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How to Build an Effective Service Catalog Workflow

07/12/18 Use the service catalog to simplify the experience for the requesting employee, build forms to collect and organize the data you need, and automate the service delivery pr…

Five Common Problems with SQL Server

07/12/18 I am fortunate that I still work with SQL Server daily, and consulted from time to time on various projects and performance troubleshooting. It helps keep my skills sharp.…

Building a Culture for Data Protection

07/12/18 Building a culture that favors protecting data can be challenging. In fact, most of us who love our data spend a huge amount of time standing up for our data when it seems…

Introducing Logging without Limits™

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Explore high-cardinality trace data with App Analytics

This article discusses a new approach to debugging and understanding full-stack applications by unifying frontend and backend data through "retention filters." These filters allow …

Watchdog: Auto-detect performance anomalies without setting alerts

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Five Smart Service Desk Features to Implement

07/10/18 A smart IT service desk will leverage the power of automations and artificial intelligence to create shortcuts for your organization. The post Five Smart Service Desk Feat…

Announcing Go tracer v1.0.0

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Implementing Custom Service Discovery

Prometheus now offers a way to implement custom service discovery integrations without modifying the core Prometheus code. This is achieved through a new adapter pattern, leveragin…

ITSM: The Perfect Place to Begin Your Digital Transformation

07/03/18 Digital transformation impacts every department, in every organization, in every industry. Although it has a big return, it can be expensive, and it can be difficult to ad…

Monitoring Flask apps with Datadog

This article details how to effectively monitor your Elasticsearch clusters using Datadog. It explains how to leverage Datadog's integrations to collect key metrics like cluster he…

How NOT to Monitor Your Database

06/28/18 Do you have experience putting out backend database fires? What were some things you wished you had done differently? Proactive database monitoring is more cost efficient,…