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Monitor Azure SQL databases with Datadog

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Tools for collecting Azure SQL Database data

This article details how to use Datadog to monitor Azure SQL databases, providing comprehensive visibility into performance and health. It explains how to collect metrics, logs, an…

Key metrics for monitoring Azure SQL databases

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Improving Data Quality Through DataOps

01/05/22 Consider this scenario. Pull up your bank’s website and find the screen showing how much money is in your bank account. It takes 30 seconds to return the balance. You’re a…

Three Preventative Strategies to Help Mitigate Asset Risk in Your Agency

01/03/22 For many federal employees, the workplace has shifted from a traditional office setting to being at home—in a kitchen, bedroom, basement, or any spare desk in the house. W…

What Is DataOps for Database Professionals?

12/30/21 Silos in IT should be a construct of the past. Tight, rigid, and insulated IT silos were an unintentional design flaw of many IT organizations worldwide over the last few …

Monitoring Insights for Database Managers – SolarWinds TechPod 057

12/28/21 As part of our ongoing mini-series on Monitoring for Managers, Head Geek and database aficionado Kevin Kline teams up with fellow Head Geek Leon Adato to break down the es…

Facebook and Slack Outages Show That Visibility Is Mission Critical

In early October, two major outages related to DNS configuration changes affected the customer experience for the users of digital giants, Slack and Facebook. The failure of Facebo…

Monitor Kubernetes with Fairwinds Insights' offering in the Datadog Marketplace

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Use Datadog's GitHub and source code integrations to streamline troubleshooting

This article details the new integration between GitLab and Datadog, allowing developers to directly link Datadog APM traces & logs to specific commits, merge requests, and authors…

Two Keys to Delivering Exceptional Citizen Experiences

12/20/21 Delivering a good customer experience to citizens isn’t just preferable, but necessary if federal, state, and local agencies are to achieve their public service objectives…

Log4J Threat Hunting with NetProfiler and AppResponse

A recently discovered vulnerability in the Java logging utility Log4J (CVE-2021-44228)1 enables remote code execution exploits in a variety of common software. This happens through…