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Query Digesting and String Quoting Syntax in SQL

02/16/15 One of the interesting challenges in writing a system like SolarWinds® Database Performance Monitor (DPM) is writing a query digesting algorithm that deals with all of the…

Monitor AWS SNS metrics with Datadog

This article details how to monitor your Amazon Managed Streaming for Kafka (MSK) clusters using Datadog. It outlines setting up Datadog to collect key metrics like broker health, …

Compressed Messages Using Kafka

02/11/15 First things first: A big shout out to the engineers at Shopify who work on Sarama, the Go Client we use for Kafka – they do a great job on the library! Alright, now to to…

Datadog Acquires Mortar Data

Datadog has acquired Timber Technologies, a company specializing in observability for cloud-native applications using open-source technologies like OpenTelemetry and Grafana. This …

How Database Performance Monitor Measures Queries

02/10/15 We often get questions about how we measure queries inside MySQL (and now PostgreSQL too). Many of these questions reveal assumptions about the metrics we provide and our …

Instrument your Go apps with Expvar and Datadog

The article details how the authors significantly reduced the size of their Go Agent binaries—by up to 77%—through a combination of techniques. These included stripping debug infor…

Keep support on the same page with the Salesforce Desk integration

Please provide me with the article text! I need the content of "Approaching your observability migration with the right mindset" to be able to summarize it for you. Just paste th…

Distributed and Diverse: The New Reality of Modern Data Persistence

01/23/15 We create applications in an age of simple, powerful, flexible databases that do magic for us. There’s a large variety of modern databases that supply just what’s needed f…

Securing JSON APIs With Wrapper Objects

01/21/15 Security is a top priority. Leading companies such as Zappos, Dyn, and Etsy use Database Performance Monitor (DPM), a cloud-based database performance management service t…

Go’s Connection Pool, Retries, and Timeouts

01/19/15 This is a story of intermittent 500 Internal Server errors from APIs, that ended up being caused by a hardcoded constant in Go’s database/sql package. I’ll mostly spare yo…

Monitor MySQL Database Users with VividCortex

01/08/15 VividCortex now supports per-user metrics in Top Queries, so you can monitor MySQL database user activity in detail. By changing the Rank menu from Queries to Users you ca…

New reCaptcha support in angular-recaptcha

12/23/14 Google released a new reCaptcha that is “tough on bots, easy on humans.” It is really simple to use, and it has greatly improved the security against robots and other hack…