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Share and discuss Datadog graphs, events, and alerts in HipChat

This Datadog article explains how to use monitor notification rules to precisely control *who* receives alerts and *how* based on specific monitor conditions. Instead of broad team…

Detecting AWS EBS performance issues with Datadog

The article reveals that EBS volume performance isn't solely determined by volume type (like io2 Block Express) but heavily influenced by burst balance – the ratio of sustained IOP…

OSCON 2013: Our favorite talks

This article summarizes Datadog's experience at OSCON, highlighting the growing influence of open-source software. Key takeaways include Facebook's Open Compute project achieving s…

Getting optimal performance with AWS EBS Provisioned IOPS

The article reveals that EBS volume performance isn't solely dictated by volume type (like io1/io2) but is heavily influenced by burst balance and the underlying EBS infrastructure…

A tutorial on how to use Go’s database/sql package

07/22/13 We found ourselves wishing for a tutorial to complement the database/sql documentation in Go, so we wrote one and shared it on Github. Please send pull requests to contrib…

StatusPage.io Public Metrics - now with Datadog metrics

Please provide me with the article! I need the text of "Approaching your observability migration with the right mindset" to be able to summarize it for you. Just paste the articl…

Streaming Approximate Histograms in Go

07/08/13 If you’re looking at response time, what’s more useful: a mean or a percentile? Not sure? You probably know how to calculate the average or mean of a sample, but what abou…

The best of Velocity and DevOpsDays 2013 (pt 2)

This article details how to integrate Cloudflare logs and metrics with Datadog for enhanced observability. By leveraging Datadog's integrations, users can gain comprehensive insigh…

4 Statistical Process Control Rules That Detect Anomalies in Systems

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…

The best of Velocity and DevOpsDays 2013 (part I)

This article summarizes key takeaways from the Velocity and DevOpsDays conferences. It highlights discussions around managing risk in system design – emphasizing open communication…

Quantifying Abnormal Behavior

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 …

3 reasons why your HAProxy monitoring is broken

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…