The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 13, 2023

Migrating Critical Traffic At Scale with No Downtime — Part 2 Shyam Gala , Javier Fernandez-Ivern , Anup Rokkam Pratap , Devang Shah Picture yourself enthralled by the latest episode of your beloved Netflix series, delighting in an uninterrupted, high-definition streaming experience. This is where large-scale system migrations come into play.

Traffic 279

Traffic Metrics Systems Strategy 279

Dynatrace

JUNE 16, 2020

One key requirement of a microservices architecture is the ability to make information of all kinds available wherever and whenever it’s needed, without putting undue traffic on corporate and public networks. However, so far it didn’t provide technology-specific metrics such as queue depth or number of consumers. Dynatrace news.

Storage 132

Storage Metrics Java Architecture 132

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. It is proactive monitoring that simulates traffic with established test variables, including location, browser, network, and device type.

Monitoring 196

Monitoring Social Media IoT Metrics 196

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

This includes metrics such as query execution time, the number of queries executed per second, and the utilization of query cache and adaptive hash index. That said, it should also be monitored for usage, which will exhibit the traffic pressuring them. This is not an exhaustive list but an example of what we can watch for.

Performance 107

Performance Monitoring Traffic Database 107

Dynatrace

MAY 6, 2021

Contact Dynatrace ONE if you wish to enable Cluster-side screenshot storage on pre-1.216 fresh-installed Clusters. To improve management of node capabilities , we added Enable/disable Web UI traffic operation for cluster node in Cluster Mission Control UI. APM-298915). APM-295508). APM-296578). APM-294399). APM-289135). APM-297575).

Operating System 224

Operating System AWS Metrics Storage 224

Dynatrace

JUNE 8, 2020

Dynatrace Mission Control collects the health monitoring observability metrics for both our Dynatrace SaaS as well as Dynatrace Managed customers. Metrics are provided for general host info like CPU usage and memory consumption, OneAgent traffic, and network latency. Currently, only metrics for individual nodes are available.

Software 164

Software Software Programming Metrics 164

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Our distributed tracing infrastructure is grouped into three sections: tracer library instrumentation, stream processing, and storage. An additional implication of a lenient sampling policy is the need for scalable stream processing and storage infrastructure fleets to handle increased data volume. Storage: don’t break the bank!

Infrastructure 233

Infrastructure Transportation Storage Open Source 233

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Like general observability , AWS observability is the capacity to measure the current state of your AWS environment based on the data it generates, including its logs, metrics, and traces. EC2 is ideally suited for large workloads with constant traffic. And why it matters. AWS Lambda.

Best Practices 204

Best Practices AWS Monitoring Serverless 204

Dynatrace

MAY 14, 2020

Turnkey cluster overload protection with adaptive traffic management and control. To keep clusters resilient and performing well, the ALR mechanism intelligently analyzes only parts of the traffic and makes an estimate of the full load. This means that disk space requirements for Dynatrace transaction storage may increase.

Processing 150

Processing Hardware Traffic Storage 150

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Each tenant gets its own e-commerce site deployed on a shared Kubernetes cluster, isolated through separate namespaces and additional traffic isolation. There was not much traffic during the weekend, but as Monday came along, Dynatrace started sending alerts about a high HTTP failure rate across almost every tenant on the backend service.

Java 183

Java Traffic Education Storage 183

Dynatrace

MAY 15, 2019

Updated sliding time-frame window for custom metrics. Until now we had a sliding window of 28 days for custom metrics, which meant that you could consume unique metrics up to your licensed quota within a time frame of 28 days. This also meant that you had to wait 28 days until you could start collecting new metrics.

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Storage Metrics Strategy Java 102

The Netflix TechBlog

JULY 30, 2019

Below is a snapshot of our Kibana dashboard which shows the workflow execution metrics over a typical 7-day period. External Payload Storage External payload storage was implemented to prevent the usage of Conductor as a data persistence system and to reduce the pressure on its backend datastore.

Lambda 189

Lambda Media Open Source Metrics 189

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Netflix shares how Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling allows its infrastructure to automatically adapt to changing traffic patterns in order to keep its audience entertained and its costs on target. Technology advancements in content creation and consumption have also increased its data footprint. Wednesday?—?December

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AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 100

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Netflix shares how Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling allows its infrastructure to automatically adapt to changing traffic patterns in order to keep its audience entertained and its costs on target. Technology advancements in content creation and consumption have also increased its data footprint. Wednesday?—?December

AWS 100

AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 100

Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Inadequate CPU, memory, or storage can lead to bottlenecks and performance degradation, so remedying these issues involves upgrading hardware or optimizing resource utilization through query and server configuration adjustments. Avoid over-indexing, which can bloat storage and slow writes.

Tuning 52

Tuning Database Performance Hardware 52

CSS - Tricks

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

I can guess that maps pretty well to other platforms and other performance metrics. There has got to be a balance between the propagation and duplicative storage as far as the savings that would be realized by the efficiency of saving requests. Website traffic. Things that lead to poor performance are things that take energy.

Website 97

Website Energy Storage Efficiency 97

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Thus, ensuring the atomicity of writes across different storage technologies remains a challenging problem for applications [3]. No need to acquire locks on tables, which is essential to ensure that the write traffic on the database is never blocked by our service. High availability, via standby instances across AWS Availability Zones.

Transportation 192

Transportation Architecture Processing Storage 192

Speed Curve

DECEMBER 11, 2019

When it comes to real user monitoring (RUM), I’m convinced that the marginal cost of collection, computation, storage, etc. This helps us do things like: correlate various performance metrics with user behavior, understand the user journey and popular pages so you can better model your synthetic testing, and.

