Monitoring DreamHack - the World's Largest Digital Festival
DreamHack, the world's largest digital festival, requires building a massive network from scratch in just five days to support over 10,000 gamers. The DreamHack Network team (dhtec…
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SolarWinds® Database Performance Monitor Now Supports Heroku
06/23/15 In November, Database Performance Monitor introduced support for databases hosted on Amazon RDS. In the spirit of monitoring all of the databases on all of the platforms, …
Practical Anomaly Detection
This article argues that perfectly detecting anomalies in complex systems is impossible, but practical anomaly detection *is* achievable through custom rules built with tools like …
The Strategic Importance of Database Administration
06/17/15 If you draw a diagram of information flow and interaction amongst teams and processes in IT, you’ll probably find that although some parts of the organization are “leaf” o…
Send custom events from your Microsoft .NET application
The Datadog extension for Azure App Service simplifies monitoring .NET applications by automatically installing the Datadog agent and configuring it with essential metrics and trac…
Datadog is a Docker Ecosystem Technology Partner
This article details how to effectively monitor Kubernetes and Docker containers using Datadog. It explains how to leverage Datadog's agents, Kubernetes integrations, and pre-built…
Nothing Is Free, Including Buffer Space
06/08/15 Let’s talk a bit about free space in buffer, what SQL Sentry Performance Advisor is showing you, and what it means. The post Nothing Is Free, Including Buffer Space appear…
Improved User Parsing From The MySQL Protocol
06/08/15 This isn’t really a feature we should brag about, because it’s a bug that took us a while to figure out, but we believe in sharing the bad as well as the good. There’s a l…
Parsing the Redis TCP Protocol
06/05/15 When we decided to go beyond just MySQL monitoring, we had a couple of natural next choices. The decision involved engineering effort, the likelihood we’d find MySQL-speci…
Finding Query Samples With Errors And Warnings
06/03/15 You probably have known for a while that SolarWinds® Database Performance Monitor (DPM) inspects TCP traffic and captures query errors and warnings, so you can find proble…
Siesta – RESTful Services Made Simple in Go
06/01/15 All of our services (external REST APIs and internal services) are written in Go. Like others, we wanted to factor out repeated code, but found it hard to do without makin…
Advanced Service Discovery in Prometheus 0.14.0
Prometheus v0.14.0 introduces enhanced service discovery capabilities, adding native support for Consul and a file-based interface for custom discovery mechanisms alongside existin…