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Monitor and optimize S3 storage with Amazon S3 Storage Lens metrics

This article details how to use Datadog to monitor your Amazon S3 buckets for key metrics like storage usage, latency, and errors. It explains setting up the Datadog integration wi…

Secure HashiCorp Vault with Datadog Cloud SIEM

This article details how to integrate Atlassian products (like Jira and Confluence) with Datadog Cloud SIEM for enhanced security monitoring. By centralizing Atlassian audit logs a…

ITSM For More Than Just IT – SolarWinds TechPod 055

12/07/21 When you hear the term service desk, what generally comes to mind? Perhaps it’s to get a password reset, maybe ordering a new laptop, your run-of-the-mill asks for IT. Hav…

Monitor the Azure Cosmos DB integrated cache with Datadog

This article details how to monitor your Azure Redis Cache instances using Datadog's integration. It explains how to collect key metrics like cache hits/misses, CPU usage, and memo…

How Automation Takes the Time and Guesswork Out of Security Compliance

12/06/21 As this fiscal year wraps up, many agencies are planning their response to compliance reporting requirements. Meeting these requirements—particularly in advance of an audi…

Monitor your HCP Vault cluster with Datadog

This article details how to use Datadog to monitor the boundaries you define in HashiCorp Cloud Platform (HCP). By integrating Datadog with HCP's boundary service, you can gain vis…

Understand the scope of user impact with Watchdog Impact Analysis

Please provide me with the article! I need the text of the article to be able to summarize it for you. Just paste the article content here, and I will happily provide a concise 2…

Announcing support for Windows containers on AWS Fargate

This article details how to monitor Amazon EKS clusters running on AWS Fargate using Datadog. It explains how to leverage Datadog's integration to automatically discover and collec…

U.S. Government Issues Advisory Against Common Cyber Threats During the Holidays

11/23/21 In advance of this week’s Thanksgiving holiday in the U.S., the U.S. Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Agency (CISA) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) issued a re…

The Disappearing DBA: Embracing Automation to Advance Your Career — SolarWinds TechPod 054

11/23/21 A good DBA is hard to find. This is because a good DBA wears many hats, often equating to 3 – 4 full time jobs. How can this be achieved or sustained? The secret is automa…

Announcing support for Graviton2-powered AWS Fargate deployments

AWS Fargate now supports Windows containers, allowing developers to run Windows-based applications without managing servers. This expands Fargate's container support beyond Linux, …

How the U.S. State Department Can Overcome the Trade-Offs of its Multi-Cloud Strategy

11/22/21 The U.S. State Department has a global workforce of 69,000 across more than 270 diplomatic missions. To support the work of its “untethered diplomats,” State’s Bureau of I…