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Why Percentiles Don’t Work the Way You Think

11/18/16 Customers ask us for p99 (99th percentile) of metrics pretty frequently. We plan to add such a feature to Database Performance Monitor (DPM)(more on that later). But a lot…

Interview with Canonical

Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, is transitioning from a monitoring stack of Nagios, Graphite, and in-house tools to Prometheus due to its simplicity, power, and ability to co…

Simplify customer support with Datadog’s integrations for Zendesk

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What is ACID and How Should I Think About It As a Developer?

11/09/16 For the average reader, the phrase “expert in ACID” most likely evokes a picture of either an eminent chemist or a jolly Deadhead. However, in the world of computer scienc…

Monitoring Kubernetes pod performance metrics

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Monitoring in the Kubernetes era

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Datadog + New Relic: Monitor every layer of your stack

This Datadog article details how to effectively monitor your Apache Kafka clusters using Datadog's integrations. It covers collecting key metrics like message latency, consumer lag…

Elasticsearch unassigned shards: How to resolve

Here's a concise summary of the article "Cómo solucionar cinco problemas de rendimiento y escalado de Elasticsearch" (How to solve five performance and scaling problems in Elastics…

Introducing anomaly detection in Datadog

Datadog's new metric forecasts allow users to proactively identify potential issues by predicting future metric values. Leveraging machine learning, these forecasts help pinpoint a…

Agents Maintenance Windows “Balance User Control With Performance”

10/25/16 It should go without saying that we want all of our customers to have access to the latest, most up-to-date components of SolarWinds® Database Performance Monitor (DPM). W…

How to collect Windows Server 2012 metrics

This Datadog article details how to monitor Windows certificate stores for expiring or invalid certificates, which can cause application outages. It explains how to use a custom Da…

Monitoring Windows Server 2012 with Datadog

This Microsoft article announces a new guided onboarding experience within Azure to simplify and accelerate integration setups. It helps users discover and connect to key Azure ser…