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Monitor AWS Lambda functions deployed using container images

This article discusses how to gain deeper insights into AWS Lambda function performance using remote instrumentation – specifically, leveraging tools like OpenTelemetry without mod…

Your IT Life Coach for Monitoring

11/30/20 Your Monitoring IT Life Coach #1: Know the Basics The old saying about a hammer and a nail is as true here as it is anywhere else in IT. If the only technique you know is …

COVID-19 Pushes Schools to Their Limit, and the Cloud Shows Its Worth

11/30/20 For educators, students, and parents, the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on learning has been profound. Thousands of schools across the U.S. closed their doors this sprin…

Datadog APM recognized as Gartner Peer Insights Customers' Choice

Datadog’s Application Performance Monitoring (APM) was recognized as a Customers’ Choice in Gartner Peer Insights for 2020, highlighting high customer ratings and diverse enterpris…

Highlights from KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2020

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A Developer’s Perspective on Distributed SaaS Database Monitoring

11/25/20 While application performance monitoring can provide us with metrics on software use and delays, SolarWinds® Database Performance Monitor (DPM) was built to tell us storie…

10 Automated Service Desk Workflows We’re Thankful for in 2020

11/24/20 Thanksgiving is just a couple days away for folks celebrating in the US, so what better time than now to share what we’re thankful for? Many of us are giving thanks for lo…

Datadog's AWS re:Invent 2020 guide

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The Importance of Hardware Health Monitoring

11/23/20 A networking problem can come from almost any fault within the infrastructure, whether it’s a bandwidth bottleneck, configuration issues, or a faulty networking component.…

Finding Zen – How IT Ops and IT Security Can Work Together

11/20/20 IT Ops and security teams don’t always have a perfect relationship. While IT Ops teams are focused on making work and communication seamless and accessible (and therefore …

CIO 2020 Hot Take: The Year of the IT Pro Part II

11/20/20 For IT pros, 2020 has been a challenging year. You’ve had to accomplish rapid digital transformation on the ground, deal with new security requirements, and support busine…

CIO Hot Take: The Year of the IT Pro Part I

11/20/20 2020 has been a trying but valuable year for IT. IT pros have had to do more with less, and the business has realized the value of IT in ways they might not have previousl…