter. But how do you get started, and what are some service level objective examples?

Latency 182

Latency Website Traffic Virtualization 182

Dynatrace

MAY 24, 2023

Large enterprises face different challenges A well-described synthetic check can reduce, and in many cases avoid, unforeseen downtime due to failure domains by replicating the expected user journey and measuring its performance. CAGR in the forecasted period ending 2030. Who can benefit from this update? How does it work?

Scalability 213

Scalability Virtualization Monitoring Open Source 213

Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2023

Service level objectives (SLOs) provide a powerful framework for measuring and maintaining software performance, reliability, and user satisfaction. Certain service-level objective examples can help organizations get started on measuring and delivering metrics that matter. Fitness apps : During the pandemic, fitness apps boomed.

Traffic 173

Traffic Latency Website Virtualization 173

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. DEM can give organizations business observability—insight into the effects of user experience on the bottom line.

Monitoring 209

Monitoring Social Media IoT Metrics 209

Tasktop

MAY 11, 2021

Oh, and it just so happens that one of our favourite events of the year takes place too, providing the perfect opportunity for the DevOps community to come together: The virtual DevOps Enterprise Summit, Europe (18-20 May 2021). . Tasktop at DOES Europe 2021. Tasktop Hub automates and accelerates flow through product value streams.

Virtualization 52

Virtualization DevOps Metrics Software 52

Dynatrace

APRIL 21, 2022

Most monitoring tools for migrations, development, and operations focus on collecting and aggregating the three pillars of observability— metrics, traces, and logs. Analyzing user experience to ensure uniform performance after migration. Performance efficiency. Understanding resource utilization for cost management. Reliability.

Azure 193

Azure Monitoring Virtualization Metrics 193

Dynatrace

APRIL 14, 2020

Have you ever had to provision 2,500 virtual host instances and 120 Kubernetes clusters in two days? Well, that’s exactly what the Dynatrace University team did to support Dynatrace’s hands-on training (HoT) days at Dynatrace’s annual user conference Perform in Las Vegas. Perform 2020 Infrastructure Setup. Dynatrace news.

AWS 168

AWS Lambda Performance Infrastructure 168

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 15, 2022

This transition to public, private, and hybrid cloud is driving organizations to automate and virtualize IT operations to lower costs and optimize cloud processes and systems. Besides the traditional system hardware, storage, routers, and software, ITOps also includes virtual components of the network and cloud infrastructure.

Artificial Intelligence 208

Artificial Intelligence DevOps Hardware Virtualization 208

Dynatrace

JULY 25, 2022

Dynatrace has added support for the newly introduced Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) Flow Logs for AWS Transit Gateway. A full list of metrics can be found here and include dimensions such as the following: Packets. Log Metrics. Dynatrace news. The number of packets transferred during the flow. Resource type. Why Dynatrace?

AWS 223

AWS Transportation Network Traffic 223

Dynatrace

MAY 24, 2023

Performance. Monitoring the performance of the Azure Linux OS platform is critical to ensure that containerized workloads are running efficiently and effectively. Performance monitoring can help identify bottlenecks, optimize resource usage, and prevent downtime. Dynatrace’s radically different AI determines the following.

Azure 231

Azure Monitoring Operating System Virtualization 231

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Platform performance —get visibility into the performance of the Citrix platform to optimize application delivery. Dynatrace Extension: SAP ABAP platform performance. Dynatrace Extension: database performance as experienced by the SAP ABAP server. Synthetic monitoring: Citrix login availability and performance.

Latency 118

Latency Performance Virtualization Infrastructure 118

HammerDB

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Introducing the PostgreSQL performance metrics viewer. HammerDB included a graphical performance metrics view for the Oracle database only. HammerDB includes the same functionality for PostgreSQL enabling the user to drill down on database metrics in real time. PostgreSQL Graphical Metrics. Started Metrics.

