Brendan Gregg

DECEMBER 31, 2017

My last talk for 2017 was at AWS re:Invent, on "How Netflix Tunes EC2 Instances for Performance," an updated version of my [2014] talk. Our team looks after the BaseAMI, kernel tuning, OS performance tools and profilers, and self-service tools like Vector. We help where we can. Many other Netflix staff spoke at re:Invent ( list here ).

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Our monitoring coverage already includes ? This extension enables you to monitor RabbitMQ outside of Kubernetes with data obtained either from a Prometheus server or directly from a RabbitMQ Prometheus exporter. By monitoring specific RabbitMQ nodes, you can easily identify and mitigate performance issues. and integration with?the?recently

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Brendan Gregg

DECEMBER 30, 2017

My last talk for 2017 was at AWS re:Invent, on "How Netflix Tunes EC2 Instances for Performance," an updated version of my [2014] talk. Our team looks after the BaseAMI, kernel tuning, OS performance tools and profilers, and self-service tools like Vector. We help where we can. Many other Netflix staff spoke at re:Invent ( list here ).

Tuning 52

Tuning AWS Best Practices Network 52

Dynatrace

MAY 12, 2022

To stay tuned, keep an eye on our release notes. Fixed showing a warning message on the Kubernetes settings page, if Kubernetes events are enabled, while Log Monitoring v2 is disabled. (K8S-2150). Classic user sessions page end-of-life. New features and enhancements. Application Security. Cloud Automation. User Interface. APM-365567).

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Tuning Metrics Cloud Mobile 202

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 23, 2020

The shortest possible time to value offered by Dynatrace is one of the most important reasons that our customers select Dynatrace over other monitoring solutions available on the market. Dynatrace OneAgent offers unprecedented ease of deployment and activation of monitoring. It will definitely find its way there before the GA release.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 28, 2020

You can integrate Dynatrace with Azure for intelligent monitoring of services running in Azure Cloud. We’re happy to announce that now you can gain cloud monitoring excellence with Dynatrace for 15 additional Azure services, including: Azure Automation Account. Azure Logic Apps. Azure Container Instance. Azure Data Factory v1.

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Percona

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Improved performance : MongoDB continually fine-tunes its database engine, resulting in faster query execution and reduced latency. Navigating common MongoDB upgrade challenges Even with a well-thought-out plan, MongoDB upgrades can present challenges.

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Best Practices Hardware Tuning Scalability 89

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 15, 2020

The Dynatrace Software Intelligence Platform has long provided the industry’s first auto-instrumenting monitoring solution for Go. With no required recompilation or code changes, you can: Monitor web-scale and highly dynamic microservice architectures including statically as well as dynamically linked Go applications and platform components.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

This allows us to present the content exactly as creatively envisioned on devices and plans which support such high resolution and frame-rate playback. 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? Stay tuned!

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Percona

MARCH 6, 2023

So in this one, I want to focus on two things: Present the new way of working with Redo Logs (No longer innodb_log_file_size / innodb_log_files_in_group ). Validate the formula output and compare it with the information you can get from Percona Management and Monitoring (PMM). So you won’t have downtime if you need to tune this.

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Adrian Cockcroft

AUGUST 1, 2022

photo by Adrian I gave a talk at Monitorama in Portland Oregon in June, which set out the idea that carbon is just another metric to monitor, and that in a few years most of the monitoring and performance tuning tools are going to be reporting and optimizing for carbon alongside latency, throughput, availability and cost.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Stefano started his presentation by showing how much cost and performance optimization is possible when knowing how to properly configure your application runtimes, databases, or cloud environments: Correct configuration of JVM parameters can save up to 75% resource utilization while delivering same or better performance!

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Performance Java Metrics Cloud 193

Percona

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

To achieve this in a secure and efficient manner, a key requirement for any database monitoring and management software is to have robust access management features. Monitored data may contain sensitive data that needs to be protected, and label-based access control can be used to ensure that only authorized individuals can access that data.

