The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 1, 2023

To do this, we devised a novel way to simulate the projected traffic weeks ahead of launch by building upon the traffic migration framework described here. New content or national events may drive brief spikes, but, by and large, traffic is usually smoothly increasing or decreasing.

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Traffic Best Practices Systems Testing 342

Dynatrace

JULY 21, 2020

Dynatrace OneAgent is great for monitoring the full stack. While this will give you a lot of information about the health of these components, sometimes a simple synthetic monitor is sufficient. Third-party synthetic monitors. Visualize your synthetic monitor data. Easy and flexible infrastructure monitoring.

Infrastructure 151

Infrastructure Monitoring Open Source Traffic 151

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Even when the staging environment closely mirrors the production environment, achieving a complete replication of all potential scenarios, such as simulating extremely high traffic volumes to assess software performance, remains challenging. This can lead to a lack of insight into how the code will behave when exposed to heavy traffic.

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Traffic Best Practices Strategy Engineering 252

Percona

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) is a state-of-the-art piece of software that exists in part thanks to great open source projects like VictoriaMetrics, PostgreSQL, and ClickHouse. Being software composed of different, multiple technologies can add complexity to a well-known concept: High Availability (HA).

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Availability Monitoring Open Source Traffic 97

Dynatrace

APRIL 25, 2023

As companies accelerate digital transformation, they implement modern cloud technologies like serverless functions. According to Flexera , serverless functions are the number one technology evaluated by enterprises and one of the top five cloud technologies in use at enterprises. Sign up for a free trial.

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Serverless Lambda Azure AWS 196

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

The rapidly evolving digital landscape is one important factor in the acceleration of such transformations – microservices architectures, service mesh, Kubernetes, Functions as a Service (FaaS), and other technologies now enable teams to innovate much faster. New cloud-native technologies make observability more important than ever….

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Analytics Technology Technology Cloud 151

The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 14, 2023

The control group’s traffic utilized the legacy Falcor stack, while the experiment population leveraged the new GraphQL client and was directed to the GraphQL Shim. This helped us successfully migrate 100% of the traffic on the mobile homepage canvas to GraphQL in 6 months. After validating performance, we slowly built up scope.

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Traffic Latency Cache Metrics 353

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

If cloud-native technologies and containers are on your radar, you’ve likely encountered Docker and Kubernetes and might be wondering how they relate to each other. In a nutshell, they are complementary and, in part, overlapping technologies to create, manage, and operate containers. Dynatrace news. But first, some background.

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Open Source Traffic DevOps Cloud 290

Dynatrace

JUNE 20, 2023

Modern IT organizations are generating more data from more tools and technologies than ever. In this case, the bank group could not rely solely on Google Cloud Trace because they needed to collect traces and monitor the applications across all their systems. For this comprehensive monitoring in context, they had adopted Dynatrace.

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Open Source Google Serverless Azure 183

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Cloud-native technologies and microservice architectures have shifted technical complexity from the source code of services to the interconnections between services. Observability for heterogeneous cloud-native technologies is key. With Dynatrace OneAgent you also benefit from support for traffic routing and traffic control.

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Java Traffic Strategy Architecture 222

DZone

MAY 20, 2019

As with many new technologies, SD-WAN deployment also comes with new challenges, especially for network operations team, who are well-trained and experts in traditional WAN management but not very familiar with this “new” WAN. billion by 2022.

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Monitoring Network Traffic Architecture 100

Dynatrace

JANUARY 4, 2024

Indeed, according to the recent Dynatrace report, “ The state of AI ,” 98% of 1,300 technology leaders are concerned that generative AI could be susceptible to unintentional bias, error, and misinformation. To this end, they need an approach to IT system monitoring that can promote accurate, unbiased, and timely data inputs.

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Artificial Intelligence Strategy Traffic Virtualization 223

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.

