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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…

Throttling Network Bandwidth

08/04/15 One of the aspects of monitoring that IT professionals (and monitoring software developers in particular) think about a lot is “throttling.” How do you control the flow of…

DPI Training: The What and Why of Packet Analysis

08/04/15 Is Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) really worth the effort? If you have been troubleshooting networks for any length of time it should be obvious that packet inspection is a …

Monitor API Performance with Runscope and Datadog

The article details four common misconfigurations in Cilium network policies that often lead to blocked traffic: using selectors that don't match intended pods, forgetting to allow…

Streaming Music Services and Databases

07/29/15 The average American consumer isn’t usually interested in “buying” a big database. But thanks to the recent boom in the popularity of subscription music services like Spot…

How to collect Varnish metrics

This article details how to monitor your Varnish cache server using Datadog. It explains how to install the Datadog agent and utilize the provided Varnish check to collect key metr…