Retail 59

Retail Traffic Media Metrics 59

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

PostgreSQL & Elastic for data storage. Thanks to PurePath, architects can validate how transactions flow from service-to-service and how traffic gets routed through service mashes (AWS App Mesh, Istio, Linkerd) or proxies. for AWS) Enable AWS CloudWatch Monitoring for additional metrics and MetaData. NGINX as an API Gateway.

AWS 127

AWS Monitoring Ecommerce Lambda 127

SQL Performance

APRIL 15, 2020

This capability is essential when performance tuning since query events include discrete CPU and IO metrics as well as runtime parameters, which are key for troubleshooting query performance problems such as parameter sniffing.

Azure 96

Azure Database Tuning Network 96

Adrian Cockcroft

APRIL 18, 2018

In reality, in any non-trivial installation, there are multiple tools collecting, storing and displaying overlapping sets of metrics from many types of systems and different levels of abstraction. This is true for CPU, network, memory and storage, and also for bare metal, virtual machines, containers, processes, functions and threads.

Monitoring 40

Monitoring Systems Virtualization Metrics 40

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. By default, each record captures a network internet protocol (IP), a destination, and the source of the traffic flow that occurs within your environment.

Traffic 208

Traffic AWS Network Cloud 208

Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2023

Certain service-level objective examples 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. The Apdex score of 0.85

Traffic 173

Traffic Latency Website Virtualization 173

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. The Apdex score of 0.85

Latency 171

Latency Website Traffic Virtualization 171

Dynatrace

JANUARY 11, 2023

These next-generation cloud monitoring tools present reports — including metrics, performance, and incident detection — visually via dashboards. Website monitoring examines a cloud-hosted website’s processes, traffic, availability, and resource use. Cloud storage monitoring. Cloud monitoring types and how they work.

Cloud 217

Cloud Monitoring Best Practices Infrastructure 217

Percona

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Identifying which resources you can trim to reduce your monthly bill can be difficult, but looking at the right metrics will help you understand the application’s actual requirements. Configuration of the CPU metrics can be changed in the dashboard. Don’t pay for capacity you don’t use or need.

Cloud 122

Cloud Serverless AWS Storage 122

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

The short answer: The three pillars of observability—logs, metrics, and traces—converging on a data lakehouse. Grail combines the big-data storage of a data warehouse with the analytical flexibility of a data lake. Simply put, metrics are the counts and measures that are often calculated or aggregated over time.

Analytics 179

Analytics Innovation Metrics Database 179

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Netflix shares how Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling allows its infrastructure to automatically adapt to changing traffic patterns in order to keep its audience entertained and its costs on target. Technology advancements in content creation and consumption have also increased its data footprint. Wednesday?—?December

AWS 37

AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 37

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Dynatrace is fully committed to the OpenTelemetry community and to the seamless integration of OpenTelemetry data , including ingestion of custom metrics , into the Dynatrace open analytics platform. With Dynatrace OneAgent you also benefit from support for traffic routing and traffic control.

Java 226

Java Traffic Strategy Architecture 226

Dynatrace

MAY 8, 2023

Provide metrics for improved site reliability. It examines metrics like response times, application programming interface availability, and page load times to flag problems that affect the user experience. The result is faster and more data-driven decision making. Help systems meet SLAs. However, DevOps monitoring has its challenges.

DevOps 212

DevOps Efficiency Monitoring Infrastructure 212

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. Minimized cross-data center network traffic. Dynatrace Managed Premium High Availability provides cost savings in terms of compute and storage allocations. Dynatrace news.

Availability 241

Availability Hardware Latency Traffic 241

The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Edgar captures 100% of interesting traces , as opposed to sampling a small fixed percentage of traffic. This difference has substantial technological implications, from the classification of what’s interesting to transport to cost-effective storage (keep an eye out for later Netflix Tech Blog posts addressing these topics).

Latency 296

Latency Transportation Engineering Traffic 296

Percona

AUGUST 30, 2023

An incremental backup, which is faster and requires less storage than a full backup, captures changes made since the previous backup. Some of them include: Redundant hardware: Both HA and DR use redundant hardware components, including servers and storage devices. It’s suitable for databases with moderate change rates.

Database 91

Database Hardware Open Source Strategy 91

Dynatrace

JUNE 26, 2020

Dynatrace Synthetic Monitoring helps you quickly verify if your application is delivering the expected end user experience by offering an outside-in view of all your applications and services, independent of real traffic. Storage and management of credentials via the Synthetic Monitoring credential vault. But wait, there’s more!

Monitoring 252

Monitoring Azure AWS Traffic 252

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

In particular, the VMAF metric lies at the core of improving the Netflix member’s streaming video quality. The request provides the source and the derivative whose quality is to be computed and requests that the VQS provides quality scores using VMAF, PSNR and SSIM as quality metrics. Assembly for two of the metrics (e.g.

Media 171

Media Innovation Metrics Latency 171

Scalegrid

DECEMBER 16, 2019

While adequate for low-traffic applications, small databases, and dev/test environments, we recommend against leveraging shared clusters for your MongoDB production deployments. DigitalOcean specialized in SSD-based virtual machines called Droplets that are broken down into four simple categories. Managed MongoDB Hosting on DigitalOcean.

Azure 187

Azure AWS Latency Database 187

Dynatrace

JULY 21, 2020

There are certain situations when an agent based approach isn’t possible, such as with network or storage devices, or a very old OS. However, you can’t install OneAgents on every single type of device. In those cases, what should you do if you want to be proactive and ensure that your infrastructure is always up and running?

Infrastructure 152

Infrastructure Monitoring Open Source Traffic 152