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Traffic AWS Network Cloud 204

Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Setting up and monitoring these systems was pretty easy compared to today’s standards. There were no dynamic web applications or complex user scenarios to have to monitor. With the rapid advancements in web application technologies, programming languages, cloud computing services, microservices, hybrid environments, etc.,

Systems 74

Systems Monitoring Hardware Network 74

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 13, 2021

The popularity of microservices and container platforms like Kubernetes and Cloud Foundry is in large part due to the associated benefits of faster deployment cycles, more flexibility in resource utilization, and reduced technology/vendor lock-in. This is especially important as these are the gatekeepers for all incoming and outgoing traffic.

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Traffic Monitoring Technology Technology 194

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Also called continuous monitoring or synthetic monitoring , synthetic testing mimics actual users’ behaviors to help companies identify and remediate potential availability and performance issues. Users often interact with technologies in unpredictable ways that could reveal previously unknown issues. HTTP monitors.

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Testing Best Practices Testing Tools Monitoring 197

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

For retail organizations, peak traffic can be a mixed blessing. While high-volume traffic often boosts sales, it can also compromise uptimes. But as more organizations adopt cloud-native technologies and distribute workloads among multicloud environments, that goal seems harder to attain. Automate IT operations.

Infrastructure 173

Infrastructure Availability Systems Retail 173

Apica

JANUARY 18, 2023

Because of that older technology deep in the stack, there’s a black box that makes it hard to see what’s going on deep inside, to measure the transactions needed to make applications run smoothly. You may have thousands of spreadsheets moving data between databases that are virtually invisible to the “latest” monitoring technology.

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Monitoring Network Architecture Traffic 52

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

As we look at today’s applications, microservices, and DevOps teams, we see leaders are tasked with supporting complex distributed applications using new technologies spread across systems in multiple locations. Application usage and traffic. If only it were that easy. It takes more than four.

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DevOps Metrics Traffic Efficiency 189

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Cloud-native technologies, including Kubernetes and OpenShift, help organizations accelerate innovation and drive agility. WAFs protect the network perimeter and monitor, filter, or block HTTP traffic. Compared to intrusion detection systems (IDS/IPS), WAFs are focused on the application traffic. Dynatrace news.

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Traffic Benchmarking Innovation Java 225

Dynatrace

MAY 8, 2023

Organizations in every industry are engaged in some form of digital transformation, integrating technology into all areas of the business. Digital tools and technologies provide a more efficient way of doing things. However, digital transformation requires significant investment in technology infrastructure and processes.

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Strategy Retail DevOps Education 166

Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 25, 2020

Secure Sockets Layer, or SSL, is a global security standard technology that is being adopted by a number of different organizations across the globe. Usage. This monitors certificate usage to verify that intermediate certificates are not misused. . This could result in a loss in site traffic.

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Monitoring Website Internet Internet 77

Dynatrace

JUNE 19, 2020

At the same time, navigating modern IT infrastructures can seem like stumbling through a maze, as they’re becoming overly complex, containing hundreds of technologies and billions of dependencies. One of the many ways our customers can cut through this ever-growing complexity is by using the Dynatrace Monitored entities API v2.

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Monitoring Efficiency Processing Architecture 150

Dynatrace

APRIL 2, 2020

For two decades, Dynatrace NAM—Network Application Monitoring, formerly known as DC RUM—has been successfully monitoring the user experience of our customers’ enterprise applications. All-traffic monitoring, analysis on demand—network performance management started to grow as an independent engineering discipline.

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Network Traffic Monitoring Java 165

Dynatrace

MAY 5, 2021

OneAgent technology simplifies deployment across large enterprises and relieves engineers of the burden of instrumenting their applications by hand. Dynatrace Operator for OneAgent, API monitoring, routing, and more. No need to repeat API endpoints or tokens across OneAgents and API monitors. Dynatrace news.

Cloud 214

Cloud Traffic Monitoring Open Source 214

Dynatrace

MAY 31, 2023

The practice uses continuous monitoring and high levels of automation in close collaboration with agile development teams to ensure applications are highly available and perform without friction. Visibility and automation are two of the most important SRE tools.

