You Are Here – Visibility & Control
11/29/18 Today, in the fifth post of this six-part series, we’re going to cover the fourth and final domain of our reference model for IT infrastructure security. Not only is this …
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Quantum Computing Will Put Your Data at Risk
11/29/18 “Too many secrets.” – Martin Bishop One of the pivotal moments in the movie Sneakers is when Martin Bishop realizes that they have a device that can break any encryption m…
Monitor custom serverless metrics with the Datadog Lambda extension
This article discusses how to improve observability of AWS Lambda functions using remote instrumentation—specifically, collecting data *outside* of the Lambda execution environment…
One Framework to Rule Them All
11/28/18 The Dream of the Data Center For me, it started with OpenStack. I was at a conference a number of years ago listening to Shannon McFarland talking about using OpenStack to…
Monitor AWS App Mesh and Envoy with Datadog
Datadog's Network Performance Monitoring (NPM) now integrates with HashiCorp Consul, allowing users to visualize and troubleshoot service dependencies managed within Consul. This i…
Improving Incident Response by Uniting Technical & Non-technical Teams
11/27/18 Pre-planning and practicing internal communication in anticipation of the next incident is so crucial to improving your overall organizational response to incidents. The p…
Words Matter
11/26/18 One of my biggest pet peeves with AI is the word itself. Words matter, especially in IT. Whether you’re trying to nail down a scope of work for a project, troubleshooting …
7 Most Useful Ticket Automation Rules
11/21/18 Automating processes within your service management strategy reduces repeat work to make it easier for your team to get stuff done. Your service management solution should…
Application Performance Monitoring: APM In An Agile World
11/21/18 Hopefully, you have been following along with this series and finding some useful bits of information. We have covered traditional APM implementations in part one, part tw…
12 Red Flags That Your IT Help Desk Solution is Behind the Times
11/19/18 Take a long, critical look at your IT help desk solution to see if it enables your organization to meet a growing list of demands. If you find any of the following shortco…
Datadog for Serverless: End-to-end visibility for modern applications
This article discusses how to gain better observability into AWS Lambda functions using remote instrumentation—specifically, collecting data *outside* the function's code. By lever…
Introducing Datadog Synthetic Monitoring
This Datadog article highlights how Synthetic Monitoring can proactively identify and resolve issues *before* users experience them, moving beyond reactive troubleshooting. By simu…