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Running SolarWinds Database Performance Monitor Via An HTTP Proxy

12/01/14 Many of SolarWinds® Database Performance Monitor’s customers have strict policies about Internet access from and to their database servers. As a longtime consultant who wo…

How Exponentially Weighted Moving Averages Work

11/25/14 We use exponentially weighted moving averages (EWMAs) quite a bit in a few algorithms. They’re one of the tricks everyone should have in their toolbox for cheaply approxim…

Announcing Datadog Agent 5.1 with support for Btrfs and Go expvar

The article details how the authors significantly reduced the size of their Go Agent binaries—by up to 77%—through a combination of techniques. Primarily, they focused on using UPX…

Analyzing Prepared Statement Performance

11/19/14 Optimizing MySQL performance requires the ability to inspect production query traffic. If you’re not seeing your application’s production workload, you’re missing a vital …

SolarWinds Database Performance Monitor Now Supports Amazon RDS For MySQL

11/12/14 We are excited to announce that we now support monitoring Amazon RDS for MySQL. Previously we relied exclusively on deep packet inspection, but since customers can’t insta…

Inside Distributed Architectures: RT In-Flight Requests And Blockers

11/06/14 SolarWinds® Database Performance Monitor’s (DPM) SaaS backend is a service-oriented architecture, which means that in addition to our external APIs that our agents and web…

Monitor Google App Engine with Datadog

The Datadog article explains how to improve High-Performance Computing (HPC) job performance and cluster efficiency using Datadog's monitoring and observability tools. By gaining v…

Sending Datadog Events via email

The article highlights how the annual Tax Day rush exposed vulnerabilities in the IRS's IT systems, demonstrating a lack of resilience despite modernization efforts. It argues that…

Emacs fans rejoice: Datadog mode is here

Datadog's Terraform provider v4.0.0 is now available, bringing significant improvements like enhanced resource import capabilities and support for new Datadog products like Log Pat…

Using Netlink to Optimize Socket Statistics

09/22/14 This is a story of using low-level kernel interfaces to optimize an edge case one of our agents encountered in some servers. The TL;DR version is that accessing /proc/ can…

Monitor Amazon SQS message traffic with Datadog

This article details how to monitor Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (MSK) using Datadog. It explains how to leverage Datadog's MSK integration to collect key metrics like…

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Datadog's Terraform provider v4.0.0 introduces significant improvements including enhanced resource import capabilities and support for new Datadog features like Serverless Monitor…