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Install OpenStack in two commands for dev and test

This Datadog article explains how to effectively monitor your OpenStack infrastructure using Datadog's integrations. It details how to collect metrics from key OpenStack components…

Queueing Theory: London Underground Escalator Policy Challenges Social Norms

01/19/16 In 2016, we published our eBook Everything You Need to Know About Queueing Theory, and as part of its launch, we blogged about one way (of the many) queueing theory has re…

How Lithium monitors OpenStack

This article details how to effectively monitor your OpenStack infrastructure using Datadog's integration. It explains how to collect key metrics from various OpenStack components …

Tiered alerts: Urgency-aware alerting

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All Data is Not Created Equal

01/13/16 This year, consider spending more time protecting the vast bytes that make up your corporate data. As an IT or security professional, do you know how much data your organi…

Analyzing Spark’s MPP Scalability with the USL

01/13/16 Over at the Percona Performance Blog, Vadim recently published benchmark results for Apache Spark, and the shape of the graphs caught my eye. Here’s one of Vadim’s charts:…

How the Apache Software Foundation monitors with Datadog

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Why 2016 is the year of monitoring at scale

This article explains the founding vision of Datadog, built on the prediction that modern IT infrastructure would become significantly more complex due to the rise of Agile develop…

Ansible + Datadog: Monitor your automation, automate your monitoring

This Datadog article details how to automate the installation of the Datadog Agent using the Datadog Ansible collection. It allows users to easily deploy and configure the Agent ac…

How Connectifier unfroze MongoDB with Datadog

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There’s A Script for That

12/23/15 If there’s a chance to save time by using scripts or automation tools, I always take it. Over the years I’ve found that there are a set of common themes associated with th…

Designing a Monitoring Solution: Where Are Your Eyes?

12/21/15 Contemporary monitoring solutions are no different from any other distributed application in your environment. Even a small-scale deployment can include multiple component…