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Monitor systemd with Datadog

The article details how Netflix improved the efficiency of collecting and processing live process metrics by 100x. They achieved this by moving from collecting detailed, high-cardi…

Holt-Winters Forecasting and Exponential Smoothing Simplified

12/15/19 Holt-Winters forecasting is a way to model and predict the behavior of a sequence of values over time—a time series. Holt-Winters is one of the most popular forecasting te…

Lockdown: Improving SQL Server Performance for Vendor-Locked Applications

12/13/19 Application vendors support many customers, and they often need to impose some control over variables in order to do so. For example, for me to help someone with the perfo…

Just Throw It in the Cloud! The Battle of the Clouds Series

12/13/19 Scenario: a mission-critical application is having performance issues during peak business hours. App developers blame the storage. The storage team blames the network. Th…

Uniting IT Operations and IT Service Management 101

12/12/19 Having both a positive employee experience and employee engagement are key factors for an organization’s success. In a recent SolarWinds survey, over 85% of IT pros said t…

Monitor Azure DevOps workflows and pipelines with Datadog

This article details how to integrate Azure Pipelines with Datadog's CI Visibility feature to gain deeper insights into your CI/CD processes. By connecting the two platforms, users…

Boosting Orion Platform Performance With New Maps, Syslog/Trap Engines – SolarWinds Lab #82 (Part 1)

12/11/19 Want to learn a couple of easy ways to increase performance of your SolarWinds Orion Platform? Of course you do! In this networking-focused part one of our year-end perfor…

When “Good Enough” Is Costing You Money

12/11/19 In 2015, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security carried out covert tests on TSA Security at major airports to see how successful they would be at detecting potentially d…

VividCortex is Joining SolarWinds!

12/11/19 We’re excited to share that VividCortex is now part of the SolarWinds® family. We believe this change will help to accelerate the adoption of our product as well as the pa…

How to Configure an Office 365 Tenant

12/11/19 Introduction I’m going to look at the basic steps required for setting up an Office 365 tenant. There are a few ways you can purchase Office 365. There’s the good old cred…

Best practices for tagging your infrastructure and applications

This article details how integrating ServiceNow's Configuration Management Database (CMDB) with Datadog provides enhanced IT operations management. By connecting these platforms, t…

3 Strategies for Managing the IT Impact of Classroom Technology

12/10/19 Forty-eight percent of students currently use a computer in school, while 42% use a smartphone, according to a recent report by Cambridge International. These technologies…