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New dashboards for in-depth Apache Cassandra monitoring

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Why do I Have to Think About Business Continuity?

11/30/17 You’ve probably heard about the importance of business continuity and disaster recovery. Today, more businesses have business continuity plans than ever before. With so ma…

Datadog + SOC 2 Type II: Our constant commitment to security

The Datadog article details their successful completion of a SOC 2 Type II audit, demonstrating their commitment to robust security practices and data protection. This certificatio…

Prometheus at CloudNativeCon 2017

At CloudNativeCon 2017, the Prometheus team hosted a full day of events focused on monitoring with Prometheus, particularly within Kubernetes environments. The day included hands-o…

The Business Challenges We See Today

11/28/17 Over the next few weeks, I will be releasing a series of articles covering the value of data analytics and insight, focusing on five of the key business drivers that I hav…

5 More Ways I Can Steal Your Data: Ask the Security Guard to Help Me Carry it Out

11/27/17 In my recent post 5 More Ways I Can Steal Your Data – Work for You & Stop Working for You I started telling the story of a security guard who helped a just fired contracto…

My Life as IT Code: Part 5 – Walking the Wall

11/27/17 In this, my fifth and final post about life hacks, I’ll talk about the communication process, clarifications across all key personnel, and a big approach in how some of th…

The Unifying Force of Data

11/27/17 Someday, we may look back on IT as a subset of social science as much as a technological discipline. Because it sits at the intersection of business and technology, visibi…

Needle In a Hay Stack or Sword in a Straw Pile?

11/21/17 I’ve spent countless hours trying to find the perfect tool for the job. In fact, I’ve spent more hours searching at times than I have doing the work. You’ve probably done …

My Life as IT Code: Part Four – Exercise and Sandbox

11/16/17 In previous posts in this “My Life” blog series, I’ve written quite a bit about the project management/on-task aspects of how I keep my focus and direction top of mind whi…

Query value widgets: Now with animated GIFs

The Datadog Terraform provider v4.0.0 introduces significant improvements including support for new resources like Eventbridge integrations and monitors with anomaly detection. Thi…

Announcing Prometheus 2.0

Prometheus 2.0 is a major release focused on significantly improving performance and scalability, particularly for dynamic modern environments like Kubernetes. It features a new ti…