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Route logs to third-party systems with Datadog Log Forwarding

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Monitor Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL with Datadog

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Send metrics and traces from OpenTelemetry Collector to Datadog via Datadog Exporter

This Datadog article explains how to leverage OpenTelemetry (OTel) instrumentation in your applications and seamlessly visualize that data within Datadog APM. By exporting OTel tra…

Forward logs from the OpenTelemetry Collector with the Datadog Exporter

This article highlights how Datadog and OpenTelemetry work together to provide comprehensive end-to-end application tracing. By leveraging OpenTelemetry for instrumentation and Dat…

Default Views, Auto-Add Tags to Incidents, and Lots of Fixes

This FireHydrant update introduces several quality-of-life improvements and new features, including customizable default views for the Service Catalog and automated incident taggin…

AIOps and Observability: What’s the Difference?

Interest in AIOps and observability tools sky-rocketed over the past couple of years as IT teams face the challenge of managing today’s IT infrastructures. The data explosion from …

Why Understanding and Reducing Technical Debt Matters

10/10/22 Technical debt is a term that comes up frequently in IT organizations—whether to characterize software development, tech stack, or infrastructure. For instance, does your …

Comprehensive Guide on Partitioning and Sharding in Azure Database for PostgreSQL

10/07/22 One of the biggest mistakes I’ve had to repeatedly help companies fix has been poor partitioning design. I’ve seen many database architectures designed in an attempt to ma…

Network Visibility Proves Its Worth In Defending Against Cyber Attacks

The development of increasingly powerful and sophisticated IT security tools to defend against cyberattacks can be described as an arms race—with public and private sector organiza…

SolarWinds Speaking Events

10/07/22 Join us at several conferences in October and November in locations across the U.S. and around the world. Covering the latest in cybersecurity, SQL performance, and digita…

Five Reasons Why Python Is Popular

10/06/22 One of my first projects as a consultant created a web application for a small tax software company in Omaha, Nebraska. They were looking to improve their online presence …

Riverbed Aternity Named a Strong Performer in The Forrester EUEM Wave

It’s been a busy year for analyst reports in the Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM) and End User Experience Management (EUEM). Riverbed’s Riverbed Aternity DEM platform covers the…