Confession: We’re Not Using APM to its Potential
02/05/20 After years of application developers only using application performance management (APM) technology during development, today’s modern application stack has expanded to i…
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Monitoring AWS Lambda with Datadog
This article discusses how to gain deeper insights into AWS Lambda function performance using remote instrumentation—specifically, tools that collect data *outside* of the Lambda f…
Key metrics for monitoring AWS Lambda
This article discusses how to gain deeper insights into AWS Lambda function performance using remote instrumentation, specifically with tools like OpenTelemetry. By instrumenting L…
Introducing Lambda Enhanced Metrics
This article discusses using remote instrumentation to gain deeper insights into AWS Lambda function performance *without* modifying code. By leveraging tools that collect data fro…
Tools for collecting AWS Lambda data
This article discusses using remote instrumentation to gain deeper insights into AWS Lambda function performance *without* modifying application code. By leveraging tools like Exte…
Calculating the ROI of SQL Server Monitoring
02/04/20 I was recently approached to help develop our latest online version of a Return On Investment (ROI) calculator for the SentryOne monitoring platform. We know the ROI of ou…
Careless and Malicious Insider Threats Are on the Rise Despite Better Detection
02/04/20 According to a 2019 Federal Cybersecurity Survey released last year by IT management software company SolarWinds, careless and malicious insiders topped the list of securi…
Distributed tracing for AWS Lambda with Datadog APM
This AWS article announces enhancements to their distributed tracing capabilities, specifically within X-Ray, to provide deeper insights into serverless applications. These improve…
Protecting Against 5 Common Causes of Network Outages
02/03/20 Keeping a network up and running is a full-time job, sometimes a full-time job for several team members! But it doesn’t have to feel like a fire drill every day. Managing …
Protecting End Users in an SD-WAN World
When it comes to an SD-WAN deployment we tend to spend a lot of time thinking about connectivity, reachability, protocols, traffic steering and so on. One area that we sometimes ov…
How ITIL Practices Can Simplify Hybrid IT
01/30/20 According to IBM, 98% of companies plan to use hybrid cloud computing by 2021. That means almost everyone will be managing some combination of on-premises and cloud-based …
Docker logging best practices
This article details how to effectively monitor Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) using Datadog's comprehensive monitoring platform. It explains how to leverage Datadog's agents and i…