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Meet the New Old Guy on the Head Geek Team

02/26/21 Growing up in the suburbs of Seattle, WA, in the late ‘60s and early ‘70s was like most everyone else’s experiences. Dad worked as an analog computer engineer for a Boeing…

Monitor GKE Autopilot with Datadog

This article details how to effectively monitor Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) clusters using Datadog. It explains how to leverage Datadog's auto-discovery and pre-built integratio…

Use Datadog geomaps to visualize your app data by location

This article stresses the importance of linking technical errors in early-stage products *directly* to how they affect users, rather than just focusing on code-level bugs. By quant…

Introducing the Datadog quick nav menu

Datadog's Terraform provider v4.0.0 introduces significant improvements including support for new resources like session replay and real user monitoring, and enhanced functionality…

Group your logs to analyze processes with Log Transaction Queries

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7 Things DBAs Should Do Before Going On Holiday

02/18/21 Thanks to 2020, many of us don’t remember the last time we took a holiday or vacation. If you were able to get away from the office, kudos to you. Hopefully, 2021 will be …

Introducing the '@' Modifier

This article introduces the `@` modifier in Prometheus v2.25.0, which allows users to fix the evaluation time for vector, range vector, and subqueries using a Unix timestamp. This …

Monitor Core Web Vitals with Datadog RUM and Synthetic Monitoring

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Secure by Design | Our Plan for a Safer SolarWinds and Customer Community — SolarWinds TechPod 036

02/17/21 Companies must change the way they operate to combat increasingly sophisticated cyberattacks across ever-expanding attack surfaces. What we learn from one attack can help …

Introducing Feature Flags

This article announces that Prometheus is adopting feature flags to allow for faster experimentation and innovation. New features will initially be hidden behind `--enable-feature`…

Monitor Red Hat Gluster Storage with Datadog

This article details how to effectively monitor a Ceph storage cluster, moving beyond simple node health checks to encompass cluster-wide performance metrics. It emphasizes using t…

Use associated template variables to refine your dashboards

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