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New Features and Enhancements in SQL Server 2022

07/19/22 In the era of technology defined by cloud computing, features evolve at the blinding speed of continuous deployment. When large software development organizations like Mic…

Unified Observability Is the Solution IT Has Been Waiting For

IT teams have been relying on observability tools to (theoretically) provide intelligence and insights into operating conditions within an organization’s digital infrastructure for…

Observability Again? Oh, Yes.

07/18/22 I’m a bit late to the game in writing about observability, but I come with a great excuse: since March, I’ve travelled the world (well, at least four out of the seven cont…

Bugbash!

FireHydrant recently completed a bug bash, successfully closing nearly 100 bugs across their runbook and incident command features. Improvements included fixes to button removal, s…

Retrospective Updates and Operational Readiness templates

FireHydrant recently updated its platform based on user feedback, improving the visibility of key incident details (description & impact) within retrospective reports. They also in…

Analyze VPC Flow Logs for AWS Transit Gateway in Datadog

The Datadog Observability Pipelines feature allows users to filter, transform, and route AWS log data *before* it's ingested into Datadog, significantly reducing logging costs. By …

Three Critical Questions for Healthcare

07/13/22 Why Should Healthcare Bother With IT? Healthcare has always been people-centric—so should IT even be a consideration when the real issue is people? Before the pandemic, he…

Monitor your T2A-powered GKE workloads with Datadog

This article details how to effectively monitor Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) clusters using Datadog. It outlines configuring Datadog's GKE integration to collect metrics, logs, a…

The SolarWinds Platform and .NET: New Horizons With .NET Core

07/12/22 Like most large software development organizations, SolarWinds uses many programming languages to build our applications, including Go, Java, C++, Python, and more. The pr…

CSV Export and additional label functionality

FireHydrant has added two new features for Enterprise users: daily CSV exports of incident data via the API for reporting and data analysis, and clickable labels within services to…

Proactively monitor service performance with SLO alerts

The article argues that focusing on "burn rate" – the rate at which a machine learning model makes confident but *incorrect* predictions – is a more valuable metric than traditiona…

Monitor Azure Functions with the Datadog extension for Azure App Service

This Datadog article details how to gain deeper visibility into AWS Step Functions executions by leveraging trace distributed map states. By integrating Step Functions with Datadog…