06/26/13 Statistical Process Control (SPC), or using numbers or data to study the characteristics of our process to make it behave the way we want it to behave, has been around sin…
This article summarizes key takeaways from the Velocity and DevOpsDays conferences. It highlights discussions around managing risk in system design – emphasizing open communication…
06/25/13 At Velocity last week, I spoke about how we quantify abnormality in a system’s time-series metrics cheaply, in realtime, at high frequency. Note that this is not the same …
This article details how to effectively monitor HAProxy using Datadog, a monitoring and analytics platform. It explains how to leverage Datadog's auto-discovery feature to automati…
The Datadog Terraform provider v4.0.0 introduces significant improvements including support for new resources like serverless functions and enhanced monitoring capabilities for clo…
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This article summarizes the talks given at the DevOps NYC Meetup, featuring insights from eight speakers on topics ranging from DevOps tips and Chef versioning to Cassandra exports…
06/04/13 Not too long ago, my primary programming language was Perl. I’ve written a lot of Perl, including some things that I think are quite clever. And therein lies the problem. …
Datadog's Terraform provider v4.0.0 is now available, bringing significant improvements including support for new resources like Network Policy and Rate Limit rules, and enhanced f…
04/17/13 In previous posts, I claimed that thresholds are a root of much evil in monitoring systems (not the root of all evil, but a root of much evil), and that we’ve developed th…
04/15/13 If you don’t know socat, you probably should. From its man: Socat is a command line based utility that establishes two bidirectional byte streams and transfers data betwee…
04/10/13 Why is a threshold-based alert such a disaster? There are two big reasons. Thresholds are always wrong. They’re worse than a broken clock, which is at least right twice a …
04/09/13 In this post I’ll tell a story that will feel familiar to anyone who’s ever monitored MySQL. Here’s a recipe for a threshold-based alert that will go horribly wrong, beyon…