On Demand Webinar Here: http://ow.ly/mlaK306P2jc More Description:
On-Prem to the Azure Cloud: Monitoring across Data Centers During Your Journey to the Cloud
In today’s 24/7 always-on world, application downtime or poor performance are unacceptable especially for paying customers. For BARBRI, the leading online bar exam preparation service, uptime and performance are critical to ensure the success of not only their business, but the success of their customers, including the 1.3 million who have passed the bar exam using BARBRI’s services.
Prior to Dynatrace, visibility was poor and using multiple monitoring tools consumed precious resources that could be spent innovating rather than trying to correlate problem data from different tools to identify the source of a problem. Mark Kaplan, IT Director at BARBRI, wanted a solution that would allow him and his team to easily identify, find, and fix any issues that arise across all services BARBRI provides.
https://info.dynatrace.com/apm_dtm_ops_17q3_wc_barbri_automated_monitoring_na_registration.html
2. Confidential, Dynatrace, LLC
Today’s Speakers
Mark Kaplan, Director of IT, BARBRI
Greg Birdwell, Infrastructure Architect at BARBRI
Safia Habib, Technical Customer Advocate
3. Confidential, Dynatrace, LLC
“With Dynatrace my team has a way to scale
all of the services and resources that we
need to ensure a positive customer
experience” – Mark Kaplan, BARBRI
Provider of best possible bar
preparation experience
45 years in business
20 years online
2 years in the Cloud
Dynatrace customer for three years
4. Confidential, Dynatrace, LLC
The only AI-based full-stack monitoring
solution capable of monitoring cross-data
center highly dynamic environments
Leader in APM market share for 4 years
Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for
APM for 6 years
“When we first implemented Dynatrace,
we saw immediate and impressive benefits.
No other APM product gives you the ability
to address issues as quickly as Dynatrace
does.” - McGraw-Hill Education
5. Confidential, Dynatrace, LLC
Why BARBRI Chose Dynatrace to Replace New Relic
Single monitoring solution with the ability to take them to the
cloud (Azure) when ready.
Auto-everything- Out of the box full-stack discovery,
dependency detection and baselining.
Ease of use- Artificial intelligence continuously auto-detects
dependencies, learns application behavior, detects anomalies,
and proactively pinpoints the root causes of issues.
Pre-configured and automatically adjusted dashboards ensure
ease of use. Installation requires no manual configuration at
all.
6. Confidential, Dynatrace, LLC
Seamless Integration with Azure
VM Extension
For Windows and Linux
Website Extension
For monitoring .NET, Java, Node.js, PHP and
Python
Including detailed IIS metrics
Azure Container Service
Available on DC/OS
14. Confidential, Dynatrace, LLC
Custom Dashboards
Create custom dashboards based on Filters
Select the components to show on dashboard
Select the metrics to show on the dashboards
Share the dashboards among teams
Set these to be home dashboard for login
Mark- describe why you were looking to replace New Relic and what other tools you were using/looking at
One solution replacing multiple monitoring tools.
Auto-everything- install the OneAgent on the host and everything is done for you automatically
Easy to use- Set it and minimal interaction required
New Relic comparison
Move to the cloud in the future.
Dynatrace supports most of the major cloud providers
Azure was our choice and Dynatrace supports it
Example of full-stack visibility- Dynatrace Smartscape. Out of the box it auto-discovers everything
See what is talking to what
(Mark/Greg- use example of how you found a server talking to another server that it should not have been)
Click on any of the components within the Smartscape view and see their full-stack dependencies
Benefits:
Know what is running where
See everything and how they are connected
Moving to the cloud and using Docker was easy. Dynatrace is the only vendor capable of auto-injecting into the container as it spins up without touching the image.
No need for developers to change Docker images when agent is updated
Full performance visibility of whatever is running in the container
Dynatrace automatically learns the baseline response times of your applications and services, factoring in variables such as geo-location, browser type, operating system, connection bandwidth, and user actions. It adjusts the baselines over time based on patterns it detects. Such intelligent and automatic baselining allowsDynatrace to detect anomalies at a highly granular level and to notify you of problems in real-time.
Baselines can also be set manually if you choose to do so.
Mark to talk to Dashboards
Dynatrace is working on pulling the metrics from the Azure Monitor -> There will be an overview screen which will show all the Azure services that are being used for the account.
Drilling down into different services that are provided by MS Azure
Working on Providing support for Service Fabric, EventHub, ServiceBus, API Management
Support is also coming in for Sharepoint Online Monitoring