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Metrics Monitoring Database Engineering 108

The Netflix TechBlog

JULY 20, 2020

Zero-valued entries represent all the other words in the dictionary that were not present in that sentence. We deal with hundreds of thousands of requests per second in the fields of exception monitoring, log processing, and stream processing. 2, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, …] Notice that the vector consists of many zeros.

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Development Open Source Tuning Network 177

Dynatrace

JUNE 8, 2021

For example, an athlete must be in tune with their body to know when something isn’t operating right which could impact their future performance. Similarly, we must also monitor our IT systems so closely that we know when the smallest thing isn’t working as normal. Stay tuned for more tips from our coach Jean Louis Lormeau.

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Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 21, 2022

I also learned how marketing worked, and began to build my presentation and training skills as I was sent around the world by Sun to teach workshops and speak at events. The SE toolkit was fast, had no memory leaks (monitoring scripts could run for years) and let me implement lots of cool performance monitoring ideas.

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Alex Podelko

OCTOBER 20, 2016

From one side, it makes it easier to monitor and update / rollback systems that lowers performance-related risks. Auto-scaling is often presented as a panacea for performance problems, but, even if it is properly implemented (which is, of course, better to be tested), it just assigns a price tag for performance.

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Percona

MARCH 19, 2019

Please join Percona’s Principal Support Engineer, Sveta Smirnova, as she presents MySQL Performance Schema in 1 hour on Thursday, March 21st, 2019, at 10:00 am PDT (UTC-7) / 1:00 pm EDT (UTC-4). Performance Schema is a mature tool, used by humans and monitoring products. Register Now. You will learn how to get the best of it.

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Tim Kadlec

APRIL 12, 2020

This particular company was using Shopify, so it wasn’t a matter of tuning servers or CDN settings somewhere but figuring out what was taking so long for Shopify to render the Liquid templates necessary to serve the page. The combination of quality monitoring and quality tooling is one that tends to have powerful ripple effects.

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Tuning Cache Network Servers 69

HammerDB

DECEMBER 8, 2020

That means regardless of monitor resolution HammerDB was set to use a fixed number of pixels. For most purposes this did not present an Issue and the HammerDB display rendered correctly up to 1920 x 1080 Full HD displays. Up to version 3.3 the HammerDB GUI operated with a fixed scaling factor of 1.33 pixels per point. HammerDB v3.3

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Scalability Metrics Tuning C++ 52

Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

AWS speaker: Aditi Suresh, Customer speaker: Brian Rowe SUS205: Slowing down deforestation by using AI, ML, and open source data Organizations worldwide are developing solutions to evaluate, monitor, or predict land use and cover change in order to identify potential carbon credit projects, deforestation trends, and future wildfire risk areas.

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AWS Energy IoT Best Practices 52

HammerDB

JULY 14, 2021

However, as the two databases diverged from a shared common codebase, this presented a challenge in that it was not possible to modify the workload for MySQL or MariaDB without also changing the other. As noted previously, we’ve added a my.cnf file to the MariaDB directory and tuned this for performance rather than resilience. (A

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Testing C++ Virtualization Tuning 57

Rigor

JANUARY 13, 2020

This book presents 14 specific rules that will cut 25% to 50% off response time when users request a page. As you move ahead with the subset of JavaScript that this book presents, you'll also sidestep the need to unlearn all the bad parts. Web Performance Tuning. Complete Web Monitoring. High Performance Websites.

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Performance Social Media Website Website Performance 75

The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 30, 2021

the former for access to the Kafka clusters and the latter for service monitoring and alerts. A timeline of the transition from Spring KafkaListener to Alpakka-Kafka is presented here for a better understanding of the motivations for the transition. With KafkaListener, the Kafka message fetch rate is fixed on application startup.

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Latency Traffic Transportation Hardware 213

Dynatrace

JUNE 26, 2020

Dynatrace Digital Experience Monitoring , as part of the Dynatrace Software Intelligence Platform, connects front-end monitoring and the outside-in user perspective with application performance to understand the impact of performance issues across your full stack on user experience and business outcomes. Virginia (Azure), N.

