Customer Experience Lessons from the Akamai Outage
On Saturday, 17 June 2021, a small configuration error by a usually ‘invisible’ cloud service provider had a massive impact on some of the world’s leading businesses. The Reserve B…
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SysAdmin Day 2021: You Are Enough
07/28/21 A year ago, in July of 2020, I started my SysAdmin Day post with the words, “I’m not going to even try to pretend SysAdmin Day arrives this year under conditions anyone wo…
Use Datadog Session Replay to view real-time user journeys
Datadog has been recognized as a Leader in the 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM), solidifying its position as a key player in the space. Gartner e…
Celebrating SysAdmin Day 2021 — SolarWinds TechPod 046
07/27/21 While it may not be circled in red on many people’s calendars, SysAdmin Day holds a special place in the hearts of many IT professionals. Certainly, because everyone likes…
Monitor your CI pipelines and tests with Datadog CI Visibility
Please provide the article! I need the text of the "Best practices for monitoring software testing in CI/CD" article to be able to summarize it for you. Just paste the article co…
Test internal applications with Datadog's testing tunnel and private locations
This Datadog article explains how network performance directly impacts user experience and how to measure that impact. It highlights using Datadog Synthetic Monitoring—specifically…
Finding Zen in the Tedium
07/26/21 As often happens, I was recently talking about my son and his attitude regarding chores. Doing the thing parents do, commiserating and getting advice from another parent w…
Powerful Time-Based Automation Rules to Move You From Reactive to Proactive
07/23/21 Bad things left alone tend to get worse Unattended incidents won’t clean up after themselves and will come back to haunt you—whether as rising MTTR metrics, a cluttered In…
The “Now Normal” — A Look Ahead
07/22/21 In our previous blog, we looked back at the year of transformation that was 2020. To say the last year was a bit hectic—even chaotic at times—would be an understatement. B…
Troubleshoot faster with process-level app and network data
Please provide me with the article! I need the text of "Cilium configuration for Kubernetes operations at scale" to be able to summarize it for you. Just paste the article conten…
AI Never Sleeps in the Data Center
07/21/21 A data center typically employs between 30-200 people depending on the size and the intended project use. But only a fraction of those folks run the IT side. Besides swapp…
Test multi-factor authentication (MFA) with Synthetic Monitoring
This Datadog article explains how synthetic monitoring—simulating real user interactions—can reveal UX issues caused by network performance problems. By proactively testing from va…