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Solarian Spotlight: Paulina Cabrera, Creative Operations Specialist

05/18/22 Technology veterans sometimes paint millennials and Generation Z colleagues with a broad—and not always flattering—brush. Fortunately for SolarWinds, Paulina Cabrera inspi…

Getting to Know the New THWACK Community Manager — SolarWinds TechPod 064

05/17/22 The SolarWinds community, THWACK.com, has a new community manager. Ben Keen has been an active voice in the community for years as a THWACK MVP and has now decided to join…

When Legacy Systems Still Make Sense: The Role of Legacy Tech in Your Hybrid Digital Transformation

05/16/22 Despite all the attention cloud systems and enterprise cloud migrations receive, legacy software still plays an active role throughout enterprises. In many cases, critical…

Ingest OpenTelemetry traces and metrics with the Datadog Agent

This article details how to leverage Datadog's APM capabilities to visualize and analyze runtime metrics collected from applications instrumented with OpenTelemetry (OTel). By expo…

Visualize relationships between your Kubernetes resources with Datadog Live Containers

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Monitor FoundationDB with Datadog

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Monitor your JumpCloud directory with Datadog

Datadog Audit Trail provides a centralized system for tracking user actions within your Datadog environment, enhancing security and simplifying compliance efforts. It allows you to…

Google Docs + Jira Custom Fields

FireHydrant has added new features to streamline incident reporting and documentation. Users can now automatically export retrospective data to Google Docs and create Jira tickets …

Three Ways COVID-19 Altered Federal, State IT Budget Allocations

05/09/22 Wondering how the pandemic affected your agency’s budget? Brandon Shopp answers this question and discusses how the pandemic impacted security and service delivery through…

Monitor model performance with Superwise’s offering in the Datadog Marketplace

This article details how StormForge and Datadog have partnered to provide automated Kubernetes resource optimization. By combining StormForge's workload analysis with Datadog's mon…

Run Synthetic tests in your CI/CD pipelines with the Datadog CircleCI orb

This article details how to integrate Datadog Synthetic tests—proactive monitoring simulating user behavior—into your Jenkins CI/CD pipelines. By using the Datadog CLI and a Jenkin…

Importance of Data Stewards for Master Data Management: The Power of a Single Version of the Truth

05/04/22 Not many years ago, the role of the data steward was the domain of the world’s largest organizations. When I was in college, the only person I heard of with this job title…