Metrics 62

Metrics Benchmarking C++ Database 62

Speed Curve

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Earlier this year, when Google announced that Interaction to Next Paint (INP) will replace First Input Delay (FID) as the responsiveness metric in Core Web Vitals in *gulp* March of 2024, we had a lot to say about it. TLDR: FID doesn't correlate with real user behavior, so we don't endorse it as a meaningful metric.) for mobile.

Mobile 54

Mobile Performance Metrics Google 54

Dynatrace

APRIL 7, 2023

Dynatrace is a launch partner in support of AWS Lambda Response Streaming , a new capability enabling customers to improve the efficiency and performance of their Lambda functions. Customers can use AWS Lambda Response Streaming to improve performance for latency-sensitive applications and return larger payload sizes.

Lambda 221

Lambda AWS Serverless Latency 221

Dynatrace

MARCH 22, 2021

Each SNMP-enabled device provides access to its state and performance metrics in a simple and robust way that allows Dynatrace to fetch the metrics and run them through Davis®, our AI causation engine. With the new extension framework, thanks to our API-first approach, there are no operations to be performed in the web UI.

Metrics 245

Metrics Network Infrastructure Traffic 245

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. VMware commercialized the idea of virtual machines, and cloud providers embraced the same concept with services like Amazon EC2, Google Compute, and Azure virtual machines.

Serverless 245

Serverless Efficiency Lambda Azure 245

Alex Podelko

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Some time ago Federico Toledo published Performance Testing with Open Source Tools- Busting The Myths. How did you get into performance engineering? At first, we were using LoadRunner, but we quickly moved to Performance Center. After a year I was put in charge of the Performance Center platform (9.52

Open Source 223

Open Source Performance Testing Testing Performance 223

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. Amazon’s AWS monitoring and observability service, CloudWatch, monitors applications, resource usage, and system-wide performance for AWS-hosted environments.

Best Practices 217

Best Practices AWS Monitoring Serverless 217

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

VPC Flow Logs is an Amazon service that enables IT pros to capture information about the IP traffic that traverses network interfaces in a virtual private cloud, or VPC. Today, Dynatrace is recognized as a Leader in the 2022 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Application Performance Monitoring and Observability.¹ What is VPC Flow Logs?

Traffic 221

Traffic AWS Network Cloud 221

HammerDB

APRIL 19, 2023

Predicting application performance is a difficult art, but an important one when choosing the target deployment environment. Regardless of whether the computing platform to be evaluated is on-prem, containerized, virtualized, or in the cloud, it is crucial to consider several essential factors.

Performance 54

Performance Benchmarking Cache Storage 54

The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 7, 2021

At much less than 1% of CPU and memory on the instance, this highly performant sidecar provides flow data at scale for network insight. Berkeley Packet Filter (BPF) is an in-kernel execution engine that processes a virtual instruction set, and has been extended as eBPF for providing a safe way to extend kernel functionality.

Network 325

Network Transportation AWS Cloud 325

Dynatrace

JUNE 29, 2022

This orchestration layer uses software-based tools to automate IT tasks and manage resources—virtualized or other. An orchestration tool can create a new virtual machine instance and determine the best location in the cloud for deploying that instance. Support virtual machines and containers. Scale and provision new resources.

Infrastructure 187

Infrastructure Cloud Azure AWS 187

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Dynatrace provides AWS Lambda metrics monitoring in less than five minutes, showing the function CPU, memory, and network health metrics all the way through to the process level. It also baselines the performance of an application under load, including response times, error rates, and behavior. How does Dynatrace help?

Lambda 229

Lambda AWS Serverless Latency 229

Dynatrace

MARCH 29, 2023

Besides establishing a secure and reliable environment, keeping up with system updates, implementing backup and recovery procedures, and setting up an adequate communication infrastructure with ticketing systems and other systems for tracking and managing changes and tasks, IT administrators must also monitor and maintain system performance.

Efficiency 130

Efficiency Monitoring Metrics Virtualization 130