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Live Q&A: SD-WAN—What, How, and Why It’s Got Your Number

01/22/21 The shift from physical to software-defined networks has left many people in the IT community with more questions than answers. What’s driving the explosive adoption of SD…

Monitor Azure IoT Edge with Datadog

The Datadog AKS cluster extension simplifies monitoring Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) clusters by automatically installing and configuring the Datadog Agent directly within your n…

Monitoring for Managers – What You Need to Know to Sound Like a Monitoring Expert

01/20/21 We released a survey asking managers what questions they had for their teams to help them better understand monitoring as a whole and to better relate to their teams. Sola…

The Future of End-to-End Network Management

SteelHead MobileDue to the global pandemic, enterprises have had to accelerate digital initiatives in a matter of weeks, rather than years, as a top priority to overhaul their busi…

6 Best Practices for Better Help Desk Management

01/15/21 The past year has emphasized the importance of digital experience, especially in service delivery. For organizations forced to adopt flexible remote work policies, the IT …

Datadog NPM now supports Istio networking

This article details how to effectively monitor your Istio service mesh using Datadog. It explains how to leverage Datadog's integrations to collect metrics, traces, and logs from …

Monitor your NVIDIA Jetson IoT devices with Datadog

This article details how to monitor your Azure IoT Edge devices using Datadog. It explains how to deploy a Datadog Agent to your IoT Edge devices to collect metrics, logs, and even…

Datadog automatically surfaces actionable insights into your Lambda functions

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…

Call Them “Soft” Skills. One. More. Time.

01/13/21 If you start talking about “soft” skills, some IT pros will roll their eyes. Calling them “soft” skills in the first place can seem insulting, but what we’re really talkin…

Answering: “Am I Affected by SUNBURST?”

When a high-profile hack or malware campaign hits the news, everyone’s first question is, “How do I know if I’m affected?” Security analyses and official guidance frequently contai…

New Findings From Our Investigation of SUNBURST

01/11/21 Since the cyberattack on our customers and SolarWinds, we have been working around the clock to support our customers. As we shared in our recent update, we are partnering…

Our Plan for a Safer SolarWinds and Customer Community

01/07/21 I joined the SolarWinds family earlier this week as the new Chief Executive Officer. Although I accepted the position to become CEO before the Company was notified of the …