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Make Life Easier Using the Environment Health Overview

12/16/16 What’s the Environment Health Overview? The SentryOne Environment Health Overview is one of the most exciting features introduced in SentryOne v11. It is a Start Page-inte…

#BackToBasics / T-SQL Tuesday: Are your backups worthless?

12/13/16 This month’s T-SQL Tuesday, the 85th in the long-running monthly series started by Adam Machanic, is being hosted by Kenneth Fisher (@sqlstudent144). The post #BackToBasic…

Everyday Profiling and Calculating Query CPU

12/09/16 When you find spikes in your database’s CPU consumption, locating the cause behind those peaks can be a daunting task. Database server software doesn’t make it easy to pre…

Collecting and Alerting on Deadlocks for SQL Server

12/07/16 SolarWinds DPA can collect a count of the number of deadlocks to be displayed as a resource graph. For Ignite versions prior to 8.2, you can update two files in order to s…

Why DPA Uses SQL Server Trace Flag 2861 and Zero Cost Plans

12/07/16 About zero cost plans in SQL Server OK, first thing first, what is a “zero cost plan” in SQL Server? I did some digging around and found the following links, which I would…

NGINX 502 Bad Gateway: Gunicorn

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NGINX 502 Bad Gateway Error: PHP-FPM

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3 clear trends in ECS adoption

This article details how to monitor Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) managed instances using Datadog. It explains how to leverage Datadog's ECS integration to collect metrics…

Monitoring for Black Friday: Capacity Planning Techniques

11/23/16 In our latest webinar, Baron Schwartz talked about how to best prepare for potential traffic spikes during Black Friday and Cyber Monday. Although some organizations may n…

Why Percentiles Don’t Work the Way You Think

11/18/16 Customers ask us for p99 (99th percentile) of metrics pretty frequently. We plan to add such a feature to Database Performance Monitor (DPM)(more on that later). But a lot…

Interview with Canonical

Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, is transitioning from a monitoring stack of Nagios, Graphite, and in-house tools to Prometheus due to its simplicity, power, and ability to co…

Simplify customer support with Datadog’s integrations for Zendesk

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