What is MongoDB’s _id Field and How to Use It
07/06/17 The MongoDB id field is fundamental to every collection in MongoDB, and, by default, it has some useful properties users can take advantage of when familiar with how id is…
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Monitoring the NYC subway system with Datadog
This article details how a Datadog solutions engineer built a real-time dashboard to monitor the status of the New York City subway system due to frequent service disruptions. He l…
Monitor AWS CodeDeploy with Datadog
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Deciding Which Storage Engine is Right for You: MMAPv1
06/23/17 In a recent article, we began an examination of MongoDB storage engines by explaining why WiredTiger is the current default engine. In this piece, we’ll continue discussin…
Exponential Smoothing for Time Series Forecasting
06/22/17 Time series anomaly detection is a complicated problem with plenty of practical methods. It’s easy to find yourself getting lost in all of the topics it encompasses. Learn…
Prometheus 2.0 Alpha.3 with New Rule Format
Prometheus 2.0 Alpha.3 introduces a new rule format using YAML, allowing for rule grouping with custom evaluation intervals and sequential execution to address performance and data…
Monitor IoT devices with Home Assistant and Datadog
This article details how to monitor your Azure IoT Edge devices using Datadog. It explains how to deploy the Datadog agent to your IoT Edge devices to collect metrics, logs, and ev…
When to Use explain() in MongoDB
06/19/17 In MongoDB, the command db.collection.explain() is an important operation to help you understand exactly how your queries execute and behave. Once you have a grasp of how …
Why WiredTiger Is the Default MongoDB Storage Engine
06/14/17 When we published our blog post about working-sets in MongoDB, one of our colleagues told us he’d been aware that MMAPv1 had previously been MongoDB’s default storage engi…
Interview with L’Atelier Animation
L’Atelier Animation, a 3D animation studio, transitioned from a complex monitoring system using Nagios, Graphite, and InfluxDB to Prometheus to better monitor their large infrastru…
Optimize Cloud Foundry cluster health with Datadog
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New in Datadog: Search, filter, and find your monitors faster
Datadog's Terraform provider v4.0.0 is now available, bringing significant improvements including support for new resources like Eventbridge integrations and Log Patterns, as well …