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Inspeqtor Process Monitoring with Datadog

Please provide me with the article "A new Host Map for modern infrastructure"! I need the text of the article to be able to summarize it for you. Just paste the article content h…

Find Queries That Lack Indexes

12/17/14 It’s an ancient tradition amongst MySQL DBAs to analyze slow query log files and sort the results by the so-called “index ratio” to find badly indexed queries. The “index …

Introducing JMX custom tagging

Datadog has released official API client libraries for both Java and Go, simplifying integration with their monitoring and security platform for developers using those languages. T…

In Case You Missed It – Building a Time-Series Database in MySQL

12/16/14 In this webinar, Baron Schwartz explains how VividCortex has used MySQL to support a large-scale, high-velocity time-series database in the AWS cloud. If you did not have …

Monitoring Apache processes with Datadog

This article details how to monitor an Apache web server using Datadog, a monitoring and analytics platform. It explains how to install the Datadog agent on your server and leverag…

Introducing Availability Monitoring

Datadog's Terraform provider v4.0.0 introduces significant improvements including enhanced resource import capabilities and support for new Datadog features like Serverless Monitor…

MySQL Error Codes Out Of Context

12/11/14 In the wrong context, almost anything can be funny, and MySQL’s error codes are no exception. A few weeks ago, things got a little loopy as we discovered some definitions …

Why Data Performance Monitor is Cheaper Than DIY Open-Source

12/04/14 Talk to someone who runs monitoring systems at a company with more than a few servers and you’ll quickly find out that scaling their monitoring systems is far from a minor…

Running SolarWinds Database Performance Monitor Via An HTTP Proxy

12/01/14 Many of SolarWinds® Database Performance Monitor’s customers have strict policies about Internet access from and to their database servers. As a longtime consultant who wo…

How Exponentially Weighted Moving Averages Work

11/25/14 We use exponentially weighted moving averages (EWMAs) quite a bit in a few algorithms. They’re one of the tricks everyone should have in their toolbox for cheaply approxim…

Announcing Datadog Agent 5.1 with support for Btrfs and Go expvar

The article details how the authors significantly reduced the size of their Go Agent binaries—by up to 77%—through a combination of techniques. Primarily, they focused on using UPX…

Analyzing Prepared Statement Performance

11/19/14 Optimizing MySQL performance requires the ability to inspect production query traffic. If you’re not seeing your application’s production workload, you’re missing a vital …