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How Connectifier unfroze MongoDB with Datadog

Please provide me with the article! I need the text of the "Improve performance and reliability with APM Recommendations" article to be able to summarize it for you. Just paste t…

There’s A Script for That

12/23/15 If there’s a chance to save time by using scripts or automation tools, I always take it. Over the years I’ve found that there are a set of common themes associated with th…

Designing a Monitoring Solution: Where Are Your Eyes?

12/21/15 Contemporary monitoring solutions are no different from any other distributed application in your environment. Even a small-scale deployment can include multiple component…

The Factors That Impact Availability, Visualized

12/21/15 We all want our systems to have high availability, but sometimes the exact meaning of “high availability” isn’t very clearly defined. However, availability — like scalabil…

How Does your VMware Environment Look Today? A Rationale for the VOA

12/16/15 VMware® as a technology has a huge potential to sprawl. Have you created an environment for testing purposes? Have projects required a number of guest VMs to be built, but…

8 Reasons Why ChatOps Isn’t Working At Your Company

12/16/15 About a year and half ago I published a blog post about ChatOps at VividCortex (if you’re unfamiliar with ChatOps, that original post still serves as a good primer). At th…

How iHeartRadio monitors Docker performance

This Datadog article details how to effectively monitor Kubernetes and Docker containers using Datadog's suite of tools. It explains how to leverage Datadog's auto-discovery and pr…

On Becoming a Virtualization Professional

12/14/15 I’ve been a VMware® evangelist and virtualization advocate for a decade. Even before I first started using VMware—by accident, I’ll admit—I’ve had the (dis?)advantage of w…

Collecting metrics and notifications from OpenStack Nova

This article details how to use Datadog to monitor your OpenStack infrastructure. It explains how to collect metrics from key OpenStack components like Nova, Neutron, and Cinder us…

Datadog now supports OpenStack monitoring

This article explains key OpenStack concepts for resource management: host aggregates group physical servers with common characteristics, flavors define virtual machine sizes (CPU,…

Monitor OpenStack with Datadog

This article explains key OpenStack concepts for resource management: host aggregates group physical servers with shared characteristics, flavors define virtual machine sizes (CPU,…

Monitoring OpenStack Nova

This article explains three key concepts in OpenStack for resource management: host aggregates (grouping compute hosts with shared characteristics), flavors (defining virtual machi…