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Strategize your Azure migration for SQL workloads with Datadog

This article details how Datadog's Database Monitoring (DBM) product now supports both on-premise SQL Server and Azure SQL Managed Instances. DBM provides deep performance insights…

Identify the root causes of issues and bottlenecks in your build pipelines with TeamCity and Datadog

This article details how to integrate TeamCity, a popular CI/CD platform, with Datadog's CI Visibility tools. By using the Datadog TeamCity plugin, users can gain real-time insight…

Introducing Alert Routes: Automate your Alert with Automatic Incidents and Slack Channel Routing

FireHydrant has launched "Alert Routes," a new feature that allows users to automate incident creation and alert routing within Slack based on conditions like priority and service.…

How ITSM Helps Drive Exceptional Digital Employee Experience

03/21/23 Throughout the pandemic, we heard quite a bit about digital transformation initiatives. Companies are often looking for ways to leverage technology as a competitive advant…

Practical tips for rightsizing your Kubernetes workloads

Please provide me with the article content! I need the text of the "Explore Kubernetes with native OpenTelemetry data" article to be able to summarize it for you. Just paste the …

FAQ about Prometheus 2.43 String Labels Optimization

Prometheus 2.43 introduces string label optimizations—a new data structure for labels that reduces memory usage and potentially increases speed—but these are *not* enabled by defau…

Automatic Slack User Linking, New Teams Page, and support for Multi-Channel Guests

FireHydrant recently released updates to improve user experience and incident management capabilities. Key improvements include automatic Slack account linking (with alternate emai…

Custom Data Collection & Enhanced Monitoring for IT Service Teams

The principle of IT Service Management is to enable better Service Delivery by focusing on how IT teams can manage the end-to-end delivery of IT services to not only their users, b…

Solarian Spotlight: SolarWinds Spectacular Female Tech Stars

03/16/23 We celebrated International Women’s Day earlier this month on March 8th and highlighted some of our female leaders in our previous Solarian Spotlight, but we’re recognizin…

A Fresh, New Docs Site

FireHydrant has launched a redesigned documentation site ([https://firehydrant.com/docs](https://firehydrant.com/docs)) with improvements to usability and appearance. The new site …

The Evolution of Security: From Good to Better to Best 

03/15/23 Security is a never-ending journey that evolves as you add new products and applications. There’s no such thing as being 100% secure because things constantly move and adj…

The High Cost of Poor Database Performance (It’s Not Just Monetary)

03/14/23 What is the cost of database performance for businesses today? The very shocking reality is most owners have absolutely no idea. In fact, I would even go so far as to say …