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Intent-based Networking – A Must for SDN

11/16/15 SDN is about making networking more flexible and agile through programming network elements. Such programming needs to be done in a standard way. Hence, standardizing the …

Capacity Planning with the Universal Scalability Law

11/13/15 “How much load can this system sustain?” is a common question in capacity planning. The practical purpose is usually something like the following: How soon will the system…

When Should You NOT Virtualize That System?

11/11/15 Virtualization is an amazing and valuable tool for so many reasons. I’ve been a proponent of the concept since GSX server, and early Workstation products. In the early day…

Introducing Query Anomaly Detection

11/11/15 Anomaly detection sure is a hot topic. We’ve written about it ourselves a number of times, and Preetam Jinka and I just co authored a book for O’Reilly called Anomaly Dete…

How to collect Docker metrics

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…

How to monitor Docker resource metrics

This article details how to use Datadog to effectively monitor Kubernetes and Docker environments. It outlines installing the Datadog Agent on your Kubernetes cluster to automatica…

The Five Commandments of Tomorrow’s Network

11/10/15 Recently, I’ve been giving some thought to the roadblocks I discover when I attempt network automation and orchestration, and how those roadblocks affect the software-defi…

Nobody Loves Graphite Anymore

11/06/15 Many of our customers use Graphite, and I don’t think anyone would argue with me when I say it’s probably the most commonly used time series database in the DevOps communi…

Monitoring HAProxy performance metrics

This article details how to effectively monitor HAProxy using Datadog, a monitoring and analytics platform. It explains how to leverage Datadog's HAProxy integration to collect key…

Monitor HAProxy with Datadog

This article details how to integrate Cloudflare logs and metrics with Datadog for enhanced observability. By leveraging Datadog's integration, users can gain real-time insights in…

How to collect HAProxy metrics

This article details how to integrate Cloudflare logs and metrics with Datadog for enhanced observability. By using Datadog's Cloudflare integration, users can gain unified visibil…

Operations vs. Engineering Tools

11/03/15 Whether your IT operation is a small-scale endeavor or a web-scale enterprise, systems monitoring plays a critical role in the delivery of your services. The ability to qu…