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 215

Metrics Innovation Strategy Monitoring 215

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.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

Welcome back to the second part of our blog series on how easy it is to get enterprise-grade observability at scale in Dynatrace for your OpenTelemetry custom metrics. In Part 1 , we announced our new OpenTelemetry custom-metric exporters that provide the broadest language coverage on the market, including Go , .NET record(value); }.

Metrics 141

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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. Amazon Elastic File System (EFS). Select Add metric to save your settings.

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AWS Metrics IoT Storage 136

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. Amazon Elastic File System (EFS). Select Add metric to save your settings.

AWS 133

AWS Metrics IoT Storage 133

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. Data Explorer “test your Metric Expression” for info result coming from the above metric.

Efficiency 230

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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 222

Technology Technology Metrics Infrastructure 222

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 257

Open Source Metrics Analytics Tuning 257

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Streaming Platforms Commercial streaming platforms shown in Figure 1 mainly rely on Digital Rights Management (DRM) systems. DRM systems provide continuous content protection against unauthorized actions on digital content and restrict it to streaming and in-time consumption.

C++ 312

C++ Metrics Tuning Strategy 312

Dynatrace

APRIL 3, 2023

UK Home Office: Metrics meets service The UK Home Office is the lead government department for many essential, large-scale programs. Now, shutting down systems daily helps the agency focus its cloud initiatives and save costs. Make sure to stay connected with our social media pages. It also helps reduce the agency’s carbon footprint.

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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

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. Even if some part of your codebase can be instrumented to collect observability data, having all three signal types (metrics, traces, and logs) is crucial.

Efficiency 270

Efficiency Architecture Energy Monitoring 270

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.

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DZone

MAY 1, 2020

Observability is the ability to understand the internal state of your system by looking at what is happening externally. In a software system, in order to acquire observability, we mainly implement the following aspects: logging, metrics, and tracing. Observability tools allow us to do this.

Programming 159

Programming Tuning Metrics Architecture 159

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.

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Metrics Tuning Programming Systems 170

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. How can we verify that?

Metrics 175

Metrics Database Monitoring Network 175

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 236

Architecture Artificial Intelligence Cloud Open Source 236

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. Looking at the cloud-native landscape part for Kubernetes storage solutions , we see that most of these solutions natively expose relevant metrics in Prometheus format. Stay tuned.

Storage 192

Storage Database Network Tuning 192

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.

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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

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 ?

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Network Transportation AWS Cloud 325

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.

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Availability Scalability Cloud Metrics 321

Dynatrace

APRIL 20, 2022

We wanted to expand and provide business process metrics (# of total orders per restaurant, orders canceled ratios, time per order, ingredients in or out of stock …) to quickly react to any issues and also get automatically alerted on anomalies. Kitchen System Outages : 10% faster MTTR and 70% more visibility. So – what was missing?

Metrics 204

Metrics Mobile Internet Internet 204

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. Kelsey Hightower recalled a time earlier in his career when their teams met in war rooms to troubleshoot broken systems. Achieving observability in a Kubernetes ecosystem at scale.

Technology 215

Technology Technology Cloud Infrastructure 215

Dynatrace

JULY 24, 2023

Observability data provides a treasure trove of performance, stability, and user experience metrics encompassing error rates, response times, and user engagement. With swift precision, an answer-driven automation solution that uses causal AI can transform these metrics into invaluable insights. But it doesn’t stop there.

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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.

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Database Metrics Systems Strategy 255

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. The “three pillars of observability,” metrics, logs, and traces, still don’t tell the whole story.

Cloud 261

Cloud Azure Analytics Open Source 261

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 177

Open Source Metrics Cloud Tuning 177

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. Expanding on the traditional observability pillars of metrics, logs, and traces, DEM collects user experience data to complete the end-to-end picture.

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Monitoring Social Media IoT Metrics 208

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

The Encoding Technologies team took a first stab at this problem by fine-tuning the encoding recipe. 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! Another exciting direction we are exploring is AV1 with HDR.

Media 246

Media Open Source Efficiency Software Engineering 246

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Stay tuned for a new post on this! Data Load Type : The ETL can either load the missed/new data specifically or reload the entire specified range. Metadata Recording : Metadata is persisted for traceability. This platform-level solution is intended to enhance our data processing capabilities across the organization.

Tuning 244

Tuning Processing Efficiency C++ 244

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Tracking changes to automated processes, including auditing impacts to the system, and reverting to the previous environment states seamlessly. Easy deployment of Dynatrace OneAgent with AWS Systems Manager Distributor , AWS Elastic Beanstalk , and AWS CloudFormation. Stay tuned. Fully conceptualizing capacity requirements.

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AWS Artificial Intelligence Best Practices Lambda 145

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 192

Best Practices Open Source Tuning Infrastructure 192

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 135

Tuning Cache Servers Benchmarking 135

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 2, 2021

These can include business metrics, such as conversion rates, uptime, and availability; service metrics, such as application performance; or technical metrics, such as dependencies to third-party services, underlying CPU, and the cost of running a service. What are SLIs? For example, if your SLO is to deliver 99.5%

Metrics 196

Metrics Best Practices DevOps Infrastructure 196

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

A log is a detailed, timestamped record of an event generated by an operating system, computing environment, application, server, or network device. Logs can include data about user inputs, system processes, and hardware states. Optimized system performance. What is log monitoring? Log monitoring vs log analytics.

Analytics 213

Analytics Monitoring Artificial Intelligence DevOps 213