The Business Challenges We See Today
11/28/17 Over the next few weeks, I will be releasing a series of articles covering the value of data analytics and insight, focusing on five of the key business drivers that I hav…
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5 More Ways I Can Steal Your Data: Ask the Security Guard to Help Me Carry it Out
11/27/17 In my recent post 5 More Ways I Can Steal Your Data – Work for You & Stop Working for You I started telling the story of a security guard who helped a just fired contracto…
My Life as IT Code: Part 5 – Walking the Wall
11/27/17 In this, my fifth and final post about life hacks, I’ll talk about the communication process, clarifications across all key personnel, and a big approach in how some of th…
The Unifying Force of Data
11/27/17 Someday, we may look back on IT as a subset of social science as much as a technological discipline. Because it sits at the intersection of business and technology, visibi…
Needle In a Hay Stack or Sword in a Straw Pile?
11/21/17 I’ve spent countless hours trying to find the perfect tool for the job. In fact, I’ve spent more hours searching at times than I have doing the work. You’ve probably done …
My Life as IT Code: Part Four – Exercise and Sandbox
11/16/17 In previous posts in this “My Life” blog series, I’ve written quite a bit about the project management/on-task aspects of how I keep my focus and direction top of mind whi…
Query value widgets: Now with animated GIFs
The Datadog Terraform provider v4.0.0 introduces significant improvements including support for new resources like Eventbridge integrations and monitors with anomaly detection. Thi…
Announcing Prometheus 2.0
Prometheus 2.0 is a major release focused on significantly improving performance and scalability, particularly for dynamic modern environments like Kubernetes. It features a new ti…
Hierarchical Observability with RED
11/07/17 I’ve written before about the minimal set of metrics that can serve effectively as application/service vital signs. One such set is the RED acronym, which stands for Reque…
Introducing recovery thresholds for metric alerts
The Datadog Terraform provider v4.0.0 introduces significant improvements including support for new resources like network policies and rate limits, and enhanced data source capabi…
Monitor AWS Auto Scaling with Datadog
This article details how to effectively monitor AWS Graviton3-powered EC2 instances using Datadog. It explains how to leverage Datadog's auto-discovery and pre-built integrations t…
3 scenarios where machine learning makes for smarter alerts
Datadog is launching metric forecasts, a new feature allowing users to predict future metric values and proactively identify potential issues before they impact users. This utilize…