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Nominations for SolarWinds Inaugural IT Pro Day Awards Now Open

08/01/20 2020 has been a challenging, yet outstanding year for IT professionals. “Unique” doesn’t begin to describe the pressures and urgency of the many projects they’re addressin…

SysAdmin Day 2020: Business as Usual During the “New Different”

07/31/20 I’m not going to even try to pretend SysAdmin Day arrives this year under conditions anyone would call “business as usual.” I’m going to avoid the cliched and empty platit…

Zero instrumentation serverless observability with AWS SAM and CDK integrations

AWS recently enhanced its X-Ray service to provide deeper visibility into serverless applications by automatically capturing and analyzing trace data from Lambda functions, API Gat…

Monitor your Windows containers with Datadog

This article details how to monitor Windows containers running on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) using Datadog's monitoring and logging capabilities. It outlines the necessary Data…

How Digital Transformation Has Evolved Through COVID-19

07/30/20 There’s no debating the value of digital transformation when it comes to optimal business performance, but for many IT leaders, some digital initiatives are pushed to the …

Instrument your Python applications with Datadog and OpenTelemetry

This article highlights how Datadog and OpenTelemetry work together to provide comprehensive application tracing. By using OpenTelemetry for instrumentation and Datadog for analysi…

Why Investing in Open Source Is Valuable to ISVs

07/29/20 Open source is a fact of life at most organizations today. Even if you don’t directly publish open-source software, you are almost certainly using it. If you or your compa…

Could 2020 Be the Year of the IT Professional?

07/29/20 IT professionals are used to change and disruption. From dealing with unexpected hardware malfunctions to troubleshooting dodgy Wi-Fi, IT pros are some of the most resilie…

Introducing the Datadog mobile app

Please provide me with the article! I need the text of the article "Reduce your mean time to repair with the Datadog mobile app" to be able to summarize it for you. Just paste th…

Stream logs to Datadog with Amazon Data Firehose

The Datadog Observability Pipelines feature allows users to significantly reduce AWS log costs by filtering, transforming, and sampling log data *before* it reaches Datadog. This m…

Strategies for Staying at the Same Company Long Term

07/28/20 On Being a Lifer If you look at my bio, you might notice I have been at SentryOne for 9 years. That is a mini lifetime in tech. I like to joke that I am the longest servin…

Why Monitoring Can Be the Lifesaver the Public Sector Needs

07/28/20 One of the business consequences from the pandemic—increased remote working—is causing technology challenges across most industries, including the public sector. Most empl…