Why Data Performance Monitor is Cheaper Than DIY Open-Source
12/04/14 Talk to someone who runs monitoring systems at a company with more than a few servers and you’ll quickly find out that scaling their monitoring systems is far from a minor…
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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…