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Monitoring Azure AWS Traffic 260

The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 13, 2023

Our previous blog post presented replay traffic testing — a crucial instrument in our toolkit that allows us to implement these transformations with precision and reliability. They enable us to further fine-tune and configure the system, ensuring the new changes are integrated smoothly and seamlessly.

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Traffic Metrics Systems Strategy 279

Dynatrace

AUGUST 12, 2020

Despite its benefits, serverless computing introduces additional monitoring challenges for developers and IT Operations, particularly in understanding dependencies and identifying issues in the end-to-end traces that flow through a complex mix of dynamic and hybrid on-premise/cloud environments. So stay tuned! Optimize timing hotspots.

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Serverless Azure Monitoring Lambda 241

Brendan Gregg

APRIL 30, 2018

Some topics are still present at LISA, such as network management and uptime (reliability), but many others have been updated over the years. Have something to say on the present & future of #ops? Submit #lisa18 talk, training, panel, and demo proposals by May 24 [link]. Hope to see you in Nashville!

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DevOps Network Best Practices Programming 43

Brendan Gregg

APRIL 29, 2018

Some topics are still present at LISA, such as network management and uptime (reliability), but many others have been updated over the years. Have something to say on the present & future of #ops? Submit #lisa18 talk, training, panel, and demo proposals by May 24 [link]. Hope to see you in Nashville!

DevOps 40

DevOps Network Best Practices Programming 40

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 23, 2023

With security data on Grail and ready-to-use templates, we’ve introduced unprecedented flexibility in adapting presented information to the proper scope and focus that DevSecOps teams and stakeholders require. Case 2: Vulnerability remediation tracking : Keep stakeholders informed by defining and sharing remediation scope and progress.

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Efficiency Best Practices Tuning Internet 222

Dynatrace

MAY 17, 2022

A team looking for metrics, traces, and logs no longer needs to file a ticket to get their app monitored in their own environments. Using this new mode of injection means organizations can take advantage of everything Kubernetes has to offer, without worrying about monitoring outages, or disruptions in service. A look to the future.

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Availability Scalability Cloud Metrics 326

The Morning Paper

JUNE 13, 2019

HotOS’19 is presenting me with something of a problem as there are so many interesting looking papers in the proceedings this year it’s going to be hard to cover them all! A case for managed and model-less inference serving Yadwadkar et al., HotOS’19.

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Hardware Latency Serverless Energy 58

Dynatrace

MARCH 11, 2021

During the implementation of the real-time visualization I presented in part three , I had an idea for another visualization; I wanted to visualize the number of detected problems globally, for a longer timeframe. I wanted to understand how I could tune Dynatrace’s problem detection, but to do that I needed to understand the situation first.

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Tuning Architecture Monitoring Big Data 264

Dynatrace

AUGUST 12, 2020

Despite its benefits, serverless computing introduces additional monitoring challenges for developers and IT Operations, particularly in understanding dependencies and identifying issues in the end-to-end traces that flow through a complex mix of dynamic and hybrid on-premise/cloud environments. So stay tuned! Optimize timing hotspots.

Serverless 144

Serverless Azure Monitoring Lambda 144

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.

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Lambda AWS Monitoring Serverless 228

Dynatrace

MAY 20, 2020

Dynatrace collects a huge number of metrics for each OneAgent-monitored host in your environment. Besides all the metrics that originate from your hosts, Dynatrace also collects all the important key performance metrics for services and real-user monitored applications as well as cloud platform metrics from AWS, Azure, and Cloud Foundry.

Metrics 234

Metrics Operating System Tuning Monitoring 234

Dynatrace

MAY 15, 2020

Overcoming the barriers presented by legacy security practices that are typically manually intensive and slow, requires a DevSecOps mindset where security is architected and planned from project conception and automated for speed and scale throughout where possible. Challenge: Monitoring processes for anomalous behavior.

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