Why You Still Need Network Alerts
09/01/15 Retracing an intractable alert hairball today, I’m reminded of how critical, and often critically broken, alerting actually is in many environments. You can be a departmen…
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Integrating SolarWinds Database Performance Monitor with PagerDuty
08/31/15 It’s easy to integrate SoalrWinds® Database Performance Monitor (DPM) with your existing workflow and team tools. Included on our growing list of integrations is PagerDuty…
Monitor Amazon Kinesis performance
This article details how to monitor Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (MSK) using Datadog. It explains how to leverage Datadog's integration to collect key MSK metrics – li…
A Database Upgrade Story: Cassandra 2.0
08/19/15 Today’s guest post is brought to you by Mikhail Panchenko from the Opsmatic team. Thank you for sharing, and we hope others find it helpful! A Real Life Database Upgrade S…
The Fine Data of Fine Art
08/19/15 Here at SolarWinds, it’s clear to us that proper database monitoring is “an art.” Beyond simple, raw power, navigating and understanding a database takes finesse, insight,…
Custom service discovery with etcd
This article details how to implement custom service discovery in Prometheus using etcd, a distributed key-value store. It describes building a utility program that watches for cha…
The 8 Best Ways To Lose Your DBA
08/14/15 As we all know, good DBAs are a dime a dozen. They’re easy to replace and the cost of replacing them in terms of lost productivity, downtime, recruiting, training, etc. is…
Monitor Windows app metrics and events with Datadog’s WMI and Microsoft Event Viewer integrations
This article details Azure's new guided onboarding experience, designed to streamline and accelerate the setup of integrations with various applications and services. It utilizes a…
How to collect Azure metrics
Please provide the article! I need the text of the article "Accelerate your Azure integration setup with guided onboarding" to be able to summarize it for you. Just paste the art…
How to monitor Microsoft Azure VMs
The Datadog article details how to improve High-Performance Computing (HPC) job performance and cluster efficiency using Datadog's monitoring and observability tools. By providing …
Monitor Azure VMs using Datadog
This Datadog article details how to monitor Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines powered by Ampere Altra Arm-based CPUs. It explains how to leverage Datadog's integrations to gain visi…
Monitor ElastiCache with AWS metrics + native metrics
This article details how to collect metrics from Amazon ElastiCache, covering both Redis and Memcached engines. It explains leveraging CloudWatch metrics for basic monitoring and t…