The Strategic Importance of Database Administration
06/17/15 If you draw a diagram of information flow and interaction amongst teams and processes in IT, you’ll probably find that although some parts of the organization are “leaf” o…
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Send custom events from your Microsoft .NET application
The Datadog extension for Azure App Service simplifies monitoring .NET applications by automatically installing the Datadog agent and configuring it with essential metrics and trac…
Datadog is a Docker Ecosystem Technology Partner
This article details how to effectively monitor Kubernetes and Docker containers using Datadog. It explains how to leverage Datadog's agents, Kubernetes integrations, and pre-built…
Nothing Is Free, Including Buffer Space
06/08/15 Let’s talk a bit about free space in buffer, what SQL Sentry Performance Advisor is showing you, and what it means. The post Nothing Is Free, Including Buffer Space appear…
Improved User Parsing From The MySQL Protocol
06/08/15 This isn’t really a feature we should brag about, because it’s a bug that took us a while to figure out, but we believe in sharing the bad as well as the good. There’s a l…
Parsing the Redis TCP Protocol
06/05/15 When we decided to go beyond just MySQL monitoring, we had a couple of natural next choices. The decision involved engineering effort, the likelihood we’d find MySQL-speci…
Finding Query Samples With Errors And Warnings
06/03/15 You probably have known for a while that SolarWinds® Database Performance Monitor (DPM) inspects TCP traffic and captures query errors and warnings, so you can find proble…
Siesta – RESTful Services Made Simple in Go
06/01/15 All of our services (external REST APIs and internal services) are written in Go. Like others, we wanted to factor out repeated code, but found it hard to do without makin…
Advanced Service Discovery in Prometheus 0.14.0
Prometheus v0.14.0 introduces enhanced service discovery capabilities, adding native support for Consul and a file-based interface for custom discovery mechanisms alongside existin…
The Five Stages of Debugging
05/22/15 Because it’s Friday afternoon and you may have had a long week, our brainiacs present… The Five Stages Of Debugging: Stage One. Denial – “What do you mean it’s broken!? Th…
Consul for Cluster Health Monitoring
05/22/15 If you’re not familiar with Consul, it’s what I call a cluster management tool. It’s composed of a handful of features such as “Service Discovery,” “Key Value Store,” “DNS…
DBA Personalities: DISC and Values Models
05/20/15 What personality characteristics do great DBAs share? What motivates them? If you’re not sure why you should care, you’re probably not a hiring manager! Hiring and retaini…