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Best Practices DevOps Latency Metrics 212

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 9, 2020

New extensions enable AI-powered monitoring of connection pool performance. A traffic spike can be another root cause (for example, if a new marketing promotion drives lots of new customer traffic to your site). A Davis detected problem identifies an increase in traffic as a possible root cause. How to get started.

Traffic 136

Traffic Performance Database Metrics 136

Dynatrace

MAY 17, 2023

For that, we focused on OpenTelemetry as the underlying technology and showed how you can use the available SDKs and libraries to instrument applications across different languages and platforms. OneAgent is the native telemetry data collector and monitoring solution of Dynatrace.

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Metrics Monitoring Database Network 163

Dynatrace

JULY 1, 2020

I bet you’re asking yourself – “Why should I as a technology person care about marketing?”, In my last blog , I’ve provided an example of this happening, whereby the traffic spiked and quadrupled the usual incoming traffic. Step #3 Get an overview of the campaign traffic. Step #2 Capture UTM-parameters in Dynatrace.

Traffic 264

Traffic Analytics Metrics Servers 264

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Kubernetes (k8s) provides basic monitoring through the Kubernetes API and you can find instructions like Top 9 Open Source Tools for Monitoring Kubernetes as a “do it yourself guide”. End-user monitoring. Their technology stack looks like this: Spring Boot-based Microservices. Dynatrace news. Full-stack observability.

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AWS Monitoring Ecommerce Lambda 127

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Digital transformation, the process of integrating digital technology into all areas of a business, is a foundational change in how modern organizations deliver value to customers and improve internal processes. Cloud migration can also be an opportunity for organizations to embrace green-field technologies and projects from the ground up.

Cloud 158

Cloud Traffic Best Practices Strategy 158

Dotcom-Montior

MAY 12, 2020

Website and web application technologies have grown tremendously over the years. Website and Web Application Monitoring. Web monitoring is a comprehensive term that describes the activity of testing a website or web application for its availability and performance. HTTP Monitoring. The list goes on and on.

Monitoring 63

Monitoring Entertainment Hardware Latency 63

Dynatrace

APRIL 16, 2019

We’re proud to announce the general availability of OneAgent full-stack monitoring for the AIX operating system. We’ve already reached a percentage of monitored AIX hosts running OneAgent that is equivalent to AIX market share. Full-stack and cloud-infrastructure monitoring modes. Installation.

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Availability Monitoring Metrics Operating System 102

Dynatrace

MARCH 16, 2022

Over the last year, Dynatrace extended its AI-powered log monitoring capabilities by providing support for all log data sources. We added monitoring and analytics for log streams from Kubernetes and multicloud platforms like AWS, GCP, and Azure, as well as the most widely used open-source log data frameworks. Dynatrace news.

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Metrics Lambda Infrastructure Monitoring 203

The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

We thus assigned a priority to each use case and sharded event traffic by routing to priority-specific queues and the corresponding event processing clusters. This separation allows us to tune system configuration and scaling policies independently for different event priorities and traffic patterns.

Systems 334

Systems Traffic Architecture Mobile 334

Dynatrace

JANUARY 28, 2021

Such monitoring data is critical to providing satisfying digital experiences and services to customers. OpenTelemetry complements OneAgent by enabling you to: Enrich local monitoring data with project-specific additions (for example, using custom instrumentation to add business data or capture developer-specific diagnostics points).

Traffic 159

Traffic Open Source Servers Cloud 159

Dynatrace

JANUARY 29, 2024

“Closed loop” refers to the continuous feedback loop in which the system takes actions — based on monitoring and analysis — and verifies the results to ensure complete problem remediation. By continuously monitoring and verifying closed-loop remediation, teams can expect to reduce both their change failure and incident escalation rates.

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Best Practices DevOps Energy Innovation 181