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What Privileges Does EXPLAIN Require in MySQL?

07/28/14 Here’s a simple question that I wasn’t able to solve with Google or the MySQL documentation (which is normally excellent). Perhaps it’s mentioned somewhere, but I can’t fi…

Prepared Statement Samples

07/25/14 One of our most useful features is Top Queries, which allows users to examine various metrics for families of similar queries. Once a query family is selected, we can dril…

Crossing Streams: a love letter to Go io.Reader

Please provide me with the article! I need the text of the "Improve performance and reliability with APM Recommendations" article to be able to summarize it for you. Just paste t…

Happy Batman Day!

To celebrate Batman Day, Datadog demonstrated its platform's capabilities by graphing the iconic Batman symbol using a custom Agent check and mathematical equation. The article pro…

MySQL Type Conversion Rules

07/21/14 When you send a query to MySQL, you usually don’t need to think explicitly about the types of the expressions in your query. If you compare this to a lot of programming la…

Monitor key TokuMX metrics for MongoDB applications

This article details how to effectively monitor your MongoDB Atlas deployments using Datadog. It explains how to leverage Datadog's integration to collect key performance metrics f…

4 Things To Know About MySQL Prepared Statements

07/10/14 While writing our TCP stream reassembly and MySQL protocol reverse-engineering algorithms, a few finer points of the MySQL protocol and internals came up. None of this is …

Composition Instead of Inheritance in Go

07/01/14 Looking back, I find object-oriented programming in languages like Java and C++ to be incredibly confusing. There are so many special rules and things to know. By contrast…

Troubleshoot your monitoring with Agent check status reporting

This article details how to automate the deployment and reporting of the Datadog Agent using Ansible. It leverages Ansible playbooks to install the agent, configure it, and then au…

Discovering Query Bugs by TCP Inspection

06/23/14 The MySQL wire protocol includes useful result data and metadata, such as warnings and errors raised by the query. These often indicate bugs that will cause problems you m…

See the performance impact of AWS changes with CloudTrail and Datadog

This article details how to use remote instrumentation to gain deeper insights into AWS Lambda function performance *without* modifying application code. By leveraging tools like O…

Docker-ize Datadog with Agent containers

This article details how to effectively monitor Kubernetes and Docker environments using Datadog. It explains how to leverage Datadog's agents, integrations, and pre-built dashboar…