This Month in Datadog - August 2025
This article details how to effectively monitor Karpenter, an open-source Kubernetes autoscaler, using Datadog. It explains how to leverage Datadog's custom metrics and integration…
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Worker-led AI isn’t shadow IT. It’s shadow strategy.
Instead of dismissing worker-led AI use as "shadow IT," businesses should view it as "capability adoption at the edge" where employees are actively prototyping future workflows. To…
SolarWinds Voices: Sean Sebring on APMdigest
08/29/25 Sean offers a clear and concise definition, stating that operational resilience is “the ability to identify, anticipate, and mitigate risks to help prevent future issues w…
Why Adding Tools Can Make IT Worse
08/29/25 But somewhere along the way, the mission of observability—clarity, connection, and confidence—gets lost. What started as a strategy for resilience becomes a tangle of over…
Tax Day, downtime, and tech debt: Lessons for public sector IT resilience
Datadog has received FedRAMP Moderate Impact authorization, allowing US federal agencies to confidently use their monitoring and security platform. This authorization validates Dat…
Richer Incident Context with Slack Work Objects
FireHydrant has enhanced its Slack integration with Slack's new Work Objects, bringing richer, interactive incident details directly into Slack channels – eliminating the need to s…
5 Ways to Unlock Market Growth With a Global Partner Ecosystem
08/28/25 At SolarWinds, we strive to enrich the lives of the people we serve: our employees, customers, shareholders, partners, and communities. We are a partner-first organization…
Dispatches From the SolarWinds World Tour: Part 3
08/28/25 We caught up with SolarWinds Product Marketing Managers Simon Abrahams and Lauren Okruch to hear their reflections on the conversations, questions, and challenges that cam…
Why Federal Agencies Must Modernize Their IT
08/27/25 For federal CIOs and CTOs, this presents a unique challenge: balancing the imperative to modernize with the need to mitigate risk in a dynamic policy and budgetary landsca…
Everyone’s wrong about why enterprise AI is failing
While large enterprise Gen AI pilots often fail to deliver measurable ROI, the author argues that a significant transformation is already occurring as individual employees use cons…
How FED Agencies Can Navigate the Software Acquisition Pathway
08/27/25 The Department of Defense Software Fast-Track (SWFT) Initiative represents one of the most significant attempts in recent years to modernize outdated cybersecurity authori…
I Am Public Sector: Operations Expertise
08/27/25 How long have you worked in the public sector? I served in agencies and departments of the Federal Government for over 25 years. How did you get your start in the public s…