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New feature roundup: Visualization and collaboration

This article details how to use Datadog's Notebooks API to automate notebook creation, updates, and deletion. This allows users to integrate notebook management into their CI/CD pi…

Introducing service-level alerts in Datadog APM

This article addresses the problem of "alert fatigue" caused by an overwhelming number of notifications from monitoring systems. It likely details strategies for reducing noise, pr…

Monitor Google Cloud SQL performance with Datadog

This Datadog article discusses how to improve High-Performance Computing (HPC) job performance and cluster efficiency through comprehensive monitoring and observability. By leverag…

What is MongoDB’s _id Field and How to Use It

07/06/17 The MongoDB id field is fundamental to every collection in MongoDB, and, by default, it has some useful properties users can take advantage of when familiar with how id is…

Monitoring the NYC subway system with Datadog

This article details how a Datadog solutions engineer built a real-time dashboard to monitor the status of the New York City subway system due to frequent service disruptions. He l…

Monitor AWS CodeDeploy with Datadog

Please provide me with the article "Monitor Amazon EC2 Mac Instances"! I need the text of the article to be able to summarize it for you. Just paste the article content here, and…

Deciding Which Storage Engine is Right for You: MMAPv1

06/23/17 In a recent article, we began an examination of MongoDB storage engines by explaining why WiredTiger is the current default engine. In this piece, we’ll continue discussin…

Exponential Smoothing for Time Series Forecasting

06/22/17 Time series anomaly detection is a complicated problem with plenty of practical methods. It’s easy to find yourself getting lost in all of the topics it encompasses. Learn…

Prometheus 2.0 Alpha.3 with New Rule Format

Prometheus 2.0 Alpha.3 introduces a new rule format using YAML, allowing for rule grouping with custom evaluation intervals and sequential execution to address performance and data…

Monitor IoT devices with Home Assistant and Datadog

This article details how to monitor your Azure IoT Edge devices using Datadog. It explains how to deploy the Datadog agent to your IoT Edge devices to collect metrics, logs, and ev…

When to Use explain() in MongoDB

06/19/17 In MongoDB, the command db.collection.explain() is an important operation to help you understand exactly how your queries execute and behave. Once you have a grasp of how …

Why WiredTiger Is the Default MongoDB Storage Engine

06/14/17 When we published our blog post about working-sets in MongoDB, one of our colleagues told us he’d been aware that MMAPv1 had previously been MongoDB’s default storage engi…